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Timeline for the Kingdom of Pendar and County of Maldan |
|
Year |
PC Event |
|
474 |
Current year.
An extremely long and bitter winter grips the Northern
Marches. |
|
473 |
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|
472 |
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|
471 |
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|
470 |
|
|
469 |
Moria Ironstorm becomes Baroness of Loth-Maldan. |
|
468 |
Theron Voldar
becomes Count of Maldan. |
|
467 |
Ortirath
becomes Count of Beldan. |
|
466 |
Upon the death
of Lord Blies Nulkar (who had held his office for nearly
sixty years), Lord Armin Bral is made Lord High Chancellor
of Pendar. His first act is to undertake the rebuilding of
Beolon. |
|
465 |
Royal court at
Basimar becomes known for its dark intrigues, debauchery,
and double-dealings.
Sadron, Archbishop of Beolon,
senior cleric of the Pendarin Church of the Trinity, speaks
out against the decadence and immorality of the court of
King Sinudaros “the Blackguard” |
|
457 |
Feneranda Blone
becomes Baroness of Eornost. |
|
456 |
Sinudaros becomes King of
Pendar
|
|
454 |
Fires ravage
Beolon, many folk are killed or left homeless. The royal
palace and court are destroyed along with many great
treasures and artworks. The royal court is moved to the city
of Basimar. |
|
452 |
Patros Emeon III calls for a
holy crusade against the Drüghati Sultanate whose recent
conquests infringe on the Holy Precincts. |
|
444 |
Enrorin Voldar
becomes Count of Maldan. |
|
441 |
Arden becomes
Countess of Beldan. |
|
439 |
Loreron Blone
becomes Baron of Eornost. |
|
438 |
Signe Brangull becomes Baroness of Loth-Maldan.
|
|
437 |
Siege of Iforn Mountain
unofficially ends the Holy War against Aruale as the cream
of the western chivalry is killed in one of the bloodiest
battles ever. The rule of the Aruale Matriarchy is broken
with the death of High Queen Grudanë Silverhair. The
Witch-Circles scatter as Gen-Othi mercenaries ravage the
countryside.
|
|
436 |
King Otalgis
woos and marries Mer-Princess Oncea of the Sunken Kingdom of
Meröc. Queen Oncea brings her Nendaqualte warriors, the
Shaa-Vo’drak Guard, to court of Pendar.
|
|
435 |
The Jade Gate
closes. |
|
426 |
King Alunos
abdicates in favor of his eldest remaining legitimate heir,
Prince Otalgis. Alunos joins the Brotherhood of Saint
Eligius and retires to a monastery in the Mountains of Ice.
Otalgis becomes King of Pendar.
Kirin Ironstorm becomes Baron of Loth-Maldan.
|
|
422 |
Crown Prince
Mertum dies at the Siege of Maridan. Hiro becomes Duke of
Almeryss. Androlf becomes Count of Beldan.
|
|
417 |
King Alunos
takes the Lady Narya Nightsword, an Anghosi wizard, as his
mistress. Lady Narya will produce four royal bastards: two
by King Alunos, and two by his son, Crown Prince Mertum.
|
|
410 |
Grayholm Voldar,
youngest son of Countess Halcredyn, becomes Count of Maldan.
Fera Blone becomes Baroness of Eornost. Xzilmari nomads
establish the Indigo Road from their homelands in the far
east to trade with the western kingdoms.
|
|
403 |
Edva Ironstorm becomes Baroness of Loth-Maldan. |
|
402 |
Alunos becomes King of Pendar.
Kerdrand becomes Count of Beldan.
|
|
391 |
Patros Amulim
calls for a holy crusade against the heretics and infidels
of the Kingdom of Aruale. Holy warriors and paladins from
all the western kingdoms heed the call.
|
|
388 |
Airan-Shad, Archbishop of
Beolon, senior cleric of the Pendarin Church of the Trinity,
speaks out against the decadence and immorality of the court
of King Dangon “the Lecherous”.
|
|
382 |
King Dangon
marries Princess Mi-Ja Shin of Hinami. Ingestang becomes
Count of Beldan. |
|
381 |
Queen Mena and
the young Princesses Enlynn and Annish are kidnapped by
Chormali thaumaturgi. Though attempts are made to rescue
them from the Citadel of Chorm and to ransom them, they are
never seen again. |
|
378 |
Tivar Brangull becomes Baron of Loth-Maldan.
