Triumphs of a Monarch Ch . 3 Content . For a dozen years after the Battle of Granden Tor , the kingdoms of High Rock were at peace , and the merchant ships of Wayrest , Daggerfall , and Sentinel traded near and far to all the ports of Tamriel . In my father ' s hall of business in Wayrest I learned of the tracking of shipments , the balancing of accounts , and the fluctuation of currencies , but Pierric of Cumberland knew the nature of the world , and he was not content to have his son learn only of the ways of peace and trade . Every morning I sparred with the Cumberland Master of Arms , and every afternoon the weather permitted I rode a warhorse , exercising with the Menevia Heavy Dragoons . It wasn ' t just practice : for two months every summer , I traveled as lieutenant of the mounted escort of the Evermore Caravan , and a half - dozen times we fought off hill bandits , Goblin raiders , and Reachmen war bands . I was fortunate to have spent so much time with a hilt in my hand , for in 2E 541 , when I was but twenty , Durcorach the Black Drake spread his wings in the Reach and mustered his feral tribesmen to war . Erupting from their mountain lairs like ants from a kicked anthill , the Reachmen howled down into Bangkorai , burning and looting . After only three days ' siege , Evermore fell to this horde . The land was pillaged and its people massacred . Hallin ' s Stand held out longer , but eventually it was also overrun by the heathen swarm . Within days , they were across the Bjoulsae and bearing down upon Wayrest . Then all were grateful that King Gardner had built new walls and battlements around Wayrest , for the town had grown so that it had burst the bounds of the old walls . Throngs of people swarmed in from the countryside , and soon it seemed that all Menevia Gavaudon , and Alcaire were within the city walls . But when the Reachman storm burst upon Wayrest , the crowded conditions seemed a small price to pay for protection from the fury of those Daedra - loving heathens . Thus began the epic Siege of Wayrest , when for fifty - seven days and nights the Bretons of Stormhaven manned the walls and repulsed the savage assaults of our terrible opponents . The Reachmen , lacking siege engines , were unable to breach our new walls and take the city by storm , and lacking ships they were unable to blockade our harbor and reduce the city by starvation . Stalemate : was Durcorach ' s invasion of High Rock at an end ? Indeed , no : your Reachman warrior , though fearless and fierce , is not as a rule very patient . The Black Drake left enough troops in the revetments around our walls to keep us bottled up inside and simply marched off west into Glenumbra . Taken by surprise , the newly - independent city - state of Camlorn fell and was sacked . And then Durcorach turned his eyes south , toward Daggerfall . Fortunately , King Gardner heeded my advice to use our merchant ships as transports for the Heavy Dragoons . That was how I found myself at the head of the lances of Wayrest ' s finest as we charged into the rear of the Reachmen massed before Daggerfall ' s city gates . All Bretons know how the Black Drake ' s warriors were caught completely by surprise , how I smote Durcorach and tore down his Unholy Banner . They know of the sortie of the Knights of Daggerfall in which King Bergamot finished the work we ' d begun , scattering the broken army of heathens like autumn leaves before a gale . Only one fortnight after that I watched , head bowed , as the kings of Daggerfall , Camlorn , Shornhelm , Evermore , and Wayrest signed the first Daggerfall Covenant .