The Eldenkros Namadarini War

The First Age

Alina the Resistor

In the Mythic ages the elven Empire of Eldenkros marched across the Seal, they were the first civilisation that evolved into an organised Kingdom and they sweapt across the continent vassalising every tribe and city state they came into contact with, they were arpoaching the north west corner of the Seal. Forewarned with visions from Starlina of the Elven enslaught aproaching Chief Alina united the 12 tribes of the Aden into the Kingdom of Namadarine, they resisted the elves pushed them back and became mortal enemys for the rest of the first age.

At this time elves lived until they were killed, unhindered by old age, and humans lived for around 700-1000 years, Queen Alina I of Namadarine became known as Alina the Resistor, over her 450 year reign, Alina kept records of her life and the events that transpired across the Seal in it, as such with the archives of Eldenkros lost the forming of Namadarine and Alians records mark the start of recorded history. When she died she was burried along with her records in the Longship Down on grey lake, there would be laid to rest every Monarch of her line.

A Time Of Expansion

The first age was a time of war for the Seal, battle raged across the continent, a back and forth between Namadarine and Eldenkros, Namadarine King Vindhelm III devided the Kingdom into Earldoms First was the capital built in 1A 220-301 from which the Monarch Ruled over the vast kingdom and the central Earldom of Silmar, west of Silmar was establlished the Earldom of Namagana.

In 1A 375 Namadarine expanded norht to secure the northern mountain gap, there was established the Earldom of Notmar and the city of Aldulor. Tradition was established that the first in line to the throne would be made the Earl of Notmar, when it was established this was Princess Stela Namadar who after the second battle of Saints gap became Queen of Namadarine and began her southern expansion.

Queen Stela advanced southand found fertile lands full of enslaved humans and elven Slavemasters, she freed the land and the Earldom of Idmar was established in the Id valley, this changed when after breaking of Aldulor in 1341 the Earldom was split in half and Countess Alina Frerider of Gorlindale was made Earl of Ridria.

An Age Of War

The first age was an undending war boarder lines pushed east and west, most fought over were the gap of saints, a break between the Manduwar mountain range and the outer mountains, and the central lowlands.

The Armys of the Seal would battle decade after decade, century after century, melenia after melenia over those shortest two routes to Namadana, but as these northen conflicts occured, a much slower campaign took place in the south, advancing slowly over the melenia between 1A 1335 and 1A 8921 until most of Idmar, the Id valley, forrest and the eastern bank of the Frost. In 1A 9203 Earl Harrold Axemane of Ridria lead a campaign across the south to push the elven force back out of the South. This was the master work of the Eldenkros War Machine, fight a swift diversionary war in the north and expand south taking the fertile feilds and forrests enslaving the people of the Idrian region.

Merlin and Magic

Born in 1A 6621 Merlin was the eldest prince of the Namadar royal family, he sat as Earl of Notmar and from his throne in Aldulor he lead many sucsesful campaings even pushing into the Briar woods until in 1A 7429 his mother Queen Freya the brave was killed defending the centeral planes and he assended to the throne, Merlin lived a surprisingly long life, and in his time on the Throne established the Elkguard, a wall guarding the valleys, in the early years of his reign he established complete control over the Central and Northern regions of the ceal but elven might pushed through the south west and they controled much of the region until the afformentioned campaing of Earl Harrold Axemane to regain power in the south.

By this time Merlin stayed mostly in Namadana using it as is base of power to rule the Kingdom, sometimes going forth to battle and to tour the kingdom. In 1A 9155 an Eldenkros assult reached Elkguard and laid seige to it, the seige lasted ten years and was broken in 1A 9165 in the battle of the Elkflood, in this battle the Emperor of Eldenkros was slain and a great celebration across the kingdom took place as the armys of Namadarine pushed thurther into Eldenkros then ever before. Around 1A 9500 to 1A 9987 Eldenkros launched a shock campaign across the Seal, more dealdy then any before, under the new managment of Empress Elwindale the Legions reached for the first time the gates of Namadana and laid siege to her walls.

