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North Branch between Culber and James I.
The nine generations of the northern branch have not yet been listed by name.
The rise of the Old Norse Empire › North on the brink of chaos
At the turn of the fifth millennium BC, northern Ulvenor was a troubled and fragmented land. The human tribes lived here scat…
Northern campaign of Leo II. against the gnomes
Northern campaign of Leo II. against the gnomes was the first major campaign after th…
Northern campaign of Leo II. against the gnomes › An attack where no one expected it
…dent. Instead of defending, he attacked north against the gnomes. In doing so, he disrupted the logic of the entire enemy coa…
Northern campaign of Leo II. against the gnomes › Dividing the opponent
…fter Luna. Meanwhile, Leo was advancing north, capturing cities and bringing an energy to the war that the coalition hadn't e…
Northern campaign of Leo II. against the gnomes › From Campaign to Empire
The northern campaign eventually led not only to the weakening of the gnomes, but also to…
Northern defenses against goblin raids under Magnus VI.
Northern fights against goblin raids during the reign of Magnus VI. they were not one…
Northern defenses against goblin raids under Magnus VI. › A war without a single battlefield
Orcs did not conduct a classic campaign with one big objective and one decisive army. They attacked quickly, burned, loo…
Northern defenses against goblin raids under Magnus VI. › Flags out of rhythm
… created for organized conflict. In the north, however, he encountered an opponent who refused to accept this rhythm. Magnus …
Battle of Skal Reker › Northern pressure at the time of a depleted empire
… goblin groups began to increase in the north. They gradually occupied the borderlands and tested how far they could go again…
Northern Watchpost › Places of Story Significance
A northern sentinel or defensive point.
Northern Stone Gate › Places of Story Significance
A significant northern gate or passage.
Northern Trade Route › Places of Story Significance
A trading route heading through the north.
Northern Gate of the Stone Crown › Places of Story Significance
An important passage into the region of the Stone Crown.
Continent of Ulvenor › North, South, East, and West
The north is a land of cold, mountains, dwarven halls, old passes, and threats that come …
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains
The northeastern Hroidetur Mountains are among the harshest and least hospitable regions …
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Character of the Mountains
Hroidetur lies east of the dwarven Stone Crown, and for most of ancient history it was considered an inhospitable and no…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Ancient Settlement and Development
In ancient times, various groups of Beta humanoids passed around Hroidetur, but few saw it as a true home. The lack of f…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › A Landscape Without Mercy
Hroidetur is not a range of rich mines, fertile valleys, or safe trade roads. Most of its surface is sharp stone, cold c…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Goblins, Gnomes, and Hard Life
Hroidetur is one of the few regions of Ulvenor where two very different models of survival formed side by side over the …
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Dangers and Unique Nature
Although Hroidetur is generally inhospitable, it also hides places of remarkable natural beauty and unique vegetation. I…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Importance for the Present World
Hroidetur was never the center of a great empire, but it repeatedly shaped the history of neighboring powers. The Reker …
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Reker Rocks
The Reker Rocks lie on the border between the Empire and the western edge of Hroidetur. They are sparsely inhabited, but…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Nolomb Wastes
The Nolomb Wastes earned their nickname, the Wastes of the First Goblins, after the end of the Beta humanoid period, whe…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Sharp Rocks
The Sharp Rocks are the largest and most distinctive part of the Hroidetur Mountains. Their cliffs are so steep that eve…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Eagle Hills
The Eagle Hills are the liveliest and culturally most distinctive part of Hroidetur. Unlike most of the range, they were…
Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Towers on the Border
One of the defensive towers near the Reker Rocks has stopped sending signals, and the border command fears that goblin w…
Division of the Empire of Magnursar › Northern Hold
The Northern Hold of the Empire is historically one of the richest layers of the human wo…
Heartlands of Magnur › Northern March
The Northern March is one of the busiest and wealthiest parts of the Heartlands. Its impo…
Great Plains › Northern and Southern Face of the Plains
The northern part of the Great Plains is more conflict-ridden. It is here that the steppe…
Frozen Stones › Northern Gate and the Void of the North
…In 360 after the imperial calendar, the Northern Gate was built as the last of the four great gates of the dwarven realm. It …
Frozen Stones › Northern Gate of the Stone Crown
The Northern Gate stands on the southern edge of the former Kingdom of the Frozen Stones …
Ruler I.
…le to unite the scattered tribes of the north into one functional state entity. His ability to unite the various races and cr…
The formation of the Stone Crown
…que system of shared rule that kept the north of Ulvenor stable for thousands of years.
Expanding the Stone Crown
…ontrolled almost the entire mountainous north. However, it was at this time that the seeds of the future crisis arose.
Birth of the Liche
…nto a single force. In the quiet of the north, a threat begins to grow that could change the balance of the entire continent.
Stone Crown
…r. On the surface it is an inhospitable northern mountain massif, but beneath its rocks lies a vast world of halls, mines, fo…
Stone Crown › Stone Crown Mountains
The Stone Crown Mountains on the surface feel like a hard and unkind land of cold, rocks, steep slopes, and deep passes.…
Frozen Stones
…st great dwarven territories in the far north of Ulvenor. Dwarves settled them already in the prehistoric period around the y…
Wor-ag
…to fame during the campaign against the northwestern provinces of the empire during the reign of Frederik II. He entered hist…
The rise of the Old Norse Empire
…reate a stable multiracial state in the north of Ulvenor. By uniting human tribes, dwarves and other nations under the leader…
The Battle of Velvet Meadows
…d the Emperor to accept the loss of the northwestern provinces.
