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FACTION LEADER: KING ALFRED
AS THE DOMINANT ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOM OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND, THE FORCES OF WEST
SEAXE – OR WESSEX IN MODERN ENGLISH – PROVIDED THE ISLE’S PRIMARY RESISTANCE
AGAINST THE INCURSIONS OF THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY. FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF
WINCHESTER, WESSEX CONQUERED LANDS IN SURREY, SUSSEX, KENT, ESSEX AND EVEN
MERCIA. ALFRED’S DOGGED DEFENSE OF THE DANISH INVASION LAID THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
WESSEX TO UNITE ENGLAND UNDER ONE RULER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 927 AD.
FACTION LEADER: CEOWULF
FROM ITS CAPITAL CITY OF TAMWORTH, THE KINGS OF MIERCE – KNOWN NOW AS MERICA -
RULED THE AREA NOW KNOWN AS THE MIDLANDS. AT ITS HEIGHT, MIERCE STRETCHED FROM
NORTHUMBRIA IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND TO KENT, SUSSEX AND WESSEX TO THE SOUTH. IN
877 AD, THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY SEIZED THE EASTERN PART OF THE KINGDOM TO FORM
THE DANELAW, OR EAST ENGLE.
FACTION LEADER: KING FLANN SINNA
MIDE LIES AT THE HEART OF IRELAND. NOT JUST GEOGRAPHICALLY, BUT POLITICALLY,
INTELLECTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY. MANY HIGH KINGS HAVE RISEN FROM MIDE, AND ITS
CURRENT RULER, FLANN SINNA, ASPIRES TO THAT TITLE.
WITH MANY FELLOW IRISH FACTIONS NEARBY, MIDE IS IN A POSITION TO POTENTIALLY
BRING THE DISPARATE CLANS TOGETHER, AND USHER IN AN ERA OF IRISH PROSPERITY.
HOWEVER, THREATS ARE NEVER FAR AWAY… THE VIKINGS OF DYFLIN HAVE SETTLED TO THE
EAST, AND THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE ARE GROWING. WILL MIDE STRIVE TO KEEP THE
UNEASY PEACE? UNITE THE CLANS IN A WAR AGAINST THESE NORSE SETTLERS? OR FIND
SOME OTHER ROUTE TO SUPREMACY?
FACTION LEADER: ÁED MAC CINÁEDA
CIRCENN WAS IN ORIGIN PICTISH, BUT BECAME MORE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE GAELS
AND OTHER PEOPLES OVER TIME AS THEY WERE DRIVEN AWAY FROM THE RELENTLESS VIKING
RAIDS. 878 AD MARKED THE END OF THE VIKING INVASIONS, BUT CIRCENN’S TROUBLES
WERE FAR FROM OVER. WHILE SHE HAD A FIRM HOLD OVER THE EASTERN COAST OF
SCOTLAND, MANY THREATS STILL EXIST – BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
SCOAN, THE CAPITAL OF CIRCENN, WAS ONCE HOME TO THE LEGENDARY STONE OF DESTINY,
SAID TO BESTOW DIVINE STRENGTH ON HER PEOPLE. WHERE THE STONE NOW RESIDES IS A
MYSTERY, BUT IF CLUES CAN BE FOUND, SURELY THE STONE’S RECOVERY WOULD BE AN
ADVENTURE WORTH UNDERTAKING…
FACTION LEADER: KING ANARAUT
THE PEOPLE OF GWINED HAVE SOME CLAIM TO THE TITLE OF 'TRUE BRITONS', HAVING BEEN
DRIVEN TO THE FAR WEST BY INVADERS WHO NOW CALL THEMSELVES ‘ENGLISH’. RENOWNED
BOTH FOR THEIR BARDIC ARTS AND THEIR SKILL WITH THE LONGBOW, THE WELSH OF GWINED
THRIVED UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF RHODRI MAWR.
