Morayan History

Timeline: History of Moray   Moray was founded in 682ME, but has its roots in the invasion of Boriya by the Western Horde in the 5th century of the modern era, and in the fall of the Kingdom of Mallasa.   Mallasa was formed from the ruins of Malas, a mighty port on the west coast of Boriya. Built between the sacred kingdoms of Oceansee and Thera, it survived both the Lucent Ascedancy, the Wars of the Kingdoms and the Godswar to become the centre of a new state. The human Lord of Malas gathered allies from the region and made a quest into the Primeval Wilderness to the east, emerging with a sovereign pact sworn with a god called the Holly Queen in 39ME. Mallasa spread north and south to cover much of the coast, but this attracted the early attentions of the Western Horde.   In 470ME, the Horde made landfall in Mallasa and immediately attacked the capital, seeing its value as a central, defensible harbour. The city fell after a year-long siege, King Kavian III Ormalas passing the crown to his son before falling with his capital. From the port, the Horde pushed inland at speed, eventually pursuing Kavian IV Ormalas into the wylds. The king was killed and the Hollyheart, the great tree that was the seat of the sovereign pact, was felled and burned. The Holly Queen was banished, the pact broken and the fire spread to destroy the central wilderness of Boriya.   Many noble houses had served the Ormalas in Mallasa, but without the leadership of the King they broke, retreating from the Horde, abandoning much of their wealth and estates. The Horde was defeated in 495ME, the bulk of its forces slain, the rest either retreating to Erask or remaining as pockets of beleagured beligerents or as prisoners of war, but the Mallasa remained scattered, two decades of blaming one another for the fall of the Hollyheart having bred deep divisions between them. Some of the southern tribes were absorbed into the Kingdom of Harbrath, but the rest refused to cooperate, isolated, for almost two hundred years.   It was somewhere around 654ME that Moraya and Alina Hydrax began the work of reuniting the lost kingdom. The Hydrax tribe were half-elves and lived on the eaves of the last remaining wilderness between the Great Wylds of the north and south. Whether the sisters - Moraya, the elder, was a warior and leader; Alina a spirit priest - began their quest with divine mandate or not, through determination, will and charisma, they quickly gathered a following, most importantly the backing of Aklos Ormalas, scion of the Kings of Mallasa.  

The Great Muster

After more than two decades, Moraya summoned her allies, and the leaders of the other tribes, to a Great Muster on the bicentennial of the Burning of the Hollyheart. The Muster was held in the ruins of Malas and attended by fifteen tribes, divided into two broad factions. The northern faction was both fully committed to unification, and to the leadership of the Hydrax tribe, while the southern faction were more skeptical of the overall goal, and loyal to the Ormalas and the ancient lineage of Mallasa.