Kelmourne

The Kingdom of Kelmourne was founded in 570 (Old Calendar), when Lord Kelmourne escaped from occupied Cardmoor with his followers. An old noble family belonging to the Church of the Four, the Kelmournes founded the Kingdom of Kelmourne on Haugenik land in the southeastern corner of Amartain.

The Kingdom of Kelmourne expanded, pushing against Dolendor and containing the Haugeniks into the Esterlands. Geldren is discovered in Tammelhorne around year 700, ultimately giving Kelmourne a strong military advantage.

Kelmourne conquers Dolendor completely in the 9th century, and reaches an accommodation with the remaining Haugeniks, claiming the Esterlands as part of the Kingdom of Kelmourne but allowing self-rule by House Waerhaug.

For many years, Kelmourne was composed of several regions and dukedoms, each with their own ruling family, all answerable to the King but constantly jockeying for power and influence. These included:


 * Cantrell
 * Dolendor, which retained much of its original culture despite having been conquered by Kelmourne.
 * The Esterlands, home to the Haugeniks and similarly unassimilated
 * Garanth
 * Grimhelm
 * King's Land, home to the capital city of Kelmaraine
 * Ovderam
 * The Swath
 * Tammelhorne

In 1358, a civil war begins in Dolendor, leading Prince Rion Mattanhaft to wield the Deathblade and ultimately begin the War of the Dead. Kelmourne is subsumed by the undead army through the 1360s, with only scattered holdouts. The Kingdom of Kelmourne essentially ended at this point, though Ayla Tammelhorne crowned Desmon Mattanhaft, her and Rion's son, King following Desmon's defeat of his father in the climactic battle at the end of the War of the Dead. Desmon ruled Tammelhorne from Horne's Deep, claiming all of Kelmourne, until his death. Isador Hellfish succeeded him after the revelation that they had been secretly married, but accepted the title of Duchess of Tammelhorne with fealty pledged to the Triumvirate, ending the existence of Kelmourne as a separate Kingdom.