Chapter One: The Continent of Oerik

Even though the Suel Imperium and the
nascent Empire of Baklun had come to an
uneasy peace, several Suel houses secretly
continued to plot to undermine the new
Bakluni nation, especially in their old
territories in the southern Sea of Grass.
House Zolax was première amongst these
plotting families.
The leader of House Fruztii, Bjornal, was
manipulated by the patriarch of House
Zolax and around -1500 CY sought to
wrest control of a large tract of land ceded
to the Baklun after the War of Seven Score
Days without Imperial approval. Instead,
Bjornal lost to the Bakluni, and his house
was shamed for generations. With the
defeat of the Suel during this “Fruztii War”
The Bakluni tightened their grip on the
north even more.
In -1,399 CY the Imperator Zeeckar
attempted to strengthen his declining
realm. To accomplish this he attempted
to annihilate the Houses Ulmar and Opell
in a single night in what he called The
War of Purity. These western houses had
long intermarried with peoples like the
Suhfeng to the west, and Zeeckar used
this as an excuse to tighten his grip
on the Imperium. Having spies in the
imperial court, both houses had advance
knowledge of the plot and ultimately fled
the empire by traveling west over the
Tyurzi Mountains, where they passed out
of eastern memory.

By -1400 CY construction had begun

on the great city of Ghayar on the gulf
of the same name as the central city of
the Bakluni people. Several other towns
developed as nomadic families and clans
began to build permanent headquarters
in their traditional nomadic territories.
Upon Alib’s death, his nephew, Mohinid
was proclaimed Padishah of the Bakluni.

Around this same time, travelling

Suhfeng monks of Xan-Yae (q.v.)
introduced their faith to the Baklun who
were widely receptive due to their being
leery of the “mages” in the south. Her faith
became popular and some Baklun began
developing their own “mental disciplines”
in conjunction with their worship.

The Slow Decline

Now five millennia since they first
began exploring arcane mysteries under
olven tutelage, the Suel had grown wildly
powerful but also wildly corrupt and, in a
real sense, evil.

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