Chronicles of Nentsun

CHAPTER ONE: ANCIENT HISTORY

This Strange Engine

At the time of the Great Rain of Fire, there was, south-east of Thonia, a population known as the Nasuuan, of mixed Afridhi and Thonian ethnicity. The Nasuuans were a half-barbaric nation who survived by primitive farming and occasional barter. (3,000 BC)

Although Nasuua was distant enough from Blackmoor to survive, the axis shift resulted in a new position for the territory, who ended up located in the cold northern territories. The Nasuuans remained indisturbed in their territories for centuries, simply struggling for survival, living a semi-nomadic existance in a small and uninfluent corner of the planet. (3,000-2,500 BC)

However, Ierain Klee, a candidate to Immortality in the Sphere of Energy who had been a priest in late Blackmoor, saw these barbarians as the perfect subjects for his Testimony: he wanted to change them into a more civilized population, by the transformation of their cold and barren land. Klee had been a brilliant scientist, before converting to priesthood, and searched the ancient Blackmoorian Empire's lands hoping to find a power engine that he could use to warm artificially the lands of Nasuua. When he discovered the engine, he altered it magically, and then he created nine minor engines connected to the first, and put them in strategic areas of Nasuua. However, Klee was worried by the possibility that the engine could explode. He didn't want the Nasuuans to know the nature of the engine, because he didn't want technology to destroy Mystara, but on the other side, he had used technology, against his own believes, to help the population. (2,300 BC)

It's a hard road

It was no problem to accomplish his Task, as no high level cleric was present in Nasuua, after the technological delirium of Blackmoor. Klee had already completed his Quest, and his Immortal Patron, Simurgh, told him that the work with the engine had earned him success in the Trial. He had changed the lands of Nasuua...but to complete the Testimony, he had to recruit six apprentices. Klee took a long time before making his choice and taking his decision. He decided that these apprentices could understand and follow his footsteps, and care for the land. However, he didn't want to let them know everything. And he needed ten men, one for every device. Having become king of the unified Nasuuans, Klee left a land who had slowly begun its rise to civilization. He was intending to search carefully for the ten men, as he saw no worthy in Nasuua. Protected from aging by Simurgh, Klee wandered through the planet for decades, and found proud and honest men, devoted to their people. Claiming to be the messenger of the Immortals, Klee helped many tribes, villages, cities and nations, claiming as his payment the rule over them. In 1,950 BC, he returned to Nasuua, and brought with him entire tribes. Meanwhile, he had kept the chosen men in a perpetual slumber, and he had controlled the situation of the villages he "protected".

In the meantime, in Nasuua there had been several changes. The Nasuuans had grown, and they had begun to organize themselves in definite tribes, who often warred each other. The arrival of strangers was a hard blow to the peace of the region. Although most tribes and villages had begun to worship Klee as an Immortal, that was not enough to unite the populations of Nasuua into one land.

Klee saw this, and decided to use all his efforts to prepare the ten disciples to the task he had assigned them to. For the moment, the engine was not very active, and he could control it without great trouble.

Klee and his ten men travelled from city to village to tribe, taking control of the land, and proclaiming that he was their god, and he had to be worshipped. Then he ascended as the Immortal Nentsun, and left his ten disciples with the indications for the new organization of the land. (1,706 BC)

For the first, the name of the new land would change into Nentsun. A new name was needed, because Nasuua was the symbol of the main population, but created problems of integration with the other few groups; the name of their god, Nentsun, suited the purpose.

Secondly, the land was divided into ten duchies, each ruled by one of the disciples of Klee-Nentsun. At the time, the lands of Nentsun occupied a territory who was of about twice the size of current Karameikos. The population was made of about 30,000 men, 28,000 of whom were Nasuuans. The ten dukes controlled each a device, and with their intervention, the engine worked better, and the agricolture's productivity increased.

Caution Radiation Area

The situation remained stable for about five centuries. The dukes taught their heirs how to control the engines, and ruled more or less peacefully over the Nentsunians. The non-Nasuuans were soon integrated, and their influence on the local culture was very reduced. The population had risen to 74,000 when a danger came from the east: rakastas!

The rakastas were a nomadic and extremely savage race of feline humanoids. Led by their masters, the evil Rakshasa, and by an obscure leader known as Ghatotkaca, the rakastas came with their wakizashi of steel, and proved immediately too hard for the peaceful Nentsunians, who conquered the city of Vixen, capital of the central duchy in 1,212 BC.

