History of the Free Realms in Years of the Divine King (YDK)

The Count of Tannith Vale is a well-respected and honourable aristocrat both by the Church-going human Barons and the elven-blooded majority of the northwestern region of Eos. He married an elven woman from the Tannithi wood elves, the she bore him a child. For a while, all was well and good. But on this night, he and everyone in the castle known as Cypress Hall would be murdered in a grisly dark ritual. Everyone save the Countess and her infant son, who were saved by a pair of magicians from the Arcanum Tower in the city.

Agents of the Throne of Eos re-enter the powderkeg city of Tannith Vale. On the orders of the King, they infiltrate the fortified city-home of the Baron of Tanberg and arrest him covertly. This action prevents a war of religion erupting in Tannith Vale and potentially destabilizing the realm that keeps the Free Realms itself stable. The remaining Baron of Norwen surrenders to the vanguard of the King's Royal Host under Lord-Commander Odric of Peyth. Both men and their families are stripped of their titles and placed under arrest or exile. The Church of the Divine King sends their official protests to the Throne but they are ignored.

Their holdings in shambles, the remaining Princelings of Aldoon retreat through the Old Dwarven Pass into the Province of Istvan's Reach relatively unopposed. The King of Eos hesitantly allows the migration as the Confederation's lands are almost completely overrun by the poxwalkers and the surviving servants of the Mad God. The demographics and balance of power will shift considerably in the coming years, and the Tannith Vale Affair is well-remembered in the halls and salons of the Church-going human nobility.

The King of Eos appoints the twin daughters of Baroness Lovisa Daradona each to a vacant Baronial Seat in the province of Tannith Vale. The larger holding of Tanberg goes to the fierce sister, Radha; and the lesser holding of Norwen goes to the gentle sister, Tania. In addition, the wood elven Countess and the foreign Baroness agree to enter into an alliance of their houses: the Baroness' infant daughter will be betrothed to the toddler son of the Countess, all with the tacit approval of the King. While the move is subject to great approval locally, the various Church-going noblemen in the kingdom are much less enthused.

Formerly held at arms-length, the Realm of Lyria in the Lakelands is granted permission by the Throne of Eos to build and operate a Consulate in the largest Eosian city of Brigden Ford. The investment there expands the cosmopolitan influence upon the entire kingdom and attracts adventurers from around the western world to Eos. The Agents of the Eosian Throne and the Lyrian "diplomats" dance a covert dance in the coming weeks with some notable instances of friction.