Kormyrian Civil War

Political event

After news of King Aleric's death had finally come to light, many forces started moving to claim the now known vacant seat of power and take control of the kingdom. Many came from outside to lay claim through force, but one who came from within lead the largest force. Lucius Rennick, Duke Edgar Balliol's bastard son who had been masquerading as the Duke, convinced a fair portion of the kingdom and noble court that he had the legitimate right to claim the throne, and demanded it from the Count, who was acting as Warden of the Kingdom. The Count refused this threat, and so Lucius declared war, and with the aid of his supporters within the kingdom and those from Gaaldron, he attacked.

The war was brutal and saw thousands of lives lost. In the midst of the war, the heroes of Travance discovered that the Duke's advisor, Enzarond Melentres, was a Warlock, harboring the symbiote Val'Ixtal Vai, who held in influencing the minds of many of his supporters. At the end of 1219, the forces of the Kingdom took victory against the Duke at the Battle of Bastion's Wake, where the Duke was captured and finally brought to trial.   A full accounting of the war and the actions taken during it have all been collected in the following location, save for the report during the months of December 1218 and August 1219, whose reports have seemingly been lost.   Read the reports of Kormyre's Civil War here