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The Thunderstorm Siege lasted for four weeks, and involved a round-the-clock artillery barrage that remains the longest single artillery engagement in Andoran history. Félipe I had brought nearly 300 guns of varying sizes, with a further 34 on board ships in the river. Eleçeron was attacked from the nearly all directions. Fortifications, earthworks, and siege platforms were erected to give cannons better firing angles on the city walls as well as buildings within. It is estimated that over 80,000 cannonballs, grapeshot, and mortars were fired onto the city. Care was taken to avoid damaging civilian homes, with royal observers being assigned to each battery and the authority to execute any crew that hit a non-military target intentionally. The East and West Royal Gates were recorded to have been hit 4,000 times combined, and the Réoran Guard Barracks almost 1,000. Neither structure survived into the modern day, and only 12% of the city walls of Eleçeron exist currently. The barrage was so powerful and so loud that soldiers were rotated to the encampment lines, 2 miles distant, after only 3 hour shifts. Contemporary Réoran accounts describe a never-ending lightning storm, with earthquake-like impacts being able to be felt everywhere in the city and the constant roar of thunder permeating even the cellars of the Royal Palace.

After all ammunition had been exhausted, the Arranzic armies were ordered to advance. Félipe I had issued orders that no enemy soldier was to remain alive at the end of the day. They encountered little resistance, with most of the still-surviving Réoran soldiers surrendering on the spot. Most were simply killed immediately, and those taken prisoner were executed when they reached the war camps. The civilian population was ignored for the most part; those that confronted the Arranzic troops were imprisoned. The Royal Palace of Eleçeron was stormed by Félipe I himself, along with his household troops. The Carratéo Royal Bodyguard, a force of five hundred men as well as nearly seven hundred soldiers occupied the building and put up a ferocious resistance, dying to a man but killing 657 of the two-thousand strong Royal Arranzic Guard. All those living in the Palace were killed either in the fighting, or afterwards. This included all members of the House of Carratéo, save for the sole child, Princess Alicia, making the family functionally extinct in the male line.

== Geography ==

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== Culture ==

Casilló y Réal is a highly cultured nation, with heritage stretching back to the early 3rd Century BCE. It is an [[Enlightened Coast]] nation, as defined by Corric philosipher Erik Vael Hernandéz in 1799. Large portions of Corric culture, like language, architecture, and agriculture have derived from its start as an Impelanzan colony, providing its status as a major Impelantic descendant state. Religion has also played a large part in Corric development; [[Tunseism]] and [[Andoran Deusism|Deusism]], in particular, shaped many traditions and beliefs and are still practiced today across the country. Cuisine is one of the largest pillars of Corric culture, influenced by the geographic region and the extensive trade network of the 17th and 18th centuries. This network allowed Casilló y Réal to come into contact with and absorb aspects of many international cultures.

Casilló y Réal is a highly cultured nation, with heritage stretching back to the early 3rd Century BCE. It is an [[Enlightened Coast]] nation, as defined by Corric philosipher Erik Vael Hernandéz in 1799. Large portions of Corric culture, like language, architecture, and agriculture have derived from its start as an Impelanzan colony, providing its status as a major Impelantic descendant state. Religion has also played a large part in Corric development; [[Tunseism]] and [[Andoran Deusism|Deusism]], in particular, shaped many traditions and beliefs and are still practiced today across the country. Cuisine is one of the largest pillars of Corric culture, influenced by the geographic region and the extensive trade network of the 17th and 18th centuries. This network allowed Casilló y Réal to come into contact with and absorb aspects of many international cultures. Several cultural sites are included on the [[IFESCO]] heritage rolls.

=== Architecture ===

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 The Thunderstorm Siege lasted for four weeks, and involved a round-the-clock artillery barrage that remains the longest single artillery engagement in Andoran history. Félipe I had brought nearly 300 guns of varying sizes, with a further 34 on board ships in the river. Eleçeron was attacked from the nearly all directions. Fortifications, earthworks, and siege platforms were erected to give cannons better firing angles on the city walls as well as buildings within. It is estimated that over 80,000 cannonballs, grapeshot, and mortars were fired onto the city. Care was taken to avoid damaging civilian homes, with royal observers being assigned to each battery and the authority to execute any crew that hit a non-military target intentionally. The East and West Royal Gates were recorded to have been hit 4,000 times combined, and the Réoran Guard Barracks almost 1,000. Neither structure survived into the modern day, and only 12% of the city walls of Eleçeron exist currently. The barrage was so powerful and so loud that soldiers were rotated to the encampment lines, 2 miles distant, after only 3 hour shifts. Contemporary Réoran accounts describe a never-ending lightning storm, with earthquake-like impacts being able to be felt everywhere in the city and the constant roar of thunder permeating even the cellars of the Royal Palace.
 After all ammunition had been exhausted, the Arranzic armies were ordered to advance. Félipe I had issued orders that no enemy soldier was to remain alive at the end of the day. They encountered little resistance, with most of the still-surviving Réoran soldiers surrendering on the spot. Most were simply killed immediately, and those taken prisoner were executed when they reached the war camps. The civilian population was ignored for the most part; those that confronted the Arranzic troops were imprisoned. The Royal Palace of Eleçeron was stormed by Félipe I himself, along with his household troops. The Carratéo Royal Bodyguard, a force of five hundred men as well as nearly seven hundred soldiers occupied the building and put up a ferocious resistance, dying to a man but killing 657 of the two-thousand strong Royal Arranzic Guard. All those living in the Palace were killed either in the fighting, or afterwards. This included all members of the House of Carratéo, save for the sole child, Princess Alicia, making the family functionally extinct in the male line.
 == Geography ==
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 == Culture ==
-Casilló y Réal is a highly cultured nation, with heritage stretching back to the early 3rd Century BCE. It is an [[Enlightened Coast]] nation, as defined by Corric philosipher Erik Vael Hernandéz in 1799. Large portions of Corric culture, like language, architecture, and agriculture have derived from its start as an Impelanzan colony, providing its status as a major Impelantic descendant state. Religion has also played a large part in Corric development; [[Tunseism]] and [[Andoran Deusism|Deusism]], in particular, shaped many traditions and beliefs and are still practiced today across the country. Cuisine is one of the largest pillars of Corric culture, influenced by the geographic region and the extensive trade network of the 17th and 18th centuries. This network allowed Casilló y Réal to come into contact with and absorb aspects of many international cultures.
+Casilló y Réal is a highly cultured nation, with heritage stretching back to the early 3rd Century BCE. It is an [[Enlightened Coast]] nation, as defined by Corric philosipher Erik Vael Hernandéz in 1799. Large portions of Corric culture, like language, architecture, and agriculture have derived from its start as an Impelanzan colony, providing its status as a major Impelantic descendant state. Religion has also played a large part in Corric development; [[Tunseism]] and [[Andoran Deusism|Deusism]], in particular, shaped many traditions and beliefs and are still practiced today across the country. Cuisine is one of the largest pillars of Corric culture, influenced by the geographic region and the extensive trade network of the 17th and 18th centuries. This network allowed Casilló y Réal to come into contact with and absorb aspects of many international cultures. Several cultural sites are included on the [[IFESCO]] heritage rolls.
 === Architecture ===

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