Kingdom of Wroat

Distance allowed Breland to develop in ways that were distinctly different from the other human nations. While each of the human settlements that eventually became the Five Nations took root in the rich land surrounding the Scions Sound, the ancestors of the Brelish nation felt confined along the shore of the Brey River. The original settlement, built near where Aruldusk stands today, was quickly abandoned and its people moved south, following the river until they found a site that pleased them.

The original nation of Wroat grew up around what is today Vathirond.

The frontier nation didn’t stop there, however, and soon those within the settlement who wanted more open space and more freedom continued to move south and west. It was about 2,400 years ago that Breggor First King led most of the pre-Brelish settlers to fertile fields where the Howling and Dagger Rivers converged and established the nation of Wroat. Meanwhile, as the humans of the Lhazaar expeditions landed on Khorvaire’s eastern shores and migrated inland, one of Lhazaar’s most powerful lieutenant’s struck out to map the southern shores of the new land. With four mighty warships and more than a thousand warriors, Malleon explored the coast of southern Khorvaire. Along the way, Malleon earned the name “the Reaver” as he plundered the settlements of goblins, gnomes, and lizardfolk he discovered.

Then, about twenty-five years after Lhazaar first led them to this new continent, Malleon sailed into the Hilt of the Dagger River. When Malleon first set eyes upon the ancient city on the bluff, a city that would eventually grow to become the greatest in the land, he knew that his days as an explorer and pirate had come to an end. Malleon and his loyal warriors conquered and enslaved the goblins and erected a fortress atop their ancient ruins. What was once *Duur’shaarat* and would one day be Sharn now belonged to Malleon. He named the place *Shaarat*.

For six hundred years, Malleon, his warriors, and their descendants built Shaarat into a powerful and wealthy city on the bluff overlooking the Hilt. By this point, Breggor First King had established the nation of Wroat some 500 miles north along the Dagger River. It was inevitable that the two settlements would come into conflict. Breggor wanted Shaarat for his own, but Malleon’s descendants refused to yield. The siege of Shaarat lasted for almost a year before Breggor ordered his wizards to destroy the place. Shaarat fell, but Breggor claimed the ruins and renamed the city Sharn.

Over the next eight hundred years, the towers rose and the city grew, becoming the second jewel in the nation of Wroat’s crown. The glory of Sharn was lost during the last days of the War of the Mark, when the remnants of the aberrant mark forces took refuge in the City of Towers. Rather than fall before the onslaught of the armies of the pure dragonmarked houses, the leaders of the aberrant mark forces destroyed themselves and their followers in a display of arcane power that left Sharn in ruins. The city remained abandoned for more than five hundred years until Galifar I ordered Sharn to be rebuilt in 35 YK so that it could serve as the southern bastion of his newly united kingdom.

The old kingdom in the area now known as Breland. The city-state of Wroat was originally founded around the year -1,500 YK by Breggor First King.

In –1,402 King Breggor First King of Wroat destroys the rival city of Shaarat, asserting his power over the region. He eventually rebuilds the city and renames it Sharn.

King Breggor III was king of Wroat during the time of the War of the Mark. Leading up to the dragonmarked war, his reign oversaw a series of bitter conflicts between Wroat lords. In this time the houses were expanding their whispering campaign against aberrants, and House Deneith was expanding its operations in Wroat. Deneith promised to support Breggor, but first he had to rid himself of his aberrant and excoriate champions. Breggor ordered these champions to be sent into an ambush on a now-forgotten bridge over the Dagger River. Halas Tarkanan was among the excoriates sent to their deaths that day. Breggor found his kingdom the primary battlefield of the War of the Mark, ending with Halas's death in the destruction of Sharn.