The Battle of Asine

Battle of Asine
Part of the Decade of Unrest
Date August 18th, 1922 Location Asine Result Decisive Rintyari Victory
Belligerents
Rintyari Empire	Women's Revolutionary Party of Rintyar
Commanders and leaders
Warmistress Sanath Wierleck	Mors Kaath
Strength
104th Explorators 23rd Infantry Division	30,000 Revolutionaries
Casualties and losses
5,431 dead 9,000 wounded	19,541 dead Approx. 11,000 captured and executed

The Asine Revolution of 1922 was a conflict between the rising Asine chapter of the Women’s Revolutionary Party of Rintyar against the existing City of Asine. The conflict was noted for its brutal city combat, mass execution of suspected ‘Collaborators’ by the WRPA, and its radical reshaping of Rintyari society towards both Communism within and abroad.

After approximately three months of fighting, the city was secured and most of the surviving members of the revolution were executed for various crimes. Infamously, General Sanath Wierleck would also order the execution of much of the city’s upper class and nobility for cowardice during and after the Revolution, as many had refused to fight as was expected of them in such a crisis.

Aftermath

As a result of the brutal fighting, mass executions on all parties involved, and the almost total destruction of the WRPR chapter in Asine, all major fighting had concluded at the end of December, peace finally established with Sanath Wierleck as its temporary military-governor. However, her actions done to achieve peace, her execution of many noblewomen lead to an intense outrage within the upper classes.

As the nobility across the Undercities demanded action against the Warmistress they now deemed a rogue and dangerous commoner, Queen Arathiel was placed in a particularly wary position. Wierleck's popularity among her troops, and their own rampant support not towards the nobility but their general, meant that the brutal punishment desired by the aristocracy could potentially cause the increasingly commoner-filled Rintyari Army of the Undercities to revolt outright. In turn, showing any leniency towards her could make the nobles act against her and crackdown on the army, bringing the then constant Unrest in the Undercities to an even greater boiling point.

Ultimately, during Sanath Wierleck's trial, attended by both commoners and nobility, would exemplify much of the intense divide on how Drow society at large viewed her actions. Her officers and infantrymen in her division would speak positively of the woman, believing that her actions were justified by the ancient law that held Drow society together. Surviving nobles from the battle painted her as a murderous thug, spilling the blood of the nobility for the sake of advancing her own power. The mockery in the press of the nobles, and the demonstrators outside demanding the release of Wierleck, spoke to the popular opinion on the matter however.

Ultimately, Arathiel would compromise by commending Wierleck for her actions in the conflict, but nonetheless condemned her execution of the nobility. In spite of her argument that she had followed the Drow law to the letter, she was ultimately found guilty of unnecessary executions, and sentenced either a dishonorable discharge or a demotion and a Punishment of Thorns, and transfer to the Demonslayer Corps.

Wierleck, now faced with either the expectations of suicide or an intense suffering meant only for those who insult the Goddesses or commit some foul deed to find herself in a borderline suicidal action, nonetheless chose to face the Punishment of Thorns with pride.