Duthgarian civil war

In 6559 S.U King Dremar the 3rd decided that neither of his two sons Prince Farlin and Prince Astor, were worthy of becoming the next king both being selfish and juvenile. In a desperate attempt to sock them into getting their act together the king decided to officially make his pet dog Koso who had died and been stuffed the year before. Although the princes were not very happy with this they still didn't get their act together, continuing instead, to spend more time pointing out each others faults than fixing their own. In early 6560 Dremar died and his edict setting Koso as his hair was official in the case of a king coming to power while not being capable of ruling the Advisers to the King rule in his stead until he is capable.

The two princes claimed that they should be installed on the throne and many people believed that at the very least the king should be something which was alive. The advisers officially ruled and thus had command over the royal guards making Tarcheck an unsafe place for the princes so they had to flee, there were more people who wanted to back the princes rather than koso, but they would have to choose which one to follow. The two princes weren't willing to unite and even less willing to allow the other to gain an advantage, which the advisers used to their advantage pitting the two ageist each other and spreading rumours about the others success and imminent victory to the other. The advisers had a much smaller force than either of the princes but had the superior tactics and military experience often tricking the princes armies into meeting one another before coming and moping up the survivors. The war raged on at first many of the cities refused to get involved with the war but as it spread they were drawn in, Girdev supplied weapons while House Deneith were hired as a mercenary army's and the Gorum's Guard fort on all three sides. Eventually in 6565 Farlin was killed by one of Astors assassins, most of his force then swore allegiance to Astor as the surviving human of royal decent, he then turned his attention to Tarcheck and the advisers.

Although there had been many losses on Astors side his force was a still considerable and it looked dire for the advisers until a massive Goblinoid force ambushed the princes army and traped between this army and the advisers army Astor was felled on the battle field. The adviseres had made a deal with with the goblinoid general Mok-yanier and his tribes from the Latrosian Mountains. It was only after the war that it became apparent to the people of Duthgar just what the assistance would cost, the city of Yarbeck was the price. Astor had been based at Yarbeck and when he was defeated the city was given to the goblinoids, they have renamed the city Yister and it is now a haven for goblins, hobgobins and bugbears.

The war left many people dead across Duthgar, and any more starving with the harvests having been largely forgotten during the war and a large debt to the Drazia Dynasty who had supplied all three sides during the war with weapons. Mer-Rein and Torlund began to supply aide and support while Duthgar recovered but it was a long journey.