Everguard/Wars of Everguard

The Wars of Everguard are the collected conflicts undertaken by the realm. Everguard is by historical standards a new realm, and as such it has not yet engaged in large scale nation to nation war, but as time goes by and more territory is consolidated under the control of man, wars will seem unavoidable. Currently the most important war in Everguard's history is the Expansionist War Against the Monster Hordes, which has seen Everguard expand its territory in all directions while fighting against the black beasts that were to be found in the west.

Expansionist War Against the Monster Hordes

A group of monster forces overwhelming the Everguard position at the Mountain of Woe

In the earliest days of Everguard, it was but a small settlement in the extreme north of Dwilight, unable to challenge the established nations of the continent. The nobles knew if they were to truly acheive their manifest destiny of consolidating the westlands of Dwilight, they would need to strike out into the black unknown territory - areas that no man had mapped, and no noble knew.

At first, this expansion went smoothly and easily. As Everguard moved to neighboring territories it experienced no resistance - but such unchallenged growth would not last long. As the founders of the realm had moved toward Valkyrja, they had encountered a number of raiding parties of Dwilight Monsters, a form of beast that men had not encountered at any point in any of the world's other continents. These twisted creatures had dark skin of black, faces of animals and a vicious strength that seemed twice that of monsters that men had faced before.

But the nobles of Everguard were rough men. After the realm was founded, nobles would encounter small party of monsters, and the men of the realm so used to constant, bloody warfare from their time in other lands, had little trouble disposing with these black beasts. As their territory stretched and grew, however, Everguard began to meet more stern resistance.

The further to the west the realm pushed, the larger the number of evil disfigured monsters they encountered. On more than one occasion, the swarming numbers of bloodthirsty raiding parties threatened to wipe out entire armies of Everguard soldiers as they attempted to take surrounding land. Invasions of monsters into realm territory began to happen nearly every day, and Everguard's attention began to change from simply expansion, to maintaining their own survival.

This war continues to this day. High King Fisc Arylon does not believe the invasions will end until such time that human settlers begin to found and expand strong reams around Everguard, hopefully driving the monsters back into the sea. At current, Everguard is the only true western power, so they now stand alone against the black form of monster that inhabits Dwilight.