Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 62.142.248.1

Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
Phase -1:
lmperator
462-479
Ambrosius Aurelius
Vortigern turns the tables on his last British
enemies by poison and deceit. Hengist turns
the tables on Vortigern. destroys the British
leadership, and opens the way for a total
Saxon conquest of Britain. At the last minute,
Aurelius sails from Armorica to save Britain
from war and treachery, in part by introducing
the feudal custom of vassalage.
1 - Lincoln, 447
2 - Aegelsthrep, 4566
3 - Crecganford, 457
4 - Regulbium, 462
466
Legend
5 - Long Knives, 463
6 - Wippedsfleot, 465
7 - lsca Dumnoniorum, 466
Other Developments: Britons fight more like tribesmen
and less like legionaries. Chainmail available at normal
rates. Eastern Huns import stirrups; without them, a rider
cannot use his horse’s damage in a lance charge
(Pendragon page 162). There may be two or three pairs
of stirrups in all Britain.
462: Vortimer and the Southeasterners rebel
again, pushing the Saxons out of Kent and
back to Thanet after the Battle of Regulbium.
Vortimer claims his father’s crown but is poisoned
by his stepmother, Rowena. King
Vortigern calls for Saxons and Britons to
meet in a peace conference at Salisbury Plain.
463: The Long Knives massacre. Saxon delegates
at Salisbury murder most of the British
leadership with seaxes concealed in their leggings.
Count Eldol of Glevum kills seventy
Saxons with a wooden stake, allowing himself
and a few other Britons to escape. King
Vortigern is captured alive and cedes Britain
to Hengist. Saxons and Picts overrun the east,
putting Christians to the sword. More
Romano-Britons flee to hillforts.
464 Vortigern escapes back to his lands in
Cambria, where he begins construction of
the impregnable Tower of Genoreu - but
each day’s work is destroyed by the next
morning. Wise men.tell him that he must sprinkle the
blood of a fatherless boy on the foundation stones. The
search for the boy begins. In Ireland, St. Patrick converts
the high king to Christianity.
465: Southeasterners, led by the Cantiacii, battle Hengist
and Aesc at Wippedesfleot. Four thousand Britons die,
destroying the Cantiacii, while the Saxons lose only ninety-odd
ceorls and a thegn, Wipped, for whom the place
was named.
466: The fatherless boy is found: Merlin. He predicts that
Aurelius and Uther, the sons of Constantin. will invade
this year. Indeed, Aurelius and Uther land in Cornwall
with 10,000 Armoricans, Occitanians, and Britons.
Vortigern leads the Saxons to a great battle at lsca
Dumnoniorum - then flees, leaving the Saxons to be
defeated. Aurelius organizes the Cornovii and Dumnonii