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Theocracy - Elf War is an ongoing war between the Slane Theocracy and the Elf Country incited by Elf King Decem's crimes. The Sorcerer Kingdom also got involved during the war's final phase, inadvertently aiding the Theocracy while proviving evacuation assistance to Elf Country residents.
Background[]
Origin[]
Originally, the Slane Theocracy and Elf Country had a cooperative relationship. However, this ended when Elf King Decem Hougan, in his desire for a powerful offspring, abducted and raped the ace of the Theocracy's Black Scripture. Unfortunately for the Elf King, the Theocracy retrieved their captured ace and the child she was impregnated with instead grew up to become their strongest God-kin. Afterward, having been raised to hate her elven heritage, the child convinced Theocracy's higher-ups to start a war of retribution against the Elf Country for the Elf King's transgressions.
Despite the war starting centuries ago, the conflict was still ongoing by the time of the Fall of the Re-Estize Kingdom. This stems from the Elf Country being mostly hard-to-traverse woodlands and the Elves using guirilla tactics, causing the Theocracy's progress to be extremely slow.[1] However, this is partly because the Theocracy never committed their full military might to the conflict. They also eventually managed to built a forward base at Crescent Lake, the seat of the elves capital.
Recent Events[]
Amidst their war with the Elf Country, the Theocracy found itself facing multiple crisies that greatly dwindled their national power: the Sunlight Scripture was lost during a covert mission,[2][3] Black Scripture member Clementine went rogue after stealing a Crown of Wisdom,[4] and several other members were killed in a skirmish with a vampire.[5] On top of this was the emergence of the Sorcerer Kingdom, a hostile demi-human nation that directly bordered the Theocracy's territory.[6][7]
Recognizing the threat of the Sorcerer Kingdom, the Theocracy's Cardinals agreed that the war with the Elf Country must be concluded so they might redirect their forces. Believing negotiations to not be an option, the Theocracy thus decided aim for a swift victory by finally commiting their full military to the conflict.[8] As a result, the Theocracy's forces finally began to overwhelm the elves' guerilla tactics, and they slowly marched to the Elven Capital as they prepared to besiege it.
Elf Tactics[]
On the elves' side, Elf King Decem was completely indifferent to his people's plight, refusing to take to the frontlines himself even though he could single-handedly turn the tide of the war. Instead, he used the conflict to his advantage by sending his offspring to the frontlines in hopes of them awakening some power within them. Unfortunately, they never did and countless elves were slaughtered. As a result, the monarch deemed his nation a failure and prepared to abandon it, unconcerned with the ramifications.[9]
Battles[]
Assassination of Rugi[]
The Theocracy's main force of 40,000 soldiers were marching through the forest though had been stalled by a single elven archer. Rather than make a detour which would cost them more losses and lose morale, the army sacrificed a 1,000 soldiers to distract the elven archer and deployed the a team of four belonging to the Holocaust Scripture to assassinate the girl. After the Scripture members crept to the location where she was launching her barrage of arrows, killing all 1,000 soldiers the vice captain, Schoen, gave the signal to snipe her with over a hundred [Magic Arrows], killing her. The vice captain was about to collect her equipment, until the Elf King appeared to stop him. Decem then proceeded to summon Behemot to kill the members of the Scripture. To save his men, Schoen sacrificed himself to buy them time to escape.[10]
Assault on the Elven Capital[]
Seven days since Ainz and his Floor Guardians stayed at a dark elf village, the army of the Theocracy had abandoned chopping a path to the capital midway and marched towards the outskirts of the capital. In the clearing they laid siege against the city. Though the siege was mostly involving maintaining position until further orders, the army was forbidden from using siege weapons or fire arrows to burn the forest. Furthermore, none of the Six Scriptures were permitted to aid the human soldiers. Due to the restrictions, the humans faced heavy casualties by the night raids of the elves. Their morale was slowly being whittled away, and despite pleas from the commander to the Supreme Executive Council for permission to engage the enemy using overwhelming force, it was denied repeatedly. Salvation came when a report arrived before General Valerian that the council had lifted the constraints and sent reinforcements. No longer being bound by the Theocracy's rules of war, the armies then committed themselves in capturing the city, breaking through its defenses, and began pushing the guerilla forces of the elves back deeper into the cities, whilst other pockets of resistance were being surrounded by the siege. The last target of the humans was the elven royal castle, though to their surprise they received no retaliation from the Elf King. To avoid casualties Valerian ordered the fortress be surrounded and allowed the trump card of the Black Scripture, Antilene Heran Fouche, to complete their mission.
