The Kingdom

The Kingdom has gone through many phases over the campaigns in the Adventures in Eden setting and they will be described along with their history below.

## The Early Ages of the Kingdom

The Kingdom has never held a name and this was something that's been held in place since it's inception, most great groups of people have held territories and united clans or tribes like the empire in **Ushigan** but none of those took the title of a kingdom, then a group of nobles in **The Lonely Isles** decided to unite a few families with a single mediator who will end decision-making stalemates between them, this is how The Kingdom was born as **Old King Dorian** who was the only noble without an old family backing him decided to step forward and take the throne of The Kingdom. In these early days of The Kingdom, it was more like an empire than they thought with a group of nobles as their senate and **Old King Dorian** would make all final decisions as their emperor, this would all change in the next phase of The Kingdom.

## The Real Ages of the Kingdom

The Kingdom was a bit too much like an empire due to how they treated a group of nobles as a senate between the people and **Old King Dorian**, unfortunately, he didn't have the hunger for power a true monarch required so on his death his son leapt forward to claim the crown, becoming the first true monarch of The Kingdom but also the first half-elf leader of the mainly Human, Dwarven and Half-Orc kingdom, **High King Green-Blade** took The Kingdom down a more aggressive path and wanted to expand The Kingdom beyond the limits of **Blyecliff** and into the outer areas of **Old Ohria** and **Riftlands** so they could have the power that The Kingdom deserved in his mind. He successfully integrated the **Riftlands** into The Kingdom using his elven heritage to hasten plans to create an alliance in which the elven tribes of the area agreed to join The Kingdom if their nobles could hold land in the other areas within The Kingdom, these Riftland Plot Agreements were essential and the changes to the agreement over time is what would eventually cause friction with the elven tribes of **Riftlands**. Unfortunately, **High King Green-Blade** would die during an expedition with his army into **Old Ohria** to try and establish his version of The Kingdom there.

**High King Green-Blade** was liked by many, sadly, he dismissed the Noble Senate in the capital of The Kingdom, he never found a noble enough wife to his liking as a result of this and left Eden unmarried and without an heir. This led to **False King Grayface** a dwarven smith who was the only one to return to The Kingdom after the last king died in **Old Ohria** and due to some odd laws in The Kingdom this meant that he would take the throne, this is what gave him the name of False King, at this point he moved the capital of The Kingdom to **Ustengrad**, an ancient dwarven stronghold, assuming that he'd be attacked at some point by the elven tribes once they learned of his reign. Oddly enough, the elven tribes preferred the rule of **False King Grayface** who reformed the Riftland Plot Agreements so that elven nobles could have farms and own pieces of property that give them a source of income like a bar, pub, or brewery instead of the old agreements which only let them own domestic villas and not own anything that could, as **High King Green-Blade** put it, "steal the jobs from good people of The Kingdom". **High King Green-Blade** managed to take the area of **Old Ohria** by communicating with the races of the area, which are Orcs, Firebolgs, Kenku, Humans and Tortles, and finding agreements that suited them, unfortunately the peace wouldn't last for long as the Orcs in **Orkrath** wanted control over the southern regions that belonged to the other races, this resulted in the Humans of the far south in a land, whose name is now forgotten, to attempt to resurrect a dead god from **The Plane of Ice** but like most of these attempts it resulted in an outburst of tempest energy which ruined the land leaving it a ruined desert that is often moved by storms which make the geography impossible to map, this area then became the **Burnt Fields** and buried any mysteries and magic that used to rest there.

**False King Grayface** was eventually overthrown by nobles who reinstated the Noble Senate and sat one of their own of the throne, **High King Ragnar**.

## The Noble Ages of The Kingdom

**High King Ragnar** was brutal and used his power to reign supreme, and almost as soon as they placed him on the throne, the Noble Senate was destroyed and **High King Ragnar** hired legions of mercenaries to hunt them down, nobody enjoyed this, not the people of The Kingdom or the Noble Senate who were being hunted down by the mercenaries of the king. This is where the lone island of **Ulgar** comes into play; a family of Half-Orc blacksmiths known as the **Silverblood Nobles** made their way from **Ulgar** to **Ustengrad** to work for the **High King Ragnar** and craft weapons for his mercenaries, assuming for some reason the family of Half-Orcs were blessed by some deity of the **Forge Domain**. The family did not like working this way and decided to put their weapons to better use by secretly supplying a rebellion headed by the elven nobles in **Riftlands** who used the **Crimson Guild** to combat The Kingdom's mercenaries. Eventually they realised that **High King Ragnar** would never stop hiring mercenaries to hunt down the Noble Senate and anyone who opposed his rule so they decided, with influence from **Nyx, the Silent Mother** to make their way into the capital and slay **High King Ragnar**, a child of the **Silverblood Nobles** was given this opportunity, and as the killer of the king, he took his crown to become **King Hammerheart** the current ruler of The Kingdom.

## The Heroic and Late Ages of The Kingdom

The Heroic Age and the Late Age of The Kingdom are separated by a good few hundred years and an unknown amount of monarchs. **King Hammerheart** leads The Kingdom into the Heroic Age and this is where most campaigns occur except the **Eldritch Awakening Campaign** which takes place post-kingdom in the Late Ages when The Kingdom has relinquished control of the areas of **The Lonely Isles** and are struggling to survive without any organised rule and living in small settlements with advanced technology in the form of weapons from **The Steamworks** a creation of **The Amber Forge**. **King Hammerheart** made no huge changes to the agreements of The Kingdom to other areas but instead expanded outwards to try and take control of the outer isles that exist around **The Lonely Isles**. This resulted in The Kingdom introducing laws that allowed them to enslave Dragonborn and Yaun-Ti Pureblood refugees from the destruction of Draconia which occurred late into the Noble Ages.