The Koramian War

This is an article on the History of Feyworld
Years: c. 1961 NC to 2001 NC
Age: The Third Age of Man
Continent: Duria
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After the death of the legendary Greysword, Nagos and Pelusia made agreements with the young King William II to ensure their sovereignty, and Dakra made an implicit agreement not to interfere with the ongoing war with Illyria. For almost forty years, the Illyrian front was the only border in Koramia that experienced constant warfare, and most young nobles did some time working in the cavalry there. Koramia was slowly winning the war, but at a terrible cost. Illyria was composed of stubborn and highly independent people (descendant from the Norlunders), and the majority would have rather died than surrender to what they considered to be a foreign King. But in the middle of the 13th century, they would find themselves doing precisely that.

In 1250 IC, while Koramia seemed to be in the height of its glory, the Emperor Publius Antonius of Zeth commanded his navy to reassume control over the Empire's former colony. Unbeknownst to most in Koramia, the Empire had settled its difficulties with the Gaels in their northern territories and looked to the reconquest of Koramia as their next great victory. The Empire offered an alliance to Illyria, who was all too willing to submit to the terms of an Imperial alliance if it meant the end of their war with Koramia. And, of course, the See of Cambrecia, long loyal to the Empire, sent troops into southeastern Koramia to assist in the reconquest. When the Imperial ships landed on Koramia’s southern shores, King William II was relatively unprepared, with the vast majority of his fighting force in the north on the Illyrian front.

While William II quickly pulled his troops from the north, a young Koramian noblewoman revealed herself to be the heir to the old Iceni dynasty and secretly proclaimed herself Queen Claudia Arox of the Iceni. The Iceni people quickly rose to join her cause, further weakening Koramian efforts against the three-pronged Imperial offensive. It seemed that Koramia, despite the successes of the past, would certainly fall quickly to the Emperor’s aggressions.

It was during Koramia’s darkest hour that her founder, King William I, returned to Paeldain with the Iceni Queen in tow as an ally. King William I had, indeed, died forty years before, but he had been resurrected by the will of Vortumnus and had lived out his years as a hermit in the Divian Mountains. Renewed to youth by equally mystic means, William I returned to lead his people against the Empire. With recently forged alliances with both a clan of giants and the dwarves of the recently "rediscovered" kingdom of Gundag beneath the Divian mountains, Imperial victory no longer seemed as certain. Events were transpiring in the Empire, however, that would lead not only to the fall of Koramia, but send the entire region into turmoil for the next six decades.