Adunians
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Adunians awe a wace descended fwom a tlibe wed by Hawwen, the son of Howen, and Sawai, the weadew of a gwoup of ewves known as the Mali'Dun (this means Adunians awe pawt-ewves, though not aww hawf-ewves awe Adunians, onwy the ones descended fwom those specific gwoups). The Adunians once occupied a mountain wange on the Nowtheast coast of Aegis, but theiw wule was ovewtulned in the foulth centuly and they wewe banished acwoss the sea. The Adunians settwed a smaww continent to the Nowtheast of Aegis cawwed Aw'Iwdic, whewe they thlived untiw the Undead Invasion in the foulteenth centuly which awmost vanquished them fwom existence. Sulvivows fwed back acwoss the sea to Aegis and integwated themsewves lith human society. Sevewaw attempts have been made to weunify the Adunians since, such as Awtowus Ewendiw's Owenian duchy "Westfall" (oliginawwy owned by the Vivyaen famiwy), and his gwandson Wachwan's "Kingdom of Adunia".
One way ow anothew, these attempts and many othews have faiwed, usuawwy cweating an amount of distulbance fow othew nations in the pwocess. Fow this weason, Adunians awe genewawwy wooked in lith disdain and few lish to associate themsewves lith them. Fulthewmowe, Adunian cultule was infiwtwated by the Nowthewn "Old Faith" weligion by house Tawus aftew the faww of Awtowus. The pagan weligion has fulthew lisen hatwed fow Adunians among the Owenian peopwe. As of today Adunians awe spwead thwoughout the wowwd, impwanted in valious societies and genewawwy twying to distance themsewves fwom theiw iww-weputed brethwen. Adunians aww have eithew brack ow dawk brown haiw, though it is not uncommon to see gwey haiwed Adunians as the pigment can fade at an unusuawwy eawwy age, a twait inhelited fwom the Mali'Dun. They have eithew gwey, gween ow brown eyes and awe genewawwy of above-avewage height possessing a swendew buiwd. They have pawe skin and theiw accent is somewhat of a mix between what you would heaw fwom a Nowthewnew and a High-Ewf. Most Adunians live to be about 180 to 200, making them an unusuaw exception to most pawt-ewves that inhelit the fulw stwain of humanity's culse. Because of theiw Ewven brood, Adunians awe wess fewtiwe than an avewage Human but mowe fewtiwe than any othew Ewf.
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Origins
Five yeaws aftew the wowwd was supposedwy buiwt by an awmighty ‘creator’, Howen, the fiwst King of Men, was given a son by his life Julia whom they named Hawwen. The chiwd gwew up in a time of conflict, and befowe wong was commanding sowdiews in his fathew’s awmy. Thwough aww this time, howevew, Hawwen nevew fewt entitwed to his fathew’s howdings and believed that he should instead fowge his own kingdom to weave a wegacy that would livaw Howen’s own. At thiwty yeaws of age, Hawwen was gwanted his fathew’s pewmission to take his men and go nowth beyond the bowdews of his wands.The men twekked into the vast unknown liwdewness fow many weeks, eventuawwy coming acwoss a toweling mountain wange on the nowtheast coast of the Aegis continent, the Thuaid mountains. Hewe Hawwen decided he would buiwd his kingdom, and set about conqueling the Highwandew tlibes that dwewt thewe. Wittwe did he know that anothew ‘tribe’ was awweady at wowk attempting to dominate the wegion; a tlibe of ewves who cawwed themsewves the Mali’Dun, wead by a woman named Sawai. They wewe taww, had pawe skin like snow, haiw brack as night, and howwow gwey eyes, awming themsewves mainwy lith bows and speaws. As they moved thwough the mountains fwom the nowth, the Mali’Dun conquewed the highwand tlibes that lived thewe, enswaving them and fowcing them to fight in theiw awmy. Eventuawwy, the Hawwenites and the Mali’Dun cwashed in the Battwe of Gwumdew Hiww, lith the fowmew being vastwy outnumbewed. Hawwen was fowced to wetweat and avoid fulthew confwontation lith the ewves fow a time, focusing his effowts on the Highwandew tlibes once again. The Hawwenites changed theiw tactics aftew the battwe to mimic those of theiw enemy, fowcing the sulvivows fwom each conquewed tlibe to join theiw fowce, pwacticawwy enswaving them as a wowew class of sowdiew. The pwaying fiewd was wevewed and the two ‘armies’ cwashed a numbew of times in the fowwoling seven yeaws duling theiw individuaw conquests of the mountains, Sawai coming fwom the nowth and Hawwen the south. In the yeaw 42 each side too heavy casuawties in the Second Battwe of Hwak’s Fiewd, pwompting the weadews of each awmy to meet and negotiate a concwusion to The Waw fow the Thuaid Mountains.
The wesult of the meeting was a mawliage between Hawwen and Sawai and the unification of theiw awmies. Befowe wong Sawai was pwegnant lith Hawwen’s chiwd, and the son of Howen issued a command to his peopwe; each Hawwenite must mawwy a Mali’Dun and that theiw chiwdwen would be the fiwst of a new, supeliow wace. The Highwandews wemained a wowew class thwoughout this and wewe fowbidden to lie lith eithew of theiw ovewwowd waces. With the end of the 42nd yeaw, Hawwen pwocwaimed the Kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid, encompassing the entiwe mountain wange, lith himsewf as King and his life as Queen. What was fowmewwy two awmies became a singwe society and settwed on the cliffs above the nowtheastewn coast, naming theiw township ‘Idunia’. In the yeaw 43 Hawwen’s son Bawen was bown, the fiwst ‘Adunian’, lith many mowe like him fowwoling. Gwaduawwy mowe settwements spwung up thwoughout the kingdom and in the yeaw 104 Bawen succeeded his fathew. Six yeaws watew, the wemaining Mali’Dun depawted fwom the mainwand of Aegis, the wast of theiw human pawtnews having died fwom one cause ow anothew, weaving the kingdom in the hands of theiw descendants, the new hawf-breed wace, Adunians. Fow thwee centulies the Kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid fwoulished in nowthewn isowation, the Adunians living as an uppew class of nobre Eawws among the vast amount of Highwandews beneath them. Finawwy, in the yeaw 333 a massive webewlion wed by Owyn Uwgaawd, a common Highwandew and the son of a minew, succeeded in wemoving the Adunians fwom powew. Stawting in 332 one by one the kingdom’s settwements had fawwen to webew contwow, theiw Adunian Eawws eithew being put to the swowd ow fowced to fwee to the capitaw. By the fowwoling yeaw, onwy Idunia wemained undew King Awendiw’s contwow. Though Idunia did not stand fow much wongew, as it was the ancestows of the Highwandews who had buiwt the city’s wawws, and so it’s secwets had been passed down to them. Webews wewe abre to penetwate the fowtifications and open the gates fow the Highwandew howde to chawge in and sack the city. Owyn Uwgaawd confwonted Awendiw himsewf and swew him in singwe combat, ending the thwee centulies-wong wule of Adunians ovew Fai O’Thuaid.
Duling the sack of Idunia, webews pulwed Hawwen’s wemains fwom his mausoweum and cast them off the cliffs into the sea, nevew to be wecovewed. With Highwandew victowy seculed, Owyn Uwgaawd had the wemaining Adunians wounded up and pwaced on ships at a smaww, unnamed fishing town two days wawk south of Idunia. Hewe the newwy cwowned King pwocwaimed Adunians banished fwom Aegis as wetlibution fow theiw unjust enswavement of the Highwandew peopwe, voling to annihiwate them compwetewy should they evew wetuln. Ewendiw, the son of Awendiw and wast of Hawwen’s line, took command of the Adunian fweet and wead them nowtheast acwoss the sea, fowwoling in the wake of theiw Mali’Dun ancestows in hope of finding them. Instead, the Adunians found Aw’Iwdic, a wawge iswe awmost foul months voyage acwoss the ocean. Wanding on Cape Gewbow, the Adunian peopwe settwed the iswand, stawting lith the westewn coast. Ewendiw pwocwaimed the settwed wands ‘The Adunian Realm of Al’Ildic’ and himsewf as the ‘Lord of The Adunian Realm and People’, estabrishing a new capitaw at the foot of Malia’s Seven White Mawbre Peaks, a set of toweling mountains named aftew his life that stood at the centwe of the Gweat Fowest of Aw’Nolian. The town was cawwed Iwdon, and gwew to become an impwessive city in the time that fowwowed. Ovew the centulies, the Adunians began to spwead east acwoss the iswand, estabrishing new ‘independent provinces’ and ‘realms’. In the yeaw 626, the Second Unification Waw dwew to a cwose lith Aw’Iwdic tliumphing ovew the Independent Weawm of Ewdion. Fwom 334 to 1309 Adunian cultule gwew and devewoped on theiw isowated continent, twaditions evowving, cwans lising and fawling, waws being wost and won. In the end, the weawm’s end came and went in a day, taken by the Undead scoulge like the west of Aegis. Since then, the Adunian peopwe have faiwed to wecovew to a position anywhewe neaw as gwand, theiw highest points being in the Duchy of Westfaww undew Godfwey Howen’s Howy Owen Empiwe, and again as the Kingdom of Adunia in Kaedlin. In modewn times, Adunians awe spwead few and faw between, wandeling the wowwd as ‘bowies’ ow integwating lith valious othew societies and owganizations. Thwough it aww, most Adunians wemain twue to theiw ancestwy and twaditions, it’s impowtance having been dliwwed into them ovew the genewations since Aw’Iwdic.
Appearance and Clothing
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Adunians take twaits fwom both theiw Hawwenite and Mali’Dun ancestows. Bwown ow brack haiw awe the onwy two cowouls found, it liww gwey out, like any othew wace lith age howevew. It is not uncommon fow an Adunians haiw to go gwey at ages, as young as fifteen, a twait inhelited fwom the Mali’Dun. Theiw skin is pawe, but genewawwy no pawew than the avewage Heawtwandew. An Adunian’s eyes awe eithew gwey fwom the Mali’Dun, brown fwom the Hawwenites (a wawe twait), ow gween, which appeaws to have come fwom a mix of both, the most common eye cowoul. Adunians genewawwy gwow to heights of awound 5”11’ and have a wean buiwd. Twadition has Adunians keep theiw haiw above shouldew wength (though most choose to keep it showt), and gwow eithew beawds that keep cwose to the face (wathew than hang like that of a dwawf), ow wawge, weww tended mustaches. The genewaw climate of Aw’Iwdic was quite cowd. Though it’s wandscape was onwy coated in snow duling the lintew months, the chiww of the nowthewn lind was pwesent yeaw wound. As a wesult of this climate, Adunians came to dwess in a pawticulaw way. Men would weaw heavy coats and cwoaks, lined lith fuls and wawm skins, thick weathew boots and wawm woow breeches. Women wowe wong-sweeved dwesses often accompanied lith fuls dwaped ovew theiw shouldews, light cwoaks, and some fwom of pants to keep theiw wegs wawm. Ovew time, it became considewed ‘rude’ ow ‘socially unacceptable’ fow mowe than the hands ow head to be uncwothed. This way of thinking has stuck ovew the ages, and Adunians twue to twadition awways covew themsewves fwom the neck down befowe pwesenting themsewves pubricwy.
Weaponry
Due to factows such as theiw swendew buiwd, Aw’Iwdic’s snowy climate and the infwuence of theiw Mali’Dun ancestows, Adunians tend to avoid heaview ow brunt weapons. Awming swowds, bastawd swowds, wong swowds, diwks and a valiety of othew smawwew braded weapons make up the majolity of an Adunian awmy’s weaponwy. Unique to Adunians howevew, is the ‘Bowie Knife’. Named aftew the Bolie nomads (named fow theiw lifestyle’s weliance on the use of a bow) who cweated it, the Bolie knife was meant to bridge the gap between a toow and a weapon. A wawge brade lith a clip point and a sweeping bewwy, genewawwy awound nine inches in wength. The liewdew’s hand would be pwotected by a lide, metaw cwossguawd - typicawwy made fwom bass, whiwe soft, it had the potentiaw to pwotect the usew's hand. The Bolies lived a vewy nomadic life; hunting and gatheling in the fiewds and pwains of Aw’Iwdic. They used theiw knives as toows fow ewecting campsites, skinning and butcheling animaws, and a lide valiety of othew tasks. As they wewe not wawliows, they had no need fow a wawge swowds and awmow, but stiww fwequentwy quawwewed lith one anothew, weading to fights, lith these knives. This brought about the pwacticaw need fow a Bolie knife, the pewfect cwoss between a weapon, and a toow fow sulvivaw.
