Editing Past Campaigns (section)

== [[The Proeliad]] ==
The Czar of [[Kovorov]] finally went too far. In the years following the rise of Radovan Raze and the Crimson Storm, life in Kovorov grew difficult. Gorlov the Unbreaking sent his army to crush the insurrection in Ramiborg in the summer of 704 AR. The battle was bloody but at the end of the day, Ramiborg raised the white flag and rejoined the nation.

Through the years, Kovorov built itself back into a formidable military force. Spurred by fear and anger, the nation’s people swore they would never be attacked that way again. However, this fear mongering created yet more fear.

The Tiefling Tribes in the Northern Reaches found their request for self governance rejected. Gorlov tolerated envoys and emissaries from the tribes, allowing them a greater presence in the nation, but refused their ultimate goal. The [[Races|tieflings]] asked for a charter to build their own city in the far north. Gorlov rejected their request. They asked for a permanent fort to protect them against undead and creatures that preyed upon them during the polar night. Gorlov rejects this too. Eventually the tieflings raised a meager coalition and began building their own nation at a place called Wyark’s Fang. The great mountain would be home to the new tiefling city of Horn. Gorlov rejected this as well by sending an army of two-thousand Kovorovian soldiers. They burnt the city to the ground, scattered the tieflings, and issued a final warning: Kovorov would never be fractured again. 

That warning was issued in 707 AR. For years afterward, relations with tieflings and the people of Ramiborg only soured. There was growing discontent within the nation as the health of Gorlov the Unbreaking began to fail. Even holy emissaries of [[Vorov]], like Saint Veragaul, departed from the nation.

Sensing this weakness, guard outposts and industrial centers were attacked. The Kovorovian government blamed tieflings, Ramiborg secessionists, and leftover members of Radovan’s Dracul. The tieflings denied any involvement by simply saying that they hadn’t the motivation anymore to attack these places. There was nothing that could be done for them in [[Kovorov]]. However, [[Vorov]] demanded action from his old Czar. They did not want a repeat of the Crimson Storm incident.

Gorlov identified that magic was the problem in the nation. Kovorov had grown weak due to the presence of crazed magic users who spread the inherent corruption that magic provided. In 714 AR, the Czar issued the Sorcerer Accords which outlawed the use of any primordial or low magic within Kovorov while requiring users of high magic to be registered. Users of primordial and low magic would be incarcerated due to the danger they posed. Since many were natural users of these types of magics, it was thought that almost fifteen percent of Kovorov’s population would see the inside of a jail cell. 

A festival was held on the 67th of Breocht to celebrate the purification of Kovorov. This would be known as the Carnival of Knives. As the celebrations drew to an end, the legendary figure Ivan Belski flanked by Helmuth von Graz and a strange Gith known as The Hunter entered the banquet hall.

Ivan called upon Gorlov to cease the Sorcerer Accords and grant independence to the tieflings. For the final time, Gorlov refused peace. After this, Ivan challenged the great warrior to a duel. When asked why he would give this challenge, Ivan’s answer was simple.

“I shall not stand idle.” It was the last thing Ivan Belski, founder of the Oric Mendakin, said before he drove his blade into the heart of Kovorov's Czar. Despite Gorlov’s age he was still blessed by [[Vorov]] and thought to be unbeatable. Stories about what happened next vary. However, all of them end with Ivan Belski slaying Gorlov with a single swing of his sword. 

After this the assassins made their escape out of the city. They took every tiefling and elf they could find with them as Karjakin descended into chaos. Immediately, the leaders of the Orics sent riders after them but they were stopped as the largest Zamoro storm in a generation fell upon Karjakin. Somehow Ivan and the others were able to escape through the storm. 

By the first days of summer, Ivan and his party of followers, numbering about four-thousand, had arrived at Dalekingrad. A series of near misses and close calls followed them the entire way. With the blessing of the city’s Material God, Zorya, the group made their way inside the walls. It was not long before Kovorov learned of their whereabouts.

On the first day of spring in 714 AR, [[Vorov]] had named a new Czar. This new Czar, after securing control of their nation, created a strike force to follow Ivan. It was not long before more than four-hundred Kovorovian troops, led by Saint Byaz, stood arrayed outside the walls of Dalekingrad. They gave the city five days to capitulate. If they did not, on the sixth day, the Kovorovians would storm Dalekingrad. 

At midnight on the third day, Ivan Belski called a meeting with the Material Goddess of Dalekingrad and many high ranking officials of the city. What was said in this meeting is unknown to all but those who attended. 

The next morning, at daybreak, the strike force saw the gates of Dalekingrad open and a small procession advanced a few paces beyond the city. In the early morning light, a flag of black and gold flew above the walls of Dalekingrad. Ivan Belski was crowned Kaiser of Dalekingrad. The Material God of the city, Zorya, bent the knee before the awestruck Kovorovians and the eyes of the world. Nobody could understand how such a thing occurred. The new Kaiser entered the city’s walls once again. 

It has been a week since this event shocked the world. The Kovorovian strike force has remained outside the gates of Dalekingrad as the Czar has sent an additional two-hundred soldiers and Saint Martha as reinforcements. The already outnumbered defenders of Dalekingrad nervously await their Kaiser’s next move.

But in this time of great turmoil, Ivan Belski called for you…

You have been called into the Kaiser's new meeting hall to hear the homily that will alter the course of history. In attendance stand witnesses to something new. Belski shall not stand idle. The world is about to change as the chorus sings of the wrath of Ivan. The Proeliad begins...