The Nomad Invasions

The Iluvar invasion of central Bandagora and their later withdrawal in the period 599-740. In 583 Varenna became head of the Zingari, one of the leading tribes of the Nomads inhabiting the Nomad Plain. Varenna gathered the tribes, and created the host of Nomads, the Iluvar. In 599 Varenna's campaign started with the conquest of the part of Tulana located east of Brossis, and in 613-14 he conquered territories belonging to the League of Cityports. In 619, the Iluvar turned their attention towards Zagyath, but here they encountered surprisingly stiff resistance from forest beings as they tried to penetrate the woods of Zagyath. Varenna died in 622, and was followed by Ghorghis, his bastard son. Though very young at the time, Ghorgis quickly began to outshine his father. By 629 Zagyath had fallen, by 634 most of Dacria, by 640 Tulana, by 646 most of Suadan Penboyn, and by 647 the eastern part of Marentian Servania. This was the zenith of Iluvar power. In 658 Salakand, Marentia and Osbant sent a joint army against the Iluvar in Suadan, and though this army was crushed at Tulada in 661, Ghorghis was killed and the Iluvar lost their initiative. The next hundred years the Iluvar were slowly driven back to more or less their original territory. See also Veklas. See map "Lands under Nomad Rule".