Marca da Pantera

Marca de Pantera was a realm located around the Western Badlands. It's territory constituted all of present day Heen and several more regions that currently belong to Sint and Ashborn.

Marca de Pantera fell towards the end of the Second Age of Beluaterra with reports from the period citing the undead hordes in the area as far more powerful than their comparatively tame southern counterparts. However, the fall of the realm was due mostly towards the monarch's inefficient method of maintaining the realm whilst combating the undead.

At the time of the invasion, Tahgalez served as Marca de Pantera's capital; an impractical state of affairs considering Tahgalez low population and small income. Meanwhile MDP's richer and more powerful cities were too distant to defend. Despite calls to move the capital to Firbalt (e.g. from Distorted Pscyh), the government decided to remain in the desert. When Tor was later lost to the undead, the government decided to abandon Firbalt entirely and fortify their capital - despite the fact that Tor could have been easily recovered. With the loss of Firbalt, and many other regions, MDP was soon rendered unable to even maintain her militia, let alone put up any adequate defence against the ravaging hordes; the survivors perished against the undead.

As a result of Marca de Pantera being so overwhelmingly defeated by the hordes, the Western Badlands remained rogue and uncivilised for years afterwards. Indeed so complete was the damage and so great the threat from the lingering remanants of the undead that the Western Badlands were amongst the last areas of Beluaterra to be colonised again in the Third Age.