Aerdi History

  Erian the Able, 3rd Grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy Born -253 CY, Died -181 CY Reigned -198 to -181 CY A Flan druid of the Northern Tribes in a trance 5 th  century OR Art by E ven Amundsen To understand the next phase of Erian’s reign it is necessary to discuss the mysterious Ur-Flan, for they would be at the core of the resistance to the expansion of the Kingdom of Aerdi in the north for roughly the next two centuries( 1 ). It is known that the Flan tribes of the north were related to the Flan tribes who originally had lived in the alluvial plains of the central lands of Aerdy. The latter had been conquered and displaced first by the Suloise and then the Oeridian tribes who had pushed into those lands   ahead of the Aerdi, in the early 3 rd century OR. The only written records that existed describing them were from the Suloise who the Aerdi later conquered. From the Zelrad we know that many of these Flan tribes were being pushed into Ehlissa by the conquests of Lum the

Erian the Able, 3rd Grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy Born -253 CY, Died -181 CY Reigned -198 to -181 CY Uerri the Wise, King of the Iron Hills 232 C Y Art by  Arthur Bozonnet The beginning of -197 CY saw Erian firmly ensconced as grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy. Ascending from his position as chancellor to Grand Prince required no real change in power as he bent to the tasks of maintaining the peace and expanding trade and establishing foreign relations. The clearest foreign threats to Aerdy were to the southwest, in the Suloise-dominated Union of Ehlissa and Zelrad, and to the northwest in the Oeridian Kingdom of Nehron which continued to cultivate relations with the Flan Kingdom of Lathu. Urnst exchanged emissaries with Aerdy but preferred to trade with the Oeridian nations closer to their borders. Many in that nation still regarded the Aerdy as little more civilized than their barbarian ancestors who had served as mercenaries for the Urnsti in their war against Lum th

Erian the Able, 3 rd Grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy Born -253 CY, Died -181 CY Reigned -198 to -181 CY Princess Marberga, Niece of Fasstal Landrav of the Union of Ehlissa-Zelrad Sophia Myles in Tristan and Isolde (2006) In the summer of -198 CY in the Kingdom of Aerdy, a rebellion broke out among the primarily Flannish population of the Duchy of Serumaran in what the Aerdi were now calling Ahlissa( 1 ). While the newly ennobled Duke of Serumaran, Magno of the house of Darmen was perfectly capable of putting down the rebellion, his uncle by marriage, Erian, Duke of Jalpa, uncle of Grand Prince Gilbra, and the Aerdy chancellor was not as sure of his diplomatic skills. The Duke was anxious of the possibility of antagonizing the union of Ehlissa-Zelrad to the south with which Aerdy had just a few years prior signed a peace treaty with after annexing a considerable part of the old Queendom of Ehlissa. Tensions were high with the Kingdom of Nehron to the north. The monarch of th