Our story begins centuries ago, before the deserts of the Sarranid realm were discovered, our story lies to east of the Nord homeland in a small province ruled by the noble family of Calradius. They were a significant family with lands a legion, a navy, and even a fortress. This province bordered the true nord lands filled with snow and Icy winds, the family of of Calradius had one son and his name was Dietri. And on a frosty December morning the Nords went to war, tens of thousands followed their Chieftans to the coastline and they boarded there ship’s and sailed to the beach of Calradius the home of Dietri and his family. And at day break the Nords had arrived, they had caught the local militia by surprise and the people of the village fled some were captured some were killed but some survived they rode to the fortress and Dietri was told of the raiders that were a week. He summoned the family forces and the naval forces as well. He filled the granaries with food and prepared for a long siege. Or so he thought. A week later the Nord host was sited on the horizon. The siege began, for 2 months the fortress held and on the first day of the 3rd month the emperor had come the nords were beat back and they fled for there ships which they found captured by Dietri’s and the emperors navy. The Nords were surrounded and massacred and there homeland was invaded. The Nords fled across the sea and Dietri pursued them. And there he found a new continent he returned with the news the capital. The emperor was known to have no heir but that would soon change.
When Dietri returned with the news he was named Heir by the emperor and given ten full legions to conquer the new land and he was allowed to keep his first legion as his personal legion. After years of warfare the legions were beginning to grow weary they yearned for there family and were tired. Dietri returned with his personal legion to ask the emperor for 20 new legions and retirement papers to disperse among the men. The emperor declined the retirement papers but accepted to give the full force of his armies. The next morning the emperor was found dead in his bed. Some say he died of old age, some he died because his heart gave in, the nobles knew better, and so they did not Challenge the new Crowned Emperor Deitri. And so years later the country of Calradia was formed. The Emperor ruled for many years and his personal legion had become the most decorated legion in the entire Imperial army. But one day the emperor ordered the 1st legion to massacre a town the town had no defenses no soldiers and no lord. The emperor wanted it for himself and the legion refused. The emperor was furious he sent the 3rd legion to attack the town the 1st legion was there to stop them, and so the 3rd and 11th legions were sent and they gave battle to the 1st the battle waged for 3 days and at dawn on the fourth the 1st legion stood triumphant half were dead and the other half was wounded but they lived.
And so the 1st legion was exiled and it was called the Damned legion. But the Damned legion could only operate in the Rhodok mountains where they could lay easy ambushes to the emperors troops. At the battle of Jelkala The Damned legion fought and thus the Rhodok nation was freed and at that moment the Nord people who fled from there homeland rebelled, Vaegirs and the Khergits soon followed and the emperor was forced to sail across the seas forever but that would not happen. The Damned legion laid a trap at the North coast. They dropped stones on the emperors army and charged down the surrounding cliffs using ropes and they fought for 4 days and on the fifth the Knights charged the ripped through to the very center of the emperors forces and the emperor himself was captured the other legions laid down there weapons and fled by sea while the emperor was captured. Then executed at Praven by the Knights of the Damned legion, and that was the last sighting of the legion. Some say they sailed to the lands of Calradius to continue there war on the emperors lands, others say they disbanded and travelled to all 6 kingdoms and founded todays aristocracy of Calradia, and some say they are a legend, that they never existed…………Those with scars know better.
But the Truth of where the Legion went was known to only the Legionnaires themselves. Because each of these theories was true the The Knights of The Damned Legion did found Todays Nobility for all the lords of Calradia today are descendents of those Knights and none of them have any knowledge of this, only the oldest of the Calradian Archivists know of this, but they decide to keep it a secret to there very graves. But the Legionnaires themselves, returned to that very same town that half had died defending. That town was called Ergellon. The men were honest workers the tilled the land, started families, and businesses all over the area. They set up a council where each man could vote for the men who decided small things like the tax rates or declerations of war. And so began a prosperous state that then became its own Kingdom, and after many a century of prosperity and conquests it became the land that today no one remembers, including myself but it consisted of all the land we call Calradia. In the final years of the Kingdom there was a King that had ruled for many a year and he had bean a king loved by the people and the nobles alike, he had but 1 strong son that had quelled many a rebellion and had fought of the Sarranid invaders many a time, and during this Kings reign the Kingdoms we call today Swadia, Rhodoks, Nords, and Vaegirs were all under his control, and the Capital was Ergellon, and also the mightiest Fortress. But the Sarranids and the Khergits were always envious of the Calradians and always attempting to take the land, but were always repelled by the Legions Descendent Nobles. But in one year the Khergits and Sarranids made a plot to bride the Kings brother, for the Kings Brother Harris was envious of his older brother and wanted his throne. So the Brother slaughtered all the Royal family and took the Throne, throwing the Kingdom into chaos, and shattering the Kingdom into 4 smaller Countries, The Kingdom of Nords, The Kingdom of Swadia, The Kingdom of Vaegirs, and The Kingdom of Rhodoks. But, Harris had made 1 large mistake, he had forgotten of the Kings Son Archeus, for he had bean away Campaigning, with the Royal Legion. And when he returned he stormed the palace and killed his Uncle. But himself taking a Mortal Wound, The Legion had Captured Ergellon but at what cost, as Archeus lay dying he knew that his small legion could not reconquer what was lost, and that Ergellon must be protected. And so The Guard of Ergellon was born. The Guard quickly recaptured the surrounding Region and protected the people, the descendents of The Damned Legion, from the Fortress of Ergellon. And to this day they watch over there lands waiting for a chance to reconquer there lost lands and avenge the death of there Kings, only then will they rest, only when they Avenge there forgotten Empire…
