Skirmish At Baile Cláir Fionn

This was a battle that took place inside the Kingdom of Westhaven, between Shadik raiders, and Westhaven soldiers.

34 Shadik militia troops, under the leadership of Itanai Bonetwister, snuck across the Westhaven border, at an area that was unguarded at the time. Once across the border, they attacked the hamlet of Baile Clair Fionn, without any warning. With the element of surpirse, they were able to kill the few people who had run out to protect the town, and proceeded to loot it and burn it down. Not all the humans fled, however, and the one's who didn't ran into the fight to protect their homes. This wouldn't have been a problem for the raiders if a patrol of Westhaven soldiers, led by Sir Ardghail, hadn't seen the smoke from the hamlet, and had joined the fight. The Westhaven soldiers were able to lure some of the Shadik into an ambush inside a tavern, killing 9 of them, while the Westhaveners lost 3 soldiers and the people that had been there before they showed up.

It looked like the raiders might have been able to win, when a Griffon Scout saw the conflict and went to get reinforcements. Things went from bad to worse for the raiders when an Ostian spy, by the name of Viktor Asaras showed up, and began shooting them down with a repeating crossbow. 1 more of the Westhaven soldiers fell, taking 4 shadik raiders with him. The raiders were running out of time, as the westhaven reinforcements drew closer. they picked up weapons from their fallenm comrades, and pressed the attack, managing to kill 2 knights at the cost of 5 Shadik.

Sir Ardghail saw his opening and took it. He linked up with Viktor asaras, and they managed to kill the remaining shadik as the raiders made the mistake of straying into the shade of the forest, where Viktor was free to get close and kill them with his swords. However, Sir Ardghail was injured by a stab from Itanai. ass the Westhaven reinforcements arrived, they began treating Sir Ardghail, and took Itanai back to the capitol for interrogation. Viktor Asaras vanished back into the woods, like he had never been there.

This battle was one of the main causes of An Cogadh Ceart, also known as the Right War.