Inara Blone becomes Baroness of Eornost.
|
|
377 |
Pendar conquers
the lands of Llanedd and Orloes.
|
|
376 |
“Mad” Queen
Sudran finally succumbs to her disease. Prince Dangon
becomes King of Pendar. |
|
375 |
Halcredyn
Voldar, eldest daughter of Count Selwar becomes the first
ruling Countess of Maldan. |
|
374 |
The Qualdani
Plot is exposed. |
|
373 |
Patros Margon,
at the behest of Prince Regent Dangon, calls for a crusade
against the Kutanosian heretics in Vanaess, Llanedd, and
Orloes. Holy warriors and paladins from Pendar, Almrist,
Bayern, and Abbasore heed the call.
|
|
369 |
The Kutanosian Heresy spreads
to Llanedd, Orloes, and Vanaess in southern Pendar. |
|
364 |
Queen Sudran’s
behavior becomes more extreme. Prince Dangon is installed as
Prince Regent. Queen Sudran spends the remainder of her days
locked in a tower. The court of Prince Dangon becomes
enamored of Korukan sword arts brought through the Jade Gate
by Kayumi mercenaries. This eventually spreads to much of
the Pendaran nobility and beyond.
|
|
363 |
The Jade Gate
(a shadow gate) opens allowing passage between the Yellow
Pearl Countries and the Duchy of Azamdur in southern Pendar.
Queen Sudran meets with emissaries from Yonsho, the Kingdom
of the White Crane; formal trade relations are established.
|
|
362 |
Queen Sudran
starts exhibiting strange behavior. She is eventually
diagnosed as suffering from the Noctarine Fever (also known
as Brain Candy Fever). |
|
360 |
Selwar Voldar
becomes Count upon the death of his father, Count Namono.
Count Selwar creates the Black Hunt: an elite cadre of
trackers, mountaineers, and woodsmen who will operate beyond
the Greywall as spies and border guards.
|
|
358 |
Plots,
conspiracies, and turmoil in the Kingdom force the
withdrawal of most of the Royal Garrison at Eornost and
Crow’s Nest. The folk of Maldan are not unhappy to see the
Mornarhavi and Everon Whitefire leave.
|
|
356 |
Baron Ercan
Blone dies, his daughter, Cerunda is made Baroness of
Eornost. |
|
355 |
Castle Eornost
completed. |
|
352 |
Queen Sudran
decries that the Counties of Maldan and Beldan and the Duchy
of Almeryss will henceforth be hereditary holdings, held in
fief for the Crown of Pendar. |
|
350 |
Queen Sudran entreats the rebels in
County Maldan to meet with her at Alder-Weald. The Queen
meets with the leaders and listens to their demands. At the
conclusion of the council the Queen’s Rhy-Kanna turn and
slay the rebel leaders. The remaining rebels are quickly
hunted down and put to the sword. The Great County Maldan
rebellion ends. The Queen installs Namono Voldar, a former
officer in the Company of the Righteous Voice, as the new
Count of Maldan. Everon Whitefire and his Mornarhavi knights
take up residence at Crow’s Nest Fort and the
soon-to-be-completed Castle Eornost.
Viko Ironstorm is made Baron of Loth-Maldan.
|
|
349 |
Queen Sudran
names Lord Mago Ferond, a dwarf, to replace the slain Duke
Badru. Duke Mago acts as the Queen’s agent and negotiates
peace in Almeryss and Beldan. The Queen installs Garos
Indark as Count of Beldan. Count Agravane and his family are
slain by rebels. The rebels in Maldan are suspected of
allying themselves with Mordathi from beyond the Greywall
Mountains. |
|
348 |
King Ubaros dies on the end of an
enchanted assassin’s blade.
Queen Sudran seizes the throne amid an attempted coup by
members of a rival faction. She
immediately recalls Illdriss Mhoraele and her Mornarhavi
knights from Almeryss and Beldan but not before widespread
destruction and loss of lives. Everon Whitefire captures and
hangs Piar Miles. |
|
347 |
Agents
sympathetic to the rebellion in County Maldan destroy
several key bridges on the roads through Beldan and Almeryss.
