Thengwáin

King Thengwáin is the son of Belúgh, and the incumbent leader of Ríocha Geata Wéeanne, formerly known as Elleadhi.
==The Wánna War and Lúos Léathar==
Lúos Léathar represented the most brutal part of the war, with two armies consisting of 4000 men each scaling westward on the northern and southern edges of the corridor, trapping the Ebéall armies between the two advancing armies. The Ebéall were retreating, and Cellégead was nearly captured. Over 3300 Elleadhi were killed in the Battle of Lúos Léathar, with those taken prisoner impaled. Also, a lot of the civilian population is massacred by impalement, to avenge Ghruogh Ghrugarrach's massacres of Raidhsénians. At the ruins of Sérrach, the Order of Light impaled 3688 men, women and children alive in retaliation for those killed at Ennéadh Greatabh. On one surface, a huge message is written in Ellleadhi blood with words to this effect. Several individuals are skewered on the same spears and left to bleed to death.
==Thengwáin's entrance==
The campaign lasts for fifteen months, and sees to the end of it that all of the Wánna corridor is under Raidhsénian control. However, the Elleadhi initiate a counter-offensive, under the leadership of Belúgh's son, Thengwáin Belúghach. The exhausted and overstretched Raidhsénian armies are swept aside from the north-west and threatened to be cut off. Even though reinforcements arrive, the battle of Cáthal Cáthalas sees the Raidhsénian armies, which are split by a brook, being routed and Cáras Céathan Cáradolan dying by having his chest pierced by three arrows and falling down the brook, crushing his body against the ground twelve metres below.
The other Raidhsénian forces attempt to outflank Thengwáin's army, but Thengwáin initiates what in fact is three separate battles in the wood-hills of Úgall Yrfín, focusing two thirds of his army on one third of the Raidhsénian army. The Raidhsénians use a series of clever maneuvers to retreat to a point where they could hold on to a part of the corridor.
Thengwáin proposes a division of the Wánna corridor between Raidhsénia and Ebéall.
==Death of Ghrúogh Ghrugarrach and ascension to Elleadhi throne==
Ghruogh Ghrugarrach's entourage was moving to meet the queen of Elábda, to divide the tribal kingdom of Némar between them, when the king started to complain over stomach problems. As he moved back to his capitol, a gaping wound had emerged in his belly, and a smell of putrid rotting flesh spread. Céllegead was away healing an arm wound to Thengwáin, and was unavailable to aid the king, despite that he called for her. Instead, many physicians were promised gold and land if they could cut away Ghrugarrach's bad flesh, but when they started to cut in him, he became so enraged with pain that he crushed their heads with his fists.
Soon, the king of Ebéall could only scream, and his screams echoed throughout his capitol and towards the mountains themselves. Nobody could sleep as he was screaming. It was also rumoured that strange crone-like figures moved through the morning mist, dressed in white spider-web like garbs, crying. Ghrugarrach's wound turned heavily infected, with flesh falling off and decomposing and his blood turning black and putrid.
On the eve of the thirteenth night, as the full moon stood on top of the sky, Ghruogh Ghrugarrach, king of Ebéall, passed his last breath. As an autopsy was performed, it was revealed that larvae of large green flies had been nesting inside his body, after he had been eating raw meat. He was however burnt together with his concubines before Céllegead could arrive in the town of Ebéall to conclude the reason for the king's death. Following his death, Céllegead started a murder trial on the physician-priests of Wánna, and more than 44 priests were convicted for conspiring to kill Ghrugarrach. Their arms and legs were crushed, and their bodies given multiple wounds. Then they were half-buried in a pit with lots of rotting animal carcasses and lots of larvae, and slowly eaten alive.
The succession however was an open issue. Ghruogh Ghrugarrach had many sons and daughters by his concubines. His eldest son Ghruoghnárd was going to Ebéall to lay claim on the throne, but was assassinated by poisoned wine on his way before coronation. Following that, a military coup occurred, and Thengwáin, who now was present in Ebéall and controlled most of the military forces, declared that Ghruogh Ghrugarrach had recognised him as his follower, which Céllegead approved. Following this was a massacre of Ghruogh's sons and daughters, as well as their friends, and 280 people throughout Ebéall were executed.
