The Storm at Sayd
On the 34th of Sowing 1160, the same day Henry the Ungrateful assasinated his mother Queen Ellania in a failed attempt to seize the throne, a storm of proportions unknown in living memory began to batter the eastern coast of Nerevarn and particularly the island of Sayd and it's settlement. The storm almost totally levelled the town, and tore such vast boulders from the base of the Issar mountains that the entrance to one of the tunnels to Verdorn took the inhabitants three years to clear.
In a twist of fate, the storm may actually have been at least partly responsible for thwarting Prince Henry's coup attempt, as his fleet of hired Taarian mercenaries was sailing down the eastern coast to the mouth of the Illyrian River as the storm blew up, and was all but totally wrecked as it tried to round the tip of the Nerevarn Peninsula.
The storm blew for three days and into the fourth, before calming as suddenly as it had arisen leaving Sayd in ruins and the coup attempt a failure. The tempest ceased the same hour that Prince Henry the Ungrateful was killed in single combat by his elder brother King Velebor II, which led some of the more religious Nerevarnese to speculate that the storm was sent by the god Dianecht to display his anger at the disruption of the lawful sucession.
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