Old Aerdy West
The lands of Old Aerdy West were once known as the Viceroyalty of Nyrond under the Kingdom of Aerdy. They consist of the temperate and fertile land east of the Nyr Dyv and south and west of the Griff and Rakers mountain chains along with what were once marchlands north of the Nyr Dyv.
Once home to numerous nomadic Flan groups, wood olves dominated the Gamboge and Celedon forests and hobniz and noniz inhabitted the Cairn and Flinty hills as they do to this day. In the time leading up to and after the Twin Catalcysms many Suel refugees entered this region; many were simply common folk seeking a safer life in this frontier land away from the destruction and death of the Suel-Baklunish War, but the refugees also counted a number of minor Suel houses and their retinues among them. As this ragged band arrived in the lands southeast and east of the Nyr Dyv, they found the Flan here already depleted from inter-tribe conflict and the Suel Houses uncharacteristicly banded together to dominate these weakened foes.
Recognizing strength in numbers, these minor houses united under a new banner: House Maure. The newly formed house quickly established a base of power in Castle Maure and proceeded to dominate both the Flan and their Suel commoner kin establishing a new nation in the wilderness. Minsunderstandng the Flan word “oernst”, meaning “of the land” as the name of the region, they adopetd the name of Urnst for their new nation.
Within a generation more refugees began flooding into the region; more Suel fleeing the destruction of the Imperium but this time the newcomers included Oeridians who had fled their homeland in the west and were on a holy crusade to find a prohesied new homeland somewhere in the east.
These early Oeridan arrivals inlcuded more than one power-hungry warlord most famous among them being Lum the Mad. These groups weakened House Maure but their final downfall did not come until later Oerdian arrivals. The largest and most powerful of the Oeridian tribes, the Aerdi sacked and looted the Suel communities that had taken root in Urnst and are said to have even breached Castle Maure. As the Aerdi continued their march toward the Solnor, Suel suzerainty came to an end roughly a decade later with the arrival of the Oeridian Nehron tribe who settled permamently in the Suel lands. Many scions of House Maure were killed in battle or were later executed for plotting aginst the new Oerdian masters of the land.
Both the Nehron, now established in Urnst, and the Aerdi who had carved out a kingdom around the Thelly and Mikar river valleys, believed themselves destined to rule eastern Oerik and their rivalry came to an end when Grand Prince Almor II of the Aerdi led his forces against the Nehron at the Battle of a Fortnight’s Length in -110 CY. It was a pivotal historical event that solidified the power of the Oeridian Kingdom of Aerdy. The Nehron lands were eventually reorganized into the Viceroyalty of Nyrond.
While the entirety of the region was at least nominally once part of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy, when Nyrond claimed independence, so too did Urnst, Almor, Tenh and The Pale and the various petty nobles north of the Nyr Dyv fell to a state of internecine fighting resulting in the Bandit Kingdoms that are known today.
Once home to numerous nomadic Flan groups, wood olves dominated the Gamboge and Celedon forests and hobniz and noniz inhabitted the Cairn and Flinty hills as they do to this day. In the time leading up to and after the Twin Catalcysms many Suel refugees entered this region; many were simply common folk seeking a safer life in this frontier land away from the destruction and death of the Suel-Baklunish War, but the refugees also counted a number of minor Suel houses and their retinues among them. As this ragged band arrived in the lands southeast and east of the Nyr Dyv, they found the Flan here already depleted from inter-tribe conflict and the Suel Houses uncharacteristicly banded together to dominate these weakened foes.
Recognizing strength in numbers, these minor houses united under a new banner: House Maure. The newly formed house quickly established a base of power in Castle Maure and proceeded to dominate both the Flan and their Suel commoner kin establishing a new nation in the wilderness. Minsunderstandng the Flan word “oernst”, meaning “of the land” as the name of the region, they adopetd the name of Urnst for their new nation.
Within a generation more refugees began flooding into the region; more Suel fleeing the destruction of the Imperium but this time the newcomers included Oeridians who had fled their homeland in the west and were on a holy crusade to find a prohesied new homeland somewhere in the east.
These early Oeridan arrivals inlcuded more than one power-hungry warlord most famous among them being Lum the Mad. These groups weakened House Maure but their final downfall did not come until later Oerdian arrivals. The largest and most powerful of the Oeridian tribes, the Aerdi sacked and looted the Suel communities that had taken root in Urnst and are said to have even breached Castle Maure. As the Aerdi continued their march toward the Solnor, Suel suzerainty came to an end roughly a decade later with the arrival of the Oeridian Nehron tribe who settled permamently in the Suel lands. Many scions of House Maure were killed in battle or were later executed for plotting aginst the new Oerdian masters of the land.
Both the Nehron, now established in Urnst, and the Aerdi who had carved out a kingdom around the Thelly and Mikar river valleys, believed themselves destined to rule eastern Oerik and their rivalry came to an end when Grand Prince Almor II of the Aerdi led his forces against the Nehron at the Battle of a Fortnight’s Length in -110 CY. It was a pivotal historical event that solidified the power of the Oeridian Kingdom of Aerdy. The Nehron lands were eventually reorganized into the Viceroyalty of Nyrond.
While the entirety of the region was at least nominally once part of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy, when Nyrond claimed independence, so too did Urnst, Almor, Tenh and The Pale and the various petty nobles north of the Nyr Dyv fell to a state of internecine fighting resulting in the Bandit Kingdoms that are known today.
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