~The Raising of Militias~
~When a lone champion wasn’t enough, men and women rose to defend their homes~
The Central Riverlands was under attack, The Frigid Expanse was under attack, The Seas of Shalidor was under attack. The Pillagers were making moves on their former territories and were bold enough for one of their Evokers to reveal herself and her mansion as a challenge. Seeing as most villages had not raised a militia in years, they desperately cobbled together a defense.
Most of these early militias would get FOLDED by the Pillagers, essentially equiped with wood and sometimes stone swords and barely trained at all. This was shown in a bloody day in which the town of Acamar (now known as Old Acamar) was massacred by Evoker Iliric bringing a horde of undead on the time, resulting in a bloody massacre, with what little survivors running for the hills, eventually founding the town of New Acamar
The actually competent militias on the other hand would push back Pillager assaults well, and eventually would have multiple villages begging them to send troops to help train them and defend them in the mean-time. Sparing what little men they could, the villages would slowly become actually competent at fighting and began to be able to actually offer contest against their foes.
Eventually, as the villages began to produce decent quality crossbows, swords and shields while being trained to actually fight, the fighting became agonizingly slow, while the villagers managed to gain back ground they lost. Nitwits were often conscripted, seeing as the village couldn’t benefit from them in any other way and sent to the front.
During this time, the world had much more Pillager outposts, but many were razed during the fighting. While the Central Riverlands never dealt with any themselves, they forged much of the equipment used in the fighting. Eventually, the borders would settle with how they are in the modern day, but now the Pillagers are readying for another strike.