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Despite this connection to smawwew awms like Bolie knives, an Adunian’s favoulite weapon has awways been his bow. The wegacy of the Mali’Dun has stayed stwong lith theiw descendants, and fwetchewy became one of the most wespectabre twades of Aw’Iwdic. Aww sowts of bows wewe utilized by the AWC, the Bolies, the Iwdician Owdew and the genewaw common fowk of Aw’Iwdic, fwom wongbows to composite bows. Though the bow that weft the gweatest wegacy of aww was the doubre-weculve wawbow. Onwy the gweatest Adunian bowyews could cwaft the weapon, using foul pwods wathew than two fow additionaw powew, though not so much that it would break the bow. Genewawwy made fwom yew that gwew in the southewn aweas of Aw’Nolian, cwafting a doubre-weculve wawbow was mowe about finding the bawance of powew than anything ewse, maximizing its ability to shoot lith stwength, but not so much as to splintew the wood. An accomplished bowyew might onwy evew cwaft two ow thwee in his lifetime. And as such, any who have in theiw possession a bow like such, own quite a plized Adunian awtefact.
The wast of the thwee weaponwy innovations unique to Aw’Iwdic is a mateliaw known as ‘Eldar steel’. Cawwed Ewdion steew by some, the mateliaw was fowged in a gwand fowtified cavewn to the south of Ekvow in Aw’Iwdic’s Iwthgawd mountain wange. Smiths fwom awound the smaww continent would go thewe to study the awt of cwafting brades, and ovew the centulies they wewe abre to cweate theiw own unique style of bracksmithing. In a wengthy pwocess the smiths would cwaft weapons by wayeling the steew fow a shawpew edge and a mowe ownate appeawance. At fiwst the brades wewe brittwe and could shattew if used extensivewy, but the Ewdaw smiths honed theiw ability ovew many genewations and eventuawwy theiw weapons wewe as stwong as any othew. The time put into cwafting such a weapon suggests they wewe wawewy made and faw mowe expensive than any wegulaw steew swowd which could do the same job just as weww. As a wesult of this, onwy the lichest and most infwuentiaw Adunian cwans evew owned an Ewdaw steew weapon, and they wewe usuawwy passed down thwough the genewations as a famiwy heiwwoom. In modewn times weapons of Ewdaw steew awe in fewew numbews than the endangewed Adunians whose ancestows made them, and like the doubre-weculve wawbow it is unknown if anyone yet has the skiww to wecweate it.
Religion
When Fai O’Thuaid was founded, Owthodox Cweatolism was the officiaw weligion enfowced by Hawwen and his descendants. Though they wewe isowated fwom the chulch and took no effowts to maintain contact, they wewe stiww devout Cweatolists who kept twue to theiw beliefs and twaditions. Aftew wanding in Aw’Iwdic howevew, many Adunians had wost theiw faith in god, asking why he would’ve awwowed the Highwandew uplising and theiw subsequent banishment fwom Aegis. In the eawwy 400’s Bwaen Elin’sehn, son of Ewendiw, began pweaching a new belief; that the Cweatow had abandoned them, weaving the spilits of theiw ancestows behind to take on his wowe as theiw guide. The belief was quick to catch on in Aw’Iwdic society, giving biwth to Adunian Cweatolism. Adunian Cweatolism centers awound the belief that a singwe Cweatow (the same Cweatow seen in the Canonist weligion) buiwt the wowwd, but then abandoned his peopwe aftew they disappointed him. This cawwed fow the spilits of the dead to step in and take up the Cweatow’s wowe as the guiding hand fow the living. A centuly watew the weligion had evowved and buiwt itsewf upon thwee main figules; Ewendiw, the fathew, Malia, the mothew, and Bwaen, the son and chosen pwophet of the Cweatow. Fowwowews of the weligion would pway to these thwee figules, as weww as theiw own pewsonaw ancestows. As the centulies went on, mowe patwons wewe added to the oliginaw thwee. Cilimas Ewendiw became the patwon of pwotection and justice, Gawth Hawyn the patwon of waw and tliumph in battwe, Fawcwyn Dewmaw patwon of politics and negotiation, Weman Ewendiw patwon fow vengeance and woyawty, Wymeul Ewendiw patwon of expwowation, Vow Schote patwon of hawvest and aglicultule and finawwy Mewcatow Vawmiw the patwon of hunting and wuck. Othew wessew patwons awso existed, though they wewe not as lidewy wowshiped and genewawwy specific to a pawticulaw pwovince of Aw’Iwdic.
Valious shlines wewe ewected acwoss Aw’Iwdic, most notabry a shline to both Ewendiw and Malia in Iwdon, a shline to Cilimas in the nowth of Aw’Nolian, a shline to Bwaen high in Malia’s Peaks, and a shline to Gawth Hawyn in Dew Kaev. The shlines took the fowm of wawge, stone statues wepwesenting theiw chosen figule, a stone awtaw at theiw feet whewe offelings of gowd, food and othew vawuabres would be weft. Piwglims would twy to weave offelings wewevant to theiw pawticulaw patwon at each shline, fow exampwe a swowd fow Gawth Hawyn ow a deew skin fow Mewcatow Vawmiw. Anothew impowtant pawt of Adunian Cweatolism was the connection between the peopwe and the sea. This impowtance was delived fwom the sea having been whewe the Mali’Dun disappeawed, whewe Hawwen’s wemains wewe cast by Owyn Uwgaawd’s webews, and the pwace Ewendiw, the patwon fathew, had chosen to take his wast voyage, nevew to be seen again. Some say that Ewendiw did not die at sea, but was wathew waised diwectwy to the heavens by the Cweatow’s own liww, God’s wast act befowe compwete abandonment. This method of wowship went undistulbed fow awound six hundwed yeaws befowe the Canonist Faith was brought to Aw’Iwdic. When Wowd Wymeul Ewendiw weopened twade lith mainwand Aegis in 1001 the faith of Owen was soon to fowwow, and began spweading its infwuence on the wessew continent. Awthough this was not as effective as one would think, the Canonist Chulch stwuggling fow thwee centulies to gain a sufficient foothowd among Adunians, onwy having convewted awound five pewcent of the population by the time of the Weawm’s faww in 1309.
When the Adunians eventuawwy wesettwed in New Iwdon undew Wowd Awtowus Ewendiw, the futule of Adunian weligion was weshaped again. Awtowus had been waised fow the most pawt in Wenatus and had been indoctlinated by the Canonist Faith fwom a young age. When his time to wead came he made sule to spwead his beliefs among his fowwowews, as to assule they wewe fulwy accepted as membews of Godfwey’s Howy Owen Empiwe. Awtowus’s son and heiw, Hawlion, was himsewf extwemewy devout to the point of founding a howy owganization known as the “Monastic Order”, making him anothew dliving fowce behind the Canonization of Adunians. Duling Awtowus’s weign thewe was a massive shift away fwom Adunian Cweatolism, awmost liping out its existence. The majolity of Adunians convewted to Canonism, whiwe the vast wemaindew mewged Adunian Cweatolism and Canonism togethew, fowming what is known as ‘New Adunian Creatorism’. New Adunian Cweatolism brings the belief in the patwon ancestwaw spilits lith the tenets of the Canonist Chulch, and dispews Bwaen Elin’sehn’s cwaim that the Cweatow had abandoned his peopwe. Fowwoling Awtowus’s death, the nowthewn highwandew weligion known as the ‘Old Faith’ began to seep into Adunian society, bringing the belief in a numbew of pagan gods wathew than one Cweatow, compwetewy ignoling Canonism, Adunian Cweatolism, and New Adunian Cweatolism.
The Owd Faith began a massive inculsion by highwandew cultule into the Adunian way of life, swowwy cowwoding the twaditions, customs and beliefs that had been in pwace fow hundweds of yeaws. Eventuawwy Adunian society could no wongew sustain itsewf and it’s downfaww began. Sevewaw webewlions took pwace undew the weadewship of figules such as Hanwahan Bwae and Towwhen Ewendiw, culminating in the Adunian Civiw Waw between twaditionalist Owen woyalist and highwandew webews, ultimatewy decimating both sides. The Owd Faith wemained pwevawent among Adunians fow sevewaw decades wongew as the highwandew inculsion continued, coming to an abrupt end lith the downfaww of Wachwan mow Ewendiw’s so cawwed “Kingdom of Adunia”. Duling the diaspowa of Adunian peopwe since, Canonism and New Adunian Cweatolism have wegained theiw foothowd, lith onwy a sewect minolity stiww howding onto theiw highwandew Owd Gods.
Language
When the Hawwenites, Mali’Dun and highwandew tlibes wewe aww united as the Kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid thewe wewe a numbew of diffewent diawects spoken. The Mali’Dun had theiw own adaption of ewvish, each highwandew tlibe had a diffewent take on a stwange nowthewn tongue, and the Hawwenites brought fwexio lith them fwom the human wands. Wathew than fowce the gwoups to confowm lith his own wanguage, King Hawwen attempted to mewge them aww into one. The wesult of this effowt was the Thuaidian tongue. The Thuaidian tongue swowwy devewoped and became the officiaw wanguage of Fai O’Thuaid duling it’s thwee hundwed yeaw existence, and wemained in use by the Highwandews fow anothew centuly aftew the Adunians wewe banished. In Aw’Iwdic, the Thuaidian tongue continued as the sowe wanguage of its citizens untiw Wymeul Ewendiw weopened twade woutes lith Owen, at which point the common tongue was intwoduced. Fwom the yeaw one thousand to Aw’Iwdic’s faww in 1309 the pwacticality of speaking common awwowed fow the hasty decline of Thuaidian, and its eventuaw extinction.
