Duth Chomhdial

A league of nations in north western Eirghar led by High King Harvald of Hoabb. It combined all the powers north of the Meshka Mountains for over forty years. The assembly of nations under Duth Chomhdial once stood as the greatest single power in Lorgaire, dominating the seas and trade of the coasts facing the Ledus Ocean and bringing a greater number of people and resources under its command than the fractured empires of King's Bay.   Founded by the diplomatic skills of Arne Harvald king of Hoabb, who in his youth studied in a monastery to become advisor to the heir to the throne, his elder brother Erikal. Arne rose to become a greatly respected leader after Erikal's death in battle with the elves beyond the Pass of Destiny before he could inherit the throne. An accomplished caster of divine weaves, and a voice of calm reason in a tempest of noble egos, Arne forged a network of treaties and alliances that bound the interests of the fierce neighbors together. Arne's son and heir Hahkon further welded these factions together with ties of blood and the wealth from their early joint campaigns against the lands to the south and east.   The Duth Chomhdial was led by the council of kings who gathered in Hitan Wilps, originally a diplomatic forum of equal sovereign partners under previous generations, their power and leadership became increasingly dominated by Hoabb and the influential Assembly of the Wise, their magical advisors. With oaths of fealty given to their high king Hahkon Harvald, an emperor in all but name, the kings of the Duth Chomhdial set course toward conquering their long time rivals in the fertile realms of the Gold Coast to the east. Fleets of long galleys set out yearly from Hoabb to descend on the shores and ports of their rivals.   The peoples of the Duth Chomhdial were eventually bought low by the impatience and ambitions of Rouar Harvald, son of Hahkon. Living under the constant threat of slaughter and plundering posed by the forces of the high king of Hoabb, the peoples of The Bite formed their own alliance and began returning fire. Lacking the diplomatic prowess of his grandfather and regal inspiration of his father, Rouar and the Assembly of the Wise sought other avenues to bolster their strength. As the Alliance of the Bite began to make serious advances into his territory, high King Rouar Harvald made his bargain and sealed the fates of all the peoples of the Duth Chomhdial with a fiendish curse.