Thorose-Lukai Covenant

Prior to the arrival of the orcish invaders from off-plane, the region now known as Vendramyr was a unincorporated collection of city-states, islands, small territories, and modest countries. Its inhabitants, while sharing a common sidhen ancestry and roughly similar cultures, were known at the time for their command of the southern Yerenthi seas and their ongoing territorial disputes with the Eldimyran Empire. For generations, their settlements had been repeatedly conquered and raided, their people captured and sold into slavery to fuel the Eldimyran imperial machine. Only by adopting a partly nomadic, sea-faring lifestyle and utilizing guerilla tactics were a band of pirate lords, led by the Lukai family, able to fight their northern neighbor's navy to a standstill.
In time, it seems likely that the Thorose dynasty would have launched a more thorough invasion to quell the rebellion. However, the arrival of their parasitic new foe split the empire's military across several fronts -- thus weakening its grasp just enough to allow for the loss of some of its eastern territories. It was at this crucial moment that the Lukai family, and their allied pirate lords, struck a deal with the Eldimyran Empire. In exchange for the assistance of the superior luna sidhen navy in fighting off the extraplanar invaders, the other nations on Yerenth would recognize their independence.
This covenant, witnessed and signed by the leaders of all the sidhen countries, ended their armed conflict once and for all. The document establishes Vendramyr as its own country, and promises that it will be henceforth free from the control (or attempted control) of the gold sidhe. Furthermore, it pardoned those who had been involved in the war and pledged the return of any people or cultural artifacts that had been unlawfully taken and transported elsewhere. To this day, three copies of the Covenant are each housed in a separate location -- one in Atharrin's parliament building, one in the royal palace in Saernorn, and another in Kadishir. As a founding document of their country, the luna sidhe prize this treaty very highly; for the gold sidhe, however, it is considered something of an unwanted but unfortunately necessary footnote in their history.

Type

Treaty, Diplomatic

Medium

Paper