Lords of the Cruth Lowlands - Vaults of Pandius

History of the Cruth Lowlands
Chardastes is the High Priest of Achelos,
returned through a time travelling device
to save his kingdom.
Orcish tribes found the Kingdom of
Othrong in the territory of the modern Five
Shires.
BC 992 Battle of Volaga River: Halav
defeats the Beastman king Flahgr. He dies
in the battle, but is raised by Queen Petra.
BC 980 Zirchev settles in the Turnwood,
studying polymorphic magic there for a
decade. He creates new magical wards to
prevent ill-intentioned magic users from
exploiting the powers of the high magic
point. He also uses the powers of the
Turnwood to awaken a group trees,
transforming them into Treants.
BC 950 The last Gnolls are driven away
from the Traldar lands, but the Traldar
population has dropped to 20% of the prewar
level.
The Dark Age
BC 938 Fall of the Kingdom of Hindon at
the hands of the Orcs.
The Vandar tribes migrate from central
Darokin to the Five Shires.
BC 933 The Vandars, northern raiders
that had taken part in the Hindon wars,
invade the Cruth Lowlands. Due to the
massive damages wrought by the Gnolls in
that area, they find no opposition. More
Vandar tribes will enter the Traldar lands
in the following twenty years.
BC 900 Achelos is partly rebuilt, though it
is only a small town by now. Vandar chiefs
who have married into the Chardastes
dynasty rule the area, with their ancestor
divinized as the local patron Hero.
BC 870 Zirchev becomes Immortal under
the patronage of Ilsundal.
BC 850 Zirchev, now an Immortal, returns
to the Turnwood to create the first Chevall.
Since the Vandar settlement and the
unrest in the Hinhome endangers the
Turnwood and its odd inhabitants, Zirchev
turns some of his local followers into
Werewolves, and entrustes to the the
protection of the Achelos woods, as well as
his relic, the Wolven Head.
BC 800 The Traldar population rises, and
the Traldar mix with the now sedentary
Vandars.
Halag is founded around this time by a
Vandar tribe.
BC 743-610 The Time of Heroes in the
Hin lands. Many Orc clans leave the Shires
and settle in the western Cruth Lowlands.
Among them are the Blackstone Orcs and
the Jagged Claws. This forces other,
weaker clans such as the Broken Hammers
and the Rotting Snakes to resettle further
east, between the Magos and Gustos
rivers.
BC 612 Nob Nar, a Hin adventurer, kills
the Vandar baron Ulstagh of Halag.
BC 609 Hin restoration led by Gunzuth the
Clanless is completed.
The Rise of Traladara
BC 500 The fusion of Vandars and
Traldars has brought to a new people, the
Traladarans. The Cruth Lowlands,
however, keep their own cultural traits --
stronger Vandar traditions, and the reemerging
Sons of Night. The cults of
Chardastes and Zirchev are also more
common than those of Halav and Petra.
BC 491 Goblinoid hordes fleeing the
Sardal Pass take refuge in the Cruth
Mountains, becoming a long-term threat to
the Traladarans. The Greyslayer orcs and
the Cruth Ogres settle in the Cruth
Lowlands.
BC 308 Trinkla, a young magician, steals
the Black Opal Eye from the Isle of Lost
Dream while the Seer of Traldar is absent.
She flees to the Blight Swamp, seeking the
secrets of Zirchev’s power, and becomes
known as the Black Seer.
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