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Wow. Wow.

Yesterday, Ravka took a brave last stand against its opponents, in the country’s Grisha capital, Os Alta. In a rare display of cooperation, the First and Second Army united to fend off the Fjerdan and Shu army from taking the city, despite their greatly depleted forces following the attack on the Little Palace and disastrous rescue missions along the northern border.

The decision to continue to fight instead of surrender proved to be fatal for Ravka— within the first few hours of the battle, the country’s weakened forces were scattered across the city, astray from their original plans. Although, the Ravkans weren’t going down without a fight; The Battle of Lyubovniki Leyn was the site of a great demonstration of Ravkan strength— a troop, a mix of Grisha and Otkazat’sya, took out dozens of Fjerdans. A young Inferni who died in the battle is to be awarded the Korona Muchenika Medal posthumously, given her great success in battle before she was brutally killed at the age of seventeen.

Later in the battle, Zoya Nazyalensky, leader of this last stand, was taken captive— she is yet to appear, even after the events that followed her disappearance.

Without any semblance of guidance nor leadership, a significant number of the First and Second Army fled, or were killed. The rest were rounded up by what remained of Fjerdan and Shu armies. Those who were Grisha have been split up among the soldiers— as Shu experiments, Kerch indentures, or Fjerdan criminals; at least, those who are not injured or ill have been. The rest; those who are of no use as indentures or experiments, have been sentenced to watching their world crumble around them, as Ravka falls again. Some of the soldiers, captive or not, fled or killed themselves at the scene, declaring they would rather die than be ‘enslaved’ by the Kerch or Shu, or see a world where Ravka is not the country they know.

With this great loss, comes repercussions. It is expected that the Trade Ban between Kerch and Ravka will be revoked, following the former’s victory. As well as this, Northern and Southern villages and towns will now belong to Fjerda and Shu Han, respectively; including the town of Pachina, which recently became occupied by Fjerda. Said settlements are to be renamed more appropriately, in the language of the countries who they now belong to. Of course, Ravka has lost a great deal of their fit and healthy Grisha soldiers, as well as citizens and Otkazat’sya. Zoya Nazyalensky has presumably been taken captive in Kerch, and whether or not she’ll come back alive is still uncertain, though, somehow, not the Ravkan government’s main priority; which, they’ve said, is attempting to stop the quality of life in the country from becoming poorer than that of any other country. 

Following this, Ravka’s status has quickly plummeted. Now poorer than even the Wandering Isle, with a larger population in its graveyards than in its cities, it’s expected that many citizens, at least, those who are still free, will attempt to emigrate further West.