Chapter 3, The Pre-Aerdy Period: The Coming of the Zelrad Suel to Ehlissa
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Zelrad Suel landing in Ehlissa, -400 CY art by Angus McBride Approximately 50 years before the rise of the Kingdom of Thalland and the Medegian Bladelands, the Suel house of Zelrad was driven from the lower Sheldomar Valley by an alliance of their fellow Suel houses of Neheli and Rhola. Led by their fasstal, Anwilya they set out from near what is now the town of Greutam in the Principality of Ulek. Sailing east, they looked for refuge. In the Pomarj they found only other hostile Suel. Landing in the hills east of the Bright Desert, Anwilya’s heir, Vultolf was murdered by seemingly hospitable Flan tribesmen who then treacherously attacked the Fasstal and her party at a welcome feast. Though she lived, the Fasstal was horribly wounded in the retreat to the ships. The Suloise house of Onnwi was more open in their antipathy and several Zelrad ships were burned or captured by the Onnwi in a naval battle that took place on Noxia Bay. Battered and mistrustful, in -400 CY the Zelrad landed on