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is some history of the Drenai Nation. It basically tells the story
from the books with bits added in where necessary. It will continue
to be added to over time. Any bits missing or incorrect, mail me.
Waylander
The
Drenai King Orien abdicates and leaves the social circles. He becomes
a seer and wanders the wilderness. His son Niallad becomes King
of the Drenai and starts to seek peace. Part of his efforts include
scaling down the army.
Vagrian
forces start to invade Drenai, Niallad gathers his generals in order
to make plans for the defence of the land.
Niallad
is killed by the assassin Waylander and this allows the Vagrians
to further invade Drenai and murder every Drenai they came across.
Egal and Karnak hid away in the forests and Dros Purdol comes under
siege.
Waylander
travels to collect his payment from the Vagrian General Kaem, but
is betrayed. He kills Kaem's only son and escapes. Kaem sends Brotherhood
Knights after Waylander.
Drenan
is beseiged by the Vagrians and every citizan is murdered. A huge
trench is dug to hold the dead.
Waylander
has his horse stolen and tracks the thieves. He kills the thieves
and in the process rescues a Source Priest call Dardalion. As they
travel, they also rescue some refugees, Danyal and three children.
Dardalion
forms a group of warrior priests called the Thirty. He does this
after injesting the Blood of Waylander the Slayer.
Waylander
retrieved the armour of bronze and gave it to Egal, and Karnak went
to the aid of Dros Purdol and allowed Egal to break out of the forest
with his army and come to the aid of Dros Purdol. Waylander killed
the Vagrian General Kaem and Karnak led the Drenai on a counter
strike which defeated the Vagrians.
The
royal family of Drenai who escape the Vagrian Wars do not return
and Drenai becomes a republic.
Egal
decided not to become leader of the Drenai and instead started to
build a mighty fortress at Delnoch pass after a vision from Dardalion.
Dardalion restarts the Thirty.
Five
years after the victory over the Vagrians, Egal is murdered at Dros
Delnoch and a civil war breaks out between the Drenai for power.
Karnak leds one of the sides for power and bests the rebels in several
battles.
Karnak
wins the civil war and becomes the leader of the Drenai.
Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf
Karnak's
diplomatic stance is bad so he angers the Ventrians and they plan
to invade. They capture Karnak and plan to kill him. Waylander saves
him and Karnak is able to lead the Drenai on the attack against
them.
Ventrians
and defeats them at two major battles at Erekban and Lentrum. The
Lentrian Battle King is killed at Erekban and put in a mass grave.
Two
years after the Lentrian War, Waylander is killed. His head and
crossbow are displayed at the Musium at Drenan with the inscription
"Waylander the Slayer, the man who killed the King".
Three
years later, Karnak is killed whilst leading a parade through Drenan.
He is shot with the Weapon of Waylander by a woman with long dark
hair. At his funeral, two thousand soldiers march behind the coffin.
Karnak is hailed as the greatest of Drenai Heroes.
Hero
in the Shadows
TBC
Druss Chronicles
TBC
The Legend of Deathwalker
Druss
travels to Gothir and ends up punching the Drenai Fighting champion
and breaks his jaw. As a result, Druss enters the fist fighting
competition and gets to the final. His oponent, Gothir Champion
Klay, comes to his rescue during a bar brawl but is shot in the
back. Druss decides to travel to a Nadir shrine to get magical jewels,
The Eyes of Alchazzar, to heal the dying Klay.
Gothir
lancers under the command of Gargan, Lord of Larness, enter the
Nadir Steppes with the intent of razing the Nadir shrine of Oshikai
Demon-Bane and taking the Jewles contained within.
A
young Nadir called Talisman travels to the Shrine of Oshikai to
help defend it. He organises the defence and starts to rebuild the
shrine.
On
his journey through the Nadir Steppes with Sieben, Druss comes across
a group of Notas Nadir. They are attacked by some Gothir lancers
and flee into the mountains. Whilst in the mountains, Sieben discovers
a cave where a body has been entombed. Sieben then frees the body
of it's chains and magical bonds.
Druss
arrives at the tomb to encounter Talisman leading the defenders
of the shrine in its defence. Druss searches for the Jewels, but
cannot find them. The Nadir shaman, Nosta Khan, performs some of
his usual interfering.
Gargan
and the Gothir Lancers arrive at the shrine and start to attack.
Druss,
Talisman and Oshikai travel into the void to rescue Shul-sen, Oshikai's
bride. They rescue her and Oshikai enters paradise. Shul-sen has
to wander the void until she becomes ready to enter paradise.
The
Gothir God-King is murdered by one of his guards and the Gothir
people become free. The order to stop the attack on the shrine is
dispatched to Gargan.
As
the Gothir stand ready to attack, Shul-sen takes over control of
Zhusai's body and summons lightning to destroy the Gothir army.
Just after the lightning, the orders to stop the attack on the shrine
arrive. Gargan has been killed by the lightning.
