Stonegrave Valley

The Stonegrave Valley is a nation built on war. It was forged with the blood of many a people, and the steel of a great Nation. Lord Marak Stonegrave rules the Valley with the way a true barbarian should, fear. He is considered one of many great rulers, formerly the ruler of the Frozen North, or well one of the Tribes of it, he decided to break off from them, and make his own Nation.

Marak was one of the three Barbarian Lords to save the North from the Grey Dragon, Helrion, the Great Grey Dragon saw fit to devastate the world, and freeze it over, and so the Frozen North, which was once a beautiful and lush green-land, sits as a reminder of what devastation Dragons inflict on people. The whole North was frozen over, and until Marak, his Father Lorev, and his brother Karo, went and faced the Dragon, the two dying in battle with the beast, as Marak left, with the Gem of Grey, the legendary Gem of the Great Grey Dragon.

Marak returned to the North a hero, and the obtained his fathers position on the Northern Council, but Marak was not pleased with this, so he decided he would leave. He took the most loyal followers and made his way south into the hills of the valley, now called the Stonegrave Valley, even in the cold north, the first springs that were in this Valley, kept everything warm, crops could grow as well. But it was not always peaceful here.

When Marak first forged the Stonegrave Valley, he did not take the fact that the former Council of the North would be upset with this betrayal. The Northernmen called for war with the Valley, in which Marak responded the only way he knew how, with steel and blood. He sent out for war, with a meagre host, however the Northern's did not plan for the heat the valley would hold.

Before the Host arrived at the camp that Marak set up, half the army was dead, from heat exhaustion, the other half too beat down and tired to fight. Marak gave them refugee, offered them a place amongst his people. Many and more took to it, with eagerness.

Marak then formed a truce between the Valley and the North. Agreeing both nations would live in peace from one another, and neither would war with the other. All would be well and safe in both nations. As well that no harm would come to either nations people.