Anthos Adunian Thread ("new!")

[Hanrahan 2983]

A brief forward: All Credit to Owl_7, who dutifully wrote everything.

 

((Before you read this,
please note that you do not have any access to the information on the entire
first page of this thread IC unless you have been told it by someone who
legitimately holds the information IC, or you have sufficient lore reasoning as
to why you know it))

 

 

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Hanrahan Brae sits
at his desk in the Adunian Magistrate, pouring over the documents he wrote up
about his race's history back when he lived in Ildon. Sighing, he decides its
time to update what is written and goes ahead crossing out the old information,
whilst also adding the new.

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The Official History of the Adunian Race



In the years of ancient Aegis, there were no Kingdoms or cities, there
were tribes and clans of Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs. One on mankind's
greatest tribes were the Harenites, a group of tall, strong hearted warriors
led by Haren, the first born of Horen, and one of his favorites. Soon the
Harenites clashed with a tribe of Elves led by Princess Sarai of Malinor. The
two peoples fought for fifty years, until one day they finally made peace with
one another. Weapons were thrown down, and soon the peoples of each tribe began
to marry each other. The blood from the Elves and the Human's mixed, and soon
the first of a new race were born that lived for an average of 180 years due to
the mix of blood.



The descendants of the two tribes called themselves the Adunians and as
one they created the kingdom
of Idunia, one of the first civilized settlements in Aegis, where they would rule over normal men for many years. During the rule of an Adunian called Arendil, the grandson of Haren, one of the pure-blooded humans living in Idunia called Owyn Godwinson began a rebellion against the Adunians, sick of them ruling over his race. Godwinson succeeded and took Idunia for himself, killing Arendil and banishing all the Adunians from the kingdom.



Arendil's son, Elendil
(Later to be known as Elendil
the Exiled), led the remaining Adunians to the far north of Aegis to get away
from Godwinson and his forces, whom he feared would decide to chase after them
and finish their race once and for all. The Adunians went as far north as was
possible, until they came to a large sea (Later named the Adunian Sea
by Lord Rymeul Elendil) stretched out before them. Elendil had his people build two boats, Salvation and Haren's Voyager. After months of labour, the Adunians completed the boats and set sail across the sea, hoping to find a haven for them to settle in peace on the other side.



After a two month journey, the Adunians anchored their ships on the
coast of a foreign land, and set off to find where they would settle. For
another week Elendil led the Adunians across an area of large open plains, and then into a forest. It was within this forest that Elendil decided to settle, and put his people to work on creating the town that would be called Ildon (Meaning 'haven' in the Adunian tongue) and the castle that sat on the hill above the town that would be called Al'Ildic (Meaning 'the invincible') .



The Adunian race flourished in its new home and under the rule of Elendil's descendants who became known as House
Elendil. Elendil's youngest and only son, Braen Elendil, became the leader of the Adunian race known as the 'Adunian Lord' and started the tradition of passing his tittle down to his youngest son, to give himself the longest reign possible. The
Adunian Lord also wore a circlet called 'the Circlet of Horen' which the
Adunians believed had belonged to Horen himself before it was given to his son
Haren and passed down the line. Somewhere in the coming years, one of the
Adunian Lords had a blade forged for himself that he named Durendal.


This blade became the official blade of house Elendil, and was passed down to the heir to the Adunian crown when he turned 17. No one is quite sure exactly which lord had the blade forged, but it is known that it happened in the time of Dranan,
Rymeul, and Anmas. During Braen's reign, the Adunian Lord commissioned a group
of his best fighters to start the Order of the Adunian Rangers as the sole
military force of their race. This Order would serve their race for many years
to come under the command of several legendary Adunian Ranger Captains.


Braen's son, Dranan, started another Adunian tradition of burying each
member of the Elendil family
with a crown, each made out of a single material with a gem on the front. To
have a steel crown would mean that you were a brave and courageous warrior,
whilst a gold one meant you were more politically minded. A silver crown would
be a balance of both. A diamond on the front of a crown would mean that you
were an Adunian Lord, an emerald would mean you were a military man (Most
commonly an Adunian Ranger), a ruby would mean you were a gifted artisan, and a
sapphire would mean you never found your purpose, but we're always willing to
help others. A disgraced member of the Elendil
bloodline would be buried with an iron crown with a piece of flint instead of a
gemstone.