King Ubaros sends the dread Anghulooke wizard Illdriss
Mhoraele along with several companies of Mornarhavi knights
into Almeryss to restore order. “Black Illdriss” shows
little restraint. Duke Badru objects to Illdriss’s treatment
of his subjects and she slays him for his “insolence and
presumption”. The whole of the Northern Marches and Almeryss
erupt in open revolt against the King as most of the
nobility join with the rebels. Count Nizar of Beldan dies.
|
|
346 |
With the
arrival of royalist forces, County Maldan descends into a
state of open rebellion. Everon Whitefire and the Mornarhavi
are brutally effective in pitched battles easily
overwhelming the rebels. The rebels retreat into the forests
and mountains of the County and begin a guerrilla campaign
against the Count and his royalist allies.
|
|
345 |
The Count’s
police are ambushed and slain to a man at the Battle of
White Witch Inn. Piar Miles is the suspected “ring-leader”
of the bandits responsible. King Ubaros dispatches Everon
Whitefire, a Fiondi, at the head of three companies of
Mornarhavi knights. Count Hanisi of Beldan dies, King Ubaros
installs Sir Nizar Vordrang as the new count.
|
|
344 |
Objection to Count Agravane’s rule
continues. The Count empowers his own police force to
supplement the County Guard. Several confrontations between
the Count’s police and the Guard ensue. Several guardsmen
are arrested, tried, convicted, and hung. Several are
banished or become outlaws. Piar Miles is among those who
turns outlaw. Merchant traffic between Radighast (in Beldan)
and Renoga is severely curtailed. King Ubaros is incensed. |
|
343 |
Uprisings among the
inhabitants of County Maldan accompanied by violence,
bloodshed, and death. The County Guard is reluctant to
investigate. |
|
342 |
Count Adom
Ketha dies; King Ubaros (of Pendar) installs Lord Agravane
Kern, an Almery nobleman of his court, as the new Count of
Maldan. There is widespread objection and consternation in
the Northern Marches. |
|
340 |
Crow’s Nest
Fort completed. Count Adom begins construction of Castle
Eornost amid the shadows of the Greywall Mountains to stand
watch over Three Daggers Pass. Ercan Blone is installed as
the first Baron Eornost. Bedewren
Brangull is installed as the Baron of Loth-Maldan.
|
|
336 |
King Dârsax V of Pendar dies.
His nephew, Prince Ubaros Ibanzag succeeds him as King
Ubaros the First.
|
|
333 |
Count Adom
begins construction of Crow’s Nest Fort to guard the
southeastern approach through Morage and Forest of Sorrows
into Maldan. |
|
328 |
Hanisi Uzond
replaces Oshovay Mende as Count of Beldan.
|
|
327 |
Count Adom
wrests the isle of Loth-Marduk from Hegfer the Fat ending
Skoja influence among the Inner Lothings.
|
|
323 |
King Dârsax
gifts Adom Ketha with the Embelyon March and installs him as
the Count of Maldan. |
|
321 |
Adom Ketha,
Captain of the Company of the Righteous Voice defeats Laird
Dorgus Slain at the Siege of Renoga, finally breaking the
hold of the Orodrad Clans over the north.
|
|
316 |
Radighast falls
to the Pendari mercenary companies. King Dârsax V (the Bold)
gifts the Lake District to Captain Oshovay Mende of the
Company of the Splendid Raiment who is installed as the
Count of Beldan. |
|
315 |
King Dârsax IV of Pendar dies.
His youngest son Prince Sidrax ascends the throne and takes
the name Dârsax V.
|
|
314 |
The Company of
the Righteous Voice and the Company of the Splendid Raiment
besiege Marmon Castle as the Kingdom of Pendar begins its
campaign to annex the Northern Marches.
|
|
311 |
The Kutanosian Heresy takes
hold in Haviel, Andurin, and among the clans of the Eventine
Hegemony.
|
|
304 |
The Orodrad
Clans ransom back many clansmen who had been captured during
Duke Stenor’s war against Pendar.
|
|
302 |
Duke Stenor’s
War ends in Almeryss as the “Iron Duke” Luid Stenor loses
his head at the Battle of Caldebraughn Moor. King Dârsax IV
(the Cunning) raises Badru Ezeoma, Captain of the Company of
the Consuming Heart, as the new Duke of Almeryss.
|
|
301 |
Duke Stenor and
his allies suffer numerous defeats at the hands of the
knights of Pendar and that kingdom’s mercenary allies.
|
|
299 |
Many blooded
warriors of the Orodrad Clans are dispatched southward to
aid Duke Stenor of Almeryss in his war against the invading
Kingdom of Pendar. |
|
295 |
The armies of
the Kingdom of Pendar invade the Duchy of Almeryss.
|
|
293 |
Prince Eanarm Atrulinos usurps
the throne of Pendar from his brother King Sannox (Dârsax
III) in a bloody coup. Prince Eanarm has himself crowned as
King Dârsax IV.
|
|
190 |
Father Kutanos
is killed while on pilgrimage to the Holy Precinct. Agents
of the Pendarin Church of the Trinity are suspected.
|
|
176 |
Patros Anderon
VI declares Father Kutanos a heretic and excommunicates him.