==End of Wánna war and peace deal with Raidhsénia==
With both sides fatigued with the war and desiring peace, The Raidhsénian government and Solastic Eaglais constructs an elaborate marquee in the Wánna corridor and under a banner of truce, invites King Thengwain to a formal dinner and peace talks to discuss terms to end the war.
Thengwáin immediately made himself popular with his Raidhsénian hosts, bringing a dozen captive Ghrgii males for breeding, and silver as a gift to the Raidhsénian state. He accepts a peace offer, and returns home to his kingdom with a lot of clout. In addition, Thengwáin agrees to a military pact. He also adopts the Raidhsénian alphabet and invites seven good Eaglais to come to his kingdom and preach.
Céllegead is increasingly marginalised, and eventually leaves the kingdom of Ebéall. However, Thengwáin also established a personality cult of Ghrúogh Ghrugarrach, as the glorious founder of the Kingdom. Ebéall is renamed into Ríocha Geata Wéeanne, and a huge temple started to be constructed in the capitol to glorify Wánna. The temple is built on a hill north-west of the temple, and is a series of concentric stone obelisks which is metering out the astrological charts of one of the six stars that is not fixed on the sky, but rather moves.
That is the star called Elúa, which seems to follow the year with a 268-69 day interval.
===Raidhsénian reaction===
In Chathair Raidhsénia, there is a celebration amongst the ordinary people in regards to the end of the war, but many of the Eaglais and members of the Order of Light are disappointed that the events did not bring about the Solastic Empire promised by Píonás to Ard Griemne. In reaction to the reverence of Ghrugarrach, The local artist community, with the commission of the state, quietly begins a counter cult, which mocks not only Ghrúgarrach himself but the rumours of his ghrgii blood and circumstances of death.
==Bághnard war period and Grey mountain negotiations==
Raidhsénia proposes that the unclaimed peaks of the grey mountains seperating Raidhsénia and Ríocha Geata Wéeanne is seperated equally, between the two nations. Thengwain proposes however that since the territory is uncharted, with the danger of ghrgii lairs in the hills that the two countries should conduct a joint expedition to map the mountains. However King Bághnard suddenly attacks to the south east and Raidhsénia offers to forfiet their share of the mountains in return for reinforcements with which to battle Bághnard. This is declined because of the coming war against Geffrýd.
===War with Geffrýd===
Thengwain led an offensive against the mountains and incorporating a territory after the two kings of Uathábead to the east of him has defeated the Ghrgii clan occupying the slopes south-west of Uathábead.
Thengwain commissioned the construction of a wonder, the Great Stone Circle, which is a ring of a total of fifty concentric stone blocks, which his druids needed to further their study of the sunrise east of the mountains, as well as the stars. Thengwain also sent a copper tablet with a starchart as a gift to Raidhsénia. It consisted of all the known star signs, as well as lines denoting the stars that move, the four "messenger stars".
To the north, Thengwain led a campaign with his vassals, and took the tribe of Ruath. This led to his neighbours to the west, the Fáthuani, to swear allegiance to the Geffrýds to the north, and take to their chief Amléaffad Geffrýd, whose warriors are called the Drúlleadhi, once strangers from the north. They fight by night and rest by the day, and they smear their faces with tar. They have a bad rumour because they are headhunters, and capture the heads of their enemies to keep in their homes.
Thengwain apologises to the Raidhsénians that he cannot commit any forces, as he feared the Geffrýds might invade if he moved too many soldiers to the east.
==Ascension==
Preceded by 	Length of reign 	Succeeded by
Ghrúgarrach (Elleadhi)	Incumbent 	Incumbent
Belúgh (Rúbagh) 	none (throne amalagamated into Ebéall)	none (throne amalagamated into Ebéall)
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