During this period of war and desolation, nearly all the dukes were killed. The only two survivors, Alkyon and Jallaj, struggled to prevent problems regarding the engines, but unfortunately they were not strong enough, and during a new moon night of Flaurmont 1,201 BC, Jallai died consumed by the energies of the engine, and Alkyon, left alone to control the energies, was not able to stop them. The central engine, located in Vixen, began to emit radiations.

Alkyon fled south, because he knew what this meant. He fled to the mountains alone, and there he begun a secluded existance, praying that Simurgh and Nentsun hears his prayers of helping him to solve the radiation problem of his land.

In the meantime, dangerous radiations began to corrupt the population of Nentsun. Although the Nentsunians were only slaves of the rakasta, the radiations proved very egalitarian in the way they treated both. Children were stillborn, or were born crippled. Adults died of cancer. The only ones who seemed immune from the radiations were the rakshasa, rulers of the rakasta. After a couple of generations, the population had been halved, and no one knew the reason, because no-one knew about the engines, apart Alkyon, who, very old by then, still lived praying the Immortals in the southern mountains. The common idea was that it was a terrible disease, but clerical magic was unable to cure it. With the passing of time, the rakastas begun to think that it was the rakshasas's fault, as it was them who led them. They begun to think that the Immortals punished them because they had treated so bad the Nentsunian whom they had conquered, and it was to no use for the rakshasas to point out the fact that the humans too were dying.

In 1,149 BC it seemed that Alkyon's invocations had been listened to. A young man came from the south-western lands, a man known as Orcnad, who found his caverns and told him that a giant eagle Immortal had visited him in his dreams and told him to search for an old hermit who lived in the mountains. The Immortal had promised him to become king and lead a whole nation to a great victory against the enemies that oppressed their land.

Alkyon thanked gratefully the Immortals, and taught the young man everything he had known. He taught the man to reform the dukes of Nentsun, because only in this way the Immortals would stop to send the plague, and then he told him what was needed to control the engine. However, Alkyon didn't know that the engine caused the radiations.

Orcnad led a great revolt in Nentsun. His victorious move was to search the help of the rakastas, and in 1,146 BC the rakshasas were all killed or had left Nentsun. Orcnad was proclaimed Duke of Nentsun, and he reformed the other nine duchies, then asked the population to recognize him as king. He became the first King of Nentsun.

Soon, the radiations stopped, even if the consiquences of the radiations lasted nearly 500 years. And the Kingdom lasted for the same amount of time, while it expanded and the surrounding lands were settled by colonists, both humans and rakastas. The northern regions, where the devices worked, were called the Inner Lands, the southern, the Outer Lands. The population grew to 200,000 by the end of the millennia, and about twenty kingdoms were formed. Wars were fought, and peaceful and warlike settlers came from the east between 800 and 600 BC, belonging to the the human race of the Ursinians, descendants of a mix of Tanagoro and Afridhi. A new danger came from the southern mountains in the form of orcs and goblins. They appeared in the mountains around 900 BC, and in the following centuries they took possession of the unsettled hills and colder regions. In 632 BC, the orcs and goblins conducted a major invasion of Nentsun, destroying cities and putting an end to a couple of kingdoms. But the dukes and their heirs, who fought the hardest battle for the survival of Nentsun, managed always to resist in the lands of the Inner Circle, and Nentsun mostly thrived.

Wake up, set your sights

Around 350 BC, the orcs and goblins of the south begun a terrible civil war. Adventurers and fighters of Nentsun joined the warring tribes as mercenaries, and this led to increasingly good relations between hot-tempered adventurers, mercenaries and youths and the orcs. The goblins of Nentsun were completely annihilated, although some of them were transplanted in the Hollow World. The orc tribes that were allied with the goblins were pushed out of the hills and had to flee on the mountains, where they had to conduct a hard and miserable existance. Meanwhile, statal organizations were born in the lands of the victorious orcs, where the most adventurous humans settled too.

