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Day 88, Windsday, Stasis Week, Fire Season 1627
Argrath alone among the contestants provided new ideas. Argrath made an organization which allowed the uncohesive group to co‑operate to achieve their common objective: the liberation of Sartar. He taught them how to make a new kind of military unit, which was something like a clan and something like a ritual. He took many very diverse individuals and, with them, created a temporary spirit which acted in a way greater than their sum could have ordinarily achieved. Argrath showed them that they could, in this way, do what the great Lunar magical schools achieved when they devastated a whole fyrd with their power.
Over winter, Argrath led a makeshift band of impatient Sartarite warriors north into Alda‑Churi lands. The tribes there either allowed them passage or rose in arms and joined them against the Lunars. The Tarsh regiments which had wintered in Alda‑Chur marched away, but the imperial troops mustered to fight.
Argrath sent requests, summons, and recalled friendships to gain help. Prince Broyar Broyansson, a man of great honor, came with his army. White Bull, Pillager of Pavis, came when Argrath asked his brothers to come. Chieftains of Prax came, and they were called, by the Lunars in contempt, the Army of the Bull.
The armies clashed at Sword Hill . The simple people of Sartar stood spear to sword against the hardened veterans of the Lunar Empire, and did not flinch when the ground was wet with their blood. And here, for the first time, Argrath tried out his new army. The Eleven Lights destroyed the Lunars, and Argrath was victor at the Battle of Sword Hill.
Argrath’s two new bands, the Eaglebrown Warlocks and the Eleven Lights, so devastated their enemies that the rest of the army only pursued, long into the night, and cut down most of their foes.
The Lunar Army was destroyed. The good folk of Alda‑Chur gratefully joined their city to Argrath‘s kingdom, as of old.
Argrath was cheered as champion among the Alda‑Churi, who raised him upon their sacred shield as a sign of their respect. Their king urged Argrath to try to light the Flame of Sartar.
The tribesmen bore him back to Boldhome upon their shields. Along the way crowds urged Argrath to try to light the Flame of Sartar.
Argrath went to the Thunder Brothers for a blessing, and got it. He went to Clearwine for a blessing from the Colymar, and got it. He then went to Boldhome, in procession, and mounted the disused brazier where the flame had burned.
G Excerpt from the Stafford Section, Jonstown Library
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Godday, Movement Week, Fire Season 1627
Argrath reignites the Flame of Sartar and is proclaimed Prince of Sartar.