The map is about an old war between The Alliance (swadian/rhodok) and the Nord kingdoms (aka Vikings; not the nords of Calradia).
The Alliance was formed many year ago by a Swadian champion, who later unified all the land of Calradia. The war between the Swadian and the Rhodoks ended in a negotiation and it ended in a marriage: the Swadian champion and a Rhodok lady. For them it was the beginning of new great future, but for the sarranids, the vaegirs and many others it was the beginning of the end.
Soon all land was torched, the sarranid queen was killed by her own vassals during the night after many defeats and losses against their "new" enemies; the nords had time to retreat to their lands while the Alliance eyes were on the sarranid, but the vaegirs and khergits weren't so lucky, soon all of them had been either killed or disbanded around the continent. But this led to the start of war parties, entire vaegirs and khergit clans/families who worked together to survive stealing food and weapons and sometimes they even had to eat the enemies bodies because of the lack of food. The Alliance destroyed an enemy, but created one even worse, a enemy who cannot be defeated, because even if they killed a khergit/vaegir clan another would be stealing somewhere. It got worse when assassins and bandits started to join those clan.
But the Alliance had no time to worry about that. They started to explore the northen regions outside Calradia and had to fight against the Nord Kingdoms and savages in the unmapped lands. Always showing military superiority with their crossbows and huge walls. But it was going to change, in the summer a massive nord army came, most of the nord kingdoms joined the campaign to retake their lands by force.
In one of the sieges, the nords built an entire wooden fortress in a cliff and they called it Skadi fortress, while their objective was in the other side of the river, the city of Silex. The nords launched many assaults, the most important being the day when they killed the Alliance prince in his first battle as ruler of Silex, the Skadian nords celebrated with the news that the enemy prince died in battle with his shiny plate armour.
Weeks of siege became into months, months became into years and years into decades, until Skadi had became a full city. Some kind of truce was stabilished between the Skadian nords and Silex soldiers, even with the war going on, one needed the other for food and goods trade. Families lived between the two sides of the river and even the outlaws weren't a trouble for the two cities working together. Soon the Skadian nords started to loose their identity, their once proud big wooden meet halls were being dismantled to give space to more houses, they started to wear Alliance cloths and drink their wine. Their dead aren't burned in the river anymore, now they bury them like the Alliance people do.
The cities drawn the wrong attention to their masters and they sent loyal soldiers and vassals in the place of the old ones. Will the peace be broken? Only the players may decide it. |