Crusader Coast
The Crusader Coast refers to a portion of the eastern coastal lands of Libynos, from the mouth of the Gulf of Ur in the north to the southern end of the Jungle of Malagro in the south. Bordered on the west by the Scythirian Mountains, the region includes the plateau of the Sacred Table where lie the ruins of the holy city of Tircople, as well as the chain of islands running along the coast, from the isle of Cyproean in the north to Lycania in the south.
At the time of the First Great Crusade in 2960 I.R., the Foerdewaith of Akados used what is now the Crusader Coast as a staging area for their attempts to retake the Sacred Table and hold it from the Huun. After that crusade, they built fortresses and established colonies that came to be known as the Crusader States. Over two and a half centuries, the Foerdewaith and the Huun clashed in four great crusades. Each time after the armies from Akados retook the Sacred Table, they eventually became complacent, which permitted the Huun to attack Tircople and put the coastal Crusader States to the torch. Finally, the Huun were definitively beaten in 3207 I.R. at the Battle of the Sickles by a Foerdewaith army aided by dwarven allies from Shamash Kush, yet even this victory would be short-lived.
Ironically, it was not the Huun who would drive Foere from the Libynosi mainland but the Mguru tribe from the Jungle of Malagro, who sacked Tircople and left it a ruin in 3209 I.R. With the beginning of the Foerdewaith Wars of Succession only four years later, no further crusades were declared. The coastal Crusader States, destroyed by the Huun in 3169 I.R., were never rebuilt. Tircople would remain uninhabited, and as Foere’s internal dissension sapped its strength, one by one most of the island Crusader States fell from its control. Of their island fortresses, some have been repurposed, becoming merchant centers or pirate havens, and others have deteriorated and been abandoned. Today, only the island of Cyproean remains under even nominal Fordewaith control, and only the lone tower on Aretas still flies the banner of the church of Muir.
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Crusader Coast
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