With the Forgotten Island update and server transfers on the horizon, the 5th Castle Siege—the last under the current landscape—saw a general decline in combat intensity across most servers. However, Sayha, Christer, and Isilote defied expectations and delivered intense action.

Sayha was particularly gripping. Following last week’s split in the 'Line' (the dominant alliance), this week saw further shifts as former clans rejoined the alliance or formed a third faction. This created a rare 1:1:1 three-way battle, breaking the standard 1:1 dynamic seen on most other servers.

Christer remained quiet for the first few dozen minutes of the siege. Just as it seemed the persistent Star Alliance had finally given up, they launched a massive, long-awaited offensive at the 30-minute mark, successfully capturing Orc Fortress. The Isilote server was relatively quiet but saw persistent skirmishes; while the Suho Alliance failed to capture a castle, they kept the pressure on the Age Alliance by shifting between Windwood and Kent.

To understand this week’s events on Sayha, one must look at the landscape. Originally, it was a battle between the dominant Winner Alliance (Winner, Reaper, Legend, Top, etc.) and the dissident Hangil Alliance (Hangil, Goldmoon, etc.). Last week, internal friction caused Winner and Reaper to leave, leaving the 'Legend Alliance' (Legend and Top) to hold the fort, which ultimately resulted in them losing their castles.

This week, however, the power balance shifted significantly. Winner returned to the fold, reactivating the Winner Alliance (Winner, Legend, Top), while the Hangil Alliance bolstered its ranks by recruiting the Tiger Clan. Meanwhile, the Reaper Alliance, having left the Winner group, participated in the siege as a third faction.

While almost every other server has been locked in a 1:1 stalemate since the launch of the Siege War, Sayha hosted what was effectively the first true three-way battle. With three factions entangled, chaos ensued: Faction B would attack a gate held by A, only to be struck from the rear by C.

Early on, ownership of Kent and Windwood changed rapidly. Once the Hangil Alliance successfully secured and stabilized Kent, the focus shifted to Wind Castle. Wind Castle remained a hotbed of conflict until the very end, with the defending Winner Alliance, the Reaper Alliance attacking the main gate, and the Hangil Alliance attacking the east gate all clashing until the gates were left open and the battle centered on the Guardian Tower.

Near the end of the siege, the Hangil Alliance, confident in their defense of Kent, concentrated their forces for an all-out assault on Wind Castle. Despite the Winner Alliance’s solid defense, Hangil’s breakthrough succeeded; Wind Castle fell with about two minutes remaining, ending the siege with a change in ownership.

Meanwhile, news arrived from the Orc Fortress, which had been outside the main theater of war. The Reaper Clan, acting as an independent third party after leaving their alliance, captured the fortress. Given that they had also used a 'sniping' Master to capture Kent last week, players praised their clever approach to enjoying the siege despite being unaffiliated.

At 8:00 PM sharp, Christer was silent. The Star Alliance, usually the most active of the dissident forces, was nowhere to be seen. Had they finally given up after failing to hold a castle despite their combat prowess, perhaps eyeing a server transfer?

The silence lasted only 35 minutes. As if to prove their quiet was merely a buildup of momentum, the Star Alliance launched a massive offensive on both main castles. The assault began at Kent, moved to the Windwood south gate, and then swung back to the Kent east gate, whipping up a storm of blood.

Throughout this, the Star Alliance kept probing the Orc Fortress, looking for weaknesses in the The King Alliance. With no further gains at Kent or Windwood, the final battle, as in previous sieges, came down to the Orc Fortress.

Today’s intensity was different, however. The Orc Fortress changed hands more rapidly than ever before. Around the 55-minute mark, the The King Alliance successfully 'Bound' the fortress, seemingly securing victory, but the Star Alliance broke through the defense and re-bound it at the 59-minute mark.

The The King Alliance rushed toward the Guardian Tower in desperation, but there was too little time left. The Star Alliance successfully defended the tower until the end, finally entering Orc Fortress in their fifth attempt and washing away their past regrets.

While combat began at the main castles on Isilote, the real stage was the Orc Fortress. Early in the siege, the Suho Alliance attempted multi-pronged attacks on Kent and the Windwood gates, but these moves seemed more intended to disperse enemy forces than to actually breach the castles.

The main engagement took place at the Orc Fortress. For dozens of minutes, the fortress was packed with players, with ownership changing so rapidly that everyone inside was repeatedly teleported out. Ownership shifted from the Suho Alliance to Medical, then to Ghost Siege, and back to Suho, making the outcome impossible to predict.

Just before the siege ended, a final 'Bound' action teleported everyone inside the fortress. With the identity of the captor unclear, both alliances rushed back toward the fortress, but time ran out, and the siege concluded.

To everyone's surprise, the owner of the Orc Fortress was neither Age nor Suho, but an unknown 'Barcode' clan. The clan, named with a string of 'I's, could not be identified even after the siege. Given the Orc Fortress' structure, which makes it easy for 'snipers' to swoop in, many are speculating that an unaffiliated party may have snatched it.