He also places several regions known to be sympathetic to
Kutanos’s teachings under edict.
|
|
163 |
Orodradi Clans
invade Almeryss. Deodan MacSaidhel Coineach declares himself
the Dux of Almeryss and makes Osondra his capital. |
|
158 |
Many Orodradi
clans move southward into Havamal and Almeryss. |
|
151 |
The Orodradi
Clan-Rhaides demand tribute from the city of Renoga. |
|
149 |
Father Kutanos begins preaching
in Alesia. |
|
136 |
Orodradi
raiders along the Sard River Valley put many villages and
towns to the torch. The population of Renoga doubles as
Huani settlers flee their homes for the safety of the city. |
|
122 |
Orodradi Clans
move into Morage and the Forest of Sorrows. |
|
84 |
Pendarin Civil War begins with
the drowning of King Imgar the Stripling by his bodyguards.
|
|
35 |
King
Ninnos of Pendar breaks with the Orthodox Leronist faith by
establishing the Pendarin Church; Patros Jared nearly has
him declared a heretic. Reconciliation is reached between
the Crown of Pendar and the Patros of the Orthodox Church as
King Ninnos reaffirms the Sanctity of Saint Griffon. |
|
9 |
Ninnos is crowned King of
Pendar by Matros Falbia.
|
|
0 |
In the city of Beolon, Baros-Dar
is crowned the first King of Pendar by
Patros Unnos II (Zero
year for Pendarin Calendar). |
|
-5 |
Teredon (called either the
Heretic or the Holy) returns to the Fvodmar tribes and
begins to preach his brand of Leronism. |
|
-6 |
Baros-Dar
completes his conquest of Nahros; many Nahrin nobles swear
into his service. |
|
-10 |
Maldred and the
remaining Knights of the Jeda (those that have not defected
to Baros-Dar or fled) hole up in the city of Tymores. Baros-Dar
lays siege to the city. Maldred is slain by General Kharkem
vas’Plektii of the B’kar-Zookraz.
|
|
-13 |
Baros-Dar
marches on Beolon and once again wrests control of the city.
The Three Armies harry the forces of Nahros and repeatedly
best them in battle. |
|
-15 |
Baros-Dar
gathers his Three Armies: the Azuri, the Rhoo’marrin, and
the B’kar-Zookraz. |
|
-24 |
Maldred and his
knights chase Baros-Dar and his mercenaries out of Beolon.
|
|
-25 |
The former
slave Baros-Dar becomes the general of an army of
mercenaries and seizes control of the city of Beolon.
Maldred and the Knights of the Jeda lay siege to Beolon in
an attempt to uproot the general.
|
|
-27 |
Maldred under the direction of
the Matros Eunice founds the Knight Order of the Jeda.
|
|
-29 |
Maldred’s
conquest and unification of Greater Nahros is complete. |
|
-32 |
The reign of
Maldred of Nahros begins. |
|
-44 |
Eworan
establishes the Sanctity of St. Griffon. |
|
-45 |
Patros Scorfax
annoints Eworan as the first King of Nahros signaling an
alliance between the church and the Nahrin monarchy |
|
-46 |
The Bad Times
(the Great Plagues, the fall of the Rhy-Kanna Empire,
barbarian invasions, etc.) begin.
|
|
-52 |
The Warlord
leads the Mordathi in the great Crusade against the
Rhy-Kanna Empire. |
|
-66 |
The Seer arises
among the Mordathi. |
|
-78 |
King Svornor
Iron Helm lured the Lords of Renoga into a pitched battle at
Camverst Ford. Svornor crushed the Huani forces but the late
arrival of Haggorym mercenaries into the battle (and from
the rear) routed the Skoja and drove them from the field.
While trying to regroup his forces, Svornor's own karls
turned on him and each other. Without Svornor, his kingdom
dissolved into petty bickering jarldoms. |
|
-200 |
Many converts to Leronism are
made among the subject humans of the western Rhy-Kanna
Empire by (Saint) Griffon (Pendar, Vanaess, Haviel). |
|
-226 |
Internal
conflicts ravage the Rhy-Kanna Empire.
|
|
-300 |
The Nahrin
tribes petition the Empire for admittance and are accepted.
|
|
-326 |
Rhy-Kanna
Empire at its height |
|
-460 |
Stellaine makes converts among the Nahrin
tribes. |
