Sevendor/Outer Sevendor

## Outer Sevendor

The conquest of West Fleria is one of the pivotal moments in *Magelord*, Minalan calmly speaks to Gimbal,

> *“This little war you started is over. Castle Fleria flies Sevendor’s banner now, Baron Arathanial has retaken most of his family’s ancestral lands from you, and Sire Sigalan is even now rebuilding the village of Ferrendor you razed . . . and taxing the three other domains he just took in conquest from you.” Gimbal was speechless...*
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Min added five new domains to his holdings which came to be called Outer Sevendor. Later in *Enchanter*, Baron Minalan conducts an inspection tour of the domains, installing warmagi into each of the domain. The warmagi were their to protect but could assist the Domain Lords if it didn't interfere with their main duties.

### Northwood

Located in the north easterly part of the Barony of Sevendor, Northwood shared a frontier with the Barony of Fleria. Northwood Castle was a small but stout little shell keep with additional towers on a rise overlooking three villages. It was not the best agricultural country, while a living could be made there, not much more than that was likely.

After the Warbird’s Folly, Sire Vrey of Northwood had been a crony of Gimbal and had refused to swear fealty, he was duly banished beyond the frontiers. The prosperity of the region improved after Sir Roncil of Boval Vale was granted the domain upon his marriage to Lady Sarsha of Trestendor. Sarsha was the sister of the Lord of Trestendor, an ally and business partner of Sevendor. She was Riverlands born and commanded a certain respect. Their new family was the next most prominent example of mixing the Wilderlands refugees in with good Riverlands folk, after Sire Cei and Lady Estret.

During *High Mage* men from Posendor, part of East Fleria, attacked Northwood testing the defenses, passing the large village of Runely near the eastern border, and instead attacked the smaller hamlet of Jisket, raping and pillaging the people. Sevendor was quick to respond and a trap was set by Lorcus that saw the capture of all the bandits involved. Once captured Minalan sentenced the men to a term in the Iron Band, with the comment if they could experience real war, they'd be less likely to war on their neighbours.

Dail the Destroyer was later installed as the warmage in residence to assist in keeping the Northwoodmen at peace.

### Karandal

Karandal shared a frontier, a ridge, and a forest with Bastidor, and by character and culture the two domains had much in common.  The two had been enfiefed around the same time, to the same class of Narasi country knight the Lenselys had employed in the settlement of the Bontal.  Karandal was technically larger, and enjoyed longer river frontage, but in essence there wasn’t much difference between the two. But Karandal had proved a more lucrative holding, ultimately, due to a lucrative investment in religious patronage somewhere in the past.

A lord of Karandal felt he owed a debt to Orvatas the Sky God and gave a small estate in his rugged domain to a band of monks seeking a living.  With his patronage they started raising the mountain sheep the Uwarris were known for, with a few llamas on the side, and built a small abbey.  Fistan Abbey, to live in and preach out of. For more than a century the humble woolbrothers had expanded both their ministry and their operations until they owned or rented pastures all over Karandal, Hosly and the other hill domains.  The abbey quietly purchased wool from individual cotholders and villeins at a decent price, then blended it and treated it until it had become a premium commodity under their seal at market.

Sire Arkid of Karandal got a little piece of every staple of wool bound downriver to Sendaria Port.  Enough to fund both a proper square keep castle near the center of the domain, as well as a more modern tower complex in the more troublesome southern estates. A contested for castle called Maddarch Tower was made a baronial property and Minalan installed warmage Heeth the Butler to guard the frontier.

### Bastidor

The Domain of Bastidor enjoyed the distinction of being the gateway to the Sevendor Vales. It’s a gently sloping land that follows the Ketta from where it emerges and joins three sister streams, before slowing, flattening, and watering the slanting vale below and churning north to Kest, where it joined the larger Ardriole River from the eastern hem of the mountains. It’s not a rich land, but the wide vales did contain pockets of arable soil that sustained a decent agrarian economy – enough to support a couple of small estates and a single castle. The villagers used the river to water their crops during the dry season and took enough fish from the streams and enough game from the scrublands and forest to the east to supplement their barley-and-oat diet.

Bastidor is the seat of Sire Motaran and became a changed land. The small village there had grown as Sevendor had prospered, merely on the number of travelers. Bastidor’s central village, Anilupe, boasted two inns, Bastidor Castle overlooked it, half a mile off the road on the western ridge; A larger keep was being built, the bailey was also being doubled in size, to accommodate the vale’s increased population. It is a stout defense and could keep enemies from approaching the Dike Tower. Erenwal the Wall was hired to be Bastidor Castle's resident warmage.

### Hosendor

Hosendor is a mountainous domain that lies behind the tall ridges of Southridge and Brestal Tower. During the night of the snow that never melted, energy from the spell refracted through surrounding ridges making Hosendor one of only two sites outside Sevendor with an outcropping of snowstone.

Sire Ryff was made the seated lord of Hosendor after providing exemplary service in the Battle of Red Ice where he also became engaged to Lady Fallawen. With the fall of Anthatiel Minalan also granted the estate in Hosendor containing the snowstone to Fallawen’s father, Aeratas. The Anthatielies pledged to stay in their Tera Alon bodies until the defeat of the darkness, constructing a settlement and military refuge to accommodate their new larger forms. Amrace the Elfman was installed in the domain as the warmage in residence due to affinity with the Alka Alon.

When the Seafolk, the true natives of Callidore requested thousands of tons of Snowstone. An agreement was made that sold the mountain sized ridge of Snowstone that lay between Southridge and Hosendor. Instead of a slow mining operation over many years, the Seafolk magically transported the entire mountain overnight. The space created became known as the Elf's Gap, and the deep crevasse it created filled with water, becoming a great lake, a large stone bridge was constructed over the water becoming the third main entrance into Sevendor for travel and commerce, creating much prosperity.

### Hosly

Sire Festarlan, Sir *Festaran's* father is the domain lord. Later Kedaran the Black was installed as the resident warmage.

## References

1. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Magelord: Book Three Of The Spellmonger Series (p. 555). Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Enchanter: Book Seven Of The Spellmonger Series (p. 725). Kindle Edition.