Attack on the Sorcerer Kingdom's Transport

Attack on the Sorcerer Kingdom's Transport was an attack orchestrated by the Re-Estize Kingdom's New Faction on a merchant carriage from the Sorcerer Kingdom, in hopes of eliminating their competition. However, it instead became the spark that would lead to war between the two nations.

Background
Due to the Annual Wars, the Re-Estize Kingdom has long been facing potential food shortages. After the Massacre at Katze Plains, which resulted in the loss of a sizable margin of their labor force and the ceding of the vital food-production region of E-Rantel to the Sorcerer Kingdom, the Kingdom was all but guaranteed to face famine in the future.

The Sorcerer Kingdom offered the Kingdom humanitarian aid, which they were in no position to refuse. However, this had the side effect of deflating the Kingdom's food prices, preventing nobles from making profit off their product. While the Kingdom remained wary of the Sorcerer Kingdom, the Royal Army having been devastated during the Massacre at Katze Plains. They thus had no choice but to avoid any sort of conflict while their nation recovered it's strength.

As the Kingdom suspected, the Sorcerer Kingdom's graciousness was merely a front while they prepared the complete conquest of their nation. While on a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom, the Sorcerer Kingdom's Prime Minister, Albedo, met a low-ranking noble named Philip Dayton L'Eyre Montserrat, who was attempting to forge ties with the Sorcerer Kingdom. Seeing this young man was easy to manipulate, Albedo planned to use him in her plans. To this end, she had Eight Fingers gather upstart nobles who came to power after their elder siblings were killed in the Massacre at Katze Plains to form an entirely New Faction that would support the Sorcerer Kingdom.

However, once Philip learned of the influx of food from the Sorcerer Kingdom, which interfered with his plans to inflate his product's price, he immediately turned on his benefactors. Noticing that the Sorcerer Kingdom's transports travel through his domain, Philip plotted with fellow New Faction members Wayne Delvin and Igor Rokerson to rob the carriages and sell their contents as their own, without even considering the consequences. While two were initially hesitant to participate, they calculated that the Sorcerer Kingdom shouldn't have the manpower to conquer the Kingdom. Which would force the nation to only annex the regions closest the border in case of the war of retribution, far away from their own domains.

In preparation for the attack Philip drafted 50 peasants of his domain while Wayne and Igor both drafted 75, bringing their total fighting force to 200 strong. As planned Philip and his men would be the main attack force, while Wayne and Igor stayed back with their men.