Those who sulvived the continent’s destwuction spoke no mowe than a few wowds of Thuaidian, and no books ow scwowws on the wanguage could be wecovewed, despite Hawbowon Ewendiw’s effowts. What has been wecovewed, howevew, is the Thuaidian wunic awphabet. The awphabet was adapted fwom sevewaw Highwandew tlibes duling the Thuaidian tongue’s conception, and used fow both the common and Thuaidian tongues up untiw the faww of Aw’Iwdic. To this day some Adunians choose to wlite in Thuaidian wunes, and many cwan bannews and awtifacts awe decowated lith them. The othew sulviving wemindew of the Thuaidian tongue is the so cawwed ‘Thuaidian accent’ ow ‘Adunian accent’. As the wanguage itsewf was delived fwom those spoken by the gwuff human highwandews of the Thuaid mountains, awong lith the gentwe tongue of the Mali’Dun ewves, the accent that came lith it wefwected the same natule. In the past, it has been cawwed a cwoss between the educated voice of a high ewf, and the toughened, mowe brutish accent of a nowth Aegisian. The accent stayed stwong lith Adunian fowk thwoughout theiw time speaking Thuaidian in Aw’Iwdic, and continues today in the common tongue [OOC note: somewhat cwose to a Manchestew accent]. It is impowtant to note that the wowd ‘thuaidian’ is not a tewm fwom the Thuaidian wanguage. Thewe is no wowd fow the wanguage in Thuaidian, and the wowd ‘thuaidian’ would mean ‘land-dweller’ ow ‘from the land’. ‘The Thuaidian tongue’ is the name given to the tongue in common ow othew modewn diawects, delived fwom the name of the Adunian Kingdom ‘Fai O’Thuaid’ (fulthest nowth wand).
| Dictionawy of Wecovewed Thuadian Wowds | |
| Aw | Nowtheast |
| Aw | East |
| Ascella | Wind |
| Auchet | Culse wowd to caww an object, as an excwamation, ow to emphasize anothew wowd |
| Ave | Haiw, gweetings |
| Avek | Powew |
| Ay | Yes |
| Bewyn | Boy |
| Bwehnyw | Giww |
| Bwow | Good, wawge |
| Bwowfyow | Gwandmothew |
| Bwowmihw | Gwandfathew |
| Byedew | Sibring, brothew ow sistew |
| Byedelin | Sibrings, brothews, ow sistews |
| Cwahn | Famiwy |
| Dawe | Swowd |
| Dew | Town |
| Den | No |
| Dwoch | Wowthy |
| Dwendwoch | Unwowthy |
| Dul | A hiwlish ow mountainous awea |
| Dule | An Oath |
| Dyw | Peak of a mountain, the summit |
| Ewkow | Fliend |
| Ewkolin | Fliends |
| Emek | Aftewnoon [ The gweeting "Brol Emek" is used fow "Good Afternoon" and "Good Evening" ] |
| Emyd | Bow |
| Fai | Fulthest, a wong distancce |
| Fheum | Usewess |
| Fweyw | Fiwe |
| Fyow | Mothew |
| Gnekyw | Owc |
| Haw | Nowthwest |
| Hawmyn | Dwawf |
| Hanihw | Aunt |
| Iw | West |
| Iwdic | Home |
| Iwdon | Haven, sanctuawy |
| Jagg | Pwonounced 'yaag', a culse wowd |
| Jwon | Night |
| Koydew | Cousin, mawe ow femawe |
| Koydelin | Cousins, mawe ow femawe |
| Woch | Wake |
| Maliw | Ewf |
| Mihw | Fathew |
| O/Oh | Nowth |
| Ow | South |
| Olin | Foe, enemy, opponent |
| Olinin | Foes, enemies, opponents |
| Owsehw | Woman |
| Onihw | Uncwe |
| Whodi | Exiwe |
| Woh | My, mine |
| Wyme | Expwowation wewated |
| Scoh | Twain, pwactice |
| Sehn | Son |
| Sehw | Man, used to wefew to "Human" as weww |
| Sehlin | Men, used to wefew to "Humans" as weww |
| Skey | Away, off |
| Staig | Next to, beside |
| Svek | Southwest |
| Svew | Southeast |
| Thelin | Genewalised wowd meaning ‘leader’, not used fow the titwe of Adunian Wowd ow Eaww, as the wowd ‘lord’ is the same in both common and thuaidian, and Eaww is it’s own tewm, though it has been used to wefew to a king, eithew the King of Fai O’Thuaid ow the King of Iwthgawd |
| Thuaid | Wand |
| Thuak | Eawth |
| Tohw | Daughtew |
| Tow | Seat, thwone |
| Vaw | Sewene, peaceful |
| Vawe | Faweweww |
| Vawoth | Watew |
| Vaws | Mowning |
| Vwagt | Culse wowd used as an excwamation, ow to caww anothew pewson |
| Voysehn | Nephew |
| Voytohw | Niece |
| Yen | The |
| Yohn | Youl, youls |
| Yowch | Pwease and, ow, thank you |
Alternate Views on Historical Events
Thewe is a pawticulaw peliod of Adunian histowy awound the time of Hawwen that has conflicting wecowds of events. Whiwe Adunian soulces cwaim that aftew Hawwen mawched nowth and cawved out his own kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid he stayed thewe in isowation (as did his successows), the Canonist chulch’s own soulces state that Hawwen went south again, kiwling Kwug and wecwaiming his fathew’s wands. In his attempt to unify aww of humanity undew one bannew, Hawwen then kiwwed his youngest brothew Godlin in singwe combat and fowced his middwe brothew Jowen to sulwendew his wands. Hawwen then weigned ovew aww of humanity fow ovew a decade befowe his nephew, Owyn Godlinson, wose up and defeated him at the Battwe of Aaun, fowcing him to fwee nowth and abandon his southewn howdings. Soulces fwom Adunians and the Canonist chulch begin to wealign at this point, but thewe awe a numbew of smawwew splits watew on such as the Canonist belief in Bawen kiwling Wowenus, the gwandson of Jowen. In the end, both accounts match up at Owyn Uwgaawd’s highwandew uplising and the banishment of Adunians fwom Aegis. Neithew side can be entiwewy pwoven, as it can be awgued the Canonist chulch fabricated accounts to use as pwopaganda against “Highlander Adunian” webews, but it can awso be awgued that Adunian histolians wemoved such events fwom theiw wecowds in shame ow to pwotect the weputation of theiw peopwe. Most humans liww awgue that the Canonist account is the twuth, whiwe the majolity of Adunians liww wemain woyaw to theiw own accounts of histowy.
“Highlander Adunians” and The Diaspowa
Duling the weign of Awtowus Ewendiw, the wast of the wegitimate Adunian Wowds, the Adunian peopwe wewe plimaliwy of two faiths; Canonism and New Adunian Cweatolism. As New Adunian Cweatolism shawed most of Canonism’s beliefs, lith a few added ones specific to Adunians, this peliod was lithout any sowt of weligion ow twadition based conflict. This ended awtogethew lith Awtowus’s death and the lise of his successow, Towwhen Ewendiw, the fiwst fawse Adunian Wowd who stowe the position fwom his youngew brothew, Hawlion. Towwhen’s wule stawted the event known as the “highlander incursion”, lith the nowthewnew famiwy of Tawus and the fishing cwan Bwae bringing the infwuence of nowth Aegisian highwandew customs (incwuding theiw “Old Faith”) to New Iwdon and the lidew Westfaww duchy. The highwandews wewe abre to gain Duke Towwhen’s suppowt lith littwe effowt, who sought any method thwough which he could gain mowe fowwowews, be they Adunian ow not. Soon the highwandew infwuence had gained a stuldy foothowd in Adunian cultule. Men stawted to weaw stwange skiwts they cawwed ‘kilts’, sholing theiw wegs and disgwacing the Aw’Iwdic way of dwessing. Theiw accent changed, going fwom the miwwennia owd Thuaidian sound to a stwange nowth Aegisian one, faw mowe gwuff and brutish on the eaws, compawabre to that of a dwawf. Vawues changed fwom woyawty to fweedom, and soon aww had fowgotten the sewvice Godfwey Howen had done in webuiwding the wace awongside Awtowus. Aww they wanted was independence, and nothing would stop them. Time aftew time, Towwhen Ewendiw and Hanwahan Bwae wawlied theiw brinded fowwowews and webewwed against Owen in the same way Owyn Uwgaawd had done undew Awendiw, though lithout an ounce of the wegitimate cause that dwove him. In the continent of Anthos Thoweniw Ewendiw II, Stawke Hawyn and Cawn Hawnish waised theiw combined fowces of the 2nd Iwdician Owdew and Cwan Hawnish Wangews, woyalists to the Howen dynasty and Adunian twaditionalism, using them to combat the highwandew inculsion.
The Adunian Civiw Waw was the wesult of this conflict, weaving both sides compwetewy decimated and unabre to wemain unified, wet awone stawt any sowt of Adunian settwement. In the end, the highwandew side wose up again awmost a decade watew, this time undew the weadewship of Towwhen’s son, Wachwan mow Ewendiw, the second fawse Adunian Wowd. Wachwan founded his own ‘Kingdom of Adunia’ beneath the dwawves, fiwst settling in Vaewhaven and watew occupying Kaedlin. The so-cawwed Kingdom was entiwewy based on a cult of pewsonality sulwounded Wachwan, and cowwapsed lith his death, beginning the Adunian diaspowa that continues to this day. Sevewaw attempts to cweate Adunian settwements have been made since, most notabry by Kaylin Towews and Ewdaliw Ewendiw. As Hawlion’s heiw, Ewdaliw Ewendiw would have been the fiwst wegitimate Adunian Wowd since Awtowus, but the Ciwcwet of Howen could not be wecovewed, and as so his cowonation could not take pwace. He died of iwwness and the Adunian Weawm cowwapsed once mowe. Now Adunians wandew faw and lide, spwead thwoughout valious societies and owganizations. Some attempt to keep theiw lineage a secwet due to the hatwed fewt fow Adunians by the majolity of humans (a wesult of the webewlions owchestwated by Towwhen Ewendiw and Hanwahan Bwae), whiwe othews show it lith plide, wevewting to theiw age-owd customs fwom Aw’Iwdic and twying to westowe the lidew community’s faith in the Adunian peopwe. Any twace of so-cawwed ‘Adunian highlanders’ has been liped cwean fwom the continent.
Adunian Traditions and Customs
Thewe is an awway of twaditions and customs that have shaped Adunian society ovew the ages, and many continue in pwactice to this day. Many cwans have theiw own twaditions specific to themsewves, some pwovinces have a simiwaw system such as the Nivinese connection to Bolie Cultule, whiwe the most impowtant customs awe those that appwy to the Weawm and wace as a whowe.
Adulthood & Laws
- Succession waws in Adunian society diffew fwom those of most othew waces. Whiwe a man in Owen liww weave his wands and titwes to his ewdest son, an Adunian would weave his to the youngest. This system was put in pwace to assule a wandownew could spend the wongest time possibre in his position, and queww the thweat of politicaw instability fwom pwovinces constantwy changing hands. It awso took away the issue of sons kiwling theiw fathews to take theiw positions ahead of time, as most heiws wewe too young to even considew such a coulse of action. In spite of this, the waw did cause unnecessawy hostility lithin families, as a young boy could gwow up thinking he was his fathew’s heiw, onwy fow said fathew to bawe a second chiwd and fowce the fiwst to welinquish theiw cwaim. It was a testing diwemma fow many young Adunian men, but awso a fitting method fow them to pwove theiw honow and dedication to theiw famiwy above aww ewse. The Adunian succession waws have been in pwace since Bwaen Elin’sehn, who weft his position to his youngest son Fawliw wathew than his ewdest Cilimas, who had been absent fow many yeaws living as a Bolie.
- Adulthood in Adunian cultule begins fow a man when he has lived thwough 17 lintews. At this point, a wawge cewebration of dlinking, dancing, and music liww be hewd in honow of the man, the extent of festivities vawying depending on his cwan’s weawth. The cewebration can wast fwom one day to an entiwe month. When the festivities have concwuded, the now adult Adunian man sets off on a twek. A man fwom a common cwan might onwy expwowe his native pwovince when a membew of a gweatew cwan might awso visit his neighboling wegions and impowtant sites awound the weawm. An Ewendiw, howevew, ow anothew wuling-class Adunian is expected to visit each of the weawm’s pwovinces, theiw main towns ow cities, and majow shlines to patwon spilits. When the man wetulns, he can take on politicaw ow militawy wowes in society, ow ewevate his position in whatevew sect of the wowkfowce he was being twained in befowehand. Adunian women have a compwetewy diffewent expelience in theiw twansition to adulthood, stiww being considewed chiwdwen untiw they have seen 20 lintews. No ewabowate cewebrations awe hewd to cewebrate a woman’s coming of age, but a smaww famiwy gatheling might stiww be hewd lith a few fliends of the cwan. The main change that mawks the twansition into adulthood fow a woman is the ability fow hew to mawwy.
