Order of the Bloodied Crown

The **Order of the Bloodied Crown**, also known as simply the **Order**, was a knightly order formed following the total collapse of the Northern Realms, and represented the first and only unified push by the regions displaced nobility to their lost homelands. The Order was formally established during the Conclave of [---] in 746 KC, and founded upon the aged tenants of chivalric honour and the ideals of the Old Kingdoms.

Establishing itself in the fortress-city of Farenhal, after its subsequent siege and occupation, the Order of the Bloodied Crown managed to make major gains during its first initial years, pushing north as far as the Uradyne River, spine of the Northern Realms, its crowning achievement being its victory at the Battle of the Uradyne in 749 KC, where it defeated the combined forces of various warlords and fouler things at the Saragost Bridge.

The Order ultimately met its end in 755 KC in the wake of its catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Wytbridge. Falling prey to its own internal politics, infighting began among the disparate factions that had arisen in the decade following its establishment, largely divided between two camps. Hundreds died during the initial fighting, and many thereafter in the chaotic aftermath of the Order's overall route.

Little remains of the Order of the Bloodied Crown, save for the bloody legacy left by its surviving members, and the echo of an idealistic future it had once stood for. Many of its surviving members have taken to new life-paths; as mercenaries, bounty hunters, hedge-knights or warlords, known colloquially as '*Fallen Knights*' or '*Blackshields*'.

## **History**

### **Conclave of Horean**

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* Established following the complete and total collapse of governance in the Northern Realms by survivors who had fled south fleeing the Blight, it gathers to its banner a great many displaced knights and noblemen/women who seek to retake the Northern Realms and push out the beasts and warlords who have flooded into the vacuum.
* Under the command of a 'legendary figure', the Order marches north replete with over a hundred knights, and five times as many armsmen and women.
* Establishing themselves in the fortress-city of Farenhal after defeating the deranged cannibal-lord who had taken residence there, returning the city to its former glory, as a beacon of what could be achieved through their campaigns.
* Several more victories are scored as the warhost makes its way further northward, pushing all the way into the heart of the Northern Realms, to the banks of the river Uradyne, where they score a major victory against an alliance of petty warlords and rogue sorcerers who sought to check their advance.
* The campaigns of the Order begin to stall, as the exigencies of the endeavour start to show themselves, and tears in the orders unity begins to appear.
* On the precipice of achieving their greatest victory, factions within the Order work against each other, leading to a defeat during the Battle of Wytbridge.
* With much of its higher echelons either dead or missing, much of the order tears away, splitting down this factional faultiness, shattering the Order into a multitude of pieces.

## **Notable Members**

* **Lord Mariax Thalocar** -
* **Lord Hrethric Sturren** -
* **Lord Arl Hengest** -
* **Lord Leander Vivres** - Among the 'traitors' to the order, though absent during the Battle of Wytbridge, Leander possessed a deep set hatred of his lord and commander, Mariax Thalocar; considering his posting and position as regent of Farenhal as an exile in all but name. To that end, when the Order collapsed, Leander closed the river crossing to those survivors loyal to Mariax, either taking them into his own company, or face the steel point of his archers.
* **Sir Lyonel** - Formerly a member of the Order of the Bloodied Crown, Sir Lyonel has since forgone his lands and household, taken to the roads of the Northern Realms as a 'Hedge-Knight', with the aim of keeping the ideals of the Order alive, no matter the cost. He plies the roads and byways of those benighted realms, helping the common-folk where he can.
* **Dame Alfwen** -
* **Sir Conrad** - Leader of the religious sect based out of the Chantry of Saint Orelia, hunting for the 'Child'.
* **Nicholas Caldemyn** -

## **Order Relics**

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* **Chronicon Magna**