Druss
and Sieben travel back to Gulgothir to treat the dying Klay with
the Jewels. When they arrive, they find he has already died. Druss
is shocked, Sieben treats all the other patents at the hospice.
Sieben
returns the Jewels to Talisman.
Talisman
destroys the Jewels and gives their magic back to the land. In the
process, his eyes become purple. He then takes his adult name, Ulric
of the Wolfshead.
The
battle of Skeln Pass. The Drenai repel the Ventrian army whilst
out numbered.
The
Nadir are now powerful and smash the Gothir in several battles.
The Nadir rule the north.
Legend
The
Nadir begin to assemble their forces for an attack on the Drenai.
The warden of the north, Earl Delnar, sends his daughter Virae to
enlist help. She befriends Rek and contact the thirty. They agree
to aid the defence. Druss the Legend also comes to the defence of
the Drenai which is being held at Dros Delnoch. He brings with him
500 hundred archers lead by Bowman.
The
Nadir attack the fortress and slowly take it, wall by wall. Most
of the defenders die, Rek, the new earl of Dros Delnoch, looses
his wife and Druss also dies. The Sathuli come to the aid of the
Drenai and help defend the fortress.
Problems
back in the heart of Nadir homeland, cause Ulric to put a time limit
on his attack of Dros Delnoch. He ends the attack just as the Drenai
line is broken.
Ulric
returns to his homeland to quell the uprising. He swears to return
to destroy the Drenai. He dies of a heart attack whiles on a campaign
in the north. A civil war begins between the Nadir tribes.
The
Drenai learn from the first Nadir war and Magnus Woundweaver forms
a fighting force called the Dragon. They are the defenders of the
Drenai.
A
second Nadir attack comes 60 years later and is repelled by the
dragon. The leaders of the two empires sue for piece and have their
children marry. A son is born to the couple and is called Tenaka
Khan. He is sent back to the Nadir when his father dies and lives
there until he is 12 years old.
Twenty years after the end of the second
Nadir Wars, Tenaka Khan is enrolled in the Dragon.
Tenaka
Khan becomes a general in the Dragon and leads them well. He befriends
a man called Ananais in the dragon. The dragon are disbanded and
each of their members go their separate ways.
The
new leader of the Drenai starts running the empire to ruin and creates
some beasts called joinings. He calls for the reform of the Dragon
and most of the old veterans of the Dragon go. They are betrayed
and turned into joinings.
King Beyond the Gate
Tenaka
Khan turns 40 and Beltzer, an old Dragon comrad, brings him the
call for the reform of the Dragon 15 years after it was disbanded.
Tenaka ignores it and decides to stay in Ventria. Tenaka's wife
dies and afterwards he learns of the destruction of the Dragon.
He swears to kill Ceska, and returns to Drenai. When Tenaka arrives
at the abondoned Dragon camp, he befriends Renya, a joined woman.
Mass
killing goes on throughout Drenai and a civil war starts. A small
force of farmers barricade themselves into the Skoda Mountains and
with the help of the Thirty and Tenaka Khan, they stave off the
attack from the Drenai armed forces, the Legion.
Tenaka
Khan leaves the Drenai and heads towards the Nadir. The new leader
of the Nadir is chosen without a war and it is Tenaka Khan. He assembles
the Nadir and goes off to help the threatened Drenai people and
deposes the Drenai leader.
The
Earl of Bronze returns and takes command of Dros Delnoch. Tenaka
Khan says he would one day return and conquer the Drenai.
10
years later, Tenaka's wife dies and he invades the Drenai. The Earl
of Bronze is killed on the final day of the battle. His son escapes
and flees to Gothir. He becomes a soldier in the Gothir army.
The
Nadir, under Tenaka, rule most of the main world and invade Gothir.
Tenaka decides not to destroy the last defenders of a Gothir out
post because one of them is the Earl of Bronze, his blood relative.
Tenaka
is murdered by his son and Jungir takes over the rule of the Nadir.
Quest for Lost Heroes
Twin
sons are born and they are split up. One becomes Khan of the Nadir
and the other is raised by Chareos as his son.
The days of Blood and Fire.....No details of this period, only
that a huge war is waged by the twins. The Thirty are all wiped
out and no one is left to carry on the order.
The Drenai regain their Monarche and try to recover from the war
of the twins.
Sencing
the Drenai's frailty, the surrounding nations try to invade the
Drenai. The army fight back and free the country. They continue
to concour the surrounding nations.
The Ventrian
Nation decides to concour the Drenai. They invade and win several
decisive battles. The Drenai fight back and win a major battle at
Dros Delnoch.
Winter
Warriors
After
many years of occupation, the Drenai decide to leave Ventria. The
Drenai are betrayed by the Ventrians and the Drenai king is killed
the army wiped out, only the Drenai veterans survive and battle
to save the queen and her child.
They
kill the demon who has instigated all the trouble and return the
Drenai queen to the throne.
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