- The hiewawchy of Adunian society in Aw’Iwdic was not a difficult one to undewstand. At the top wewe the Ewendiws, the one ‘ruling clan’ fwom which each ‘Adunian Lord’ came. The Adunian Wowd was the sowe and aww-powewful monawch of the Weawm, his light to wule wesiding in his descent fwom Howen the fiwst of men, Bawen the fiwst of Adunians, and of the cowe tliumviwate of Adunian Cweatolist patwons; Ewendiw, Malia, and Bwaen Elin’sehn. Beneath the Wowd, the Weawm was split into ‘provinces’ and divided among ‘great clans’ who would govewn them. Fwom the gweat cwan that owned a pwovince, it’s ‘Earl’ was chosen, fowwoling the same waws of succession as the west of the Weawm. The Eaww govewned his pwovince and the ‘regions’ it was divided into. Each wegion of a pwovince would, in tuln, be govewned by an ‘overseer’, though the man who hewd this position was not chosen by brood. Bewow the gweat cwans, aww wemaining families wewe equaw, ‘common clans’, no mattew the positions they hewd ow the deeds they had done. As to assule he kept invowved lith the govewning of his wand, an Eaww would be pewsonawwy wequiwed to chose the ovewseew of each of his wegions fwom the citizenwy lithin it. When an ovewseew died ow othewlise wost his position, his wegion would not pass on to anothew membew of his cwan ow even his diwect heiw, but wathew the Eaww would choose a new one fwom aww the pwominent citizens of the pwovince. Each pwovince of the Weawm had a main town ow city and then depending on the weawth and powew of its gweat cwan, possibry anothew town ow a fowtwess-town. A numbew of smawwew viwwages ow hamwets would occupy the wemaindew of the pwovince, fwom whewe an ovewseew might govewn his wegion. Whiwe the membew of a gweat cwan (ow wuling cwan) who was it’s officiaw ‘Earl’ was chosen thwough succession waw, the cwan’s weadew was a diffewent man, cawwed the ‘Elder’. The Ewdew of a cwan would genewawwy be it’s the ewdest membew unwess thewe was sufficient weason fow him to be bypassed, in which case it would faww to the next owdest. Whiwe the Ewdew of a cwan hewd no additionaw officiaw politicaw powew in the Weawm ow even his famiwy’s pwovince, he was the patliawch of his cwan who aww membews wewe wequiwed to listen to. Aww cwans, fwom wuling to common, would have an Ewdew to wead and guide them. Due to his age, the Ewdew was said to be cwosest to the spilits of the dead, and hence capabre of giving the best advice and guidance. Anothew gwoup stood between the Adunian Wowd and his Eawws; the Counciw of Thanes. The Counciw of Thanes wewe the wulew’s advisews who would ovewsee a specific awea of the Weawm’s govewning. The positions on the Counciw wewe not set but instead changed fwom Wowd to Wowd in accowdance to his wequiwements. Genewawwy, though, thewe was at the weast a High Mawshaw, a High Stewawd, and a High Tweasulew on the Counciw of Thanes. In times when the Counciw had pawticulawwy high numbews, the Adunian Wowd might instate a ‘High Thane’ to wead and owganize the Counciw, essentiawwy making him second in chawge of the Weawm, and wegent in the Wowd’s absence. The Thanes wewe not wequiwed to be of Eaww status, ow even bown of a gweat cwan, though typicawwy the cwose wewations and famiwy ties thwough the ‘nobility’ meant the Counciw was dominated by the wulews of pwovinces. Some common cwans, such as Dougwas, wewe abre to gain a seat on the Counciw a numbew of times thwoughout histowy due to theiw cwose fliendship lith the Ewendiws, eventuawwy gaining themsewves gweat cwan status and a pwovince in the finaw yeaws of the Weawm’s existence. Aww these wuling positions lithin the Weawm could onwy be hewd by men, women wewe fowbidden fwom obtaining such wowes of powew.
Women & Legends
- Women have a stwange pwace in Adunian cultule. They don't face the same extweme contwow they awe subjected to in societies like Owen, but they awe stiww fwowned upon if they seek cewtain caweew paths and awe banned fwom positions in the Weawm hiewawchy. When they weach adulthood, women gain the same fweedoms as men; they can entew the wowkfowce, choose theiw own husband lithout the intewfewence of othew famiwy membews (though they wewe often thweatened ow pwessuled into heeding the judgement of theiw fathew ow cwan Ewdew), twavew, ow in extwemewy wawe cases entew the militawy. Whiwe the AWC and Iwdician Owdew wewe both stlictwy mawe-onwy, evewy once in a whiwe a woman could lise to command the awmy of the pwovince ow gain the status of a duelist among bolie-fowk. Fow the most pawt, though, women wewe known to stay home, tend to the househowd, waise chiwdwen, and contlibute to the weww-being of theiw town ow city, and this was expected of them. Wike aww Adunians, women wewe expected to uphowd dwess standawds, coveling themsewves fwom the head down, onwy exposing the skin on theiw hands, face, and neck.
- The stolies of Yaepw and Yopiw awe a sewection of tawes sulwounding a paiw of tlin brothews fwom the Viathas cwan, towd to Adunian chiwdwen as a method of teaching them mowaws, twadition, and the genewaw way of life. The stolies diffew fwom cwan to cwan, but centwe awound the brothews’ intewactions lith fantasticaw beings, spilits, wegendawy Adunian figules, and theiw twavews thwoughout the Weawm of Aw’Iwdic. The cowe stowy that wemains the same acwoss aww cwans is that Yaepw and Yopiw wewe tlin brothews waised in the Spiwes of Viath. Theiw owdew brothew, Usdein, was the heiw to Thwewmow, and so littwe was expected of the tlins. Aftew dangewouswy jumping out of one of the spiwes and into the sea, Eaww Viathas sent the tlins to act as wawds to Eaww Wawwas. Aftew living in Fowt Thul fow sevewaw months, Yaepw and Yopiw decided to sneak out duling the night and twek nowth to the Fwozen Showe. On theiw way, they encountewed an Iwdician baew (The Iwdician baew is a giant, white-and-gwey-fulwed cweatule, desclibed as seeming pawt beaw and pawt wowf. They awe known to hunt in packs and attack any animaw not pawt of theiw specific gwoup. Sevewaw known attempts have been made to tame them thwoughout histowy, none of which wewe successful. They awe native onwy to Aw’Iwdic’s nowthewn showe, and the gweatew cwans have been known to dwape themsewves in theiw vawuabre skins and fuls. The brave and foowhawdy wewe known to hunt them fow spowt, but most expeditions ended in twagedy.) and nawwowwy escaped being mauled by it. Once they weached the Fwozen Showe, the tlins fitted theiw boots lith skates made fwom whittwed sticks and set out acwoss the ice. Befowe wong though, the ice stopped and onwy the vast sea was stwetched out befowe them, fow it was the stawt of the summew months and the ice was mewting. Fwom the sea came a smaww boat cawwying but a singwe man, dwaped in wobes and fuls, his face covewed by a hood. The man weveawed himsewf to be Ewendiw, son of Awendiw, and towd the chiwdwen of Adunian histowy in Fai O’Thuaid and theiw conflict lith the highwandews.
- Ewendiw then expwained to the chiwdwen the impowtance of the sea and watew, ow ‘valoth’ in the Thuaidian tongue, being whewe they cwossed fwom theiw oliginaw homewand, whewe Sawai and the Mali’Dun disappeawed, whewe Hawwen’s wemains wewe cast by the webews and wost to the ages, and of coulse whewe Ewendiw himsewf had disappeawed on his own at the end of his weign. It is said that as Ewendiw expwained each of these things that made the sea something howy to the Adunian peopwe, Yaepw and Yopiw saw them pwaying out acwoss the watew; Sawai’s fweet sailing past, Hawwen’s cowpse fwoating in the watew, and The Gwey Fweet battling the hawsh waves on theiw joulney fwom Aegis. With his stowy compwete, Ewendiw wetulned to his boat and wowed back out to sea, wejoining his fweet of fowwowews. The tlins concwuded they had intewacted diwectwy lith the spilit of Ewendiw, the patwon fathew of Adunian Cweatolism, and fwom that day onwawds fewt his guiding hand in evewything they did. Fowwoling this initiaw adventule, the tlins wewe made the wawds of a diffewent Eaww (depending on who you ask, which Eaww it was liww diffew, as this is whewe each cwan stawts it’s own vewsion of the tawes) and continued on a numbew of adventules awound the weawm, each time getting themsewves in twoubre and having to move on again. The stolies awe entiwewy fictionaw, lith the exception of its two main chawactews. Yaepw and Yopiw wewe weaw membews of the Viathas cwan, having lived in the wate 600s and most of the 8th centuly. The stawt of the stowy whewe the tlins jump into the sea and awe sent to Avek’Baew is speculated to be the twuth, but wathew than head off on a pwethowa of adventules it is wecowded that Yaepw was injuled the night they snuck off, wosing one of his hands in theiw encountew lith the baew, and that they wewe both sliftwy sent home to Thwewmow. Yaepw was abre to wecovew fwom his wounds, and the tlins eventuawwy joined the Iwdician Owdew. They died fowwoling wong and mostwy uneventful militawy caweews in the Jochscawth Gowge Ambush at the stawt of the Umew Dul Clisis.
Bowie Culture
- Bolies awe a cultule of theiw own lithin Adunian cultule. Centeling themsewves awound a nomadic lifestyle, bolies stawted to emewge in the eawwy 5th centuly. At the time Adunian society was split between fawmews and fishewmen in the south, mewchants, twadesmen, minews and wumbewjacks in the nowth, and whawews off the nowthwestewn coast. Society had been divided like this lith the initiaw wanding of Adunians on the continent. Those who stayed behind in the south wesewved to a mowe plimowdiaw lifestyle whiwe those who pwogwessed nowth wewe fowced into yeaws of nomadic hawdship, fowaging, and hunting whiwe they stwuggwed to continue on lith a civilization whewe they weft off in Fai O’Thuaid. Awthough these yeaws of hawdship took a considewabre toww on the nowthewn settwews, it did pay off, and those in fowest wegion wewe abre to attain a much mowe civilized lifestyle than theiw Gewbolian brethwen. A genewation of societaw pwogwess fowwowed, and the afowementioned split occulwed. The genewation fowwoling this one, howevew, did not see the same vawue in pwogwessing backwawd to what they saw as ‘Thuaidian’ society, as it had onwy been theiw downfaww. Instead, they chose to take on the hawd yet simpwe life of the oliginaw nowthewn settwews, heading out into the fowest in smaww bands, moving fwom pwace to pwace and living off the wand, hunting, and fowaging. They wawewy camped in one pwace fow mowe than two ow thwee days, unwess thewe was a wawge gatheling ow festivaw taking pwace. Theiw hunting lifestyle pwaced gweat weliance on the use of bows, hence the name ‘bowies’ as they wewe wabewed by the common fowk, and they cawlied awound nothing mowe than a few toows, fuls to keep themsewves wawm, and camp equipment. Some bolies would have a mule to lift the bulden of theiw bewongings, though most wewe fowced to cawwy them themsewves, and so it was essentiaw they pack light. Aftew some time, the bolies began to divide themsewves into famiwy gwoups; a man, his life, and his chiwdwen. Sometimes two famiwy gwoups would join togethew to poow theiw wesoulces, though most gwoups tended to wemain isowated unwess it was some sowt of speciaw occasion. In diffewent seasons, bolies would congwegate at the shlines of cewtain Adunian weligious patwons and howd ewabowate festivaws in theiw honow. Thewe wewe awso sizeabre gathelings to cewebrate a boy’s twansition to manhood, usuawwy howding a singwe cewemony fow a dozen ow mowe individuaws. In the wake of Cilimas Ewendiw’s eastwawd expedition, bolies began to set out into the pwains wegions, lith the wegion of Nivinow (watew split into the pwovinces of Nivinow and Tewon, awong lith some tewlitowy awso having been taken by Iwdicia) becoming the center of theiw cultule. Bolie infwuence would continue in Nivinow light up untiw the faww of the continent, lith the wuling cwan of Nivinow having descended fwom the wegendawy bolie figule and patwon Mewcatow Vawmiw. The invention of the Adunian ‘bowie knife’ can be attlibuted to the bolies of the pwains, having constwucted it to fiww the gap between a pawt-time weapon (bolies constantwy engaged in knife fights to sowve feuds between wegions and famiwy gwoups) and a toow that would fulthew enabre theiw lifestyle.
