A century ago, the archdevil Trammon fell upon Yhdora like a plague of fire.
No one agrees where he first broke through. Some say it began in the southern marches, where the earth split and armies of brass and ash marched out. Others blame the high kingdoms of the north, claiming a cabal of mages tried to bargain for power and lost control. Outside the scholar-halls and confessionals, most people simply call it the Infernal War.
- Infernal legions burned their way along the old road network, seizing wayforts, shrines, and river crossings.
- Whole dynasties collapsed in a single campaign season; other lords bent the knee and became Trammon’s clients.
- Ordinary folk survived by fleeing, hiding, or submitting. Some took up arms in desperate levies or mercenary bands.
By the end, vast stretches of countryside were empty—fields gone to scrub, town walls broken, roads cracked and overgrown.
Every realm tells a different story of how Trammon was defeated:
- In some versions, a coalition of realms and churches united long enough to strike a killing blow.
- In others, it was a single doomed order of knights and mages, sacrificing themselves to slam the gates of Hell shut.
- The least popular version whispers that Trammon was betrayed by his own lieutenants, buying Yhdora’s survival at a terrible unseen price.
The truth is muddied by propaganda, lost records, and deliberate forgetting. Most people are simply grateful that the sky no longer burns.
Trammon may be gone, but his legacy is everywhere:
- Ruined forts and waystations still dot the old roads, many of them haunted or crawling with opportunists.
- Certain marshes, hills, and valleys never recovered, their soil tainted or twisted.
- Veteran companies and their descendants—some broken, some proud—still carry the marks of what they did in his service or against it.
- Cults of remembrance and secret devotees of Trammon whisper that the Gilded Sovereign will rise again.
- Whether Trammon was truly destroyed, or merely banished.
- Whether the realms that “collaborated” were traitors, pragmatists, or both.
- Whether the new age of roads and rebuilding is brave… or just an invitation for the next catastrophe.