Description

Shortly after The Great Cataclysm, a human tribe of seafaring raiders arrived on the north-western shore of the continent. Sova Medvedov, their chieftess, had loaded the entire population of her tribe onto their ships after the eruption of Inferno Mountain had made their home island uninhabitable.

The tribe first made land near the walls of Teristraz, which would soon be besieged. As a nomadic sea-raiding tribe, that would fish and pirate along Kildars coast, the Medvedov tribe relied primarily on the sea to sustain their people. Unlike the land-based civilizations of Kildar, who suffered greatly from the cataclysm, the humans were relatively unaffected.

The Siege of Teristraz is considered by many the start of the Medvedov Conquest and with it the Medvedov Rule. After it fell the city became the capital of the Medvedovian tribe.

For 32 years Sova, nowadays called Sova Medvedov the Conqueror, used a combination of diplomacy and trade to bring large sections of Kildar under her rule. Cities who had been struck hard by the Cataclysm desperately needed the resources the ever-growing Medvedovs could provide.

Oftentimes large cities and towns, especially those belonging to the proud and long-lived races of Dwarves and Elves, were allowed to keep their individual forms of government as long as they submitted to Medvedov rule and opened their cities up to others within Medvedov territory.

When a city or town refused to willingly submit the consequences were harsh. These cities and towns were razed to the ground, their fields salted and their names erased from every map and record. Sova Medvedov's rapid and astonishing success is often attributed to the chaos and instability following The Great Cataclysm, though even her most erstwhile contemporary detractors note her quick wit and supreme martial skill.

In the year 32 RKC her son, Leif Medvedov, would succeed her after she died in the Siege of Auryn. It is said that after Sova's death, Leif tore down every building in Auryn and used the materials to build the massive Palace in the centre of Torrica, though no records remain to either confirm or deny it.

Leif Medvedov would work for another 21 years to unite the entirety of Kildar under Medvedov rule. Especially the nomadic Orc tribes of north-eastern Kildar, which is also known as the Orc-lands, proved hard to subdue, as they had not suffered the same cataclysmic damage as the larger settled societies. It is said they only submitted to Medvedov rule after Leif Medvedov personally outdrank every Orc chieftain in a two week long gathering of the Orc tribes.

Afterwards, Leif Medvedov called representatives and rulers from every corner of his domain to his newly constructed capitol of Torrica, where he had himself crowned as the King of Kildar. He is therefore known as Leif Medvedov the First. The crowning is generally considered the end of The Medvedov Conquest and the start of the Early Medvedov Era.

Significance

The conquest of the entirety of Kildar not only truly united the continent together for the first time in recorded history, the Medvedov strategy of unilaterally demanding and redistributing resources significantly hastened the continents recovery from the Cataclysm. It is believed that several cities which still stand to this day would have succumbed to the chaos of The Great Cataclysm if they had not joined the Medvedovs.

Aftermath

Consequences and outcomes resulting from the event.