\--==Official Submission==-- FROM: General Debinani Rahl RE: Chapter Twenty-Four - The Winterfell Conflict A Submission to the Annals Lt. JG Haplo Edited by Amberle Jax The Winterfell Conflict At a Glance It all started with the death of Moddan Gunn. And it all went down hill from there. Moddan Gunn, citizen of Trinsic, fellow to Judas and the Emerald Empire. Past enemy of Winterfell. Supposedly cleared, that was until the night of his death. Details are still sketchy, and I do not even pretend to have all the details, so I'll will summarize what I know about the situation. Moddan was in Northwood for whatever reason, got arrested, but mouthed off. Sandrella ordered Ellis Rain to silence him, and Ellis went a bit too far and killed him. Whether or not it was justified? Well, that's the problem isn't it? Regardless of what happened. Trinsic demanded that Ellis Rain be held for trial. King Shadune of Winterfell declined. Tensions mounted. Lord British began to see Northwood as a problem, and the Trinsic factions, fueled by their on righteousness continued to press on Shadune for a trial. Shadune finally agreed but to a trial in Winterfell with Winterfell Presiding. General Rahl offered his services as an impartial judge, with Shadune and Rutger Dag as the other parts of the jury, but Winterfell refused, citing Ellis Rain's immunity because of his affiliation with Winterfell. They insisted that Ellis did not fall under Britanian law. To make matters worse, Trinsic then demanded the trial of Sandrella of Winterfell, lady of house Scott as it was her order that moved to kill Gunn. Tensions continued to mount. I sat in as mediator of an information gathering session with Trinsic's council. The Trinsic council had decided they would proceed with economic sanctions against Winterfell, but would not proceed with a military action. Seemingly this situation defused, until Judas and some citizens of Trinsic had need to enter Northwood for some strangeness that was happening to the members of the Emerald Empire. Things began to get tense, and members of house Scott of Winterfell decided to support Judas in his honorable quest against the orders of their king. Judas being the stubborn man he is, aggravated the situation by provoking Shadune. The result was a ruse by Shadune to weed out the not faithful. Shadune decided to fake reforming the Witan council and abdicating the throne. Unbeknownst to us, he loaded the council with members who were sympathetic to his cause. He used the council to point out who was loyal to him. He then re-dissolved the council, having isolated the members of house Scott as traitors, and banished them from Northwood proper to a tower to the west. While not sitting well, this did not dissolve Winterfell yet. A move by Sigurd sealed the deal, in which he decided to use the son of Sandrealla Scott, William II the blood heir to the throne, (apparently Sandrella abdicated the throne to Shadune because of complications with her pregnancy of William). Sigurd bid to reclaim the throne for house Scott by using William. The result was Civil War.