Order of the Crest

Nycolas

Grey Hammers

*"We are the knights of peace, order and stability we are eternal, Oggoria will not fall!"* - Askrasil

The Order of Crest is an order of knights who preserve peace and order across Oggoria and have been renowned across the realms as the greatest and toughest warriors ever to grace the universe, the Order was also founded by the protector of Oggoria who is Akrasil and is the High King of Oggoria and leader of the Order.

## History

### Founding of the Order

After making the realm of Oggoria, Imir would create his own protector for his realm in case it may get attacked for its resources and this protector would be called Akrasil who at the time was not a High King but knew he needed more help to protect the realm from people like the Grey Hammers who were terrorising the realm at the time. To do this Akrasil would round up some of the toughest and skilled combatants he knew of and put them to the test to train them, after training a certain few of them they would be given armour and branded as the first knight of the Order of the Crest, not long after training these soldiers Akrasil knew that he needed a place for these soldiers to sleep and train from and began construction on Angarth Fortess which was a sub fort from Whitmore Palace for specifically the Order of the Crest. With the fortress being constructed Akrasil would then armour his men and began their assault on the tribes of Grey Hammers that they would come across, alongside this campaign the Order would also stop smugglers from Tepexus who were stealing resources from Oggoria for their own needs, with both these actions happening from the Order they would be seen as heroes defending the realm from any threats there was.

### The Realm Wars

With the Order at its peak being seen as heroes by the people of Oggoria they would be put to the test as the god known as Fedos and his dark army would begin invading Oggoria which began the realm wars between the realms as an act of war, the Order would suffer many casualties as they were heavily outnumbered and they were really the only true warriors the realm had to offer, it would be in the form of the Buccaneers of the Vortex to be their saviour helping them against the dark legions which just managed to stop the realm from certain doom. After repelling the threat in the initial stages of the wars the Buccaneers would stay and help Oggoria with Akrasil deciding to become the first High King of Oggoria and now build up a regular army and not just the Order. Not long after their battle Akrasil would find out about Tepexus being invaded as well by Fedos' armies and so decided to team up with them and battle against Astalas, however Fedos would not be alone having the realm of Isalon at his back the war would begin to grow and become a war across the entire universe. For inter realm travel the Buccaneers would be paid by Oggoria and Tepexus to give their armies passage into the other realms which allowed the two realms to now go on the offensive instead of constantly defending themselves.

The realm wars would last for a whole 10 years and the Order of the Crest would suffer heavy casualties leaving them with little warriors left and it would be thanks to Eadrenia to stop the war and broker peace between the realms.

### Aftermath

Now that the war was over the remaining members of the Order would be seen as heroes across the universe despite their depression over losing so many of their members which left them to somewhat retire to Angarth Fortress for quite some time because of this, with this happening the realm of Oggoria suffered a lot with the Grey Hammers once again raiding villages and the Buccaneers of the Vortex raiding merchant ships on the coast. Akrasil with overwhelming complaints from the people would eventually come back to his throne to summon the remaining knights and once again regain control of Oggoria by stamping out the criminals that seek to leave it in ruin, to this day the Order is now trying to recruit members and also trying to keep the peace within the realm whilst Akrasil watches over the entire realm making sure another invasion does not happen.