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734AC
AAG members, Claran and Baych, brought to trial in ‘Frisian Frog Felching Fiasco’. They claim they were possessed and made to do it. Given choice of death by drowning or becoming disciples of Kesoth. They were drowned.
756AC
Fire mountains erupt in Nortrol, many refugees come to Aberddu. ‘The Year of Ash’ begins. Rangar Trollblood becomes Guildmaster of AAG. Gertrin, former Guildmaster, given full funeral by Temple of Knowledge.
“Quill may be migh’ier than the sword but NOT my Axe” Rangar Trollblood 765AC
767AC
Messengers sent out by Albion Couriers across the known world for competitors to enter “The Warrior of the Decade Competition” to be held in Auborn in 770AC.
770AC
“Warrior of the Decade” Competition held in Auborn, with Dowager Queen Felitia as the judge. Over 2,500 warriors die in the first rounds even though it is only to be fought with wooden weapons. 127 are expelled for using Elven Wood weapons, which actually break the stone pillar they are tested against. After two months of competing, the champion is Wilbur Pollocks of Neckard. Two days of searching reveal Neckard on a map of the known world as a pin-point in the Middle Kingdoms. The entire kingdom consists of a pig farm in a small wood (2 miles across and 3 miles long), a two room house with lean-to barn and a wooden palisade to keep the pigs in at night, and Creamcup the farmer’s daughter, who Wilbur intends to marry.
Wilbur asked to be Queen Felitia’s Champion, turns it down as Gertrude, his favourite sow, is due to give birth any day and he has to return home to Neckard. Gertrude gives birth to a litter of 14 piglets, largest known litter in Neckard and surrounding kingdoms. All 14 survive and become the founders of the Royal Neckard Line of pigs. Renowned throughout the known world as the best ‘porkers’. Neckard becomes site of pilgrimage for warriors and pig loversalike.
784AC
Chrysalla of the Wood Elves acts as an envoy for Elven Nations with the humans in the Elven Wood. Humans ambush her and leave her for dead. Chrysalla disappears believe dead. Humans claim they were all ambushed by Nachwerten and Chrysalla was carried off. Wood Elves of Elven Wood go to war with Nachwerten of Dark Elf Caverns.
786AC
The Cloud Elves of the Elven Hills join the Wood Elves of the Elven Wood in the war against Nachwerten. This is due to a Cloud Elf village being attacked and all inhabitants murdered, after being tortured. The attackers left behind some of their own dead, which were two Nachwerten in disguise as humans from southern Arabi. Humans remain neutral and do not enter Elven War.
789AC
The Fire Elves of Southern Nortrol have several of their villages attacked and inhabitants slaughtered. The other ‘races’ deny any association with attacks, including the Nachwerten. Finally after two months of attacks with no witnesses alive, a Fire-elf mage manages to escape an attack by plunging into the flames of a lava flow as it enters the sea. He describes the attackers as being humans in different types of armour, but all wearing the same red tabards and cloaks with the same shield design. Every one of the attackers was heard to be screaming “Death to all Elves”, almost like a chant and they fought with the ferocity of fanatics.
The Fire Elves of Nortrol meet with the Council of Three, which is the ruling Elders of the Human races of Nortrol. The Council show it is non of the Humans of Nortrol who carried out the attacks. It remains a mystery who the attackers are and suspicion falls again to the Nachwerten and the survivors story being a trick to lure suspicion away from them. The Nortrol Fire Elves decree that any Nachwerten seen on the lands is an open target and has no rights, including those to life.
782AC
The wars between the Nachwerten and other Major Elven races continues with occasional skirmishes and sneak attacks. The Nachwerten close all main routes into their caverns, no other races are allowed into their cities of Darkness. Official trade ceases. The Nachwerten in other towns and cities disappear during the night, sometimes taking their belongings, sometimes not. The prices in precious gems and snuff made from Black Elf Lichen go up in Aberddu markets.
