Millbridge, 2390 a.a.H

The City of Millbridge, before the rule of Camilo II The Magnificent.

Still was strong the legacy of the King Martin the Conqueror, who had build the King's Keep and as well the drawbridge over the Osorio. Since then, the city had expanded beyond the Pit, being divided in two neighborhoods: the Old City and the New City.

Outside of the Walls, as a concesion made by the King Martin the Conqueror, was the Elf's Chapel, a chapel for the christian grey elves of Millbridge and the surroundings, and as well a graveyard to bury their dead: As the city growth -specially in times of Camilo II The Magnificent-, the grey elves will began to settle around the Elf's Chapel. After an incident in a carnaval agaist the elven population, King Camilo II will decide -as a protection to his grey elven subjects in Millbridge- to build a palisade from the rest of the city to divide the Elf's quarter, becoming a Elferie.

In origin an attempt to protect the elven population, it will become a measure of segregation and marginalization of the grey elves.

The Elf's chapel was destroyed in the Siege of Sargos at the 2419 a.a.H, but the concesion of the king to the Elfs chapel remained as the elferie.

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Millbridge - Leyends 2390

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Millbridge was a city of the north-western human Aelian Kingdom of Sargos.

The Human Kingdoms of the North-West (as Sargos, Degland, La Cruz, Huncle and Tardos) where founded around the same time at the 1.727 a.a.H, from the inherited lands of the sucessors of king Aleks of the Weseuros, being these five kingdoms founded by the different Weseuros Tribes.

The area of Millbridge had seen in the previous centuries some other settlements -high elven and Kanov- but rather than a high elven city as often later the Millbridgers will fantasy about, it was only some farmers villages.

In time of King Aleks of the Weseuros, in a bend of the Osorio river there was located a Mill, which was a concession of the King to grind the grain of the region, being know this Mill as the Kingsmill.

However, for the inhabitants of the western bank of the river, needing to cross the river to go to grind their grain, they eventually built a bridge over the Osorio river, which will be simply called the Mill Bridge.

For when King Aleks of the Weseuros passed out and the Five Kingdoms where founded, Millbridge was already a village in the western bank of the river, and will be the place King Camilo I of Sargos will choose to be the capital of the newly founded kingdom -taxing not anymore only the mill, but as well the bridge crossing.

The village turned capitol will slowly grow, and for the end of the second millenia since the apparition of humanity (2.000 a.a.H), the Sargonic king, to found the War of the Clover against Huncle, will build a tower in the Millbridge with a dawbridge, so the Osorio river navegation could expand... and as well, to tax the ships crossing Millbridge.

During the 2100-2150, will be the first attemps to give some fortifications to the small city, being digged a trench that was flooded with the rivers waters, that made Millbridge into a small island, being builded some stone walls to the west.

However, for the First War of the Power, when the Armies of the Dark Legion arrived at the 2208 a.a.H, Millbridge was almost defendless, and the demon armies crossed the bridge coming from the east: The city was sacked by the Ozcuras of the Dark Legion and their Kanov allies, and the city was burned by Dragons-fire.

After the end of the First War of the Power (2223 a.a.H) will come the time to rebuild the city. However, it remained only lightly fortified.

King Martin the Conqueror builded then the Kings Keep, but the city keep growing.

Around the middle of the XXIV century, the buidlings of the city expanded beyond the pit, and with the economic expansion of Sargos, the city began to expand.

And so, in times of don Camilo II the Magnificent (2398-2422 a.a.H) it was one of the largest human cities of the North-West of Aels. -however, the north-western cities really where pale in size comparison to the human cities of central and southern Aels). Under his reign, a new Keep was builded to control the Osorio river, and as well the wall of the trench was reinforced with the Fortress of the Pit.

King Camilo II as well ordered many buildings to be razed, to have place to do new public buildings, such as the Cathedral of St. Anita -while in other places, building cathedrals was an impulse of the same citizens, in Millbridge was decided and founded by King Camilo II, angry that his capitol city didn't had a cathedral. Other buildings will be the Towns Square -used for festivals, cavalry fairs, market and religious prossetions-, the Hospital of Don Camilo, the Archbishop's Palace, the wool market and the University.

There where many more plans for expanding the city and provide it with new buildings and improvements, such a new wall to protect as well the city from the river side, building a new castle to be the house of the King in Kingsmill, and a wall encircling as well the "new city" that growed much beyond the trench.

However, these plans where left in plans due the adverse luck of Sargos at the end of the Sargonic Wars (2407-2419 a.a.H). As the castles protecting the borders of Sargos fell one after other against the enemies, once more time, Millbridge defenses where inadecuate.

A bulwark was builded at Kingsmill, the walls reinforced and trenches and palisades digged and builded around the city, being burned or destroyed many of the river ports and bridges along the Osorio river, to avoid the enemy to cross it: And when the Enkel human, Gorbegean Kanov and goblin hordes arrived at the 2419 a.a.H to the eastern bank, there was the battle of Kingsmill, that will open the Siege of Millbridge.

The Sargonic will be defeated and forced to retreat to the tower of the Bridge, but as the Garrison of the Tower of the bridge resisted, supported by the fluvial navy of the Sargonic, the enginers destroyed the Mill bridge: And when the Tower of the Bridge fell, the garrison was cut without retreat and slayed, but they had given enough time to cut down the bridge.

In the following days, the allied army tried several times to cross the river, being defeated each time. As well, the uneasy alliance with the Hettes Ur Dur did become in a serie of skirmishes and combats between the allies, which made the goblins to leave, after sacking the whole region -sacking that cutted out the possibilities to the allied human-kanov to forage in the region-.

Due the lack of supplies, the invaders had to spread thin to increase their foraging opportunities: Opportunity used by the Sargonic, who using their fluvial navy launched a couple of succesful surprise attacks.

However, there was a stone bridge further to the north that the Sargnoic weren't capable of destroy in time before the invasion, and that bridge was used to cross a fraction of the Gorbegean army. As well, the north-western human enemies of Sargos -Huncle, Tardos and La Cruz- where marching as well:

And so, Millbridge was now attacked from the east and west. And the New City, defended only by some palisades, quickly fell to the enemy.

As the Sargonic prepared to defend the Old City, King Camilo II left, using the still unmatched power of the sargonic fluvial navy of the Osorio to escape, along with much of the court, treasure -and many citizens-

Knowing about the retreat of the King, the desire to continue the defense dropped, and Millbridge surrendered, to be sacked by the Gorbegeos and Enkel, while the army of Tardos and Huncle protected the Churchs property, they did the same.

After the Sargonic wars, once more time, Millbridge will be rebuilded: and this time with proper defenses, but not being anymore the capitol of Sargos...

defenses that wouldn't be capable to stop the Dark Legion's Tide during the Second War of the Power at the 2440, when the city will once more time fall -to the assault of the forces of the demons-, being forced the Sargonic to retreat and make a last stand at the Battle of the Plain of Sargos.