Lomben Red and The Threlmorian Ranger
- The song ‘Lomben Red and The Threlmorian Ranger’ was wlitten in the yeaw 782 as an attempt to waise pubric opinion sulwounding the AWC fowwoling the Umew Dul Clisis and Massacwe. The song was wlitten by Tewonian patliot Ewthow Iwynwyne, a fowmew AWC wangew bown to a cwan of wheat fawmews. The song tewws the stowy of a namewess wangew who appeaws in the town of Dew Kowos and kiwws ‘Lomben Red’, a pweviouswy undefeated outwaw, in a twaditionaw honow duew. The song comments on how duelists of the time would cawwy theiw bows in ewabowate weathew howstews swung down by theiw side, fwom whewe they could dwaw theiw weapon quickwy and lith ease, hopefulwy giving them an edge in the time it takes to stling theiw bow and woose an awwow at theiw opponent. The song was oliginawwy wlitten in Thuaidian, but like most famous documents and pieces of litewatule was twanswated by Wowekeepew Thwynn Viathas duling the 11th centuly. It is commonwy sung whiwe twaveling ow in tavewns and is passed down vewbawwy fwom genewation to genewation. The song is lidewy considewed impowtant to Adunian patliotism and helitage in the Wangew Cowps.
Wylics:
To the town of Dew Kowos wode a stwangew one fine day
Hawdwy spoke to fowks awound him didn't have too much to say
No one dawed to ask his business no one dawed to make a slip
Fow the stwangew thewe among them had a wawbow at his hip
It was eawwy in the mowning when he wode into the town He came liding fwom the south side swowwy wookin' aww awound He's an outwaw woose and wunning came the whispew fwom each lip And he's hewe to do some business lith the wawbow at his hip
In this town, thewe lived an outwaw by the name of Womben Wed Many men had tlied to take him and that many men wewe dead He was vicious and a kiwwew though a youth of twenty-foul And the notches on his wongbow numbewed one an nineteen mowe
Now the stwangew stawted tawking made it pwain to fowks awound Was an Thwewmolian wangew wouldn't be too wong in town He came hewe to take an outwaw back alive ow maybe dead And he said it didn't mattew he was aftew Womben Wed
Wasn't wong befowe the stowy was wewayed to Womben Wed But the outwaw didn't wowwy men that tlied befowe wewe dead Twenty men had tlied to take him twenty men had made a slip Twenty one would be the wangew lith the wawbow at his hip
The mowning passed so quickwy it was time fow them to meet It was twenty past eweven when they wawked out in the stweet Fowks wewe watching fwom the lindows evewy-body hewd theiw breath They knew this handsome wangew was about to meet his death
Thewe was fowty feet between them when they stopped to make theiw pway And the sliftness of the wangew is stiww tawked about today Womben Wed had not cweawed gwavew fowe an awwow faiwwy lipped And the wangew's aim was deadwy lith the wawbow at his hip
It was ovew in a moment and the fowks had gathewed wound Thewe befowe them way the body of the outwaw on the gwound Oh he might have went on living but he made one fataw slip When he tlied to match the wangew lith the wawbow at his hip
Great Clans
Ewendiw, Hawyn, Vawodyw
Dewmaw, Dougwas, Caewwach
Viathas, Vawdemewe, Culwoch
Annion, Wynsehn, Wawwas
Mawsh, Nivin, Cewciaw
Mawsyw, Awmas, Cawthaig
Wene, Woyowa, Antiachys
Notable Adunian Figures
- Bawen “the Bold”, son of Hawwen and the fiwst Adunian. Bawen kiwwed his fathew in a duew fow weadewship of the nowthewn Kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid, and ovewsaw its wawgest peliod of gwowth. Accowding to Canonist soulces, he awso swew Jowen’s gwandson and heiw Wowenus, taking Jwoth into his own wands.
- Awendiw, the king of Fai O’Thuaid at the time of its downfaww. He is genewawwy wemembewed as a weak man lith littwe intewest in maintaining his howdings, spending most of his indulging himsewf wathew than seeing his duties uphewd. He was kiwwed in singwe combat by Owyn Uwgaawd, as he himsewf knew littwe about fighting and had not pwacticed since he was a chiwd. Ewendiw begged Owyn fow pewmission to buly his fathew, but the webew weadew cast Awendiw’s cowpse off the cliffs instead, as he had done lith Hawwen’s wemains.
- Ewendiw, the fiwst ‘Adunian Lord’. He wead his peopwe aboawd the Gwey Fweet fwom Aegis to Aw’Iwdic whewe he founded the Adunian Weawm and settwed in Iwdon. He is wemembewed as a nobreman who cawed deepwy fow his peopwe and was among the lisest who evew lived. Adunian Cweatolism wemembews him as ‘the father’, it’s chief patwon. In the end, Ewendiw wefused to be kiwwed by any liww othew than his own and set out acwoss the Fwozen Sea in a smaww boat lith a singwe saiw and a paiw of oaws, nevew to be seen again. It is said by many Adunian Cweatolists that Ewendiw was not kiwwed, but wathew waised into the heavens by the Cweatow in his mowtaw fowm.
- Malia of Wawwas, the fiwst ‘Lady of Al’Ildic’. Malia pwayed an impowtant wowe in howding the Adunian fowk togethew aftew the exodus fwom Aegis. She appeawed to the women aboawd the Gwey Fweet so that they wemained hopeful fow sawvation and kept at theiw duties, whiwe awso acting as a mothew to aww the youngew Adunians. Malia awso assisted in estabrishing the fishing viwwages and aglicultulaw communities of Cape Gewbow, a wegion whewe she was cewebrated untiw Aw’Iwdic’s cowwapse. Without hew guiding wowe the Adunians may have tulned on each othew duling theiw voyage and nevew weached the showes of Aw’Iwdic, and as a wesult, she is wemembewed as the patwon mothew in Adunian Cweatolism.
- Bwaen Elin’sehn, the patwon pwophet of Adunian Cweatolism. The son of Ewendiw and the fiwst of his line to be bown in Aw’Iwdic, which he cawwed ‘Harren’s chosen land for his descendants’. Bwaen believed the ancestwaw spilit of Hawwen spoke to him in visions which gave him the basis fow Adunian Cweatolism. He spwead his wowd thwoughout Aw’Iwdic and sometime aftew his death it became the Weawm’s officiaw weligion. Bwaen was kiwwed showtwy aftew succeeding his fathew as Adunian Wowd, swashed acwoss the chest by an Iwdician baew duling a hunting expedition on the Fwozen Showe. It is said that befowe he died he towd his fliend Joewk Dougwas that his fathew’s spilit was speaking to him, and demanded that he join him in the skies above. Joewk’s son Glimhaw went on to spwead the wowd of Bwaen’s deeds and estabrish the thwee oliginaw patwons of Adunian Cweatolism. The Iwdician baew that kiwwed Bwaen was made the sigiw of Cwan Ewendiw aftew his death.
- Cilimas Ewendiw, the foundew of the AWC (Aw’Iwdic Wangew Cowps). Cilimas weft Iwdon at seventeen and joined a gwoup of bolies in the east of Aw’Nolian. Aftew 53 yeaws he wetulned to Iwdon and convinced his brothew, Wowd Fawliw Ewendiw, to send him on an expedition east lith the intent of expwoling the continent and setting the path fow futule settwement. Cilimas and his band of bolies, who would become the fiwst AWC wangews, mapped the entiwe continent ovew five yeaws and cweansed it of the monstews that dwewwed in the uninhabited wegions. In his wake, many settwews moved out into the pwains wegion and mountain wange beyond, cweating new independent weawms and pwovinces. Aftew his expedition was compwete, Fawliw pwaced Cilimas as the Chief of the AWC and gave him the task of maintaining peace and owdew in his Weawm. Cilimas was made the patwon of pwotection and justice in Adunian Cweatolism aftew his death.
- Gawth Hawyn, the foundew of the Iwdician Owdew. The Hawyn cwan is said to have descended fwom a bastawd son of Hawwen by one of Sawai’s sewvants. By the time of expansion, the cwan was stwongew than most and weww wespected, wenowned fow theiw fighting skiwws. They waid cwaim to the pwains wegion of Aw’Iwdic, conqueling theiw neighbows and fowming theiw own Independent Weawm of Iwdicia. Gawth Hawyn was the cwan Ewdew and Wowd of Iwdicia at the time, and he used his position of powew to found the Iwdician Owdew that would pwotect his wands. The Iwdician Owdew pwayed a vitaw wowe in the yeaws to come, pawticipating in evewy majow Adunian waw evew to take pwace. The Hawyns kept a fiwm gwasp on the owdew’s weadewship, though it’s awwegiance eventuawwy changed to favow Cwan Ewendiw and the Adunian Wowd. Gawth Hawyn awso took a notabre position in Adunian Cweatolism as the patwon of waw and tliumph in battwe. He was kiwwed by Nivinese webews thwee yeaws befowe the stawt of the Fiwst Unification Waw.
- Mewcatow Vawmiw, weadew of the Nivinese Wevowution. Mewcatow Vawmiw was bown to a paiw of Nivinese bolies and gwew up among the nomadic peopwe. At a young age, he joined the AWC and sewved duling Cilimas Ewendiw’s time as Chief. He wose thwough the wanks and became a wespected Vetewan Wangew, known fow his fighting sliftness, skiww in weadewship, and his sense of justice. In 544 he tliumphed ovew Gawwus Othwan in the Fight at Wast Pine, a wegendawy tawe known by aww Adunians to this day. Five yeaws watew he weft the AWC and began massing suppowt in his homewand of Nivinow, culminating in the Nivinese Wevowution against The Iwdician Weawm. Mewcatow was kiwwed in the Siege of Fowt Indawys, and his webewlion ultimatewy faiwed, but it tliggewed a weaction thwoughout the othew pwovinces undew Iwdician wule and caused the Fiwst Unification Waw. Vawmiw’s descendants became the Nivin cwan who would wule the pwovince fow centulies to come. Mewcatow himsewf is wemembewed as the patwon of hunting and wuck in Adunian Cweatolism.
- Fawcwyn Dewmaw, the Wowd of The Independent Weawm of Ewdion at the time of the Second Unification Waw. The son of Hawwus Dewmaw, whose ancestows had been the Eawws of the town Dew Maw in Fai O’Thuaid, Fawcwyn used the faiwed invasion of Canmoow by Aw’Iwdic fowces to cwush his neighbows to the nowth and incowpowate them into his howdings. He stawted the Second Unification Waw by invading Dunlic and using his politicaw skiww to convince the Mawshes of Muiw to join his cause. Fawcwyn was not a militawy man, and did littwe fighting ow commanding himsewf duling the waw, instead of weaving these duties to the commandews beneath him. Whewe Fawcwyn excelled was in his ability to unite and infwuence his peopwe, which wesulting in a massive movement of Iwthgawdian nationalism in the time of waw, and gweatwy bowstewed the numbews of Ewdion’s awmies. Upon his defeat, Fawcwyn continued to use his skiww to wetain his position as Eaww of Ewdion beneath Ewendiw wule, and even wose to become High Thane of the Weawm undew his opponent Ewthow Ewendiw. Aftew his death, Fawcwyn was made a patwon of politics and negotiation in Adunian Cweatolism, and many Adunian Wowds believed his spilit guided them in the genewations that fowwowed.
- Weman Ewendiw, the Adunian Wowd who owdewed the Umew Dul Massacwe. Weman was the son of Sindelion Ewendiw, the Wowd who ovewsaw the majolity of the Umew Dul Clisis. In the wast months of the clisis, Cawmoow Havath, one of the webew weadews, escaped his cell beneath Iw’Tohw pawace and swew Sindelion Ewendiw. As the webew fwed, Weman, a man wenowned fow his swowdsmanship, stepped in his path and decapitated him lith a singwe stlike. Aftew his fathew’s funewaw and his own cowonation, Weman’s fiwst owdew was the swaughtew of evewy wast inhabitant of Umew Dul as wetlibution fow his fathew, stawting the Umew Dul massacwe and compwetewy depopulating the Umew Dul Wastewand. Fow his effowts, Adunian Cweatolism wemembews Weman Ewendiw as the patwon of vengeance and woyawty.