RHODRI KEPT GWINED LARGELY FREE OF VIKINGS AND OTHER INVADERS WHILE EXPANDING
ITS BORDERS. NOW HE IS GONE AND HIS LANDS ARE DIVIDED.
FACTION LEADER: RUN
STRAT CLUT IS A KINGDOM OF THE OLD NORTH THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE FIFTH
CENTURY AND THE CELTIC BRITONS. THE REALM WAS FORMERLY BASED AT THE FORTRESS OF
ALT CLUT BUT DRIVEN OUT BY A VIKING INVASION IN 870. THE CURRENT KING ARTGAL WAS
TAKEN CAPTIVE AND REPORTEDLY KILLED IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. THE KINGDOM
REFORMED FURTHER INTO THE VALLEY OF THE RIVER CLYDE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HIS
ONLY SON RUN.
FACTION LEADER: GUTHFRID
WHEN THE VIKINGS ARRIVED IN NORTHUMBRIA IN 867 AD, THEY TOOK THE CITY OF YORK –
OR EOFERWIC, AS WAS – FOR THEIR STRONGHOLD. AND WHAT A BASTION IT WAS, WITH ITS
FORMIDABLE ROMAN WALLS STILL STANDING STRONG 700 YEARS ON. KING AELLE OF
NORTHUMBRIA ATTEMPTED TO WREST THE CITY BACK FROM THE DANES, BUT WAS CAPTURED
DURING THE ATTACK. IN RETRIBUTION FOR AELLE’S EXECUTION OF THEIR FATHER, THE
SONS OF RAGNAR MADE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM WITH THE HORRIFYING BLOOD EAGLE RITUAL.
NORTHUMBRIA REMAINED UNDER VIKING CONTROL AND, AFTER THE BATTLE OF EDINGTON AND
THE SUBSEQUENT TREATY OF WEDMORE, A PORTION OF THE GREAT VIKING ARMY MARCHED
BACK TO NORTHUMBRIA, TO SETTLE UNDER ALFRED’S PEACE.
FACTION LEADER: GUTHRUM
FORMING THE BULK OF BRITANNIA’S SOUTH-EASTERLY COAST, EAST ENGLE WAS THE
STAGING-POINT OF THE GREAT VIKING ARMY’S INVASION, AND THE REGION WHERE MANY OF
ITS WARRIORS SETTLED AFTER THE BATTLE OF EDINGTON. UNDER THE RULE OF THE DANISH
LEADER GUTHRUM (OR ÆTHELSTAN, TO USE HIS ADOPTIVE NAME BY ALFRED) IT WOULD
ULTIMATELY COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE DANELAW.
YET STILL, SOME FIGHT REMAINS IN THE DANES OF EAST ENGLE. ONE DOES NOT SHED THE
MANTLE OF GLORY AND BECOME A LANDSMAN OVERNIGHT.
FACTION LEADER: BARDR
DYFLIN WAS A MAJOR PORT TOWN ON THE EAST COAST OF IRELAND, AND THE SITE OF
BRITANNIA’S LARGEST SLAVE MARKET. IT WAS A MAJOR SITE OF VIKING OCCUPATION, AND
WAS RULED UNTIL 873 BY THE VIKING LORD IMAR, OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH IVAR THE
BONELESS, A SON OF THE LEGENDARY VIKING WARLORD RAGNAR LOTHBROK. VIKING RAIDERS
HAD WINTERED THERE AS EARLY AS 840 AD, SO THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH THE REGION HAD
BEEN A LONG ONE, AND OVER TIME THEIR CUSTOMS BEGAN TO TAKE ON A MORE GAELIC
FLAVOUR AS THE SLOW PROCESS OF INTEGRATION TOOK ITS COURSE.
BY 878 AD HOWEVER, IMAR’S SON BARDR WAS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE. WOULD
THIS AMBITIOUS VIKING RULER SEEK TO SEAL A LASTING PEACE WITH THE SURROUNDING
GAELIC FACTIO