The orc-human kingdoms were unstable and warlike. They warred among themselves and against the southern kingdoms of the Outer Circle of Nentsun. In 123 BC, a half-orc king known as Glashow unified the city-states and baronies, and moved to conquer a big part of the Outer Circle. The central duchies and territories prepared an army to defeat Glashow, but unfortunately they were repeatadly beaten by the half-orc. Most dukes were killed, and Glashow marched triumphally in the capital city of Vixen. But his army, who had grown considerably since the beginning of his campaign of conquest, revolted under the leadership of his lieutenant Abdus. Chaos was spread in the conquered regions. And only two dukes were left, Kewd the Hawk, Duke of Weinberg, and Shrain of Vixen, although the latter was imprisoned in the tower of Abdus. Years of conflicts (and the radiation danger, although no one knew this) ended much later. Although Shrain died during the burning of the tower of Abdus, Kewd survived and managed to restore pace to part of the lands. Giving a central government to the Inner Circle, he was crowned King of Nentsun (113 BC). In the eastern conflicting lands, the Ursinians were able to restore peace, but most of the Outer Circle fell pray of brigands and orc bands. Moreover, in 94 BC the green orcs of the mountains descended to reconquest their ancestral lands, and the Outer Circle and the hill regions of the south (known by now as Glashow's Desolation), remained in chaos and unstability.

In the last century BC, Nentsun slowly recovered. The country remained mostly at peace, and no migration from other parts of Mystara came to change the status quo. The situation about 0 AC was of about twenty city-states and minor kingdoms in a region dominated by humans, but where orcs and rakastas (and half-orcs) were common, important and respected. It was in year 43 BC that Sanka the Hawk, descendant of Kewd, founded the Divine School of the Bear, devotd to form the ten masters needed to control the engine. No one remembered the existance of the engine, apart from the aristocratics, and the Divine School was open only to members of the ducal families and of other important aristocratic families of Nenstsun, but even they didn't know exactly why they protected the engines. It was a tradition, more than a duty, and unfortunately this would led to a cataclysm, the day the aristocrats in decline decided to ignore the traditions of the School. But this is another story...

CHAPTER TWO: WARCHILD

The situation of Nentsun around 130 AC was not very different from that of the last two centuries. Some cities had fallen, some new had risen, kings had died, and skirmishes had been fought. But in the northern lands of the Inner Circle, the Kingdom of Vixen was prosperous and rich.
The aristocratic families of the Inner Circle held the positions of Masters of the Divine School of the Bear, but with the passing of time, they had become less and less involved with the religious duties, that involved actively the worship of Nentsun and Simurgh, and had begun to ignore the meditations and practices needed to control the engines.
After some time, the radiation problem that had revealed itself in the previous millennium, manifested itself again. However, one of the Masters, who was, contrary to the traditions of the school also a cleric of Simurgh, received a visit from the Immortal. The Roc God told him that he had already seen two cycles of life destroyed in Nentsun (Great Rain of Fire, Rakshasa invasion): due to the Masters' incompetence, another cataclysm was imminent. To avoid this, Simurgh gave the only true Master, known as Kashang, one of his claws. This is the origin of the artifact known as "Claw of the Invincible Simurgh".

The Claw helped the Master in controlling alone the radiations.
Disgusted by the incompetence of the aristocrats, Kashang, Baron of Wolven, raised an army of Outer Circle mercenaries, and conquered the Kingdom of Vixen. Paying his mercenaries with lands and titles, Kashang reunified several kingdoms, and re-organized the engine control, creating another school of fighting, the Sacred School of Nentsun, to help the efforts of the Divine School of the Bear. He decided how to find the new members of the schools, and separated the link between aristocracy and heads of the schools. He told the population that the reasons for the prosperity of the land were the dangerous engines, that he called "Unholy Devices of Blekmur, things who caused the first destruction of an Empire in Nentsun" (this has caused the wrong belief, among the Nentsunians, that the Nentsun culture is directly descending from "Blekmur") (135 AC).

For a long time, it seemed that life would go on as it always had. The Kingdom of Wolven was a new reality that guaranteed stability in the region. The Wolven family didn't accept changes to the status quo, intervening any time a local skirmish threatened the peace in the region. However, these interventions became, with the passing of time, more and more oppressive, and the smaller nations begun to fear for their independence. The last straw was the intervention of King Rikyudy Wolven in the rakastan city of Zeshuita, where a Wolvenian diplomat had died, apparently for heart attack. Rikyudy, who hoped to intervene in the region, where a silver mine had recently been discovered, told the city to surrender to him, pretending that the diplomat had been killed.
Surprisingly, the city refused: the king of Wolven, enraged, put the city under siege. After three months of siege, he conquered it and had all the men and male children killed, and the women and females were sent to work in the silver mines. The city was burnt to ashes. Many other states, enraged by the brutal conclusion of the siege, declared war to Wolven (374 AC).