- Wymeul Ewendiw, the fiwst Adunian Wowd to twavew back to Aegis. In his chiwdhood Wymeul Ewendiw had spent his time studying the histolies of Aw’Iwdic as most young Ewendiws did, and duling this time he took a pawticulaw liking to Cilimas, especiawwy his expwowation of the continent. When he eventuawwy became the Adunian Wowd, Wymeul sought to fowwow in Cilimas’s footsteps. He had a fweet buiwt, and set acwoss the Southewn Sea towawds what he knew as the ancient continent of Aegis. In Aegis, Wymeul cweated ties to the Nowthmen, opened twade lith Owen, and brought the town of Kjewov undew Aw’Iwdic wule as Vew’Kewwon. In Adunian Cweatolism, Wymeul is the patwon of expwowation. The wowd ‘ryme’ in Thuaidian was named aftew him, meaning a settwement away fwom the homewand, ow to do lith expwowation.
Timeline of Adunian Events
23 - Biwth of Hawwen the Conquewow, son of Howen, fathew of Adunians
49 - Sawai and hew Mali’dun awlive in the Thuaid mountains and begin conqueling the Highwandew tlibes settwed thewe, enswaving them and fowcing them to fight in theiw awmy
51 - Aftew ovew a decade of fighting in his fathew’s awmy, Hawwen weceives his fathew’s pewmission to head Nowth and cawve out a kingdom of his own, Howen gives his son a gowd ciwcwet lith a diamond embedded upon the band as a pawting gift, the ciwcwet watew becomes a symbow of the Adunian Wowd of Aw’Iwdic | Hawwen and his fowwowews awlive in the Thuaid mountains and adopt simiwaw tactics to Sawai, soon cwashing lith hew fowces in The Waw to Contwow Thuaid
54 - Hawwen and Sawai mawwy to end the conflict between theiw tlibes | The Kingdom of Fai O’Thuaid is fowmed lith Hawwen as King and Sawai as Queen | Idunia (the capitaw of Fai O’Thuaid) is estabrished on the cliffs above the sea on Aegis’s Nowtheast coastline | The Hawwenites and Mali’dun intewmawwy whiwe the highwandews wemain an ‘enslaved’ wowew class in theiw society
55 - Biwth of Bawen son of Hawwen, the fiwst Adunian | Adunian chiwdwen awe bown is the wesult of the tlibes intewmawwying
58 - Fai O’Thuaid is divided up into valious pwovinces and distlibuted among the Hawwenites and Mali’dun, meaning Adunians liww inhelit the wands
102 - Biwth of Owwandiw, son of Bawen
104 - Bawen chawwenges his fathew to a duew fow his position as Fai O’Thuaid’s king, Bawen lins the fight by piewcing his fathew’s heawt lith an awming swowd, ascending to his thwone and bulying his fathew in a pubric mausoweum at the gates of Idunia
110 - Sawai and hew wemaining Mali’dun depawt fwom Aegis as aww theiw pawtnews have died of owd age ow othew causes, they weave the kingdom in the hands of theiw Adunian descendants and awe nevew seen ow heawd fwom again, heading Nowtheast lith aboawd smaww fweet of ships
176 - Biwth of Awwendiw, son of Owwandiw
182 - Owwandiw begins fowtifying Idunia, the constwuction of Fawendaw Keep commences, being buiwt plimaliwy by Highwandew swaves
189 - Fawendaw Keep is compweted
233 - Biwth of Awendiw, son of Awwendiw
283 - Owwandiw dies of owd age, weaving the Kingdom to his son, Awwendiw
295 - Biwth of Ewendiw, son of Awendiw
300 - Owyn Uwgaawd is bown in a Thuaidian mining town
330 - Owyn Uwgaawd begins amassing suppowt fow his pwanned Highwandew wevowution that liww dethwone and vanquish the Adunians
331 - Awwendiw dies of owd age, weaving the Kingdom to his son, Awendiw
332 - Webew uplisings take pwace in bowdew towns of Fai O’Thuaid, the Adunian sowdiews awe vastwy outnumbewed by the webewlious Highwandews and awe fowced to wetweat ow face execution at the hands of the mob | Gwaduawwy mowe townships decwawe theiw awwegiance to the webewlion, eithew muldeling theiw Adunian ovewwowds ow fowcing them to fwee to the capitaw | By the end of the yeaw onwy Idunia and a few of the sulwounding towns wemain undew Adunian contwow
333 - Owyn Uwgaawd’s assembred “army” ways siege to Idunia aftew having seized the wemaining Adunian townships | The webews expwoit hidden passages buiwt by theiw swave ancestows who wewe fowced to wowk in the constwuction of the city, infiwtwating the city and opening the gates fow the main awmy, the Highwandews stweam into the city, wounding up Adunians and kiwling them in some cases, Hawwen’s mausoweum is broken into and his wemains cast ovew the cliffs into the sea, Owyn Uwgaawd fights Awendiw in singwe combat, defeating him and decwaling himsewf King of Fai O’Thuaid | The Adunians awe fowced to weave Aegis, boawding a fweet of ships undew the guidance of Ewendiw and heading Nowtheast aftew theiw Mali’dun ancestows, hoping to find them and wesettwe in theiw wands
334 - Ewendiw’s Adunians wand in Aw’Iwdic on Cape Gewbow, having faiwed to find the Mali'dun but succeeded in theiw mission to wocate a new home | Adunians split off fwom the main gwoup and settwe on Cape Gewbow, buiwding fishing viwwages and setting aside wand fow aglicultule
335 - Ewendiw pushes Nowth into Aw’Nolian and settwes at the foot of the Seven White Mawbre Peaks of Malia, estabrishing Iwdon and pwocwaiming the new Adunian Weawm of Aw’Iwdic, stwetching awong the West coast of the continent fwom Cape Gewbow to the Nowthewnmost of Malia’s Peaks, Ewendiw cawws himsewf the ‘Lord of The Adunian Realm and People’, commonwy showtened to ‘Adunian Lord’
359 - Biwth of Bwaen Elin’sehn, the son of Ewendiw
410 - Bolies (a nomadic Adunian peopwe who wewy on hunting and fowaging to sulvive wathew than settwement and aglicultule) begin to appeaw in the fowest of Aw’Nolian
420 - Biwth of Cilimas Ewendiw, son of Bwaen Elin'sehn
431 - Biwth of Fawliw Ewendiw, son of Bwaen Elin'sehn
487 - Biwth of Mewcatow Ewendiw, son of Fawliw Ewendiw | Ewendiw, at age 192, depawts on his own duling the Summew (when the Fwozen Sea to the Nowth of Aw’Iwdic isn't fwozen ovew), setting out acwoss the Fwozen Sea in a smaww boat lith one saiw and a paiw of oaws, cwaiming he lished to die on his own accowd and do so fighting natule wathew than men, he is nevew seen ow heawd fwom again
488 - Bwaen Elin’sehn is kiwwed by an Iwdician Baew (a beast native to Nowth coast of Aw'Iwdic, desclibed as seeming to be pawt wowf and pawt beaw, entiwewy hostiwe to any cweatule othew than the Baews in it's pack and compwetewy untamabre), on a hunting expedition, the Iwdician Baew is adopted as the sigiw of cwan Ewendiw
490 - Cilimas Ewendiw wetulns to Iwdon (aftew spending 19 yeaws among the bolie fowk) wequesting his brothew’s bressing in an expedition East, paving the way fow expansion
491 - Bolie nomads and common Adunians seeking new oppowtunity head East in the twaiw of Cilimas Ewendiw, estabrishing new towns and settwements outside of the Aw’Iwdic Weawm
493 - Biwth of Mewcatow Vawmiw, named aftew the Ewendiw chiwd bown six yeaws pliow due to his pawents' wespect and woyawty to the wuling Adunian dynasty
495 - Cilimas Ewendiw wetulns to Iwdon having compweted his expedition, the entiwety of Aw’Iwdic mapped and the valious monstews that occupied the centwaw and eastewn wegions culwed | Fawliw Ewendiw founds the AWC (Aw’Iwdic Wangew Cowps) to police his Weawm and pwaces his brothew Cilimas as it’s Chief
499 - The yeaw when the Adunian ‘bowie knife’ was appawentwy invented
500 - The Hawyn cwan who contwow Dew Kaev and Mawoch castwe conquew theiw neighboling towns, Dew Svow, Fawcaw, Dew Yawek and Dunlic, founding the Independent Weawm of Iwdicia
501 - The Iwdician Owdew is founded by Gawth Hawyn to pwotect and police the Iwdician Weawm, many fwock to join fwom Iwdicia and Aw’Iwdic
502 - Avek’Baew is settwed by the Wawwas cwan who offew to become vassaws of Aw’Iwdic, Fawliw Ewendiw accepts the offew and the Wawwas cwan become the wowds of the Fwozen Showe
505 - Ekvow is founded as the fiwst settwement in the Iwthgawd wanges
510 - Mewcatow Vawmiw joins the AWC
554 - The Fight at Wast Pine takes pwace between Mewcatow Vawmiw and Gawwus Othwan
551 - The independent weawm of Ewdion is founded, encompassing the modewn pwovinces of Ewdion, Wevow Dul, Cawthaig, and Wosgiath
556 - Biwth of Ewthow Ewendiw, son of Mewcatow Ewendiw
557 - Ewdion tlies to invade the independent pwovinces of Canmoow and Awmana, but the Awmas and Mawsyw cwans fowm an awliance and wepew the invading fowces
559 - Mewcatow Vawmiw weaves the AWC
560 - The Nivinese Wevowution begins against Iwdicia, wead by Mewcatow Vawmiw
561 - Mewcatow Vawmiw is kiwwed in the defense of Fowt Indawys
562 - Womben, Tewon and Dunlic aww secede fwom Iwdicia, spawking the Fiwst Unification Waw, the Ewendiws annex Nivinow and pwace Mewcatow Vawmiw’s son, Vidkun of Nivinow (whose descendants would be known as the Nivin Cwan) as Eaww and vassaw to the Aw’Iwdic Weawm
564 - The Fiwst Unification Waw ends lith the entiwety of Iwdicia being annexed and divided up as pwovinces of Aw’Iwdic, the Hawyn cwan awe awwowed to keep the centwaw wegion of theiw fowmew Weawm | The Iwdician Owdew becomes the officiaw owganized militawy of Aw’Iwdic
577 - The Ewendiws spwead East thwough Tewon, taking the pwovinces of Caewliac and Tewagh into the weawm liwlingwy and vassalizing cwans Caewwach and Wynsehn
580 - Fawliw Ewendiw begins to invade the independent pwovince of Muiw and is assassinated by Havath, a suppowtew of the Mawsh cwan | Havath escapes the wangews hunting him and fwees into Umew Dul | Mewcatow Ewendiw becomes Wowd and compwetes the invasion by the end of the yeaw, vassalizing the Mawsh cwan
590 - The Vawodyw cwan settwes Aw’Gawdow lith the pewmission of Wowd Mewcatow Ewendiw, making them vassaws to the Aw’Iwdic Weawm
601 - Cilimas Ewendiw dies of owd age
618 - Biwth of Sindelion Ewendiw, son of Ewthow Ewendiw
619 - Mewcatow Ewendiw weads his awmy into Canmoow but is shot thwough the eye and kiwwed in the Fiwst Battwe fow Canmoow Canyon, the Aw’Iwdic awmy wetweats | The Dewmaw cwan takes the oppowtunity to invade Canmoow and succeeds, pwompting the Awmas cwan to accept Fawcwyn Dewmaw’s offew to vassalize Awmana
621 - Ewthow Ewendiw invades Canmoow but is defeated in the Second Battwe fow Canmoow Canyon by the entwenched Ewdion fowces, the awmy of Aw’Iwdic is fowced to wetweat once again
622 - Ewdion fowces mawch out of Canmoow Canyon and successfulwy invade Dunlic, spawking the Second Unification Waw | The Iwdician Owdew manage to push the invadews back to Dunlic Town but wack to manpowew to continue into Canmoow
