The battle that followed became legend. The pirates, anchored in a crescent formation, unleashed their cannon as the Valiant approached – but Dane, using the morning glare to blind their gunners, held his fire until the last possible moment. Then, swinging broadside at less than fifty yards, he gave the order: “Run out and fire as she bears!”Continue Reading
In the long ledger of uprisings that dot the Kingdom’s past, none is remembered with quite the same mixture of humor and bitterness as the Great Turnip Rebellion of 963. What began as a simple grievance over crop quotas soon swelled into marches, bonfires, and even the toppling of a manor gate. Though dismissed in some chronicles as a farce, the rebellion left scars on both policy and pride.Continue Reading
Few tales in the annals of the Kingdom strike the imagination so forcefully as that of Marrowfield, a farming settlement that vanished in the autumn of 921. Fifty-three souls lived there, tending barley fields and dairy cows, yet one October morning a passing tinker found the village empty. Doors hung open, fires had burned to ash, meals sat uneaten upon tables, and livestock wandered the lanes untended. No trace of the inhabitants was ever discovered.Continue Reading
The Desert Treaty was meant to usher in a new age of peace. Signed in the spring of 874 between the Kingdom of Eyehasseen and the Desert People, it promised free passage for caravans, safe wells along contested borders, and a mutual reduction of arms. Instead, it collapsed within a season, leaving behind not only bitter conflict but also one of the most infamous betrayals in the Kingdom’s long history.Continue Reading
For twelve days in the year 812, the fate of the Kingdom hinged on a single gate. The northern entrance to Inverness, then a modest stone arch defended by a handful of guards, became the focus of a siege that tested both the strength of the city walls and the resolve of its citizens.Continue Reading
By Osric Penfold, Deputy Archivist and Part-Time Lantern Polisher Every kingdom has its pivotal nights—those strange, silent hours when the very air changes texture and even the clocks, if they tick at all, seem to do so with caution. For the Kingdom of Eyehasseen, one such night occurred in theContinue Reading