Maurudren

Description
Once the proud land of the shale elves, Maurudren is in the light no longer. Decades ago, Maurudren was swept up in war, her elven kind cast in a bloody battle against Bail Shaern. The war was disastrous for the elven empire, then ruled the Council of Three, and the shale elves were driven to all but extinction by Bail and his risen forces of ashwalkers. Maurudren would then go to war with Kondaria to the north with the help and alliance of Hyrn’s forces.

Though the war against their northern neighbor was long and both conflicts would become known as the War of Ash, or sometimes the Ashen War, Maurudren was victorious and Bail subjected both Kondaria and the elven Lîrwood.

Some time later, the uprising of the Kondarian noble Damian Alain's against the fallen angel would lead to a strange turn of events that commonfolk still whisper about undecidedly. It is a tale that the the direct intervention of the Goddess Lynneth, Bail’s previous liege in the heavens, would strip Bail of his necromancy, but, for the sake of his heart of her once-favored pupil, and for the sake of vying with her brother, Noir, she would leave him alive and under the watch of the boy Alain himself. Whatever the cause, as his ashwalkers were given wills of their own, Bail offered a truce to Kondaria and Hyrn, releasing the former from its subjugation and declaring Damian Alain his political counsel.

Though he retains his lordship over High Caermont, his peoples are not united. Though the ashwalkers are no longer subservient to him, there are many who would continue to do battle, while others have tested the waters of building up the country once more and making something of it, they are met with scorn for being what they are. There are others yet, in Hyrn and Kondaria, would would still see the dark king pay with his blood for the crimes. And then there is the matter of the shale elves, whose scattered remains swell together in the mountains under the banner of Anise Illandra and mount an army to take back their ancestral home.

In all, Maurudren is still plagued with strife and woe.