Whilst he was the Adunian Lord, Rymeul Elendil
led an expedition back to the sea which his ancestor Elendil the Exiled had crossed to find theirhomeland. He named the sea the Adunian Sea and discovered a land
bridge had risen from the sea, connecting their land and Aegis. Rymeul's
grandsonson, Bethrol, later went on an expedition of his own across the land
bridge and back into Aegis, where he discovered that Idunia had long since been
destroyed, and the human capital was now a city called Al'Khazar in the kingdom
of Oren. Bethrol came to trade agreements with the Orenians whilst on his
voyage and trade routes were formed between the two settlements. This was the
first contact the Adunians had had with the outside world since they had been
banished from Idunia.

Over the years the Adunian settlement turned from an isolated village
into a sizable city, and then into a small kingdom. By the time of Rydel, the
Adunian Rangers were no longer enough to keep law and order in the kingdom, and
he had his brother Thorenir disband the Rangers (Which he was in charge of at
the time) and start a larger force called the Adunian Legion. This decision,
which was seen as foolish by some, may have saved the entire Adunian race from
destruction, as soon after this decision was made, Rydel's steward, Icarian
Delmar, turned against him and attempted to take the throne for himself. This
marked the beginning of what would later be called 'The Great Adunian War'.



Icarian and his followers started on the outskirts of the Adunian
lands, taking villages and settlements one by one. They burnt houses, raped
women, pillaged crops, and took anyone who was alive as prisoner. The women
were sent to camps run by Icarian's followers where they were treated like
animals, while the men were tortured and brainwashed until they too followed
Icarian. In a desperate attempt to find more soldiers, Rydel forced everyone
between the ages of 17 and 110 into his brother's Adunian Legion. The war raged
on for 6 years, until Thorenir was able to assassinate Icarian with 7 other
trained men. At the beginning of the war the Adunian race was at its peak, with
just over 10,000 citizens living in the Adunian kingdom, but by the end only
around 800 remained.



With no longer the amounts of citizens that required the Adunian
Legion, Thorenir disbanded the organization and restarted the Adunian Rangers.
The war had set back the Adunian race by centuries, but more than anything else
it had affected Rydel. Rydel was a political man, not a warrior, and seeing so
many of the people he cared about die before him had affected his mind a great
deal. He eventually went into a state where he was barely fit to rule the
kingdom. Thorenir saw this and decided to start a peaceful uprising, attempted
to have his brother lay down the throne to his eldest child, his daughter
Irene. Rydel saw this as an act of treason and had Thorenir's closest followers
hung before banishing both him and Irene from the Adunian lands.



Luckily for the Adunians, Rydel mellowed with age and slowly became
more capable at his job once more. A few years before he was going to hand down
the throne to his youngest son, Aron, tragedy struck. Aron, who was an Adunian
Ranger at the time as it had become tradition for each heir to spend five years
as a ranger before they were coronated, was killed during a mission to clear
out a cave where a group of orcs had been taking refuge between raids on
Adunian farms (Durendal, which had been in Aron's possession at the time, was
shattered when an Orc stepped on the blade). This left Rydel to rule for even
longer until his grandson Artorus came of age to rule.



But before Artorus's time came, tragedy struck once more. The Undead
threat had begun to sweep through the land from the north, and as they were
further north than any other settlement, Ildon was the first place to be hit.
Halboron Elendil, the eldest son of Rydel and current leader of the Adunian Rangers, lead all the combat-worthy Adunians into battle against the Undead, but it was not enough. Halboron was knocked unconscious during the battle, and without their leader the remaining Adunian forces were slaughtered.



Upon waking, Halboron found the Undead necromancers had left, but they
had already slaughtered all of the people and set Ildon alight. Halboron fought
his way through the remaining Undead minions to reach his house in Ildon. Upon
entering, he found his 11 year old nephew Artorus mourning over his mothers
body (The two had been staying with Halboron since Aron's death). Halboron took
the shards of Durendal from his lockbox, throw Artorus over his shoulder (As he
refused to leave his mothers body), and fought his way back out of Ildon. The
two traveled for many weeks, leaving the Adunian kingdom and crossing back into
Aegis. They reached the Cloud Temple at Aegis's center, and Halboron left his nephew in the care of the monks. Before leaving, Halboron gave Artorus the shards of Durendal, in hope that he one day may find a way to reforge the sword.



