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Verdun Kobelar

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Verdun Kobelar, Lord Verdun, holds the small fortress of Sarpyar in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. He is banner-bearer to Baron Vermont and the baron's marshal in war. His house began with him, and holds two villages.12

The refugees

When the rebels sacked the nearby village of Vadiyurt, the fortress rang its bell and took in the villagers who could flee, and Verdun sent word to his other village to take shelter too. He told Kemp Corvus's company that the rebels had first called on the villagers to join them and, getting no answer, had seized their goods by force. He had ten soldiers and about a week's food, and had sent owls to call for help; besides the refugees he sheltered a war priest and a dwarf mine owner with his guards.3456

Expecting a call to surrender, he weighed with the company how long they could hold; with the pack animals eaten and hard rationing, they reckoned ten to twelve days, and the soldiers were fed first, the villagers enough to live. He welcomed the mage Sylvia Linz as an ally when she came to the fortress.789

The siege

Verdun went up on the walls with Kemp, while the baron was kept out of sight, and refused the unconditional surrender that Rainer Karga demanded.1011

The war council met in his chamber. He questioned what answer the enemy was hoping for, observed that they might not know a priest was in the fortress, and said he himself was old and wounded. Where Ephorus held that the empire could shape the telling of events, Verdun stressed that the morale of the local folk and of the enemy's soldiers was what decided matters. The final decision was left to the baron and to Kemp, and one of Verdun's soldiers was among the volunteers for the duel.12131415

Warned of a murder plot that might be aimed at the baron, at himself or at Kemp, Verdun insisted that none of his men would turn traitor, but accepted the change of guards.1617

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Notes

  1. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 43:25
  2. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 1:22:47
  3. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 1:50:16
  4. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:16:08
  5. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:18:07
  6. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:20:21
  7. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:43:01
  8. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:45:19
  9. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:48:00
  10. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 2:57:43
  11. ↑At the tableYangın Yeri | DnD 5e Oynanış #20 (Sürgün Günlükleri #20), 3:00:12
  12. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 38:17
  13. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 51:28
  14. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 54:20
  15. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 1:08:17
  16. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 2:20:03
  17. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 2:24:48
  18. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 1:57:20
  19. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 2:32:48
  20. ↑At the tableMorior İnvictis | DnD 5e Oynanış #21 (Sürgün Günlükleri #21), 2:51:40

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