Gnome Kingdom
… technically skilled communities living northeast of Magnur and south of the Sharp Rocks. For a long time it belonged among t…
Division of the Empire of Magnursar
…hin a hold, while the western, eastern, northern, and southern holds name broader parts of the realm. The farther one moves f…
Heartlands of Magnur
The Heartlands of Magnur form the immediate core around the capital and represent the oldest territorial foundation of M…
Lawrence I. The last king of war › Disintegrating supremacy and closed Northern Trade Route
…g situation on almost all sides. In the north, the pressure of the gnomes grew, in the west, kobolds began to penetrate the w…
Frederik II Tough › Defeat in the Northwest
…reign was the kobold incursion into the northwest of the empire, that is, into the area that belonged to the last major secti…
Lich of the North
The Lich of the North is one of the most dangerous creatures in contemporary Ulvenor. Originally a gn…
Lich of the North › A gnome who sought answers in death
Before becoming a Lich, he was a gnome and a shaman whose name was lost in time. He came from a culture that valued know…
Lich of the North › The Birth of Necromancy
Necromancy was not a ready-made school of magic in his time, which he would only discover in forgotten books. She was hi…
Lich of the North › Journey to the Frozen Stones
… made his way to the Frozen Stones, the northernmost regions of Ulvenor, where the ruins of an old dwarven kingdom lay. This …
Lich of the North › A spell turned against its master
His greatest experiment was to be the highlight of his life. He wanted to cross the line between life and death, disconn…
Lich of the North › The body that waited
It remained hidden in the north for centuries and millennia. Ice, stone, and dark magic kept his body on the ed…
Lich of the North › The Awakening of 1177
In 1177, an expedition was sent to the north that found his body and with it records written in a language that almost no on…
Lich of the North › Silent Lord of the North
…e the idea that once brought him to the northern ruins: to create an order in which death will not be an end, but a tool. A r…
Lich of the North › A threat to Ulvenor
The lich from the north is dangerous precisely because it does not hurry. He lets the living nations wa…
Urgior › Durbuluk of the new north
…d to be just a fragmented threat to the northern regions. They began to act as a more organized force, capable of planning, n…
Lich from the North Gate
The Lich of the North Gate is a mysterious being first reported by frightened dwarves during the reig…
Lich from the North Gate › News from the dwarves
…e from the dwarves who claimed that the North Gate was no longer safe. Their fright was alarming in itself, for dwarves are n…
Lich from the North Gate › Expedition of twenty
Untred V. did not take the threat lightly. He sent ten brave mages and ten of the best knights to volunteer for the expe…
Lich from the North Gate › Secrets of the Modern Empire
…rehended by normal means. Lich from the North Gate thus stands on the border of history and legend. Its existence could be th…
Goblin incursion to the northeast
Goblin Incursion to the Northeast under Untred II. it was one of the first major tests of the empire's new de…
Goblin incursion to the northeast › The threat coming from the ruined neighbors
The goblin army that turned towards the Imperial borders was not an isolated marauding group, but a force that had alrea…
Goblin incursion to the northeast › Towers, Time and Imperial Banners
Orcs were incapable of effective siege warfare, but their strength lay in speed and pillaging. This is precisely why the…
Goblin incursion to the northeast › The first proof of the value of the third line
From a military point of view, it was not the greatest victory of the epoch, but an event of extraordinary long-term sig…
Loss of Northwestern Provinces
The loss of the northwestern provinces was one of the biggest geopolitical shocks of Frederik II's re…
Loss of Northwestern Provinces › Northwest as a weak point of the empire
The northwest was one of those parts of the empire that remained more vulnerable than oth…
Loss of Northwestern Provinces › Three quests and one humiliating awakening
…hird was supposed to finally return the northwest to imperial control. Instead, disaster struck. In the Battle of Velvet Mead…
Loss of Northwestern Provinces › A border that never came back
…d to accept a truce and accept that the northwestern provinces would be lost. A new centralized state did not emerge here, as…
The Lich's Menace at the North Gate
The Lich's threat at the North Gate is one of the most disturbing events of the current era. The dwarves broug…
The Lich's Menace at the North Gate › Frightened dwarves
…ng news to the Imperial Court about the North Gate. They claimed that the area was no longer safe and that a being capable of…
The Lich's Menace at the North Gate › Twenty chosen ones
Untred V. decided to listen to the dwarves' request. He sent ten brave mages and ten of the best knights who volunteered…
The Lich's Menace at the North Gate › Silence after the expedition
However, around twenty, the ground collapsed. No knight returned, no mage and no reliable report. The silence that follo…
Battle of Jitron › Jitron as the key to the Northeast
…s of strategic importance to the entire northeast of the human world. As long as he stood outside of Magnurian control, he wa…
The Battle of Velvet Meadows › The third expedition against the northwest
…erik II faced a long-term crisis in the northwest. Supported by smaller dwarven colonies and the remnants of goblin tribes, t…
Battle of the Northeast Wall
The Battle of the Northeast Wall represented one of the first major tests of the newly reformed army of…
Battle of the Northeast Wall › Raid against the new empire
…the empire faced further raids from the northeast. Orc groups relied on speed, pillage, and chaos, a style of combat that in …
Battle of the Northeast Wall › Formation against chaos
At the Northeast Wall, the new imperial military logic collided with the enemy's old style. …
Battle of the Northeast Wall › Victory of the new army
…ne functioning whole. The Battle of the Northeast Wall is therefore remembered as a practical confirmation of Engelbrekt's ru…
Age of the First Empires › The Northern Empire, Orcs, and the First Human States
In the north arose the Old Norse Empire, one of the most important early multiracial states.…