Navarr history

Centuries before the Empire was formed, the Navarri built great cities across what are now Imperial lands. As the years passed they used more and more magic to increase the bounty of the lands until they became dependent upon it. In the end, disaster struck, their most powerful magics unwinding and pulling the Vallorn into this world from the Realm of Spring. The cities were slowly consumed by forest, and though the Navarri tried everything to stop the Vallorn, in the end they had no choice but to abandon their homes.

The heroine now known only as Navarr and her lover Thorn gave their lives at the inception of powerful ritual to keep the Vallorn from spreading uncontrollably across the whole land. The original ritual took decades to weave, and still requires the Navarr in their Stridings to walk the lines of magic that surrounded the Vallorn, to keep the magic alive and the Vallorn in check. At this time the first Steadings formed to fight the monsters of the Vallorn.

These lines of magic are now the Trods, which the Navarri still walk to this day, still keeping the Vallorn in check.

In time, the nations that now form the Empire coalesced and grew to their prime. The Navarri had little interest in the affairs of other people, but they soon realized that war between the nations was bad for the Navarri Stridings travelling between them. As a result they worked to remain neutral and used their impartiality to try and keep conflict between the nations to a minimum, an essential task if the Trods were to remain open.

The First Empress is one of the Navarri’s greatest heroines. It is popularly held amongst the Navarri that Navarri blood ran thick in her family’s veins and there had long been a great friendship between her house and the Navarri. With such ties the Navarri rallied early to the Empire’s cause, its goals and philosophies striking a resonant chord deep in their hearts. The Navarri Stridings became the standard-bearers for the Empire carrying its message to the scattered human nations.