The unification of several kingdoms into one, the Kingdom of Norland, which is taken as the founding of the Kingdom as a whole.
Timeline of events related to the kingdom.
The unification of several kingdoms into one, the Kingdom of Norland, which is taken as the founding of the Kingdom as a whole.
Flaftred crowned king in Westport of the Kingdom of Wessex. This kingdom becomes an arch-rival of the kingdom of Norland. This remains pagan - specifically, worshipping Thor and Odin. (There also remains a violent Caric fringe - though these are increasingly tied to the kings of Wessex - as they are willing and capable warriors. They are also pagans, though druidical in nature.)
Ritmark (centered around the fork of the Bright and Greatflood rivers) and Vassalton (now Regelsburg) also established as Kingdoms. These are different from the zillions of other kingdoms and principalities and empires and whatnot in that they are anointed kings by the Church of Bob - thus both establishing their legitimacy and establishing that of the Church of Bob. [Don’t confuse this Ritmark with the later one: this is first; same name. The latter is related, but very tangentially.]
Charles the Tall consolidates several provinces in the south and forms the kingdom of Sudrein, stretching from the Black valley south.
Josephine, a high priestess and cousin of Cleo, tries to establish a theocracy in Norland.
Vassalton, long under assault from Barbarian hordes, and never able to reach peace with the woodlanders to the north, is destroyed and sacked
Edgar of Norland conquers 1/4 of Sudrein. Many Vinari brought north. Normans move back into Norland, and begin establishing power bases again.
Norland splits into two kingdoms, which remain constantly at war.
Anson, a Norman Lord, reunites Norland by combination of the sword and the tongue. He dies sonless, though, and his nephew Louis I is crowned, establishing a hardy line of kings. (691)
Wars between the three kingdoms of Norfolk, Wessex and Sudrein that ended with the unification of the three kingdoms under Brian, in Norwich.
Sudrein invades Norland, touching off the events that led to a century of warfare between the three kingdoms.
Charles, King of NOrland, dies, and Louis becomes high king, John king og NOrland, while Curtis, married to Marlana, holds real power.
Easterners and Orcs mount a huge campaign into the west. The easterners again invade south of the Sapphire hills - they wipe out most of the border lords and reach the Bright river. In the north, another group, based around Farmington now, invades Regelsburg, destroying all before them, and approaching Ernest from the north. The northern forces - in Dassal and Regelsburg, among the Indians and Elves, etc. are not keen to help Ernest - but the savagery of the Orcs and Easterners finally brings them in. A party of Easterners caught a party of high ranking elves - they tortured a couple to death, carried several off into slavery, and subjected on high born maiden to several days of sexual torture before turning her loose - naked, bleeding, out of her head - not far from an Indian camp. This brought the Elves and Indians into the war in earnest. They launched a devastating and effective attack on the rear of the Easterners’ army - an elite force went all the way to the Kingdom looking for enemies - these attacks totally demoralized the invaders, and Ernest was able to drive them out, though not out of Farmington or the areas south of the Sapphires. During this war, Byron fought with the wood elves and began to gain a reputation as a fighter.
Byron rebels. He acts fast - seizes Normouth, barely misses catching Ernest (a wily old villain who gets out a window just ahead of his assassins.) He does collect a number of Ernest’s children. Ernest’s wife is named Clarissa (she is a scion of the Norland royal family) - their children are: Christian (b864), Ingrid (865), Lana (869). (Another, a girl, Katerina, died in 890). There are also several grandchildren - Christian’s children are: Bjorne (889 Ingrid’s = Lucinda (886), Harold (889 Lana’s = Curtis (891), James (892), and a stillborn girl. Byron catches Lana’s family - husband and children - he attempts to use them as hostages to make Ernest give himself up, but Ernest tells him to kill them if he wants. This confuses Byron, who is not blood thirsty, though it also turns Ingrid against her father. War breaks out. Ernest wins. In 896 Byron is captured - he is tortured and killed. 2 companions escape to tell the tale.