That is a really fine summary of things from 1617 to 1620
and I'd like to thank you for it.
I am going to keep this very paragraph as a reference for
my game later, since my players are now adventuring in southern Heortland, too.
"Jeff Richard" <richaje_at_...> wrote:
> Heortland has long been an embarassing "Blank Land" -
> which has allowed people to fill it with
> the Aeolians (really, they are just in the cities and in the south)
> or otherwise ignore the core Heortling land of the Third Age (they
> didn't stop being Heortlings with the Resettlement).
>
> Beginning in 1617, Heortland goes through a tremendous amount of
> turmoil. King Orngerin dies without an obvious successor and Rikard
> the Tigerheart and his Seshnegi took over southern Heortland and
> proclaimed it the "kingdom of Malkonwal". Broyan of the Volsaxi
> used that vacancy as an opportunity to be crowned High King of the
> Hendreiki by the remnants of the old Larnsti Brotherhood. Meanwhile
> at about the same time, an huge eruption of scorpion men from the
> Print controlled by Queen Gagix Twobarb (between 5,000 and 15,000
> scorpion men at the height of the Queendom of Jab) devastates
> Gardufar - the traditional core of Heortland. After the central
> Heortlendings are exhausted beating back the worst of the chaos
> invasion, the northern Heortlendings (the Volsaxi and those loyal to
> the High King of the Hendreiki) and southern Heortlendings (the
> Esvulari and those loyal to the King of Malkonwal) are too weak and
> too disunited to put up much resistance to the Lunar invasion in
> 1619-1620.
>
> Jeff
>