Prieska

Prieska is a country that is independent of the neighboring Atlantis Empire for a long time. People from Prieska are known to be stocky, good riders. They have a heavy accent and a peculiar sense of humor that others didn't quite get. Prieskan leaders have sworn blood oaths to lay aside their disagreements and band together when summoned by the wielder of the clansword.

## History

### Age of Battle

In -455 Tz: The Kos tribe emerges in Prieska. A strong human warrior tribe called the Kos dominates all of their Prieskan neighbors. Led by fearless Warrior-Priests, thousands of conquest-driven Kos warriors enslave the other human tribes, believing it is their destiny to conquer all of humanity.

### Age of Princes

In -162 Tz, Civil war erupts among the Kos. In the early spring, after a series of Warlords decided they wanted their own chance to rule the world, the Kosian Empire is torn apart from within. Territories that will one day become Prieska, Khamsin and the northern territories secede. Temanor is beheaded by his rivals, and his royal line is ritually sacrificed one after the other in a day-long ceremony. Temanor’s body is spirited out of the city by his faithful Draconum wizard, and interred in the depths of the Black Pyramid. By the end of the year, the western Kosian Empire has shattered into a hundred warring states.

### Age of Chaos

Sometime before 419 Tz Sarah Ythlim, a daughter of one of Khamsin's trade-princes, tried to make a fair regime in Prieska but Karrudan ruined all that she'd built up there. She formed the Black Powder Rebels after Prophet-Magus Karrudan connived the wreckage of she’d built in Prieska, and the death of her father, which gave her a personal score to settle with the voice of Tezla.

434 Tz was a stunning year for the Orcs of The Fist. As a new Orc leader, Kzar Nabar (a kzar being a leader of many tribes), rose to power after defeating many of the tribal leaders in death challenges, his deal with the Galeshi peoples to provide them scouts and black powder weapons in exchange for swearing to never lead an attack against their people was a monumental event. Led by Galeshi scouts through the Blasted Lands, Kzar Nabar sacked Prieska, nearly toppled the Citadel of Luxor, and even threatened the great Atlantean city of Rokos. As result of his success in attacking the Atlantean homeland, Prophet-Magus Osiras ordered the armies attacking Khamsin to be recalled back to the Atlantean capitol, costing the Empire a final victory over the hated Revolutionaries.

After the massive invasion of Prieska by Kzar Nabar’s war-horde, and the eventual collapse of Nabar’s army after his death at the Battle of Rokos, a number of the Orcs that came south decided to remain in their conquered lands, for the time being making their home in the sacked Prieska. These Orcs, members of the Shadow Khan tribes, broke centuries of Orc tradition, and earned the enmity of those traditionalist Orcs – the Broken Tusk – who believe that all the loot taken from a season of raiding should be returned to The Fist and divided through trial of combat. By avoiding returning to the Fist, the Shadow Khan tribes earn the enmity of their Broken Tusk brethren who see the break of tradition as an evil and despicable act, but yet make for themselves a second Orc homeland along the western edge of the faltering Empire.

Sometime during Omens, the Shadow Khans were chased out of Prieska by Raydan Marz and the Order of the Crescent Sword. Since then, the Order fights to free all the lands of their conquerors.

***Orc Raiders***

1. ↑ Rebel Thunder (Bill McCay), Chapter 18
2. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-2.0-Card-Set-Relics.pdf
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5. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-2.0-Card-Set-Adventuring-Companies.pdf