When I first saw the six bronze cannons slumbering in the armory, I was very taken aback, because they looked nothing like what I'd imagined. Far from having wheels, they were simple in shape, stacked atop wooden planks.
There were even several rings, like hoops, fitted around the barrels. What were these for? They looked like fingers adorned with several rings.
Transporting them was a big problem too. In the end, rather than carelessly handling them myself, I decided to call in experts. The Duchy of Beren has exactly one artillery unit.
One of a kind: the Royal Artillery Corps.
The unit's name was tremendously grandiose, but that grandiose name was literally all there was to it.
Since the Grand Duke didn't use cannons at all, they had been all but forgotten. These artillerymen—now soldiers in name only—had once been elite, trained and selected by an artillery officer the Holy Roman Emperor had sent at the time.