From there, Halboron traveled back to Ildon to see what was left of the
once grand city. All he found were ruins. Halboron went into what remained of
Al'Ildic where he found his father's charred body. He reluctantly prized the
Circlet of Horen from the corpse before heading south to Oren, not to be
reunited with another Adunian for many years to come.



Artorus eventually left the care of the monks and slowly made his way
in the world as a military man. By the time Aegis was destroyed and it's
citizens had voyaged to Asulon, Artorus was an esteemed military captain of the
Phoenix Guard, which was the primary military force of the Kingdom
of Renatus. By chance, Halboron saw a notice in the cloud temple that had been placed by Artorus, claiming he was looking for his long lost uncle. Halboron traveled as fast as he could to Renatus where he was reunited with his nephew (Who he had between as his own son between the ages of 3 and 11, as his father had been killed). Together, they planned to reunite their entire race once more, and rebuild what they once had.



After many years of tireless work, Artorus and Halboron completed building a new Ildon in Western Renatus, by which time their family had grown immensely. Many years after the time when it was acknowledged official complete, Halboron met the end of his days do to an infected wound he had sustained serving Westfall as The Lord Commander of the Westwatch.



The years pressed on and Ildon continued to grow, eventually becoming
one of the largest cities in Oren. One day, Artorus and two dear friends of his
came to the decision that they had grown to dislike Oren, and felt they were
powerful enough to split off and claim their dukedoms independent of it. Sadly,
the three were proved wrong, their rebellion being crushed swiftly by the
Emperor's forces. Artorus himself was cut down by the Hightowers in combat,
while his two friends, Tarus and Norsem were taken back to Oren and executed. In pity of the Artorus's son Torrhen, the Emperor gifted him with the dukedom of Westfall in a
successful attempt to sway Torrhen from wanting to rebel against Oren himself. The Elendil family and Adunian race continued to live in Ildon under Torrhen's rule until the last days in Asulon. They are currently living in Dal Cais, in Anthos.



-Hanrahan Brae

The Second Adunian Knowledge Keeper.

 

(( Yet Again, Credit to Owl for all of this. ))

 

 

 

[Hanrahan 2983]

The Official Elendil Family Tree

[http://www.familyech...725385592833970]

[Hanrahan 2983]

Adunian Military


The Adunia currently have three sections of military. The first being the Huscarls of House Elendil, they take the place of normal Household Knights. These men protect the Elendil
family and fight for the Adunia in times of war. The second section of
military are the men and women of the clans, who only fight in times of
war or great need. The third and final section are the Adunian Rangers.
The rangers are lead by a Ranger Captain, and it is their duty enforce
the law in Adunian lands,as well as fight for the Adunia and House Elendil in times of need. The military is lead by the Thane of Military, currently Ser Gavin Douglas.

[Hanrahan 2983]

Important Adunian | Elendil Figures

Braen Elendil: The first official Elendil.

Rymeul Elendil: First to discover the land bridge between Aegis and the Adunian Kingdom.

Bethrol Elendil: First Adunian to travel back to Aegis.

Rydel Elendil: Last Adunian Lord in Aegis.

Halboron Elendil: Last
Adunian Ranger Captain in Aegis (Also famed for helping and guiding Artorus to
rebuild the Adunian race in Asulon).

Artorus Elendil: First
Adunian Lord in Asulon (Famed for restoring the Adunian race within Ildon county in Oren with the help of Halboron)

 

 Hanrahan Brae:
Contributing majorly to uncovering old Adunian culture, sparking three
Rebellions, taking stewardship of Adunia for three years, and helping spread
the Old faith once more.

 

Torrhen Elendil: Son of Torrhen, First Adunian Lord in Anthos (Famed for collecting the Adunians within Dal Cais)

 

Edgar Tarus: Scion of the Tarusian-Adunian Kingdom in the North, son of Eze'kiel Tarus, and Archfather of the Old Faith. Contributed greatly to the revival of Adunia's religion.

