Lore:Sentinel (kingdom)

The   is located in northwestern  , on the shores of the  .  Its capital is the city of  .
 

History
Before the Redguards arrived from Yokuda, the   and   established an outpost at what is now Sentinel in order to protect fisherfolk and seafaring merchants from inland  s and other hazards in the desert.  Little did they know that the greatest threat would come by sea.

The Redguards Arrive
After the   first landed in  , the warrior-sailors of the Grandee   sailed north until they rounded  , becoming the first of the Ra Gada to discover  . Yaghoub decided to make his home there. As they sailed "toward   at dawning of the seventeenth of Second Seed", a watchman spotted a suitable harborage, and Yaghoub declared they would build a city there, calling it Sentinel after the watchman. 

They quickly discovered and established control over the locals' port with little if any opposition. Yaghoub conscripted the locals to serve as masons and servants in the building of his new palace,  , and the rest of the city.  Samaruik, also called Sentinel Palace, remains the oldest and largest architectural achievement in the city, and several additions have been built onto it over the years.  When the   followed the   into Hammerfell, they considered Sentinel a "worthy seat", and many of the   settled there (but the city has always been considered a Forebear stronghold, though that term wouldn't be in use until the days of the  ).  

Of course, the people of Sentinel still had their share of setbacks. They had to adapt to life as merchants.  Once,   drove an entire Ra Gada flotilla back to Sentinel by using her prodigious sorcery to manipulate the waves of the Iliac Bay.  Like the rest of the Iliac Bay, they also faced the devastation brought by the  , the  , and an invasion from  . 

Sentinel Rises
The banner of Grandee Yaghoub, the crescent moon, became the banner of Sentinel. The seventeenth of Second Seed became the day of an annual celebration known as Koomu Alezer'i Yaghoub, during which the "faithful" citizens of Sentinel shared pomegranates in honor of the esteemed founder of the city.  Scholars say the modern Koomu Alezer'i holiday, an annual harvest celebration the people of Sentinel hold on the eleventh of Last Seed, began as a springtide holiday,  and it's possible the two celebrations are linked.

Sentinel served as a base for the Redguards' battles against the  s, and their influence over the Iliac Bay region expanded from there. The Orcs have been another historical enemy; the people of Sentinel have fought them and participated in campaigns against them since the  .     An alliance between Daggerfall and the newly-established Sentinel led to the successful  ,  a grueling thirty-year campaign which ended in  .   Despite periods of camaraderie like this, Daggerfall and Sentinel have been in fierce economic competition with each other throughout history, and it has often led to bloodshed between these "ancient enemies". 

Conflicts of the Common Era
Sentinel and the surrounding area have long been notorious for widespread, underground  .  In the sixth century of the  , under the reign of King  , Sentinel came under the threat of attack from an undead army. The army was vanquished, though, in what the king asserted was a   intervention. 

King Fahara'jad's daughter, Princess  , married King   of   in  , which resulted in   (as  , the king of  , felt his daughter had been slighted). Fahara'jad soon led Sentinel to Daggerfall's aid in order to help protect his daughter's new kingdom.   This alliance soon evolved into the second  . 

During the Imperial  , control of Hammerfell reverted to the hereditary monarchy of the Na-Totambu. To the chagrin of the Forebears, the new High King boldly moved his throne from the old capital Hegathe to the more prosperous Sentinel. By this time, Sentinel had mastered a third of the trade in the entire Iliac Bay. Upon the death of High King   in  , the Forebears retook their city by force. The vengeful Crown Prince   set sail to the city to avenge his father, resulting in one of the bloodiest massacres in Tamrielic history. When   swept in and reestablished   control over the province, it was seen as a humanitarian intervention. 

Travails and triumphs in the
When the   began his bloody crusade north through western Tamriel, Sentinel and the other Iliac Bay kingdoms were slow to respond even as the threat moved closer and closer to their territory. Historians have attributed this slothful response in part to the fact that Sentinel's ruler at the time was a child. However, the kingdom eventually banded together with its neighbors and helped end the threat to Tamriel. 

The   (better known as the Siege of Betony to the citizens of Sentinel) circa   was fought between Daggerfall under King   and Sentinel under King   over the island of Betony, which is in the Iliac Bay nearby both nations. Sentinel attempted to claim it as a vassalage based on an agreement from two hundred years before. Though it was short, the war proved to be bloody and embittering. Bretons and Redguards had often been at odds since the days of the Ra Gada, but the animosity between them became even greater following the conflict. Sentinel ultimately surrendered following the climactic  , relinquishing its claim to the island.    The subsequent marriage between King   of Daggerfall and Queen   of Sentinel formed the basis for a fragile peace despite this mutual hatred,  though many in Sentinel viewed Daggerfall's new queen as an unwilling hostage.  Sentinel's naval capabilities were heavily criticized following the conflict.  This was apparently one of many conflicts which erupted in the region following the end of the   in  . 

Despite this defeat, Sentinel continued to flourish, and it was renowned at the time as the place to go to earn some quick gold or find a bit of adventure.  Hammerfell was controlled from the city's throne.  An unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of Queen   was widely attributed to jealous Daggerfall royalty, though this was never proven. 

Before the  , the kingdom bordered   to the east,   to the southeast, and   and the vast   to the south.  The uninhabited isle of   lay off the coast to the north.

Sentinel gained more territory than any other Iliac Bay power from the Warp in the West of  ; the forces of Queen Akorithi ended up controlling the entirety of the northern coast of Hammerfell along the Iliac Bay with the exception of  . This incontrovertibly made the ruler of Sentinel one of the most powerful individuals in all of Tamriel,   and Sentinel became one of the "well-ordered and peaceful modern counties" of the region.  The success of Sentinel and similarly-fortunate kingdoms in the area is attributed to the kingdoms gaining control of   — somehow, all at the exact same time.   King  , Akorithi's son, put a great deal of effort into solidifying Sentinel's control over this new territory, using military, diplomatic, and even religious efforts in his attempt to foster peace among his Crown and Forebear subjects. Sentinel became the epicenter for his   movement. 

Reconciliation in the Great War
Animosity between the Crowns and Forebears was sometimes so great that the factions have been known to leave each other to their own fates during foreign invasions.  But in  , when the Crown city Hegathe found itself besieged during the   by the seemingly unstoppable forces of the  , a Forebear army from Sentinel came to their aid and broke the siege. This led to the reconciliation of the two factions. 

Geography
Notable city-states and regions that are part of the Kingdom of Sentinel are:
Abibon-Gora
Antiphyllos
Ayasofya
Bergama
Cybiades
Dak'fron
Kairou
Lainlyn
Myrkwasa
Pothago
Santaki
Satakalaam (Region)
Satakalaam (City)

Known Rulers
King   (circa  )
King   (circa  ) 
Queen   (circa  )
King   (sometime after 3E 417)

Notes
In TES II: Daggerfall, the knights of the   are the official protectors of the realm. They replaced the  . The   are also found primarily in and around Sentinel.
In Daggerfall, the   clan is the predominant vampire bloodline in the region.
The Oracle is a witch who appeared in Daggerfall as a counselor to the monarchs of Sentinel, a position she had held for an unknown, but extensive, amount of time. Among other things, she counseled against entering into the disastrous War of Betony.
  erroneously states that   was King of Sentinel. He was actually the ruler of  . 

See Also
For game-specific information, see the Daggerfall article, as well as the ESO article on the city of Sentinel.

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