The previous long post was loooooong. But it was a necessary evil. Here we are again with some background for the campaign of Chaos in Tilea.
The Knight and the (fighting) Princess
The childrens and grandchildrens of the deceased Shyarthin and the old Bel-Tebal lived long in their feuds in Ulthuan. Idryelin, son of Shyarthin enjoyed the luxuries and the commodity in his stay as pupil in Tiranoc, however, he was a ruling lord of the loyal nagarythean nobility. His desire to defend his lineage homeland grew with him.
He claimed back his family fortress in Nagarythe as well as the properties left in Tor Nimtala. The periods of living in the scarred land of Nagarythe were not so comfortable as in Tiranoc, but the adventurous way of living he wanted. He trained his abilities as field commander, repelling pillaging parties of dark elfs and hunting down what was left in the desecrated lands of the Northern Ulthuan. Sometimes aided by Tyracrys of Tiranoc, the son of Bel-Tebal. After the department of his father back to Tor Nimtala, Tyracrys was the lord of his castle and commander of a small army of Tiranoc knights which were more than eager to aid the childhood friend of his lord against the druchii assailants.
As the years passed, he also raised a child born in the storm. His daughter was fierce, modelled by its childhood in the ravaged lands of the old Nagarythe. She became a warrior from young age, with a special love for the monster not uncommon in many nagarytheans. Lady Lottyerhe, a young shadow warrior and with special link with the creatures and monster inhabiting the doomed lands of Nagarythe.
On the other hand, Tyracrys son of Bel-Tebal also raised a family in his homeland of Tiranoc. Among his children, Alethor, a proud boy accommodated well both to the schemes in the court and the flow of the battlefield. He despised the living of some of his peers, solely on the court as a boring lifestyle. Despite his tempered manners and a facade of appeased mood, from time to time he remembered that he was a child of Tiranoc after all. Sometimes he accompanied his father and his old friend to the expeditions in Nagarythe to battle the dark elf raiding parties.
In one of this campaings he wouldn't imagine that was sealed, as he would know the love of his life and their common nemesis at the battle of an old fort in the Sundered Strand.
Mennor, son of the dark elf prince Ythuk, came with a raiding party looking from some strange magical objects left during the Sundering in the ruins. Idryelin was following the movements of the pirate party. The location was tracked by his daughter Lottyerhe and she with a vanguard for the combined armed of the tiranoc and nagarythe lords.
However, Mennor also has his scouts and spies. Knowing that his pursuer were the family of the long standing enemy of his lineage, he prepared a trap to settle the old grudge with blood.
When Tyracrys, his son Alethor and Shyarthin armies came, they were met with crossbow fire and a sudden charge cornering their formations against the cliffs.
It was only the aid of Lottyerhe and her scouts that could broke the onslaught that may have claimed his life and the life of his father among others. The scouting company charged the flank of the enemy, Lottyerhe mounted on her gryphon. At the end of the day, the enemy has claimed the treasures from the ruins, but their troop has been expelled from the battlefield. A tired and wounded Thydyalrin knew at last the saviour princess, the daughter of his father long standing friend.
They knew each other in the path to Anlec and their friendship grew during the following years. However, it was not enough for their parents as they decided that the long friendship between the families soon could became a marriage uniting the lineages.
But their love was spiced by their differences. His previous passion as lover had to be conceived with moderate affection in public, and considered her an annoying women sometimes, too energic even for his desire to get into battle and adventure. She liked his calm temperament, but sometimes his attention to the politics were felt as foolish, annoying or other unnecesary cunning of the boring courts. And after all, it was a political marriage, and their previous relation met with the fact it was an imposition from their respective parents, a burden to share rather than a free election on their own. He was charming but somewhat another boring noble at her eyes, slightly fiercer, but more a court man than a shadow warrior like her.
The rule of Tor Nimtala
The news of the marriage were an opportunity for Bel-tebal to settle his final decission, and retire at last as the ruler of Tor Nimtala. Almost two thousand years of agony, the city has crumbled before his eyes. But he endured and the one proud port still has some activity as his duty after all these years.
The couple accepted the proposal and the lords of Anlec relieved Lottyerhe from her role as defender of the dark lands. They must embark their possession and troops and march to Tor Nimtala, their new home.
Original image from Ralph Horsely and Wizards of the CoastⒸ
The city was something… different to their homeland. The street were busier than expected to a long time decadent elf port from the times of the empire. Humans, dwarfs, halflings, even wood an sea elves mixed with the few high elfs still living in the city.
For Alethor, it was his job, an annoyance of some sort. At least it will report the needed skirmish against greenskins from time to time. The policy of Caledor II still applied and the colonies were not a concern for Ulthuan, so they had to protect their people on their own. On the other hand, the princess Lottyerhe was more than pleased. She was still concerned with the defence of Nagarythe, but far from the boring halls of the ulthuan nobility and this land require her constant campaign. She and her troops soon became a scourge for the pirates and marauders. The hunt for human or orc pirates in the tilean coast was a satisfying sport.
An old report
But something more than the rulers also changed for Tor Nimtala. Some elf mages discussed the recent campaigns of the pirate Mennor and his warband of dark elfs. The mages soon came to an old report of their acts and battles in the Sundered Strand, and a list of possible artifacts they have retrieved from the ruined coast of Nagarythe. For a magical detectives of the court, they were no random objects.
He send the findings to the archmages of Hoeth, and they were suspicious that he was after some powerfull artifacts fron ancient times. Weapons from the the Sundering or maybe the War of the Beard, as he had stolen some magical vessel and old deciphering artifacts from that age.
From a list of probable objectives, a merchant was dispached to the old tower of Mindogol, deep in the tilean forests. The fortress was still active and ruled by the mage Daramas. His mission was to retrieve the key of a chamber deep under the tower, as it may not seem safe to have a way to open the chamber in the same place anymore. But while he was returning back to the port of Tor Nimtala, something happened in the forests.
They fell into the trap from a series of chaos creatures and something was set in motion.
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