No doubt you will have heard of Hildred of Jorburg. Not unlike me he was an explorer of a curious and gallant disposition. The first to cross the Turquoise Sea to Serpent Bay, to sight the shores of what its native people call “Alperda” and to set a foot on this mountainous, forested land.
He exchanged gifts and tales with the natives, but only went as far inland to what is known today as Starspire, an observatory located on a steep hill. This was little more than hundred years ago. Knowledge of this unexplored wilderness, rich in wood and wildlife, its coastal waters teeming of fish and whales, spread fast throughout the provinces of the southron empire. Soon whalers and tradesmen followed Hildred’s initial expedition. Missionaries attempted to bring Reigaro’s light to the people of this land, who we call Hengemen.
The lands history truly began when illustrious Aldrich of House Gladwyn founded the only major settlement on Hildred’s Land: Greifshold. He brought the tribes of the land into the imperial fold and got them accustomed to the achievements of our great civilisation. Soon after he was named Margrave by her Serene Highness Empress Milburga Sunniva. Only two decades later the Margravate spanned from Serpent’s Bay in the south to the foothills of the Wyrmblood Range in the north. From the fishing village Breka in the east and along the pasture of the Green Bent in the west. Its limits were guarded by the strongholds Griffonwatch and Wyrmrock, keeping the ever unruly Hengemen in check.