 

[Hanrahan 2983]

Aegisian Adunian Ranger Information

Origin:


During the reign of Braen Elendil, the
Adunian Lord came to see that with the ever rising population of their
race, he would soon need a military to keep order instead of just
relying in the good will of his citizens. And so he asked his brother
Cirimas to gather the most elite and loyal soldiers he could find as
bring them before him. The names of these four men were never recorded,
but it is know that one was of house Lorsmor, and another of house
Loyola. The five men stood before Braen, all were well trained in the
arts of stealth, the longsword, shortsword, dagger, and longbow,
learning from their fathers and their fathers fathers who had to outrun
and hide from the Rhodi and other men of Owyn Godwinson during their
exodus from Idunia. Braen decided that based on their traits these five
men would be known as the Adunian Rangers, and they would serve as their
race's first personal military force. Over time, Cirimas and the four
rangers slowly built traditions and organization throughout the order,
and gained more men along the way.

Uniform

Traditionally the rangers had no official uniform, but they were told to
stick to a certain code to do with what items of clothing they wore;
the rangers would wear leather boots, fingerless leather gloves, a
leather belt (Often accompanied by a sash), a large coat, and a cloak
over the top. The coat of Cirimas was passed from Captain to Captain in
the rangers, as was occasionally his cloak. All of this would be over
the top of whatever other clothes they wished to wear.

Fort Arendil


The rangers lived in a large cave system under the hill which Al'Ildic
stood upon, though the caves had been renovated to be more like an
underground fortress. Said fortress was named after Arendil, the last
king of Idunia, and was meant to be used as a fallback point if Ildon
ever came under a siege that it was unable to hold off. Sadly, in the
final battle of Ildon in which it fell to the undead, few managed to get
to the fortress before its gates had to be shut to save those inside.

Watchtowers


As the Adunian Kingdom spread over the land, the rangers decided that
they could only keep order in Ildon itself from Fort Arendil, and would
have to find a way to do so in the towns, farms, and estates that
surrounded it. And so watchtowers were built all over the kingdom. In
each watchtower a single ranger would live along with up to 15 initiates
whom he would use to keep order in the surrounding area. The garrison
of each watchtower was rotated every fortnight.

Traditions


-The final initiation for a ranger was for him to be taken out into the
woods where he would swear an oath of service to the ancestors (now
sworn to the Adunian race).

-No women or men of non-Adunian blood were permitted to join the rangers (no longer relevant). 

-An heir to the Adunian throne would have to spend five years in service of the rangers before he could become the lord.


It is often thought that is was tradition that all young men joined the
rangers for several years after they turned seventeen, though in reality
seventeen was simply the age where one was permitted entrance into the
order, and over the time it became a popular trend to join the rangers
as soon as one was allowed.

Ranks:


Ranger Captain: Supreme commander over the rangers.

First Ranger: The Captain's most trusted ranger, and therefore the second in command.

Ranger: The primary rank of the Adunian Rangers, only the most elite warriors in Adunian society were offered this position.

Initiate: The recruit rank of the rangers, most never made it past this rank.
 
 

[Hanrahan 2983]

[OOC] Joining the Adunia

There is no application to join the Adunia, nor is there a certain person you have to ask to become part of it. All you need to do is read the lore, make a character that fits the specifications of an Adunian, find a skin that fits him or her, and start playing! It is also highly recommended that you join one of the existing Adunian clans by contacting one of their members.

Specifications of an Adunian:

-Adunians live to an average of 180 human years old.

-Adunians age the same as a normal
human up until the age of 17, at which they begin to only age one year
for every two that pass.

-Adunians most commonly have black, auburn or dark brown hair, along with grey or green eyes.

-Adunians stand slightly taller than most humans, but not quite as tall as a norseman.

-Adunians share the elves' low fertility.

-Most Adunian men have either a mustache or beard, as it is seen as customary among their society.

-Adunians have a strong sense of tradition, and are usually rather stubborn people.

[Hanrahan 2983]

[OOC Section]

On this thread you may:

-Make inquiries and ask questions about our race or house.

-Post any RP post to do with Dal Cais, House Elendil, or the Adunia.

-Notify me on the parts of the above lore that need updating, or any errors I have made above.

Go wild!

[ayresalex 517]

((In your history, Elendils 'two friends' were Norsem and Tarus. Norsem died in battle, Tarus was executed.))

[Scarlet Kaiser 89]

First of all, this was a good read as it helps me familiarize a bit more with the history of the Adunians.

