A New Spark, Agrazahar 724

It is only fitting that Bishop Lumede and his company have drifted on the wind in their gods namesake month.  After leaving the western part of Rethem the Bishop Erdin Lumede  and his followers travelled east.  Perhaps to the land of the Thardan beuracrats, where the followers of Agrik are not prescribed.  There hopes of re establishing a new order could be born.

While travelling east the group came to Themeson, where a siege had lasted nearly 2 years.  Only days before thier arrival the Thardic forces had withdrawn.  The land was left barren and burned, only too prophetic to pass up.  Perhaps Coronan would have to wait.  It was the first night when the locals began to flock to the group.  Like moths to a flame they came as if compelled by some irresistable force to hide under the strength that had not been seen in the land for some time.  As it turned out the land was ripe for the picking and its tinder was dry.  A skirmish with local brigands at Culson was a quick first victory, with no casualties.  Soon after the Bishop and his men began to scout the area.  Within days they had surveyed most of the Manors from Themeson to the old Thardic border.  Another encounter at Sheda Manor was against what was believed to be a small local manor force but turned up to be a final hold out of 2 Thardic companies.  With nearly 40 men in wait the Orders forces were surprised at the size of the defending force.  With only 20 men to assault, this would have seemed suicidal.  But the with the whips of Agrik at the mens backs they burst over the walls and through the gate and with only a single man slain they managed to take 22 prisoners and killing the rest.  Only 2 Tharc knights managed to escape. 

  After just over a ten day in the area they found a well defensible and well maintained outpost at Raccaten.  Here the local lords son had taken up playing noble but he was quickly dismissed and assigned a servants duty to a lowly serf soldier (turned knight).  Now a spark had landed in a pile of dry straw, only the winds would now determine how vicious the flames would become.  Only 2 days later word came from thier recently acquired ally at the Manor to the south.  It turned out that the Thardans were not yet done.  With several barges they came ashore just south of Sheda.  With quick thinking by the High Priest Urdal the group managed to destroy the boats leaving the 60 men of Tharda trapped miles behind border.