"...[name] stood in the [name2] Hall, a hundred peers watching from the galleys above. She called her Provider's name, and all could feel the power she commanded. [name3] summoned his wards, but all that watched knew his efforts were in vain. The next name she offered was his, and the misery of [name3] was legend."

translated from Dekàlan fragment
found in ruined Ildûn

Nurumwar Gurm (Horned Kingdom) [Archaic]

• Overview
• Landmarks
• People
• History

In 964 HK, the ancient kingdom of Nurumwar Gurm disappeared from eastern Teréthor.  Pre-dating the Old Empire by thousands of years, the Dwürden kingdom was the last eastern holding of the Horned Kings.  The Tor'n Evalshat and Gorgyn once were home to several Dwürden cities connected by a network of stone roads and tunnels.  In addition, the kingdom once included coastal towns along the "Warring Coast" where ships might bring and carry their wares to distant ports.  Today these places sleep beneath the snowy mountainsides of the great peaks.  Some are open to intrepid adventures seeking treasures left behind by the retreating Dwürden, while others haved remained sealed and hidden for hundreds of years waiting for their builders to return.

Nurumwar Gurm was one of thirteen Dwürden kingdoms that consistuted the Horned Kingdoms of Teréthor.  Each kingdom was run by a separate king whose crown would descend patrilineally to the eldest eligible son.   In most respects these kingdoms were ruled independently, without influence or advise from their neighbors.  In matters of grave importance, the kings would send representatives to form a Council of Fathers to discuss matters pertaining to all.  The forum is not appropriate for matters requiring expedited resolution as it can take years for messages to travel and return from all of the Horned Kingdoms, and then additional time for emissaries to travel to a designated meeting place, and then even longer to discuss and come to conclusion.  The Dwürden of the Horned Kingdoms are renown (by Dwürden views) to be great diplomats, but by most standards their processes and rituals are excruciatingly slow.

Landmarks

Krysurgörnn remains one of the oldest structures standing in greater Taldàna.  Once a hold of the Nurumwar Gorm, it was invaded in the Spring of 964 HK by the Tarmar Ort who took the keep by a frontal assault.  The Ortori chieftain Varak required the keep to protect his retreating armies from Yzelesk of Borr, who having raised a great Ezmiran army was persuing the Ortori raiders across the rolling lowlands.  Details of the event are not clear, for the followers of Guum, Lord of Krysurgörnn, were never seen again.  It is imagined that Yzelesk wished to trap the fleeing Ortor between his own forces and those of Krysurgörnn, but when they reached the Dwürden keep the Ortor were waiting, and in full control of its walls.  If Guum did survive the attack of the Tarmar Ort he did so miserably, knowing his father's shield (Shield of Argum the White), which he coveted, was forever out of his grasp.  Yzelesk's army tried but could not take the keep and so to the dismay of eastern Ezmirans, returned to Boronon.  Varak's armies looted all they could from the keep and retreated to the mountains.  In Borr, Yzelesk was welcomed as a hero, but in many places of Ezmir he was seen as allowing the Ortori menace to live, so that they might raid the lands again next year.  For this reason he was seen in subsequent years as a pawn of Taldàna, and less and less an Ezmiran hero.  An equestrian statue of Yzelesk stood at the left side of the Gate of Boronon until 219 DR when it was pulled down during the Battle of Boronon.  Since that time, the keep has hosted a number of temporary residents.

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People

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History (Nurumwar Gurm)

The Nurumwar-Tamar War manifested following centuries of skirmishes and low scale warfare between the Dwürden and the Tamar Ort of Tor'n Evalshat.  During the time of Argum the White, the Ortor were kept from Dwürden holdings, and few tribes had the numbers to organize raids into the lower Uren lands.  This control was maintained by a long and ruthless campaign of division and slaughter, led by the warrior king Argum who sought to reclaim his ancestral mountain lands.  Argum was very successful in securing his kingdom, and failed to completely drive the Ortor menace from the region.  After his death around 785 HK, the Horned Crown came to his only son Guum.  Guum had lived a good life, surrounded by the security and luxuries afforded by the tireless efforts of his father.  He did not remember the time, hundreds of years prior, when the Ortori numbers had been great in these lands.  He did not see the cowed and sparse populations as a threat to his people.  During the next two centuries of his rule the Ortor were able to regroup and and repopulate.  In 946 HK, the son of Kuthak, chieftain of the Tamar Ort was invited to Kalthar to learn arcane arts at the hand of Lady Sadirah, the ruler of that land.  Lady Sadirah knew of the Ortori plight and their wish for revenge upon Nurumwar Gurm and offered a deal with the young Ortor.  She would have him trained in the arts of Uren magic and aid him in his battles against Nurumwar Gurm in exchange for a portion of the legendary treasures said to lie within the great Dwürden halls.  Lady Sadirah's full motives in this pact are unclear though the lands of Kalthar (and today Kalthoram) remain free from Ortori raids.  When Varak returned to the Tamar Ort he took with him three Dekàlan advisors.  Their identities were concealed to all but Varak because if Lady Sadirah's treachery was revealed, the Treaty of Evalshat would be forfeited, a breach that might disrupt relations between the Horned Kingdoms and all of Dekàlas.

The war began officially with the attack of Kry [...] in 962 HK.  This assault, though repelled was a wake-up call for the Horned King Guum.  The attack however was preceded by a large number of minor skirmishes against Dwürden holdings throughout the region, carefully orchestrated to look disorganized and give the Dwürden a sense of confidence against incompetent foes.  During this time, the Dwürden knight generals were swayed to agree with their King that the Ortor served no threat.  In fact, the skirmishes were used to test the Dwürden reactions and strengths.  When they clairon rose that Kry [...] was under attack, many failed to respond promptly and the battle was almost lost.  Even this battle is believed to have been a test, for historians believe that the Ortor could have pushed harder against Kry [...] and breached its ancient walls.  The battle also stands out because it is the only conflict in the war where the Ortori assault were not complimented with arcane weavings.

As the tide of war changed, King Guum blamed his failures on the lack of his father's shield, the Shield of Argum the White, which he credited with giving his father military insights.  Despite his wishes to retrieve the shield from his father's tomb in Krysurgörnn, no soldiers dared disturb the great warrior king's crypt.

Following the fall of Numurwar Gurm, the war continued into the Ezmiri-Ortori War (964-966 HK).

In the end, King Davan II of Oth learned of Lady Sadirah's plot too late to repair the damages done to the Dwürden kingdom.  The Ortor had firmly established themselves in the Tor'n Evalshat and taken residence in the great and ancient city Bâragor.  In the spring of 964 HK, a caravan of wagons was intercepted by the King's forces, the Lady Sadirah's among them.  Her escape thwarted, she was brought before the Iron Throne to answer for her actions.  She was imprisoned in the Dagwùrddunjùn for the rest of her life, and the treasury of Kalthar was opened and emptied, leaving the region destitute.  The treatment of Kalthar following the Nurumwar-Tamar War spoiled the region's attitude toward the Old Empire.  Kalthar was one of the first regions to splinter from the Othic city-state during the Second Acentran-Dekàlan War.  Some go so far as to suggest that the Kalthère may have helped the Acentrans plan their invasion.

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