Kingdom of Anterra

> We are not of Dawnstride. Ulfgan did not invade this land, nor have any Dawnstrider. We are Anterran, people of a new land that we clawed from scaled hands.
>
> King Ater Dawncaller, Believed Speech following his Ascension as King

The Kingdom of Anterra is a kingdom of Thrunvol, found within Anterra of Therae. The Kingdom had existed since its formation in the year 429 following the invasion of the region by members of the Kingdom of Dawnstride, who then formed a sovereign Kingdom.

Its current ruler is King Grior Strongrest.

## History

### Apart of Dawnstride

#### The First Dawn War

Years 336-341

With the settling of [To Be Confirmed], Dawnstride would once again begin to build a central home of itself off the backs of its slaves. At the same time, east of this settled the pride ruled by Chief Danval Dawncaller, cousin of Chief Druthgan Dawnstride. Not fond of any challenges to his power, the now ageing Druthgan Dawnstride led an invasion upon the Dawncaller territory. The first war between Leonin Prides since long before their unification.

Vastly outnumbered and outmatched, the Dawnpride quickly pledged themselves to the Dawnstride Pride. Seeing himself as greater than all, Chief Druthgan Dawnstride declared himself King of all Leonin kind.

#### Forming of the Knights

Before any Leonin had step food outside of the Great Sands, the recently formed Kingdom of Dawnstride set its sights of Anterra sat on the opposite side of the Lion's Mane as a place for its expansion. With this in mind, the Knights of Divination were formed, with the goal of gaining a foothold within the region for expansion to begin from.

#### The Leonin Arrival

Years 400-428

As the Drak'Harth returned from their invasions into Aolwyn, still struggling in the wake of their leaders death, the Knights of Divination passed through into their land. Neither Leonin or Dragonborn had ever faced one another, and had the Drak'Harth been in their prime the Knights of Divination may have fell upon their arrival. However, the Drak'Harth were crumbling. Those in charge each vying for power, their troops struggling to form unified strategies, and Leonins acting ferociously with haste and without fear.

Despite small numbers, the Knights of Divination took a substantial portion of the North-Eastern region of Anterra, bordering the Lion's Mane.

#### The Dawncall Conquest

Years 421-428

The Dawncall Army led by then Commander Ater Dawncaller. This army would swiftly take hold of the northern region of Anterra, where the vast Ebro Planes stretched between the various mountain ranges. This was quite familiar to the landscapes of the great sands.

The Leader of the Drak'harth, Empress Kimera Sunshield attempted to use the forested environment further south as a barrier from further expansion. Leonin's were unfarmiliar with such nature, however their newly taken slaves of the Hadozee were born in much wilder terrain. A legion of Hadozee, pushed forth through the jungle. Manoeuvring above the Drak'harth lines, they made openings for the Dawncall Army to push in

With this, the Drak'harth surrendered to the Dawncall Army and the Anterran Region was apart of the Dawnstride Kingdom.

### The Kingdom of Anterra

#### Anterran Sovreignty

Year 429

Following the vastly successful invasion of the Anterran Region by Commander Ater Dawncaller, many began to treat him as a king. His achievements within the war were great, and those who he led had full confidence in his leadership. Alongside this, his once enemy Kimera Sunshield, pledged her sword towards that who she believed was the greater fighter and in doing so Ater granted her the remaining Knights of Divination as her own.

With the continued worship of Ater Dawncaller, and with the Dawnstride King not yet stepping foot within Anterra, Ater sent out an envoy to the king to inform him of their success and to declare rule over the **Kingdom of Anterra**.

#### The Dawn War

Year 429-432

Cousin rulers, Ulfgan Dawnstride and Ater Dawncaller, were now on opposing sides of the Lion's Mane. With the declaration of of their sovereignty Dawnstride attempted to sent troops into Anterra to take back his newly lost land.

##### Death of the first Anterran

It was quickly realised that the forces of Dawnstride were not experienced with the vastly different terrain compared to the Anterran troops. Realising this, King Ulfgan challenged King Ater to single combat. A Leonin tradition, unable to be denied when a equal or higher ranking Leonin challenges another. Ater accepted, and travelled to the Lion's Mane to fight. Here, Dawnstride troops would kill King Ater before he ever faced the Dawnstride King.

King Ulfgan Dawnstride claimed the death of King Ater was caused by a misunderstanding of his forces, which caused his challenge to never be fulfilled.

##### The Draconic Queen Rises

Following the death of their King, many Leonin's arose to take the throne. Kimera Sunshield, once ruler of the Drak'Harth and current leader of the Knights of Divination would take the empty throne, following the Leonin rules of new ascension to retain support. Though many believed this was not right, she had favour of the now dead King which no other suitor could say for themselves.

##### Ending the War

Kimera Sunshield had faced Leonins in war, and she had lost to them. With this, she allowed for those who served under former King Ater Dawncaller and who aided in their victory to take lead of the armies. The war was already favouring Anterra and while the death of their King had been a set back, Anterra stood firm. After multiple failed battles for Dawnstride, they stopped pushing across the Lion's Mane, ending the war in silent surrender.

#### The Next king

Year 433

Following the end of the war against the Kingdom of Dawnstride, Anterra was able to breathe. In the quiet, the questioning of the rule of Queen Kimera Sunshield came into question.

> We slew hundreds of Scaled foes when we took this land, and they killed just as many of ours. Late King Dawncaller was undoubtedly great, he led us... fought side by side with us... then spat at our false King who did nothing. But... he let the ruler of those Dragon bastards live and we let that Dragon bitch rule us. We Leonin's shouldn't bow to them, not after we crushed them all...
> I pledge my sword to a man fit to rule us, Commander Deos Fullrider, I expect all true Leonin's to do the same... and all that don't to expect blood.
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> Commander Maldar Dawnchild, The opening speech at the meeeting of the Leonin Truebloods

A group, the Leonin Truebloods, were formed in opposition to the idea of any other than a fellow Leonin from ruling. The group was formed from many from the Anterran military who used Kimera's allowance for commanders of the military to guide its forces as an example that she was alike King Ulfgan Dawnstride. The group would rally many forces, with much of Anterra's military siding with them. Queen Kimera Sunshield and the Knights of Divination fought strong against their adversaries, with Queen Sunshield being executed and the Knights of Divination seemingly disbanding with her death.

Following her death, King Deos Fullrider took over Anterra. The leader of the Leonin Truebloods and a decorated commander.

#### Forming of Arkval

Year 444

Up until this point, the Draconic city of Throstmiir had been used as the capital city of Anterra. King Deos saw this as a disgrace, that anything that the Leonin people themselves had not made would ever be treated with such generosity. He chose to move the capital in the centre of the Ebros Planes, at the source of the Ebros River. This city would be known as Arkval.