Zethal Kingdom

Though it's borders are not certain it is thought that the Zethal Kingdom is in the area that is now Tishla and Vador Duchies.

A written summary of what the archive has on the kingdom of Zethal.

*Written 86-87 Lythurnian Standard by*

Official writings say that King Halzurth inherited the kingdom at the young age of twenty 23 after his father died of illness and his elder brother was killed putting down a rebellion. Within the first month of his coronation he married  the most beautiful woman in all of his kingdom, Drethalza. It is said that the two were madly in love.

We have found texts that implicate King Halzurth in the rebellion that resulted on his brother’s death and writings that suggest Halzurth poisoned his father.

The kingdom of Zethal was neither a power nor a kingdom to be trifled with. It had many forts to defend its borders and well made roads between them. Archaeological finds suggest they had some magic though not to the extent of Lythurn currently. It had rivers and well cultivated farm lands.

Thanks to historical findings I have come to the conclusion that the fall of Zethal was the result of many factors, had these factors not already been a death song for Zethal then King Renard the Conqueror may not have been able to form Lythurn so quickly and efficiently.

Lythurnian scholars claim that it was the Zethal’s investment into their defensive structures that allowed King Renard the First the ability to strike fast at multiple locations. Zethal had no ability to react fast and counter the Lythurian sieges.

The truth, as i’ve found is much more than the propaganda of the Lythurian Historians.

Truth 1) Zethal did have two full companies of heavy horse that never left their forts to support the defenses.

Truth 2) King Halzurth had gone mad, to what degree I am uncertain.

Truth 3) Many towns and cities in Zethal began to rebel once the Lythurn army was close.

I have written accounts that claim that King Halzurth’s late wife, Queen Drethalza, was haunting him and it was this that drive him mad.

One detailed account gives reason as to why he went mad. The unknown source claims that Queen Drethalza fell pregnant very early in her marriage to King Halzurth but she lost the child late in the pregnancy. She never again fell pregnant again. Due to this the king took others to bed... many others. When one young women of appropriate rank fell pregnant King Halzurth attempted to kill his wife using the same poison he used on his father.

Though Drethalza fell sick she survived and became even more beautiful than before. The king had multiple attempts at her life, one of these the assassin ran her through with his blade, and yet Drethalza survived once more. Days before the birth of his child to this young beauty Halzurth put aside pretence and had Drethalza hung, yet she did not die. When she did not die he had her burnt, her screams lasted until the wood and burnt itself out but still she remained.

King Halzurth lied to the people and said she had been burnt at the stake for witch craft (the witch craft may have been true, though it was not why he tried to kill her, nor did she die).

King Halzurth remarried the day before his child was born, a healthy baby boy, technically not a bastard and theirfore heir to the throne.

The boy died on his second birthday.

Not long after Halzurth claimed he was being haunted by his wife, which wasn’t literally true for she never died. He had her buried alive in the crypts below his castle.

The source claimed that Drethalza had taken two years to dig out of her crypt, that she was so hungry she had eaten the bones of those in their and after that roamed the halls of her castle at night torturing her husband, and killing his next three wives while they slept.

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