Sulduran Unification

## Fall of Silduras

During The Calamity, a plague of seemingly magical origins swept through the human kingdom of Silduras. Included in the victims were many of the nobility and the entire of the Sildur royal family. When the dust of The Calamity settled, no one family was able to exert control and influence over the entire nation. Dozens of Silduran nobility declared themselves independent monarchs. Over the years, the dozens of tiny states were consolidated into a handful of nations, each under the control of one powerful royal family, and the Corlester, Falkenried, Hale, Blackmont, Letharr, and Tavore kingdoms were founded. A small area of land on the eastern coast of the nation, called Seaspire, remained under the control of the Mayakara, separate from any kingdom.

## Elandoris' Conquest

Elandoris Tavore was born in a war camp in 400 AC when his father, King Keldoran Tavore, rode to the aid of King Aurelius Falkenried in the First Borderlands War against the armies of Arzak-Nath, and Queen Petra Tavore accompanied her husband as the administrator and chief quartermaster of his war camp.

In 418 AC, King Keldoran died suddenly, leaving Elandoris to take the throne of the Tavore Kingdom. The young king, however, set his sights higher. In 421 AC, King Cassius Falkenried, Aurelius' son, was wed to Elandoris' elder sister Mylaina, sealing the alliance that Keldoran and Aurelius had begun to forge. Shortly after the wedding, Elandoris and his brother-in-law began plans to reunify the human kingdoms under the name *Suldura*, a bastardization of the original *Silduras*. Cassius agreed to give up his crown and become the Margrave of Falkenried in exchange for an expansion of the Falkenried borders.

In 422 AC, Elandoris and Cassius began their campaign of conquest. Together, the two conquered the Blackmont, Hale, Seaspire, and Letharr Kingdoms over the next four years. Three of the vanquished kings surrendered and were allowed to remain in power as Graves beneath Elandoris. King Daemon Letharr, however, was unwilling to surrender his crown, and so was executed and his daughter Meshayle married to General Danvar Malkin.

Of the conquered kingdoms, only Seaspire fell without a single casualty. After the capture of Hale, Arch Magus Verin Lestronne traveled to Elandoris' war camp and personally negotiated with him in a secret meeting. The details of the meeting are unknown, but ultimately, Verin gave up any claim to monarchy while the Mayakara were still permitted to operate as a semi-independent entity and Elandoris agreed that each King of Suldura would choose a Mayakara advisor.

## The Crimson Campaign

In 429 AC, King Elandoris returned to war, engaging in a six-year campaign that would come to be known as the Crimson Campaign. Fighting once more alongside his friend and brother the Margrave of Falkenried, Elandoris led his armies in a series of small-scale conflicts across Suldura, putting down minor rebellions, wiping out marauding bands of mercenaries-turned-bandits left over from the War of Unification, and instilling order in the new nation.

## The Corlester Pact

The last of the human kingdoms to join Suldura was brought in peacefully, in the 451 AC Corlester Pact. While Elandoris was still king at the time, the pact is generally credited to his son, Maxidan, who arranged a marriage between King Morden Corlester and Maxidan's sister, Princess Roselle, convincing Morden to join the kingdom as the Grave of Corlester in exchange.