 

Some things that I would like to see is something about the languange as I am unable to find it anywhere on the forums and maybe some things about their modern culture and a list of active clans to join.  Maybe make a post that includes links relative to Adunia and its people as well.

 

Finnally, can you add my character  Teaghan Elendil on the family tree?  Is is the most recent addition to the Elendil family and is Lachlan Elendil's younger sister.  You may have seen her about in Dal Cais.  Axlrose4078 can confirm this if he has to.  That will be all.

[SortedJarhead 817]

I belive he didn't put any information on the language up as the language is mostly forgotten and only important figures like Chieftains know it, as it's passed oraly.

[yopplwasupxxx 5946]

((Might I suggest putting a list of the clans still active in Adunia

[Andartus Orvar 20]

(I'd suggest the clan chieftains and Earls post a short description of their clan. After all, they know best. I find it unlikely that anyone knows more about the Eilthereach and the Dragoons than me xD)

[Snake Plissken 637]

Thanks for the credit and all, but really, we already have a thread that I completely rewrote not that long ago and has everything organized neatly and correctly updated. I also have access to that thread so I can add more lore to it, and plan to do so when I get back from my current holiday as traveling through Europe has sparked quite a few new ideas in my head. If we could just revive the other thread, and possibly move it to the 'Roleplay' subforum instead of the 'Human Roleplay' one (as the 'Human Roleplay' one is really only for Oren now), I think it would be a lot more useful than to create a whole new thread. I'm happy to update things on the thread such as lists of clans and people, but the thing is, no one actually asks me to. It's a nice thought to have a fresh, new, active thread, full of useful information and roleplay posts for the Adunia. But really, we don't need it as one already exists, all it needs is reviving!

 

Edit: Also, going through this thread I've noticed most information was either based off or taken from the second Adunian thread (this one here being the fourth) which can be found here. However, when I re-did the lore for the new thread, I added to or tweaked quite a bit of it, rendering the stuff from the second thread now incorrect or outdated. The third and updated thread can be found here.

[Hanrahan 2983]

(( Edit: Owl, I did this for a reason. Shhh, my sweet African Child. ))

 

Edit: I'll be putting up a clan page as well, But Owl - Your lore is Biased and outdated, and there's far too much of it, and you don't often update it. This was a request from most of us Adunian players, Axl included.

 

@Scarlet: I don't have permission to change the family tree, sorry. :c ))

[Andartus Orvar 20]

Clan Eilthereach is one of the newer clans, having been given their titles in the last half-decade. From the outset, it was known as a clan of low-borns, bastards and strays, as the Chieftain recruited all Adunians, no matter how low they stood on the social structure. Within weeks, the clan had distinguished itself in the defence of Adunian civilians from Rhodir Raiders. Their Chieftain, Eideard, slew two of the raiders single-handedly with his customised Cavalry Arbalest, which swiftly became the trademark of the clan.

 

Upon this victory, the Eilthereach began the transition to a military-focused clan. Eideard's trademark, the Cavalry Arbalest, was taken as the clan's primary weapon. These arbalests, hand-crafted by the mechanically minded Eideard himself, with the aid of several Adunian blacksmiths, were crafted from native spruce wood and reinforced with sturdy iron, the tiller as long as it's bearer's torso and the prod as wide as the bearer's shoulders. Loading was made significantly easier, though longer, by the addition of an inbuilt cranequin to the mechanical heavy-crossbow, removing the need for a stirrup.The bolts fired proved to cause horrendous damage in a volley fire, and, adding the deftness of the Adunian riders, the Eilthereach swiftly became a ranged cavalry unit, fond of dismounting to fire in rank, before mounting and retreating to reload.

 

Eideard's clan suffered heavy casualties to a misguided skirmish with a group of Dwarf aggressors, felling many to withering volley-fire from their Arbalests, but it took a few years to re-equip and re-train new recruits to replace those who were lost. During this time, the Eilthereach joined the Elendils in Dal Cais, and began to manage a Tavern, titled the Arbalester's Ale House, which became their base of operations. 

 

The Eilthereach were classified a Highland clan, and were the first of these to take on a role as a dedicated military unit, the Marcra Réimseigh, resplendent in iron-plate and chainmail armour, darkened grey uniform, arbalests ever present, and were specially trained in stealth, rapid deployment, city-fighting and hit-and-run ranged tactics.