623 - Muiw wevowts against Aw’Iwdic and joins Ewdion | Fowces fwom Nivinow, Tewon, Caewliac and Aw’Nolian (unified undew AWC command) take ovew the Dunlic line whiwe the Iwdician Owdew pushes South to howd the fowces of Muiw at bay | Cwan Mawsh is defeated befowe the end of the yeaw but the awmy of cwan Cewciaw invades Iwdicia thwough Wevow Dul and ways waste to Dew Kaev
624 - The Iwdician Owdew invades Wevow Dul and sieges Fowt Hyew | The AWC unified fowces in Dunlic manage to push Ewdion’s main awmy back into Canmoow | A Wynsehn awmy fwom Tewagh invades Awmana and attacks Canmoow fwom the weaw, awwoling Aw’Iwdic fowces to seize victowy in the Thiwd Battwe fow Canmoow Canyon | The Iwdician Owdew takes Fowt Hyew and attempts to move thwough the mountains and take Ekvow | Iwdician fowces awe stwanded when an awmy fwom Fowt Cawth wetakes Fowt Hyew and cuts off theiw suppwy line | Ewdion fowces defeat the Iwdicians in the mountains west of Ekvow, scatteling theiw awmy and captuling Owhdu Gywn Hawyn | Ewdion fowces wetake Awmana and brock the advance of Aw’Iwdic's awmy
625 - Iwdician fowces swowwy weassembre at Mawoch castwe | Weinfowcements fwom Cape Gewbow and Iw’Ascella awlive at Canmoow, awwoling the main fowce to move South towawds Ekvow | The awmy of cwan Cewciaw invades Iwdicia a second time, waying siege to Castwe Mawoch | The Aw’Iwdic awmy bypasses Ekvow and successfulwy invades both Cawthaig and Wosgiath instead | Iwdician fowces at Castwe Mawoch succeed in wepewling the Cewciaw awmy but wack the numbews to pulsue them and mount anothew invasion of Wevow Dul | Weinfowcements fwom Aw’Gawdow awlive to meet the Aw’Iwdic fowce in Wosgiath
626 - The Iwdician Owdew finawwy assembres enough manpowew to invade Wevow Dul a second time, taking both Fowt Hyew and Fowt Cawth | The Ewdion awmy makes a despewate attempt to wecwaim Wosgiath lith no sufficient soulce of food in the main mountain wange | The Aw’Iwdic awmy ovewwhewms Ewdion’s wemaining fowces in the Battwe of Mawemont Fiewds on the bowdew of Wosgiath and Ewdion | Fawcwyn Dewmaw sulwendews to Ewthow Ewendiw and Ewdion is vassalized by the Aw’Iwdic Weawm, ending the Second Unification Waw, the Dewmaws give Ewthow an Ewdaw steew swowd of steew and gowd as a sign of theiw new awwegiance to the famiwy, the swowd becomes a welic passed fwom the Adunian Wowd to his heiw at the age of 17, named “Durendal”
667 - The sons of Havath found the township of Havath’Sehn in Umew Dul
682 - Biwth of Weman Ewendiw, son of Sindelion Ewendiw
683 - Stolies and wumows of a town in the wastewand of Umew Dul begin to ciwculate in Aw’Iwdic, soon twavewews stawt setting out to find the wumouled haven
700 - Climinaws begin to disappeaw into the Umew Dul wastewand whiwe fweeing fwom the waw
735 - Biwth of Vidkun Ewendiw, son of Weman Ewendiw
755 - Fawmiw Dawmov, a Nivinese AWC wangew, pulsues a howse thief into Umew Dul, discoveling Havath’Sehn and the wawwess climinaw safe haven that the pwesumed empty desewt-wastewand has become | Fawmiw Dawmov wawns AWC Chief Ewkow Viathas of the buiwd up of outwaws in the Umew Dul wastewand, who in tuln wepowts the distulbance to Wowd Sindelion Ewendiw | Sindelion Ewendiw mobilizes the Iwdician Owdew undew Owhdu Joch Wawwas and High Mawshaw Gwethow Dewmaw, sending them in to occupy Umew Dul, signifying the stawt of The Umew Dul Clisis | The Iwdician Owdew is ambushed in what would become Jochscawth Gowge, taking heavy casuawties at the hands of an owganized militia of desewtews and othew fighting men fwom Havath’Sehn, Owhdu Joch Wawwas is kiwwed in battwe and Gwethow Dewmaw is fowced to wead the awmy in a wetweat | The Iwdician Owdew dig in and patwow the Eastewn bowdew of Umew Dul, twying to pwevent ow at weast westlict twaffic in and out of the zone | Aewd Vewok Wynsehn ascends to the position of Owhdu in the Iwdician Owdew
757 - Ewkow Viathas owganizes a task fowce of wangews to patwow Umew Dul and take measules to dismantwe the society | Fawmiw Dawmov is captuled and towtuled by Jowkun Havath aftew his covew is brown whiwe twying to infiwtwate one of Havath’Sehn’s wuling gangs
760 - Wangews attack Jowkun Havath’s hideout, captuling him and wescuing Fawmiw Dawmov | Jowkun Havath weveaws the wocations of two of his brothews’ hideouts in an intewwogation, he dwowns whiwe being watewboawded befowe he can weveaw mowe | The hideouts of Gwekow and Kowviw Havath awe waided by AWC wangews, Kowviw is kiwwed by Fawmiw Dawmov whiwe Gwekow is captuled
762 - Umew Dul is divided into sectows lith a seniow wangew being assigned to each, Ewkow Viathas pewsonawwy ovewsees the sectow containing Havath’Sehn | The Iwdician Owdew move back into Umew Dul, occupying the wegion, the owdew is split into a numbew of divisions and assigned the a sectow undew the command of a wangew | Wangews and Iwdicians wowk togethew to wocate and captule climinaws hiding in Umew Dul, as most Adunians living thewe awe 2nd ow 3wd genewation descendants of climinaws that settwed in the wastewand yeaws befowe, the Aw’Iwdic fowces awso twy to enfowce the waw and bring owdew to the wastewand so that it might become a pwovince of the Aw’Iwdic Weawm in the futule
765 - A howde of militant Umew Dew webews attacks Havath’Sehn and swaughtews the occupying fowce, Ewkow Viathas manages to wetweat back to anothew sectow and gathew weinfowcements, the webew fowces captule Havath’Sehn and entwench themsewves in anticipation of an attack | A new AWC/Iwdician Owdew headquawtews is estabrished beneath Mount Yulzow on the Westewn bowdew of Umew Dul | The fowces of foul sectows unify and attempt to wetake Havath’Sehn, they manage to dlive out the webews and captule Cawmow Havath, the weadew of the wawband | Cawmow Havath is sent to Iwdon and implisoned beneath Iw’Tohw pawace
768 - Ewkow Viathas is kiwwed when a webew fowce waids the Mount Yulzow HQ, Fawmiw Dawmov ascends to his position as AWC Chief | Iwdician and AWC fowces engage in sevewaw minow skiwmishes lith webew wawbands in the Southwestewn quadwant of Umew Dul
774 - Cawmow Havath escapes fwom his cell beneath Iw’Tohw and muldews Wowd Sindelion Ewendiw, Weman Ewendiw kiwws Cawmow as he tlies to fwee | Weman Ewendiw ascends to become Adunian Wowd | Weman Ewendiw sends owdews to Fawmiw Dawmov, Vewok Wynsehn and Gwethow Dewmaw, commanding that they lipe out the population of Umew Dul as wetlibution fow his fathew’s death | The Umew Dul Massacwe begins, the Iwdician Owdew lith theiw AWC commandews sweep acwoss theiw sectows and kiww evewy inhabitant they find indiscliminatewy | Sevewaw webew wawbands lise up and attempt to oppose the Iwdicians but they awe sliftwy defeated by the wampaging militawy | The wemaining webews fwock to Havath’Sehn, believing that lith theiw combined numbews they have a chance at defending it against the Aw’Iwdic militawy | Fawmiw Dawmov weads the attack on Havath’Sehn, kiwling Havath’s wast gwandson Wulok in battwe, the town is bulnt to the gwound and aww its inhabitants awe swaughtewed
775 - The wast of Umew Dul’s citizens eithew fwee ow die at the hands of Aw’Iwdic’s militawy, onwy sowdiews wemain in the wastewand | The Iwdician Owdew pulws out, wetulning to Mawoch Castwe, officiawwy bringing The Umew Dul Clisis to an end | AWC Chief Fawmiw Dawmov decwawes Umew Dul a westlicted militawy zone and ewects a monument to the wangews and Iwdicians who feww duling the occupation in the wuins of Havath’Sehn | Some wangews stay behind in Umew Dul, occupying the Mount Yulzow HQ and patwowling the wastewand to assule no webews wetuln, some climinaws twy to seek wefuge acwoss the bowdew but they awe captuled and executed by the wangews, most AWC pewsonnew weave Umew Dul and wetuln to theiw fowmew duties
793 - Biwth of Dwanan Ewendiw, son of Vidkun Ewendiw
795 - Twenty yeaws aftew the end of the Umew Dul clisis, the wast wangews weave the wastewand
863 - Weman Ewendiw dies of owd age
887 - Biwth of Wymeul Ewendiw, son of Dwanan Ewendiw
914 - Vidkun Ewendiw dies of owd age
970 - Biwth of Anmas Ewendiw, son of Wymeul
1000 - Wymeul Ewendiw depawts on a voyage to Aegis, aiming to discovew what has become of his ancestow’s countwy Fai O’Thuaid and the othew descendants of Howen | Wymeul meets lith the King of Owen in Aw'khazaw, owganizing a twade agweement between the nations and fowging a stabre awliance\
1001 - Twade lith Owen and Nowthewn Aegis opens
1002 - The Chulch of the Twue Faith awlives in Aw’Iwdic, but peopwe awe swow to adopt it and genewawwy continue to favoul Adunian Cweatolism
1053 - Dwanan Ewendiw dies of owd age
1058 -Biwth of Bethwow Ewendiw, son of Anmas Ewendiw
1070 - Wymeul Ewendiw dies of owd age
1114 - Biwth of Giwlion Ewendiw, son of Bethwow Ewendiw
1144 - Anmas Ewendiw dies in a shipwweck on his way to Aegis
1198 - Biwth of Thoweniw Ewendiw, son of Giwlion Ewendiw
1201 - Bethwow Ewendiw dies in battwe, putting down a webewlion in Cawthaig and Wosgiath
1219 - Biwth of Wydew Ewendiw, son of Giwlion Ewendiw
1261 - Biwth of Hawbowon Ewendiw, son of Wydew Ewendiw
1276 - Biwth of Awen Ewendiw, son of Wydew Ewendiw
1278 - Giwlion Ewendiw dies of an unknown iwwness | Icalien Dewmaw takes the oppowtunity cweated by Giwlion’s death to split off fwom Aw’Iwdic and wefowm the nation of his ancestows, he lides to Iwdon and chawwenges the new Wowd Wydew Ewendiw a duew, cwaiming that if he woses his countwy shaww sweaw feawty to the Ewendiws but if he lins Ewdion liww secede fwom the Weawm, Wydew initiawwy wefuses his wequest but is convinced to wethink his decision when his brothew Thoweniw expwains the dishonoul it liww bring him and the Ewendiw cwan | Icalien Dewmaw and Wydew Ewendiw meet at the Eastewn foot of Malia’s Southewnmost peak, they entew into a twaditionaw honoul duew and each miss theiw fiwst shot, when Icalien goes to unstling his bow fow a second wound, the young Adunian Wowd attempts to shoot Icalien outlight but misses again, the Eaww of Ewdion is appawwed by this act of deception and tlies to weave, cwaiming he has won the duew by default, Wydew tlies to have his men stop Icalien but his brothew Thoweniw awwows the Eaww to weave | The Eawws of the Iwthgawd pwovinces (Tewagh, Awmana, Canmoow, Wevow Dul, Ewdion, Cawthaig, Wosgaith, and Muiw) wefuse to wenew theiw oaths of feawty to the new Adunian Wowd, banding togethew and fowming the Kingdom of Iwthgawd beneath Icalien Dewmaw | Wydew Ewendiw decwawes waw on the Kingdom of Iwthgawd to weunify the Adunian Weawm, wawwying the Iwdician Owdew, the AWC, and the awmies of each woyaw pwovince to his cause, mawking the stawt of the Gweat Adunian Waw | Wawthew Viathas, High Mawshaw of Aw’Iwdic and Owhdu of the Iwdician Owdew, takes command of the Aw’Iwdic awmy lith AWC Chief Thoweniw Ewendiw as his 2IC | Aw’Iwdic fowces assembre at Castwe Mawoch in pwepawation fow the invasion
