Divine Royale

The Divine Royale was a ~170 year long war that was fought between the **Wolf of the East**, the **King of the North**, and the **Raija of the South**. It was a mass wrestle for control over the continent

Centuries before the Divine Royale occurred, there were kings and queens that had risen and fallen-but for quite some time, Bahlmorea was completely split with no official ruler. The most powerful houses of the land signed an alliance known as Initium Fraternitati to encourage an age of peace between their principalities. They eventually formed into the **Great Houses of Bahlmorea**, a council of powerful landed nobility.

Through generational expenses and debts, growing political power over the Great Houses was held by the Three Drakes-three powerful landed siblings of nobility who owned lumber and mining companies, landed armies, banks, and other ventures. They were known as the Crel Du Leon family, the seat of their power being the cliffs of the peninsula that would eventually become the city of Sidon. Their exertion of control slowly expanded outward into the continent as they procured more wealth. A great many owed money to the them-they were powerhungry and most of importantly, particularly shrewd with money.

The family forced The Great Houses and in turn, everyone from the peasants to the nobles, to pay high taxes for the use of their infrastructure i.e. mines for ore, quarries for stone, forests for lumber; refused to send their knights to the aid invaded Houses in debt. As this went on, resentment began to build as debts piled. People faced abuses from roaming knights. Skirmishes between the houses began. As tensions rose, a terrible famine swept through Bahlmorea, killing thousands. The catalyst. When one of the siblings was assassinated by the daughter of Baron Rhywn of House Gascoigne, war was declared.

Great Houses scrabbled for their allies as infrastructure fell apart, money lost, resources burned, and villages decimated in the mad dash for power. The famine left half the continent weak and ravenous for a scape-goat. The remaining surviving members of the Crel Du Lion, allied with the South through marriage, called for their aid as fighting pressed on. The Southerners sent their army but were blocked at the Throat by Northeastern forces and by the time their armanda arrived in the Bay of Whales, they were too late.

Twenty years into the war, the remaining members of the Crel Du Lion family were dragged from their fortresses and hanged. The members of the ancient royal family that had a part in starting this war were all gone and still, fighting was renewed. Now it was a fight for legitimacy to the throne. The Southern Raja Krisha, nephew of the Crel Du Lion family demanded the right to their seat but was shortly killed after he took it. Eventually, nobles and barons from all over were claiming a right to the seat. Many even forgot what they were fighting for.

Eventually so many were dying that crows blackened the sky after battles to scavenge on the countless bodies that were not removed. It was said that over four million people died in the 170 years of fighting and the last battles were fought around 50 years ago in 0 AW, or 0 After War.

   It was fought all over the continent, with many battles centering in/around Broadreach and in the eastern end of the northern continent.

It has been 50 years after the war and there are many survivors and veterans from the battle with the scars and missing limbs to prove it.