A Kingdom without a King

Political event

As the crusading knights of the order known as the Guardians of the Helots find themselves without a king, as the one they had served and went to war for had died many years ago, they settle in their conquered lands and begin their long and fruitless search for the rightful heir to their king.

The Guardians of the Helots was a knightly order of a young kingdom that had emerged from the chaos left after the Ballet of Scales. They were zealously dedicated to the virtues of honor and chivalry. They served their king with great with blind loyalty, for his word was law. When the king wanted to expand his kingdom he entrusted his most loyal knights with the task of conquering the neighboring kingdoms in his name. Among these knights were the Guardians of the Helots, who not only set out to complete this task but also swore an oath that they would take no titles and sleep in no castle until this task was finished.   Time went on and several knightly orders were defeated in this greedy campaign. Some were slaughtered in the battles and others simply abandoned the task as they saw no point in it. The knights of the Guardians of the Helots, however, never wavered. After 15 years of battles and travel, the task was done and the only order still dedicated to the cause were the Guardians of the Helots, who had grown exponentially in numbers into a small army. However, during this time the king had passed away and in the power struggle that ensued the kingdom was absorbed by a powerful kingdom to the west. This left the knightly order with lordless lands under their banner.   The knights found themselves without a purpose and therefore decided to settle in these lands and lord over them themselves on behalf of their dead king until the day that his heir returns to take his place as the rightful king these lands that they named Helonia. The 12 masters of the order took the titles of Dukes of Helonia and constructed mighty castles from which they would lord the lands. The grandmaster of the order was named the Archduke of Helonia and would serve as the absolute ruler in the kings absence.