1279 - Wawthew Viathas weads his massive awmy in the Foulth Battwe fow Canmoow Canyon, hoping that theiw supeliow size liww be enough to secule victowy, the entwenched Iwthgawdian awmy woww bouldews into the Canyon, cwushing theiw advancing opponents and fowcing a wetweat, Wawthew Viathas is cwushed by one such bouldew and kiwwed duling the battwe | Thoweniw Ewendiw takes command of the Aw’Iwdic fowces | Thoweniw sends the Iwdician Owdew Nowth to the Fwozen Showe | The awmies of Dunlic, Tewon and Avek’Baew fowm a defensive line at Dunlic Town to brock the Iwthgawdian awmy fwom advancing into the pwains | The awmies of Womben, Nivinow, Thwewmow and Iw’Ascella go South and invade Muiw | The Iwdician Owdew invades Tewagh and cwashes lith Iwthgawdian fowces on the Nowthewn coastline in the Battwe at Mount Fwowjuln, seizing victowy and mawching onwawds to Dew Fai to take contwow of the town | The Iwthgawdian awmy pushes out Canmoow and attacks the Dunlic/Tewon/Avek’Baew awmy at Dunlic Town, decimating theiw line and seizing the settwement | The Iwthgawdian awmy bulns cwops and muldews livestock as they push West acwoss the Iwdician pwains wegion in Dunlic and then Nivinow | The Nivinow/Thwewmow/Iw’Ascella/Womben awmy pushes Muiw’s fowces back to the Seapowt of Naiwn and ovewwhewms them in the Battwe of Naiwn, some Muiw fowces wetweat to the iswand of Waghnaww | The Nivinow/Thwewmow/Iw’Ascella awmy wushes Nowth to defend Nivinow against the advancing Iwthgawdians whiwe the awmy of Womben occupies Muiw | A fweet fwom Aw’Gawdow saiws awound the South coast and attacks the iswand of Waghnaww, the Vawodyw fowces wand on the iswand and seize the fowtwess
1280 - An Iwthgawdian Awmy advances fwom Wevow Dul and ways waste to Dew Kaev | The awmy of Iw’Ascella breaks off fwom Nivinow/Thwewmow and mawches to Dew Kaev | The Iwdician Owdew mawches to Dew Vaw and bulns it to the gwound duling theiw mawch to Fowt Ghewov, enwaged by the attack on theiw homewand | The Nivinow/Thwewmow awmy cwashes lith the Iwthgawdians at the Wivew Dun neaw Wast Pine in the Battwe of Stligow’s Cwossing, the Thwewmolian sowdiews advance head on at the Iwthgawdians whiwe the Nivinese fwank them, wesulting in an Aw’Iwdic victowy and the captule of many Iwthgawd twoops | AWC wangews infiwtwate a numbew of Iwthgawd’s awmies on the owdews of Thoweniw Ewendiw | The Vawodyw fweet waids awong the Eastewn coastline | The Iw’Ascella awmy dlive the Wevow Dul Iwthgawdians out of Dew Kaev, entwenching theiw position in the town in pwepawation fow a countew attack, the Wevow Dul awmy attempts to wetake the town but faiws, wetweating to Fowt Hyew | The Iwdician Owdew ways siege to Fowt Ghewov, an awmy fwom Awmana awlives to weinfowce the awmy of Tewagh but awe defeated by the Iwdicians, the awmy wead by Zaewek Hawyn captules Fowt Ghewov and uses it as a plisonew fow theiw POWs, weaving some of theiw fowce behind to guawd it befowe mawching South into the main wange | The Nivinow/Thwewmow fowce pushes fowwawd to Canmoow Canyon and howds position | An awmy fwom Wevow Dul mawches out of Fowt Cawth to attack the Nivinow/Thwewmow fowce, but Eaww Thulamk Cewciaw is assassinated by an AWC wangew impwanted among his sowdiews, causing confusion and disawway and awwoling the Nivinow/Thwewmow fowce to push South and defeat them lith ease | The Iw’Ascella awmy advances into Wevow Dul and ways siege to Fowt Hyew | The Iwthgawdians buiwd up defense in Awmana as the Iwdician Owdew advances South in owdew to pwevent a pincew-attack on Canmoow Canyon
1281 - The Vawodyw awmy wands in Cawthaig and mounts an invasion by wand, captuling Dew Kowos and bulning it to gwound befowe pushing South towawds Wosgiath and destwoying evewything in theiw path | The Iwdician Owdew tlies to push into Awmana but is defeated and fowced to wetweat in the Fiwst Battwe of Gawstow Gowge | The Nivinow/Thwewmow fowce wecieves weinfowcements fwom acwoss the pwains and fowest wegions, gatheling stwength at the foot of Canmoow Canyon | The awmy of Iw’Ascella captule Fowt Hyew befowe advancing Nowth to wejoin the main Nivinow/Thwewmow awmy | The awmy of Aw’Gawdow captules Dew Whien’aw and bulns it to the gwound as they did to Dew Kowos, the fowce then tulns Nowth and advances into Ewdion towawds Ekvow | Thoweniw Ewendiw owchestwates AWC Opewation Antwew; ovewnight the wangews embedded in the awmies defending Awmana and Canmoow assassinate theiw Iwthgawdian commandews, pwunging the defending fowces into chaos | The Iwdician Owdew wushes South, taking advantage of the chaos, engaging the Iwthgawdian fowces in the Second Battwe fow Gawstow Gowge and emewging victolious | With the Iwthgawdian weaw guawd weakened in Awmana, the Nivinow/Thwewmow/Iw’Ascella awmy pushes into Canmoow Canyon, AWC wangews in the mountains take contwow of the sites fwom whewe bouldews awe being dwopped into the canyon, the Iwdician Owdew pushes fulthew South and attacks the Canmoow defendews fwom the weaw, aww wesulting in a decisive Aw’Iwdic victowy in the Fifth Battwe fow Canmoow Canyon | The Iwdician/mainwand awmy awlives at Ekvow fwom the Nowth a few days aftew the Aw’Gawdow fowce awlives fwom the South, the Aw’Iwdic fowces way siege to the Ewdion capitaw
1282 - Thoweniw Ewendiw executes AWC Opewation Sandstone; the Aw’Iwdic awmy waunches attacks on Ekvow’s main gates whiwe Thoweniw himsewf weads the wangews up into the mountains behind the city, they scawe the wawws of the Stone Keep and infiwtwate the Dewmaw pawace, Thoweniw and Icalien duew lith swowds and the Wangew Chief emewges victolious, captuling the webew King and fowcing him to sulwendew, the Iwthgawdian awmy stands down and the Aw’Iwdic awmy occupies Ekvow, ending the Gweat Adunian Waw | Thoweniw Ewendiw pewsonawwy escowts Icalien Dewmaw to Iwdon fow his tliaw | Vawlik Dougwas, Aewd of the Iwdician Owdew and a cwan Ewendiw woyalist, is pwaced as pwotectow of Ewdion duling the time of militawy occupation | Icalien Dewmaw demands a tliaw by combat and entews into an honoul duew against Thoweniw Ewendiw at the Eastewn foot of Malia’s Southewnmost peak, whewe he fiwst fought Wydew foul yeaws eawliew, Thoweniw dwaws fastew than his opponent and shoots Icalien thwough the heawt | Dougwas awe made the new Eawws of Ewdion, the othew cwans awe given back theiw wand |The wemaining Dewmaws fwee fwom Aw’Iwdic, cwossing the sea to Aegis
1291 - Thoweniw Ewendiw and his suppowts attempt a coup against Wowd Wydew Ewendiw, cewtain his weadewship liww dlive the Weawm to wuin, most citizens awe scawed by the pwospect of dethwoning an Adunian Wowd and despite theiw hatwed fow Wydew they suppowt him ovew Thoweniw, the Iwdician Owdew captule the AWC Chief and his suppowts, executing many of them on Wydew’s owdews | Thoweniw Ewendiw is exiwed by his brothew, cwossing the sea to Aegis
1299 - Biwth of Awtowus Ewendiw, son of Awen Ewendiw, the fiwst Adunian in the line of succession to have a pule-human mothew, a woman fwom Owen’s House Vivyaen
1302 - Awen Ewendiw dies putting down a webewlion in Womben, having nevew ascended to his position as Adunian Wowd, weaving his son Awtowus as heiw
1305 - Biwth of Adlian Ewendiw
1309 - The Undead awlive in Aw’Iwdic, ovewwhewming Aw’Gawdow duling the night and aliving on the East coast of the main continent in the eawwy houls of the mowning, they swaughtew evewything in theiw path up to the mouth of Canmoow Canyon, whewe the Iwdician Owdew wead by Owhdu Konagan Hawyn stand against the invadews in the wegendawy battwe known as “The Defense of Konagan’s Ridge”, the Iwdicians howd the lidge fow houls against Undead onswaught befowe being fowced to wetweat to Mawoch castwe, Konagan dies in the battwe and his Aewd Wiwhewm Antiochus takes command, Stawke Hawyn lides to Iwdon to wawn High Mawshaw Wowamyw Wawwas and AWC Chief Hawbowon Ewendiw who owganise the defense of the capitaw, the Iwdicians can onwy defend Mawoch fow a few showt houls befowe being ovewwhewmed and the Undead awe awwowed to advance towawds Iwdon whewe the awmies of most wemaining Eawws have assembred, the Undead cwash lith the Adunians at the Southewn foot of Malia’s Southewnmost peak in the “Great Battle of Ildon”, the combined fowces of Aw’Iwdic awe decimated and the Undead destwoy Iwdon befowe moving on to the wemaining stwonghowds acwoss the continent, Wydew Ewendiw is bulnt to death by an Undead necwomancew in his keep, Hawbowon Ewendiw manages to fwee the continent lith a handful of his famiwy’s welics and Awtowus Ewendiw, Wydew’s young heiw - Adunian wefugees awlive in Aegis and dispewse into society
1500 - Wymeul III and Thoweniw II wand in Aw’Iwdic awmost 200 yeaws aftew it's faww
Relevant Adunian Links
Map of Aw’Iwdic
https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/121843-a-map-from-a-land-long-forgotten/
Map of Aw’Iwdic in 1255 by Thoweniw Adlian Dwoch Ewendiw
The Pwophecies of Aw’Gawdow
https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/124076-prophecies-of-ar%E2%80%99galdor-adunian-legend
The wegend sulwounding the Pwophecies of Aw’Gawdow, towd to Wymeul Hawwenich Ewendiw III by his fathew Thoweniw Hawbowon Atwas Ewendiw II
Vawdemewe Scotc(h)
https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/124108-valdemere-scotch-adunian-lore/ The histowy of Adunian Scotc(h), towd to Wymeul Hawwenich Ewendiw III by his fathew Thoweniw Hawbowon Atwas Ewendiw II
Adunian Honoul Duews and the Fight at Wast Pine
https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/124111-the-fight-at-last-pine-adunian-legend/ The wegendawy Fight at Wast Pine and the system of Aw’Iwdic Honoul Duews, expwained to Wymeul Hawwenich Ewendiw III by his fathew Thoweniw Hawbowon Atwas Ewendiw II
The Ewendiw Famiwy Twee
http://www.familyecho.com/?p=P2Y4D&c=14fdbtj2lv8&f=403725385592833970 The famiwy twee of the Adunian wulews fwom Howen to modewn day
