Isolus
Lady of the Lexicon
The Witcher Kings: The Conquerers
"I am not a king, I am a conquerer just as my grandfather was.
The Northerners will kneel or they will die."
The Northerners will kneel or they will die."
- Edwin II Dewguard, Current King of Thalantis
Once a western lesser houses, the infamous Witcher Kings began their reign circ. 900 AP. They were the victors of a four year long war of succession against previous ruling house, House Ormend. The Dewguards were able to successfully contest the crown's legitimacy by upholding House Ormend’s female heirs as perpetrators of witchcraft and thus any child born to them would be illegitimate. With the eventually support of the Emerald Bank, the Church of the Sectarians and several other lesser houses, House Ormend was violently deposed.
The first Witcher King, Charles the Conqueror, declared the worship of the Apostates (That is worship of the dark gods) as equal worship to that of the Architects (the creators of the world). Charles the Conqueror would lead the first of the Great Crusades, a religious purification of the civilized West.
The Dewguards are responsible for the Three Great Crusades (also known as the White Conquest or the Great Purges), which were a series of religious & ethnic purifications supported by the Church of St Elbern. The 1st Great Crusade (905 AP - 1021 AP) involved the establishment of Apostate (Dark Gods) Worship through an armed pilgrimage across the sea to the east coast of Western Isakar. The 2nd Great Crusade (1144 AP - 1259 AP) aimed to resolve bloody religious conflicts between worshipers of the goddess Scyllia (goddess of disease and ambition) and their supposed adversaries, the Bluemoon Brotherhood. This resulted in the near extinction of moon elves in the west, where the survivors fled as pilgrims to the east.
Under the reign of Edwin the Great in 1366 AP, the Dragon Kings of Illyia were removed from power and Valdarr Snowborn's bloodline was rumored to be eradicated.
The 3rd Great Crusade (1448 AP - Current) involves the contest of the races akin to the Níðhö (Dragon Men) and their relationship to the Apostate Doctrines, which sustains Men and Elves' racial superiority over the other races. In the west, Níðhö are not on the same level as the race of men. When their northern colony began their rebellion in the winter of 1448 AP, the Dewguards sought to quell the uprising with a realm wide cleansing of all Níðhö in order to justify the extinction of Valdarr Snowborn's lineage.
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