As Merlin looked despratly for a way to break the seige he was visited by an aspect of Anbor, godess of war, who offered to teach him how to harness the magic of the world, Merlin egarly accepted and 7 great towers were raised out of the bones of the Seal each channeling a diffrent school of magic, this was done under the terms that once the seige was broken Merlin would guard the central tower of Evocation.

Merlin and the court were taught magic and with this advantage easily broke the seige and pushed thurther into Eldenkros. but humans were not the only ones able to harness magic and elves begain to practice druidcraft and soon as Merlin took his place in the Stone Telvar of Evocation and he was sucseeded by his son Arron Namdar the III, once again the war had ran to a standstill.

A Seal Broken

As King Arron III ajusted to the throne and the war ground back to a standstill, dark forces moved in the east. Down in the south eastern corner of the Seal, the Kingdom of Crescentar made plan to break there master free, lead by the Crescent knights they began to convince denezens of both Namadarine and Eldenkros that there was an eigth school of magic, a power over death. Many commoners and nobles from each side gave up there diffrences to build a tower to harness that eighth school. Notable of these were Cuthburt the Kings advisor and Princess Gwyn Earl of Idmar, without consulting the king, her brother she pldeged her Earldoms support to building and defending this tower.

Merlin watched this unfold growing wary and sent a message to King Aron bidding him tackle the issue post hast, he also sent a message to Empress Elwindale of Eldenkros, urging her to join Aron in dealing with the construction problem, Arron massed an army they prepared to march south, Elwindale however refused aid and prepared an army to march on Namadana when Arrons army marched forth. Earl Harrold Axemane-Namdar, husband of Princess Gwyn, made a request to King Arron, asking if he could lead the armys in the battle, King Arron obliged and Harrold and the Ridric rode east.

As Namadarine prepared to march the Crescent order was almost finished constructing the tower, which they named Heldar, the elven word for death. At an unknown point during this construction Princess Gwyn was put under some sort of dark enchantment and her mind was lost. In 1A 10126 the Namadarini armys lead by Earl Harrold and King Arron arived at Heldar to find a fully built tower and Princess Gwyns armys surrounding the base. Earl Harrold lead a cavalry charge towards the Crescent legion of Orcs, Elves and Humans.

As the battle raged bellow the Crescent Knights began a Ritural in Helden tower sacrificing Princess Gwyn to Crescentar, there patron who would be freed and give them the gift of Necromantic. As there ritural was almost completed Earl Harrold burst into tower, the Legions of Crescentar had no power against the Namadarine and Harrold had charged post haste into the tower. There he disrupted the Ritual but was killed by King Drakfam of Cresdos. So the Ritual was completed and the Seal was cracked.

The armys below felt the ground shake and the Seal cracked at the centre, cutting down to the centre of the world, down to the Abyss and into that crack fell the Seal, the grand city of Namadana lost to the void, the vallys of the Id, crumbled away, whole mountain ranges were lost, rivers re written the topography of the Seal changed fore. Merlin had to use all his magic to keep the land his tower sat upon out of the crack, with great strain he stopped teh crack from splitting the Seal entirly, stopping it as it opend and sealing the bottom of the crack shut, but still the damage was done, hords of dark cretures emerged from the crack, crule chromatic dragons, hateful drow elves, demonic abominations and vial cretures who had before only delved in the dark beneath the Seal.

Not only was Namadana Shattered by the effects of the crack, but so too was the Eldenkros army marching west to Namadana. The effects of the desaster were catastrophic, almost half the army of Namadana and three quarters of the Eldenkros army were lost in the initial crack and next to come in Namadarines history was the Infernal war and the crisis of aging that would each devistate the Seal, but in the records of King Arron, a new age was upon the Seal and this would mark the decline of Namadarine from its former might.