783AC
Rumours of a new war-lord conquering several of the smaller war-lords territories in ‘Frisia’ reach Aberddu. All the conquered territories had non-human war-lords, who were slaughtered along with all the non-humans in their forces. The humans are offered their lives to serve with the new War-lord.
784-787AC
The majority of territories in ‘Frisia’ fall to the new War-lord and his human forces, rumours start about evil magics and such things as ‘raw iron’ weapons being used.
789AC
The whole of ‘Frisia’, bar the Southern Alliance has fallen to the Human army. Albion sends an army through The Pass to strengthen the garrisons of the Southern Alliance. The Albion army is ambushed and all non-humans are slaughtered, the surviving humans are asked for their surrender and allegiance to the War-lord and his Human army. Many men give their allegiance, but the majority choose death before dishonour. The Southern Alliance falls and for the first time in two and a half centuries the whole of Frisia is again held under one ruler.
790AC
Frisia closes all their borders, and the bodies of non-humans are crucified and let to rot all along the borders. Some refugees escape with tales of horror and mass slaughter of non-humans. Rumours of a religious cult being the true power behind the War-lord reach the other lands. The ‘Frisian army’ are equipped with red cloaks and tabards.
791AC
An army of mainly non-humans musters upon the plains of Pass Fort in Albion, under the leadership of the Cloud Elf, Belandrus. They march on Frisia to demand justice for the slaughter of the non-humans. There is also suspicion of who the attackers on elven settlements were. Some of the army are refugees ‘going home’ to reclaim their lands. Belandrus’ army numbers 12,000 non-humans and 3,000 humans. Upon reaching the new Frisian border the army stops and spreads out in a line almost a mile in length. The border guards are seen to ride away into Frisia, and stop on the hills overlooking the wide valley down from Pass Fort. No Frisian army appears to challenge Belandrus’ army and they advance across the border with it’s gruesome markers of crucified creatures. The whole line cross the border together and every single non-human collapses to the ground in intense agony. Many later recall that they had visions of being tortured and finally crucified in a mass ceremony, led by a robed figures. However, the humans of the army are suddenly possessed with an intense hatred of the ‘weakling, thieving, dirty non-humans’ and turn their weapons upon their fellows and begin to kill any non-humans within striking distance. Many struggle back to the Albion side of the border and the pain or killing frenzy stops for them. At the end of the day, most of Belandrus’ army have pulled back into Albion, but almost 5,000 are left for dead upon the Frisian side of the line. As the sun sets, the silhouettes of many riders are seen lined along the ridge within Frisia. The red of the dusk gives them a halo of scarlet and all present can feel the menace from them. Although they are almost a mile away, all clearly hear the words of the riders:
“These lands are to be cleansed. The land is for those who deserve it, the Humans. Death to all others. So is the Word, So is the Law. So sayeth The Inquisition.”
791-793AC
The Frisian Inquisition carry on uniting the Humans of Frisia into a fanatical populace, who will destroy all non-human peoples on sight. All units which try to infiltrate the border meet with the same ‘magical’ barrier, which turns any who pass through in to Frisia insane with either pain or killing frenzy. When magical protection are used to get across the border, once the magic stops the same effects occur when within five miles of the Frisian border. A small band of Aberddu Adventurers manage to penetrate 12 miles into Frisia, using various magics and the party consisting of Pureblood Humans. What they find is a populace who are under the same ‘spell’ as the rest of the land. They are all fanatical about their hatred of non-humans and all see The Inquisition as the ones to lead the Human races to rule the Lands. The party find a small band of elves, which are trying to find some way out of Frisia, but the magical barrier even extends out to sea five miles. The party give their magical protection to the elves to escape and then try to leave themselves – fortunately they do not go with the elves as they are all affected by the Barrier and would surely have killed the elves if they had been together.
795AC
All the lands which border Frisia decree that non-shall enter Frisia (even if they could get past the Barrier) and a five mile band of land next to the border is cleared of all settlements and declared a ‘dead mans area’. There are few complaints as most peoples had already left the area due to bad dreams and the fear of attack by Frisia.
