The Invasion
The battle that led to the creation of Favont
The Invasion happened in what is now known as year 1 TS, when King Leric of Peren invaded the island of Marterra, defeated the Marterran king, Rajan Raan, and established his own rule, renaming the island Favont and bringing it into the fold of Magnus Prime. This event also caused the entire Marterran race to disappear leaving behind the Ananan people, who were also natives of this land.
Prelude
The island of Marterra had long since been viewed with distrust and caution by the people of Magnus Prime. They believed that its inhabitants were demons. In the faith of Cosmos, it is said that 12 angels created the world of Middengeard and all who lived there, and that they also chose to gift their powers to twenty four people of qualities that matched their own. However, Lucian, the angel of drama, death, and deceit, chose to give his magic to a slave girl called Aya who could not control her new powers due to the simplicity of her mind.
Aya and Lucian escaped the wrath of the other angels, and came to the island of Marterra. Here, Aya lost control and opened the gates to the pit (hell) and brought forth the imps that lived there, also known as Ananans. Aya and Lucian had children, who would become known as Marterrans. Because of this belief, and that the Marterrans chose to live secret lives, the world that believed in the Cosmos faith concluded that this fear must be true.
Marterra was the land of demons
Aeryn is Exiled
Twenty years before the invasion, in the year 20 TI, (Tempus Intemperantia) Princess Aeryn of Peren was accused of arson by the Duke of Elery. Not wishing to offend the Duke, her older brother, Leric I of Peren, had her exiled to Marterra under the pretense that she would be an ambassador. When she arrived, terrified due to her belief that it was a country populated by demons, she discovered otherwise. Soon she met a man called Han Marisa, a scholar and engineer who lived near Mount Stefan. Aeryn and Han soon fell in love, and were married.
Aeryn marries Marterran Han Marisa
Leric makes his plans
Twenty years later, King Leric, who had had a difficult reign by this time due to taking the throne at a young age much to the hatred of other nobles, realised that he was in the right position to do what he had always wanted: to conquer Marterra and destroy the demon race. This would bring great honour to him, Peren, and the angels. He contacted his sister for the first time in a very long time and told her that she would be welcomed back if she could discover the source of the Marterran magic, and destroy it.
Leric asks Aeryn to betray Marterra
What is in Mount Stefan
Han Marisa had a secondary role in Mount Stefan. He was charged with also protecting The Heart of Magic that lived in its caves beneath. Once he had explained to Aeryn that it was something very important to Marterrans, though he could not explain precisely.
Han is the protector of the heart of magic
A Vision
The heart of Magic was in fact, a portal that linked this existence with another, but crossing the portal require a sacrifice. Years prior, the Marterran king, Rajan Raan, had touched the portal and had seen two armies, and at the head of these armies was himself and a blonde-haired king. The king killed him with a spear.
Rajan Raan saw his own death
Action
- Leric and his army arrived at the seaside village of Alkanet on the 15th Peribis 1TS. They camp here for the night before making their way inland to a place which would later be known as Battle.
- Early the next morning, the Marterran army had arrived at Battle ready to fight. Rajan looked at Leric and realised this was the King from his vision. He challenged Leric to a single combat duel.
- Meanwhile Aeryn had entered Mount Stefan to destroy the heart of magic, believing it was the source of their magic and not a portal. However, she was caught by her husband Han Marisa, who tried to stop her.
- Out on the battlefield, Leric and Rajan fought. As he knew the inevitable consequences of this battle, Rajan did not try to succeed, and sure as, Leric killed him with a spear.
- Immediately, every Marterran in Marterra began to disappear. Leric claimed that by killing their king, he had reopened the pit and cast the rest of the Marterrans back down. Strangely, he was very accurate with this claim.
- Up in Mount Stefan, Han Marisa was also starting to disappear. Aeryn started to panic, never intending to harm her husband, and believed that she had inadvertently caused this to happen by tampering with the heart of magic. Before he fully disappeared, Han cursed Aeryn to a life eternal without sunlight so that she might be trapped forever with the guilt of her betrayal.
Leric defeats Rajan in single combat, opening the portal, and wiping the Marterrans from existence
Aftermath
While the Marterrans disappeared, the Ananans did not. Leric travelled north to what was at that point the capital city of Asbeet, meeting resistance along the way. He destroyed the towns of Radnage and Cormanlea before finally arriving at Asbeet where the Witan of Marterra, or what was left of it, was forced to surrender.
Leric declared himself king and renamed the country after the home town of his mother, Helena of Favont in Peren. Though originally he tried to work with the Ananans, their regular, and sometimes very bloody riots, caused difficulty, and he isolated them in the area of Favont now known as The Stiriphese which also included Mount Stefan, or Steffen as it now became known. All Marterran artefacts or evidence of their history were destroyed,
Marterra was renamed Favont and anything Marterran was destroyed
When he went to look for Aeryn, he found that she had turned into a monster, unable to deal with sunlight. Terrified of what she had become, he had her arrested and imprisoned, first at Asbeet, and then later in the caves beneath Mount Steffen where the heart of magic was once kept. In his life she never aged, and so he never released her. It would be 300 years before she was finally freed.
Aeryn was imprisoned for 300 years
The heart of magic was kept in possession of the king until the year 550, where it was moved to the isle of Ithrail, just off the coast.
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