The Erlking Rides

Military action

The first Fae invasion following the tearing of the Veil.

When the initial chaos of the Tearing had subsided, the Feth Fiada did not retreat, instead hanging in thick banks of mist in remote regions of the shattered empire, strange creatures appearing as shadows in the mists.   With Remus and its major cities destroyed, chaos broke out in the Eternal Empire as local governors and tribal warlords, seeking personal power, claimed new authorities and broke the carefully managed balance of power between the Empire and its subject lands. A new capital, at the direction of the closest surviving successors to the Empire, was founded on the Golden Sea, relatively untouched by the cataclysms that befell the The Western Realms.   As civilization broke down, a new threat emerged from the mists in the North. In what would become Arle and Northeastern Gallia, the Erlking, a powerful Sidhe Warlord rode out of the forest with a procession of ghostly riders on an unstoppable path of destruction towards the Shattered Peninsula.   In Albia, the Queen of Winter appeared in the Northern Highlands, a storm of ice and snow marking her approach, freezing all she passed as she marched her armies Southwards. In the West, across the Mor Ailhenn, the Queen of Summer came, riding dark, roiling stormclouds concealing Windships.   Smaller pockets of Bleed also stabilized during this time, leading to raids by lesser Fae powers.