Aormek's Rebellion
A high-ranking general in the army of Garland the Conqueror, Mox Aormek and his family came from what is now called the Green Isle. Clan Luutar would play a critical role in Garland's incorporation of the island into Milos, as well as his commerce between the Green Isle and Liddinawth. Aormek did not lead many battles, but his companies were instrumental in several victories, and some legends claim Aormek himself knocked Orman Wulk from his horse, allowing King Garland to ride him down and slay him in single combat.
Aormek, and indeed most of Clan Luutar, was not reputed as ambitious, yet when Garland first came to the Green Isle, the opportunity for advancement was seized. This choice was largely credited to the eldest of his two wives, Lady Saoirem. Saoirem hailed from the Gwylaerns, a middling but ambitious family on the Green Isle. Aormek's younger wife Aunna was a Cragg, renowned for their fertility, and indeed Aunna birthed two sons and three daughters for Aormek, but she was also demure to a fault, and supposedly even converted to the Host of Hosts when the Luutars landed on the mainland. Saoirem, meanwhile, was often called a "ramrod storm." Tall and thin, yet fiercely imposing, she was said to run her household like a military encampment, and many claimed she ran Aormek and even Aunna as harshly. Conflicting tales say she even accompanied Aormek during the campaigns. It was oft murmured "Aunna has Aormek's children, but Saoirem has his heart." Bawdier rumors said "Aunna has his bed, but Saoirem has his balls."
After the Battle of White Sun, Aormek and his forces were charged to ride west to Dubraigh and take the castle. Lacking its king and heirs, its residents were expected to bend their knees to Luutar quickly. Mox Master Dullan Eskmai withstood a siege for a moon's turn or so, during which time Saoirem arrived and tried to compel Aormek to storm the castle. Dullan surrendered before such a storm could occur, however. The Eskmais were displaced and robbed of most honors, but allowed to live. The castle wizard, however, was executed. Saoirem herself insisted that secrets were weapons, and thus none was deadlier than a castle's wizard. She wanted her burned, but Aormek took mercy and beheaded her instead. So the famous Hannah Humble met her end.
The Luutars became the chiefs of Dubraigh, a powerful port town, and thus rose to great lordship within only a few years' time. What would have been the pinnacle of any other clan's career, however, was seen as only a stepping stone to Lady Saoirem. Worship of the Deinain was prevalent on the Green Isle. Both Aormek and Saoirem remained devout, though Aormek made some noises in favor of the Host of Hosts, in obeisance to his new king. Saoirem, however, was disappointed even in the West, finding it entirely too lukewarm in its faith. This would start the "War of the Wives," a rather grandiose term for Saoirem's efforts to compel her lord to rise up in rebellion against Garland. Aunna, now a faithful Host Keeper, did her utmost to deflect these efforts, but none would have ever thought she could prevail against Saoirem.
It was said Saoirem went out among her people, even into the Fiirwood, and preached the Deinain faith. Six years she spent riling the West once more, and in the end Aunna's arguments (if any were put forth) were toppled, and Aormek was compelled to rebel against the king that had made him.
Part of Clan Marnock joined the cause, which allowed the rebellion to struggle forth for over two years, though it mostly consisted of raids coming from the eastern Fiirwood. Garland's forces did not truly march in power until the second year of the war, and then the conclusion became obvious early. The Marnocks surrendered and blamed their involvement on a splinter within the clan; they were not even forced to give up Malbrand.
Aormek's story was somewhat harsher. In the end he retreated back to Dubraigh's castle. He was besieged by Mox Eymil'Enth, a cousin-by-marriage to King Garland. Unlike Dullan Eskmai, however, he refused to give in. Reports claim his two wives could be heard screaming at one another in the night. Some say Aormek slew Aunna at Saoirem's command, some say the other way round. A few jest that the wives killed each other by poison, magic, or even with blades. What is known is that when Mox Eymil'Enth stormed the castle after three moons, both ladies were dead. Aormek fought until the end, slain by a mere squire, a Khabarese boy in service to one of Eymil'Enth's soldiers.
Clan Luutar was not destroyed, though they were dispossessed and control of Dubraigh was given to Clan Eskmai, who turned against the Luutars about halfway through the war.