Tag: Dynasty of Þordil

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• KetilSecond-born son of Kael the Rich; inherited the central lands of the Valleys of Kael and bartered a fortune from a dragon, at the cost of his face, which he thereafter concealed behind silken robes and a golden mask.
• Garðwin IFirst-born son of Þordil the Great and first of his name in the dynasty; fearless sailor and conqueror who carved a domain in the west under his father's rule, took the island fortress of Kiegnarrzsk from the sons of Yanterr, and was slain in the abyss by the leviathan Salt-bane.
• OrlingBastard son of Farnek and a Jonorn woman; raised as an orphan in a village whose other notable orphan was Hurdania, Goddess of Justice, exiled by her grandfather Exar to live out a span among mortals. The two children fell in love over the years that followed, and she was carrying his unborn son Þordil when armed men he believed to be bandits descended on the village and struck her down, a deception staged by the mercenary commander who, having failed to recruit Orling by ordinary means, sent his own men in disguise to give him reason. Fought alongside the Doghul against the Legions of Voitykras during the Second Voityllic Rift with such ferocity that they named him friend; learned the truth of his recruitment only after the war was over; pursued his revenge against the mercenary who had ruined him, and was slain in single combat by the legendary Drakhul Viedskavn before he could reach his quarry. Died believing his lover dead, and the child she had carried lost with her. Never knew either had survived.
• Yyod IFirst-born son of Jargsnek and first of his name in the dynasty; feared mounted warrior who crippled his brother Maelar in fraternal combat, then rode on to carve out the nation of Yllantros and to champion the Primeveans of the East under Prignam.
• JargsnekFourth-born son of Þordil the Great, remembered in two contradictory sagas, as Jargsnek the Vile, snake-tongued debauchee banished for patricide; and as Jargsnek the Redeemed, a maltreated son forced into that act who later defended his nephews from a malevolent cousin.
• EurlinThird-born and youngest son of Jargsnek; murdered at the age of thirteen by his elder brother Maelar, to whom he is rumored to have given the infamous facial scar.
• UleThird-born son of Þordil the Great; stoic defender who settled the tundra forests west of the steppes, and the archetype of valiant manhood, the man who wrestled a bear with his bare hands because the beast could not use an axe.
• Olfr ISecond-born son of Ule Bear-heart and first of his name in the dynasty; the first great metalworker of the line, whose unmatched mastercraft arms drove back the re-conquests of his uncle Jargsnek and his savage sons.
• ÞadgarFirst-born son of Kael the Rich; inherited the southernmost territory of the Valleys of Kael and held fast the border of the true gods against foreign partisans of Olden and Prignam.
• FarnekYounger son of Yanterr Wave-master and Prince of the Northern Isles who ruled as steward during Jolim Salt-lung's seven-year absence; never ratified as king. Grandfather of Þordil the Great through his bastard son Orling.
• BæurnOnly son of Garðwin I and Berta; fearless sailor who settled the Isle of Kraguth, slew the leviathan Salt-bane in passing, and drove the Dai'dou to extinction, ultimately lost to the world in the arctic wastes north of Mok while hunting the last of them, Maerxsikyst.
• KaelSecond-born son of Þordil the Great; genius trader who settled the southern valleys beyond the Falkorring and was both an adopter and an author of modern economic and trading practice. Eponym of the Valleys of Kael.
• Erikkr IEldest son of Ule Bear-heart and first of his name in the dynasty; raider and pillager whose major contribution was carrying Nortr culture and the worship of Þonart southward. Master of the famous meadhall Poderrikhaus and the figure who first forged ties between the Nortr and the Clans of Angle.
• PodoThird-born son of Kael the Rich; unable to father children and denied land, but a wise counsel to Erikkr I, a reformer of Þonart's worship, founder of the position of brewmaster, and a hand in the raising of the meadhall Poderrikhaus.
• ÞordilDemigod son of Orling the Wary and Hurdania, Goddess of Justice; warlord-king who in twenty-seven years of unbroken campaigning forged the greatest domain any Primevean had ever held, founded the dynasty that bears his name, and was remembered by his own line as the First Emperor of the Nortr. To those his armies broke, the Enorns, the Northern Isles, the Primeveans his Thrakheddenol sold into Drakhullic slavery, he is remembered in different terms.
• YanterrKing of the Northern Isles and great-grandfather of Þordil the Great; legendary Kiegzorn raider slain during his final two-year campaign against the coast of Telnon.
• JolimEldest son of Yanterr Wave-master and a king of the Northern Isles; lost at sea to a leviathan, returned years later, and perished without heir during the Drakhullic invasion of the Northern Isles.
• MaelarStrongest and most blood-driven of Jargsnek's sons; reputed vampire, murderer of any deemed unnecessary to his rule, perpetrator of three acts of fratricide and an attempted patricide, and the malevolent cousin from whom Jargsnek (in the Redeemed saga) ultimately defended his nephews.