Duel of Kings[]
Unknown to the human invaders, a duel was being fought between Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown and Elf King Decem Hougan. Ainz and his Floor Guardians, Aura Bella Fiora and Mare Bello Fiore infiltrated the castle in order to perform a kill steal to acquire the treasures in the treasury. They encountered Decem Hougan in their search who upon seeing the dark elf twins, believed that they were his grandchildren. After the Elf King had made his intention clear that he planned to mate with Aura and have Mare bed with other female elves to produce strong children, it angered Ainz, who proceed to punch the Elf King. Ainz posing as a summon of the twins, fought Decem's Behemot in over the twins, in battle of attrition, tricked the elf king into expending his mana and phishing for information. When the Elf King said all he would divulge, Ainz easily destroyed the Primal Earth Elemental and dealt Decem with a grievous wound using [Reality Slash] thus destroying his confidence and self-image. Before a superior force, Decem was given the chance to strip off his equipment and surrender and hope for mercy, but revealing his true cowardly nature chose to flee. Despite Ainz and Aura's attempts to stop the Elf King, they failed. Mare was then given the task or capturing the injured king and bringing him back to Ainz, while he and Aura located the treasures of the castle.
Assassination of Elf King Decem[]
Decem having fled from the battle planned to make his getaway, by first conserving what strength he had. He planned to flee the doomed nation and rebuild a new kingdom elsewhere using his own strength to take what he wanted. Thinking that he would have better success in producing stronger children with dark elves, Decem planned to breed with them once he escaped. Before leaving, he went to his room in order retrieve some supplies, where he found all of his concubines dead at the feet of Antilene Heran Fouche. Seeing her elven features, Decem thought she was the mother of Aura and Mare. He tried to flee but was stabbed in the leg by Antilene and fell on the floor. Not knowing who Antilene was, Decem was left wondering why he was being treated this way as she crushed his chest. Unexpectedly, Decem revived himself due to a spell he cast during the duel with Ainz, forcing Antilene to kill her father once again.
Duel at the Elven Royal Castle[]
The assassination of Decem was stumbled upon by Mare. Antilene seeing that Mare in his dress armor and eyes assumed him a girl and was kin to her father. Antilene immediately attacked the dark elf, kicking her father's corpse at the child, followed by an offensive attack. Though to her surprise, her attacks were parried despite wearing the gear of the Six Great Gods. The battle continued out into the corridor where Mare displayed he was more than enough to face her with his druidic arts. After being pummel by his staffs and hindered by his magic scrolls, Antilene activated several of her unique skills to the bafflement of Mare. However, despite her effort, in the end Mare came out victorious, knocking the half-elf out with his staff.[11]
Aftermath[]
The results of the war with the elves is not clear, though it is predicted that the Theocracy will shortly occupy the city once all elven resistance has been eliminated. Though it is deemed to be a win for the Theocracy, it should only be a tactical win as while the humans have annexed the capital, there is still the danger of the dark elven reinforcements that have yet to arrive to aid the forest elves.
And while the Theocracy had killed the Elf King and it was one of their main objectives, it was only due so to the actions of the Sorcerer King. Not only that the Sorcerer Kingdom had deprived the Theocracy from a true victory, as they had not only stolen the most important kill in the entire conflict, but they had also stolen all elven treasures kept by the former Elf King had inherited from his father and his companions, and the capture of the Theocracy's number one trump card of the Black Scripture.
After interrogating the Extra Seat and the knowledge of the Theocracy's complicity in a previous incident is revealed, the Sorcerer King's anger was soon directed towards the Slane Theocracy and ordered his nation to begin preparations to declare war against them using his nation's full power.[12]
References[]
- ↑ Overlord Volume 10 Intermission
- ↑ Overlord Volume 01 Chapter 4: Conflict
- ↑ Overlord Volume 01 Chapter 5: Ruler of Death
- ↑ Overlord Volume 02 Chapter 4: Twin Swords of Death
- ↑ Overlord Volume 03 Chapter 2: A True Vampire
- ↑ Overlord Volume 09 Chapter 4: Massacre
- ↑ Overlord Volume 09 Brand New Chapter
- ↑ Overlord Volume 10 Intermission
- ↑ Overlord Volume 11 Intermission
- ↑ Overlord Volume 15 Chapter 2: The Travelling Scenery in Nazarick
- ↑ Overlord Volume 16 Chapter 5: Kill Steal
- ↑ Overlord Volume 16 Epilogue