Frundel

## Before going East

Frundel was twin brother of Nior, but second to see the light when born. As the second born, Frundel mostly lived in the shadow of his brother, less loved by the people of Karandrir. However Frundel was not obligated with the tasks of succeeding his father Diuran, he was made captain within the armies of Karandrir. He showed great potential as a leader, and was therefore very well respected among the soldier of the city. At the young age of 25 Frundel is said to have lead a defense of the city against a horde of angry dragons. Frundel is believed to be a great master of spear fighting, catching the eye of a young Kul who would later equip his sentinels with spears of power in remembrance of his older brother.

Frundel would often lead hunts for daemons that plagued the city, disappearing often from the city for weeks of months. King Diuran respected his second born but never thought of him as a great ruler but rather as a man with great knowledge of battle.

## The departure of Karandrir

Around the age of 35, Frundel was set out by his father with the task of making a great kingdom in the eastern plains, a region the dwarves had never visited much and new little of. However the king thought Frundel to be the most fitted for this task to search the unknown. Frundel accepted his father request even through he didn't knew how to settle in the open plains.

From all who set out from Karandrir, the most soldiers followed him and the least amount of civilians. His entire following set out on 8 Great ships at the western side of the Lake of Five. sailing over the lake as one to the eastern arm of the lake where they would continue on foot

## The travel east

On the second day of sailing over the Lake of Five, the 8 ships were attacked by a great sea serpent that appeared from the depths of the lake. A battle with the beast started, in which Frundel lost of his ships that sank to the bottom of the lake. Most of those that sailed on the vessels that sank drowned or were devoured by the serpent, only a handful were rescued. The battle ended after a fight of five hours where the weather over the lake turned ill going from grey to a thunderstorm. With the help of Larand, a sorcerer and lieutenant of Frundel's followin, Frundel jumped out of his boat and struck down the beast with his spear that at the moment it his the creature was hit by a lightning strike guided down by Larand on the spear of Frundel, slaying the serpent.

The rest of the journey with the boats remained a difficult one, as they lost one other boat in the storms that raged over the lake. With only half the original force Frundel set foot at the east side of the lake following the most eastern arm of the lake on to the plains that laid ahead. They would wander far and long until they reached the eastern coasts of the continent, but the lands were bleak and so they decided to go south following the shores downwards until they reached the peninsula east of the the Galandring mountain range. the land was better for harvest here and so Frundel descided to settle and try and raise a kingdom here.

## Trying to settle on the peninsula in the east

Founding a kingdom was difficult as no great forests were near but for one in the southern part of the peninsula. Havesting did go well luckely as the ground was more fertile compared to the land north of the peninsula. But the lack of minerals they would normally find in the mountains laid Frundel to make a descision. He send his lieutenant Larand west again in search of minerals the had mist to further found their kingdom. (Before the expedition west, very slow trade happened with Karandrir, what laid at the other side of the continent. Most traveling goods would not even reach its destination)

The expedition force set out west, following the shoreline up again, quickly stumbling on a mountain range that would be known later as the Galandring. The travels from there to the peninsula was short and easy for the the dwarves started to mine the mountain quickly gathering the materials they so desirably needed, growing Frundels newly founded kingdom (what was still very small compared to Karandrir, and the other realms of Nior, Kul and Elaendel). But the finding of the new materials came at a price, as goblins and orcs sound the mines of the dwarves conquering it for their own and slaying many dwarves. Larand and those that survived the battle with the creatures fled , but were cut off by orcs that forced them south on the shoreline before they could not reach the peninsula.

For a long time there came no news back to Frundel and he feared the worse, so he marched out with a force to the mines in the north of the Galandring and met the host of orcs and goblins upon its slopes. A gruesome battle it was with much death, in which Frundel's forces showed a better strength but lacked numbers to drive back the enemy. It was in a moment of dire need when Frundel his spear broke in battle after fighting two days without rest that from the shores a small host joined the battle. Larand and those that had survived had waited for this moment to join their king in battle. With the help of Larand, Frundel killed the orc king with the broken spear, causing the rest of the orc and goblin force to retreat.

In the aftermath of the battle Larand spoke of his hiding at the banks of a river more south, the river Frundel would name after his courageous Lieutenant. However the battle remained a defeat for both the dwarves and the orcs, and Frundel demanded them to retreat to the kingdom on the peninsula to regroup and strengthen once again.

## The end of Frundel and the demise of the kingdom

In the following years of the battle there was peace mostly, but soon the peace would be broken as resources became once again a problem for the kingdom and revolts became something that happened often, holding the kingdom back from growing. However the thread of a couple years back appeared again, as a great host of orcs marched upon the kingdom and laid siege to it, breaking its foundations and ruining it. The battle was eventually won by Frundel, but at a cost so great they had to go back to the mines they had once abandoned if they wanted the kingdom to last.

Many men and women volunteered to leave the city for the mines in the hopes of a better life than in the city where materials were such a large problem. So a large host set out under the lead once again of Larand, recapturing the mines and founding a small fortress south of the Larand river, a small fortress that would become thousands of years later known as Alderion.

Meanwhile the kingdom of Frundel was being rebuilt, but a final disaster struck him. A great way floated eastern shores drowning and destroying that what remained of Frundel's kingdom together with him.

In the years that followed the followers of Larand went back to the city only to find out the disaster that had happened, deciding to live in the bog lands south of the Galandring.