Mythic Vistas: SpirosBlaak - Property Is Theft!

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● 789: The Path of Faith is completed. Vas
founded.
● 784: With the guidance of mentors, the
orders of the Motith Farr and Gavrinn Farr
are founded at Pleardys
● 768: SpirosBlaak is sacked and partially
razed by pirates
● 752: The malicious armageddon dragon,
Drybadyous, appears in the hills to the far
west of Vas and begins raiding shipping,
costing millions in gold each year
● 749: An unprecedented force of magi from
Monvas quest to destroy Drybadyous and
never return
● 746-721: The rulers of Kannis and Hiltaenos
war over logging rights in what came to be
known as the Campaign of Splinters
● 716: The Nadyass, a family of powerful and
honest shipbuilders and merchants, acquire
the title of Duke of SpirosBlaak
Chapter Two: The Archduchy’s History
city around Kannis, could either
continue east to SpirosBlaak, where
trade flourished, or move on to the
logging camp of Navodys.
Worse than the bandits was
the unexpected and devastating
first Midwyn pirate raid upon
SpirosBlaak, seing in motion a
long history of such incursions,
and resulting in a population
boom for Hiltaenos, a town
safely landlocked far to the west.
Selers later moved further south,
driving a wedge through orc- and
kav-controlled lands. Raids on
southbound caravans plagued such
efforts until the mounting losses
forced SpirosBlaak and Hiltaenos
to entreat several clans of kavbroed
to gain safe access to the growing
With the influx of homesteaders,
703-514 BF, The Clan Wars
the kavraen’s numbers increased,
● 703: The first Clan War erupts when a
having infected many selers with
coordinated kav army aacks Vas.
lycanthropy, but the selers quickly
● 686: SpirosBlaak founds the first kav legion.
● 538: The kav warlord Slayfang leads dozens
outnumbered even their impressive
of kavraen clans in a war against man. clans. The kav grudgingly gave
Sections of SpirosBlaak are razed in the ground to the peoples coming
Welkfest raids.
into their homeland. Worse, the
● 538-514: Human pogroms of vengeance Sentinels of the Homeguard
nearly eradicate the Wildlands’ kav.
stepped in to secure mankind’s
● 537: Drybadyous terrorizes Vas before
growing dominion of the
fleeing with a quantity of treasure. Neither
Wildlands, enforcing a buffer zone
the loot nor the dragon is ever seen again,
and his lair remains undiscovered.
around the human selements and
● 535-519: Butcher’s fever spreads through drove the kav back even further
most selements, killing kav and humans by claiming land that remained
alike by the thousands. Paranoia mounts unused.
and dependence upon the clergy, especially War, of course, followed this
of Spiros, increasing as a result of the land’s advance.
trials.
Hundreds of kavraen and
kavbroed clans found themselves
in a fight to survive. Raids against human selements escalated into
well-planned genocide. Well-coordinated kav revolutionaries stormed
the human garrisons, killing all within. As bloody as these bales were
by any normal comparison, they only grew worse when Lunis was full,
when many kavraen lost control and even butchered their own.
The human selers demanded a response to these unprovoked,
savage aacks, and the Sentinels of the Homeguard answered the
kav threat with an aempt to contain the conflict to the frontier
areas. Unfortunately, these warriors were spread thinly, unable to
hold the many fronts, so atrocities against small communities and
farms bordering the Roaming Plains, Fristian Grasslands, and Wild
Vode increased.
In a radical and controversial maneuver, SpirosBlaak offered land
to any kav willing to join irregular lycanthrope legions founded to
protect human interests. Many kavbroed answered the call, although
some kavraen did as well. Their kav brethren viewed these deserters
as traitors, and SpirosBlaak’s new kav legions reminded the renegade
shapeshiers of the Treaty of Soiled Pelts, reviving old grudges
toward the humans.
The Clan Wars
(703 BF to 514 BF)
fishing communities of Meleatan, Vas, Askalan, and Dreij. Aer a few
years and more concessions, the kav allowed the humans to build
the Coastal Road to expedite their passage to the coastal cities. This
agreement, called the Compact of Trust by it human benefactors,
would forever be known as the infamous Treaty of Soiled Pelts to
those kav that continued to suffer mankind’s intrusion.
The nearby Midwyn likewise benefited from the influx of selers,
though in a far different manner: They raided ships transporting
pilgrims and much-needed supplies along the coast. The sea raiders
boldly sacked SpirosBlaak again, seing a third of the city ablaze with
their pillaging. As a result, SpirosBlaak bolstered its navy and trebled
its seaward-facing defenses, creating the greatest strongpoint in the
Wildlands.
Amidst the advances and setbacks forming the first steps of
a new civilization, the gods turned to humanity for lovers or
experimentation. As a result of this breeding, the gods spawned new
divine-touched children. From these heirs, came new family’s and
bloodlines that have survived into the current era (see Lesser Gi of
Divine Heritage and Greater Gi of Divine Heritage, Chapter Ten:
Skills & Feats for more information).
Temporarily puing aside clan disagreements, the kav rallied
beneath the banner of a charismatic werewolf warlord named
Jorle “Slayfang” Xygaek to fight this common foe. Upon the eve
of Welkfest, Slayfang led his largely kavraen army in coordinated
strikes against the grandest of the nearby human selements. For
the second time since its founding, SpirosBlaak was pillaged and
largely burned, and Hiltaenos, Dreij, Askalan, and Meleatan also
suffered considerably. The united kav destroyed the small village of
Nonum—it would later be rebuilt—leaving their victims’ entrails for