Behold! The Valerian Isles, Jewels of the Obero Sea. Long a center of naval commerce, the people here have struggled throughout history for dominion over these shores. Finally, there rose a man to put an end to this conflict. His name: Dorgalua Oberyth. But history would know him as the Dynast-King. Dorgalua took the disparate races of men calling the islands home and united them as one. He encouraged marriage between clans, forging bonds to strengthen his newborn kingdom. For fully half a century, the Dynast-King reigned, and Valeria knew prosperity. But the embers of discord smouldered. Upon the death of the king, Abuna Brantyn Mourne incited the ruling Bakram to declare the independence of their Royal City of Heim.
Yet the schemings of the Abuna had just begun. Backed by the Holy Lodissian Empire to the north, Brantyn created the Bakram-Valerian Kingdom, naming himself as regent. He would've seen his rule span the isles were it not for Lanselot Tartaros, High Champion of the Dark Knights of Lodis. Lanselot warned against such reckless expansion, and, reluctantly, Brantyn reined in his troops. This left two clans to vie for supremacy in the south: the Galgastani and the Walister. Seven men in ten were Galgastani, and, on order of Hierophant Leundar Balbatos, the Galgastani declared blood war against the weaker Walister, in a move to claim the south as their own. Valeria watched as the wholesale slaughter of the Walister race began.
Duke Juda Ronwey led the Walister in resistance, but they were far outmatched, and in the span of half a year, they'd been brought to their knees. Balbatos proclaimed the Kingdom of Galgastan, and with it, an official end to the blood war. But these things would bring no end to the Walister suffering. A piecemeal resistance continued, yet with their duke in chains, efforts flagged. In time, many of the Walister resigned themselves to eke out such life as they could, in the small province allotted them by Balbatos and the Galgastani. Victory begets peace, and for once, the battlefields of Valeria stand silent. Yet none believe the calm will last. |
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