New Emperor of Ursus: The border region of Uca has seen more than a dozen large-scale campaigns over the generations. The rights and wrongs are too complicated to recount, yet historians have all noted that this ancient battlefield determined the rise and fall of Ursus as a military power across generations. Its fortunes have waxed and waned, and since antiquity, people have spoken of claiming dominion over the land of Terra.
Back then, after the former emperor led Ursus's army groups to join forces with Kazimierz and Victoria at the border along three routes, they marched west and routed the Gallic expeditionary army. The very next day, seeing the situation was hopeless, the Gallic emperor announced a retreat. In 1063, during the tenth Uca War, the Silverlance Knights crossed the border and were fortunate enough to witness General Hrag leading his vanguard of elite troops and defenders to victory!
I do not understand why everyone keeps talking about the Eastern Nation's defeat at Bloodpeak, as if this battlefield has already doomed us to disaster. Twenty years ago, when I ascended the throne, I set out on a journey and began sweeping reforms, purging the old military aristocracy and improving the treatment of the Infected. Wherever my decrees reached, the people welcomed them wholeheartedly. We had every advantage, and that thriving scene, with all things flourishing and competing to grow, is still vivid before my eyes. How could this place, in just twenty short years, become the turning point in Ursus's decline?
No matter what, we have 80,000 elite troops against 60,000 peasants. The advantage is ours!