Death, war, famine, destruction, all were spread through the land. The Masters hid, to remain able to control the engines, and assured the survival of the country, but petty kings, warlords and brigand leaders fought each other through forty long years, until a man, who called himself Warchild (apparently he was born in 374, in Vixen, the day the war was declared) was able to stabilise the situation and re-organized (again!) the situation. This time, kingdoms of the Outer Circle were involved. Hoping to solve the problem with the creation of bigger states, he created a sort of theocratic Confederation, forming 12 states over the entire Nentsun region, and putting an end to the recognition of two Circles in Nentsun (411 AC).
To lead each kingdom he put the heads of the clerical orders who worshipped the 12 Immortals of the Nentsunian Pantheon. He proclaimed himself united war leader of the country, but divided the army in twelve groups, not directly linked to the territories: a general had control over divisions spread in more than one kingdom, so when he was dead, no general could take his position to try to gain the crown. The Silver Crown, symbol of the royal power of the Wolven kings, who had been the leaders of the land in the last centuries, was melted by the clerics of the Order of Fire (followers of Fire, an aspect of Rathanos). The Masters of the fighting schools had definitely lost any political power in this period, and in 453 AC the clerical leaders created a law that forbid any land owning noble family to have any of their member in the schools.

CHAPTER THREE: SONG OF THE WIND

Although the fighting schools were opposed to this law, because they had to find the children with the best potential to become Masters to provide the stability of the engines, they were able to accomplish their duties without particular problems. After some decades, as the clerical power dwindled, the current generals resettled their troops in the countries, carefully avoiding the theocratic intrusions, and ultimately they managed to enter in possession of the kingdoms. The recently formed confederation was split in twelve dominions already in 523 AC, and marriages with the noble families of the Inner Circle led soon descendants of the ancient families on the thrones. This leadership of the Inner Circle, however, resulted in malcontent and hostility in the regions of the Outer Circle, that were poorer and often left to their own, and subjected to taxes needed only to enrich the already self-sufficient northern territories. The noble families, moreover, changed the ancient confederated laws that prevented their members from entering the fighting schools.

The clergies of Nentsun, Simurgh, and of the Vixiferen (the five Immortal Guardians of Nentsun), whose high hierarchies and main temples were all in the Inner Circle, were corrupted and prone to the wills of the kings. The only result of the Warchild that still was visible was the tightness of the alliance between the leaders of the twelve kingdoms. However, the leaders of the churches of the Astral Forces (five elemental Immortals who completed the Nentsunian pantheon), who still lived in the Outer Circle, were independent and active as ever, and planned to change the situation.

The most determined of the leaders was Micael Scryv, Songdancer (high priest) of the Wind. He told that he had been visited in his dreams by the Immortal Nentsun, who told him that he was enraged with his unfaithful clergy. He told him to raise an army from the Outer Circle, conquer the city of Wolven (that represented, in the eyes of the Outer Circle inhabitants, the power of the hated Inner aristocracies), and speak in the name of all the Nentsunian pantheon.
This he did. He conquered Wolven and killed Alsun, King of Wolven, then he proclaimed the Outer Circle free of the Inner, and told that the Immortals of Nentsun wanted them to change, or the wrath of the gods would strike upon them to destroy the land (575 AC). The Inner Circle kingdoms' troops abandoned the Outer Circle, but this wasn't enough to end the hostilities among the two groups.

Years passed. Then the rage of Scryv came. He revealed himself to be an Avatar of the Wind, and sent a message to all the kings and rulers of the land, saying that he left them 60 days to stipulate peace with each other. All those who dared to disobey would be killed.
Most rulers laughed at his claims. But whatever was the truth, all rulers who disagreed, and they were not few, disappeared. All of them disappeared in their rooms during windy nights, the only trace being open windows in their rooms. Scryv himself was never found after the events, but the new rulers decided better to listen to his words. Since that they, Scryv has become another name by which the Wind is known in Nentsun (582 AC).
Minor skirmishes were fought, but Nentsun remained more or less at peace for about one and a half century. During this time, the School of Nentsun changed name into the School of the Southern Cross.

