The Kingdom of Lahityr
The year is 1456; for the past 22 years a bitter civil war has worn the kingdom down. In 1434, the last undisputed king of the Lahi, Chramnus the Wise, was assassinated. He had named his youngest son, Prince Unwine as his heir. Unwine’s four older half brothers had different ideas and in 1435, Unwine was slain in battle in the north of the country on the shores of Lake Eborum. The four remaining princes fought amongst themselves for the next thirteen years, grudgingly the war ran out of steam and each brother waited for the others to die first.
Then in spring 1449, a single priest from the southern Kingdom of Khahere entered a peace meeting taking place in the Court of the 10,000 Ravens. He declared that all the lands of Lahityr were forfeit to the Khaheri for a wrong committed upon a small Khaheri community in southern Lahityr in 1182.
The Priest, Totenahir, demanded that the Lahityri and their false gods pay penance for the crimes and that the Princes hand themselves and their estates over to the Khaheri theocracy for judgement. After some awkward laughter, Totenahir was driven from the meeting and put on a ship south. By high summer, the priest had returned, the city of Gaerrin was besieged and large parts of the south attacked.
Seven years later, the Khaheri have taken most of the cantref of Sullista, the ports of Gheddia and large tracts of the Guttorum and Firrian. In the far north, the borders are breached by nomads from the Haddhor Steppes and the Balchel cantref simmers with resentment for the way Prince Unwine was slain.
