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       The Siege of Highmoon
       By: Duncan Seastove Date: April 19, 2015, 5:45 pm
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       Many members of the Cormyrn royal court had been clamoring for
       war with Denerim since before Prince Lyrion's disappearance,
       since Cormyr had lent a great deal of money to Denerim in order
       to rebuild after the Shardmind invasion and had yet to pay it
       back. Many of them, too, were young firebrands who did not have
       a chance to prove themselves in the Shardmind invasion, and so
       were eager to gain glory in combat. Once the Prince disappeared,
       however, the warhawks gained the support of King Cormyrn, and an
       army was raised.
       King Delphinius of Denerim knew there was a chance of war—
       however, he hoped that a diplomatic solution could be found
       first. Thus, while he mustered his bannermen for battle, he
       refused to mobilize any forces along the Denerim-Cormyr border,
       not wanting to escalate tensions further.
       Because of this, Denerim was caught almost entirely unawares
       when King Cormyrn forced a march through the Thunder Peaks,
       straight to the capital city, Highmoon. King Delphinius met the
       Cormyrn host head-on, hoping to avoid the suffering and
       destruction caused by a prolonged siege. Though the Cormyrns
       were not expecting to be met in open battle so quickly, they
       still outnumbered King Delphinius' forces by nearly a thousand
       men, and following a brief but bloody battle, King Delphinius
       and the remainder of his men were forced back behind the city
       walls.
       For three weeks, then, the Cormyrn army bombarded the city with
       all manner of things— stones, flaming pots of oil, the corpses
       of cattle— until finally it became clear that reinforcements
       would not come for King Delphinius— Cormyrn galleys had sailed
       up the Archenbridge river and taken the only crossing, cutting
       Highmoon off from reinforcements from Urmlaspyr. King Delphinius
       surrendered the city to Cormyr, under the condition that it
       would not be sacked. He and most of the other senior nobility of
       the city were taken prisoner, and the Cormyrn's raised their
       banners above the Old Palace.
       Many buildings in Highmoon were destroyed during the siege,
       either by fire or stone, including the Grand Halen Embassy. Much
       of its population has fled to escape abuses by the occupying
       army and the plague caused by the numerous corpses littering the
       streets.
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