Region 01A Frelengian Heartlands Map Pack
Almost a thousand years ago¸ savage barbarians invaded the lands known today as Frelengia.
For decades the people of the land were terrorized by these barbarians¸ until¸ in the 929th year of the Empire of Ub¸ a great warrior arose from among the peasantry. His name was Bosco¸ and he was a cowardly turnip farmer. But one day while a gang of gnolls was raiding his turnip patch¸ he got fed up and shooed them away with his pitchfork. This caused the entire local horde to break morale¸ as no one had stood up to them before¸ and they all fled the village.
Bosco¸ lifted on the shoulders of his fellow peasants¸ became a hero that day¸ the first in what became known as Warner's Crusade - for that was his full name¸ Bosco Warner. From a few fellow peasants with courage¸ Bosco gathered together a mob of angry peasants armed with torches and pitchforks. He trained with foreign knights; his core followers became knights¸ and over time his peasant mob became an army of soldiers. And this army¸ together with his good friend¸ the wizard Frelengo¸ was able to throw the barbarians out of the land.
With their victory¸ the people proclaimed Bosco king¸ and he was crowned by his good friend Frelengo¸ after whom Bosco named his kingdom - Frelengia. Bosco ruled long and well¸ but never married nor produced an heir. Instead he adopted his loyal pig-folk squire¸ Hamhock¸ who became Prince Porque Warner¸ and soon thereafter became King Porque¸ upon the death of Bosco "The Great" in 989 AU (Anno Ub). King Porque I "The Kind" founded the First Warner Dynasty the Regnabit Porcorum (Reign of Pigs).
With the death of his good friend¸ the wizard Frelengo retired from politics and founded his own personal legacy¸ Prestidigitators University (or "good old P.U.¸" as its graduates like to call it). He gathered together all the greatest wizards of the day¸ developed a curriculum¸ and built a college campus high in the Magic Mountains¸ where the mother campus of the university remains today¸ with the town of Warlock having grown up around it to serve the students. Even today¸ almost a century after the fall of Frelengia¸ PU still graduates no few magic-users every year.
Altogether¸ from its founding to it fall¸ the Kingdom of Frelengia had five major dynasties:
First Warner Dynasty (Regnabit Porcorum)¸ founded by King Porque I "The Kind" (Pig-Folk); ruled 989-1154 AU
Second Warner Dynasty (Regnabit Leones)¸ founded by Leon I "The Lion-Heart" (Human/Lion-Folk); ruled 1140-1385 AU
Third Warner Dynasty (Regnabit Canibus)¸ founded by Marcus Antonius "The Stubborn" (Dog-Folk/Cat-Folk) and his queen¸ Cleopatra; ruled 1385-1503 AU
Fourth Warner Dynasty (Regnabit Lepores)¸ founded by Bugsomagnus I "The Great" (Rabbit-Folk); ruled 1503-1649 AU
Fifth Warner Dynasty (Regnabit Anatis)¸ founded by Daffyd "The Black" (Duck-Folk); ruled 1649-1739 AU
By 1730 AU Frelengia was deep in decline¸ under the rule of the Third Mad King of the Fifth Warner Dynasty¸ Daffyd VII "The Maddest" (following Daffyd V "The Mad" and Dafydd VI "The Madder"). All her overseas possessions had long been lost¸ the dwarves and elves of the realm had long since declared autonomy if not outright independence¸ and another savage barbarian horde had appeared out of the north¸ the Svinings¸ Viking warrior-pigs who followed the savage god Svino and his sister¸ the goddess Sugga the Enchantress.
Even as the Svinings were invading from the north¸ the Empire of Ub (the Seventh Empire of Ub out of New Ubopolis) had se