Summer 1095 SR
The march began the next day, if march was the right word for it. Men assembled and horses were saddled, but they spent much of the morning doing little other than standing around waiting. Apparently, it was one thing to schedule an army to march, quite another to actually execute the command. The duke was to lead the army, but still, he himself did not rise till mid-morning, likely the result of too much time spent in the company of his new wife, or so the rumours claimed.
When he finally did appear, he looked hungover and tired, climbing into his carriage with little thought to issuing commands. His brief appearance complete, he left it for others to issue the actual orders for the advance to begin. Soldiers began moving, but their placement on the tournament grounds wor