NOVA LEPIDOPTERA
One of the most curious, but unfortunately sad and disastrous events of Nentsunian history is the short appearance of the Nova Lepidoptera on Mystara (723-725 AC).
The Nova Lepidoptera's full history is not known, but they were gargantoid butterflies more than 30 meters long. Apparently, these intelligent butterflies arrived through space travel. Beautiful to the sight, a couple of these giant butterflies were sighted even by a Thyatian ship and a report where they were called "Nova Lepidoptera" (the report can still be found in some libraries with interest in biology and explorations in Thyatis and Glantri).

The creatures seemed to be pacific and tried to stay away of the bipedal settlements. Some adventurers organized hunts to the Lepidoptera, but they were shy and managed to hide and remain unseen probably thanks to magical abilities. However, the matter changed much when the first grubs were born. The grubs reached immense proportion and were not intelligent. Left on their own by the parents, they brought havoc to small villages, until adventurers, members of the fighting orders and mercenary troops decided to get rid of them. When the Lepidoptera finally understood what was happening to their little ones, they were enraged and a real war started among them and the humans. After two years, however, the few survivors decided to leave Mystara and sought refuge in space again. The sad aspect of the story is that apart some damage to the fields and the forests, the grubs hadn't harmed anyone. A careful intervention by sages, wizards and druids would maybe have found a solution, a compromise. Instead, wizards encouraged unscrupulous adventurers to kill the Lepidoptera to provide them with new materials that could be used in their researches, and druids went paranoid about the damages to the forests.

A LAST NOTE: A game: try to find out references to songs in the titles of my Chronicles of Nentsun. The one who gets more than two will receive a present...

CHAPTER FOUR: WE HAVE HEAVEN

Famine: how could it be? In the Outer Circle it could, as it was not protected by the Devices. So it struck that year, and with it came Plague, and with it came an orc invasion from the hills. The orcs hadn't have charismatic and efficient leaders since a long time, and they had warred against each other and against the half-orcish kingdoms of the southern Outer Circle. Many had crossed the mountains and attacked the Jennites, some had managed to be more dangerous, but no real organized attack had been planned before the war which their leader Hjka called Inheritance of Heaven.

Hjka was an orc born in 701, and was raised in the city of Jarka, a border community of orcs and humans in the southernmost kingdom of the Outer Circle. When the plague and the famine came, he was only 7, and the city of Jarka was soon abandoned by all. Refugees fled northwards, bringing with them the plague to new lands, but most of its inhabitants had died. Hjika himself was abandoned by his parents because he had been struck by the disease. The luck was on his part: firstly, he survived the disease; secondly, an orcish band, noticing the state of abandon of many of the southern cities, ignoring the reason for it, gladly descended from the hills to take possession of them. Many orcs were killed by the disease, but one of the many orc leaders adopted him as his son and told him how to fight. The orc was a cruel beast. He lent the youth to other orc warriors for their "entertainment", and lashed him every time the young orc couldn't accomplish one of the orders he received. Hjika became a bodyguard, a servant, a slave, hardly a son.
Hjika hated his stepfather. The only good thing was that he taught him how to fight...burning at the forge of hate, he became the strongest warrior of the band at 14 years, killed his hated master, and took the leadership of the clan. With stern determination, and a hate for the land that had abandoned him in the hands of those orcs which he hated as well, Hjika unified in a dozen of years all the major orcish clans of the hills under his iron fist. Then he moved to the Inheritance of Heaven.

What had happened in Nentsun between 708 AC, when the plague started in the south-eastern cities of the Outer Circle, and 728 AC, when the War for the Inheritance of Heaven started?

The plague had hit the land and had killed thousands. The famine in the Outer Circle had done the same. The country was struck by panic, refugees hit by the plague moved from city to city hoping to find help, but all they found was death. Armies were greatly reduced. The plague ended definitely around 715 AC. In those years, it had stopped and started again several times, so no-one knew whether this would be the true end...the country began to recover, and for the first time it was talk of a new democratic system of ruling, instead of the leadership of kings and aristocracies. Unfortunately, in 728 AC Hjika prepared his invasion.

