Anvarra

Anvarra is a nation formed during the Schism. It sits east of Darincedonia, at the same latitude, and under the Stonebreaker Mountains. In FY 629 after the War of the Two Gods, it was split at the Mag'teir river, the eastern half becoming an independent nation, Ienda.

Capital: Zoellar

History
After the Abandonment, the Schism occured, in which humanity split into multiple tribes and went their separate ways, spreading across the continent of Kal Tarnia. The Anvarrans did not go very far, they crossed the Melassur and then declared the unclaimed lands, south of the Stonebreaker Mountains, all the way to the Kagatan Ocean. They remained north of the lands claimed by the wild Croags and the lands claimed by the Gulnarians.

The land they claimed was already occupied by the Ytog, who lived in the caves below the surface. But the Ytog allowed the Anvarrans the surface and there was peace fora  time.

The Kurrangi meanwhile took a sliver of land in the north and stayed, though they often sent caravans out into the world for trade.

The Anvarrans entered a land occupied by a goddess and a god, Azala and Azulo. They formed two tribes, one tribe worshiped Azala and the other worshiped Azulo. The Azulans fought the Azalans for supremecy and won and worship of Azala was surprised, though it continued in secret for millenia.

In ~2000 BI, the Anvarrans grew jealous of the riches the Ytog dug out of the earth. They invaded and destroyed the Ytog in a deranged genocide, but the last act of the Ytog was to curse the mines with undeath, such that the Ytog have, as feral creatures, viciously and brutally guarded those mines, which lay abandoned for thousands of years.

In 432 BI, the Ra'havens, professional demonhunters, founded Ravenbrook Castle.

Anvarra fell to the Resarian Imperium a few years after Nummath (Darincedonia now) fell, in IY 42. Like among other cultures, their own language was surpressed for the Resarian language and their worship of the god Azulo was banned, but continued in secret, as it did in most tributory nations. Anvarra regained independence in IY 527, when the Imperium collapsed after the Emperor was killed.

In FY 235, King Vared Wenderly of Anvarra invaded and conquered the lands occupied by the Kurrangi and drove them out, in an act that shocked much of the world. The Kurrangi call it the great sadness and spread across the Northern Kingdoms and some of the central Kal Tarnian regions.

At the end of FY 237, Serafelle came awake in a Ytog cavern underneath Anvarra, having no memory of who or what she is. She is pursued by a Resarian Magister named Zymaedis. He captures her a few weeks later and takes the city of Zoellar, killing King Vared and his family, except for Prince Arek, whom he spared only so the public could see him burn with Serafelle. But both Arek and Serafelle escape.

Despite their differences of opinion over the treatment of the Kurrangi, Arek and Serafelle fought together at the Battle of Zoellar, where Serafelle defeated Zymaedis and his master, the Titan Kraetus. Arek was finally crowned King, but he did not grant the land back to the Kurrangi, while Serafelle, went to live with Darion, her husband, in Anapis.

In FY 620, a growing revolt among the Azalan cult, lead to a full civil war between the worshipers of Azulo and Azala. Ravenbrook remained neutral. The Anvarrans were lead by King Jethos Banard II while the Azalans were lead by Lord Ien Dusdane. The war ended at the Battle of the Magteir River, where both sides entered a stalemate. Lord Ien kidnapped the Crown Prince, which forced Jethos to sue for peace and thus Ienda was founded, claiming all land east of the Magteir. Worship of Azala resumed in open and Ravenbrook slowly turned to a majority of Azalans (though worship of any particular diety is not a necessity among the Ravens) over generations.

Anvarra joined Darincedonia in the War of the Necromancer and again six hundred years later in the War of the Heart of Magic.