It started all of a sudden from the southwestern lands. A great part of the Outer Circle had been left by its inhabitants, and that land was mostly abandoned and wasted. Hjika's orc bands had already occupied several parts of it to prepare the invasion.
It took a lot of time before the authorities of the various kingdoms understood what was happening. Although the situation had become much better and the population had begun to grow, contacts were few and the population sparse in the region. Hjika knew this. His aim was not to occupy all the land, it was just to kill as many Nentsunians as possible and then build a new kingdom for his orcs. When the other states of Nentsun managed to raise an army, Hjika pondered what to do. If he won, he could have Nentsun at his feet...but if he lost, it would mean the end.
Currently he held the possession of one of the best regions of the Inner Circle, that of Einikushagi, formerly settled by rakastas, all fled or killed during Hjika's invasion. Hjika sent envoys to the allied armies and sued for peace in change of the recognition of his authority on Einikushagi. The human leaders agreed. The rakasta leaders were enraged, but Hjika promised to free all the rakastas enslaved and captured by his troops, and the human leaders convinced the rakastas to accept (731 AC).

Hjika announced proudly to the orcs that "we have Heaven". But his savage orcs were not very happy to stop from the easy life of plunder and random destruction to devote their lives to agriculture and peace.
Hjika found more and more problems to control them, and although some ultimately accepted the situation, thinking that it had been an improvement, most didn't want to. First, they directed the irritation about their situations against each other: the old clan rivalries resurfaced, and Hjika found himself amidst a civil war of his people, who refused to obey a "friend of the humans" . Hjika sought the help of the other kingdoms: they told him that they would help him, they even organized an army, but their march stopped in Selemy, the neighbour kingdom of Einikushagi. Hjika, very nervous, sent several times envoys to ask why, but none returned. Finally, while his own fortress was put under siege by the victorious clan, an envoy from the Nentsun kingdom arrived, asking why he hadn't asked them to intervene. Hjika's fortress was conquered and the orc leader killed, then the army moved and destroyed all the rebellious orcs. Einikushugi was resettled by rakastas, but the orcs who had abandoned the savage ways were accepted in the area (738 AC).
By the way: the envoys had all arrived in Selemy, but they were all put to death or killed as rebels by the allied Nentsunian forces. They couldn't forgive Hjika for his victorious campaign of 728-31 AC.

CHAPTER FIVE: RECENT HISTORY

In the last two hundred and eight years, no major event shook the fertile soils of the Inner Circle, while the Outer one slowly recovered, and new settlers came to live there.
Came a clan of Shiye-Lawr elves who called themselves the Iliifari clan.
While most of the Shiye-Lawr elves who left Alphatia were directed to Norwold, the Iliifari thought it better to leave eastwards. Passing through Esterhold, they wanted to reach a place where no Alphatians were present. The Iliifari found the Outer Circle of Nentsun to be a good place to start their lives from again. Obliterating whole orc clans from the southern hills and forests, 1,300 elves made room for themselves in the Outer Circle (742 AC).
They were immediately befriended by the humans: the orcs' enemies were their friends, although they mistook them at first for a race of pale and frail humans. It took a lot of time for the humans to understand the difference between the two races, and there was misunderstanding in the following years, but in the end the Iliifari and the humans of the Outer Circle became somehow more and more friends...or at least, the humans, whose generations passed one after the other, begin to think of the elves as friends and neighbours. The elves didn't trust completely the humans, but believed them to be more reliable than the Alphatian aristocrats. In 949 AC, the elf Skaarn became the first non-human Master in Nentsunian history.

In 976 AC, the elven King, Vidaar, was slain mysteriously in the forest.
The elves blamed an human adventuring party led by the rakasta Shikimura. The rakastas hadn't accepted the elves like the humans did, and an ambitious elf named Rifilel told the elves that they should war against the humans and rakastas, because they wanted to erase their presence form Nentsun. Rifilel was a complete paranoid, and he believed fully in what he said. When Skaarn voiced his concern, saying that he suspected that it was Rifilel, and not the rakasta, who had killed their king, Rifilel called upon all the most paranoid Shiye-Lawr attitudes of the Iliifari, telling the clan that Skaarn was a traitor because he had lived among the humans, and wanted to exploit the forest for the perverse humans. The Iliifari was uncertain about the situation. In the end they decided to let the clan council judge the matter. With a small majority, the council voted against Rifilel. The elf lost the final bonds to sanity and went on a frenzy, trying to kill Skaarn and other elves, randomly. He was then captured and jailed. While the council thought about the matter, the elf hung himself.

This was the last significant event of Nentsun's history till year 1000 AC. The Outer Circle is now a mostly civilised land, although some hills and forest regions are still dangerous and settled by green orcs. The Inner Circle is richer, however, and there is still some tension between the people living in the two areas.