Demons of Tryed - Introduction

On 64th of Winter of the year 684 of Epoch the ground shook and there was a great light coming from the Hardlands of Noom.  The Coming of Demons, though it was only much later recognized as such, heralded arrival of the new force into this world that would remove the old order and bring decades-long War of the Curse.  Numerous realms in Tryed and Elleom have disappeared under the demon Hordes, while others have collaplsed under the burden of the war; it took nearly seventy years to turn back the tide of demons, finally removing the Red King in the Battle of Omeon Keep on 14th of Summer in 753.

Still little is understood regarding why the Demons came here, and we have only slight knowledge on how they arrived.  After the final attack on the Red King's stronghold in the Battle of Omeon Valley, King Otner said that he gleaned some of the Red King's mind and saw that the Demons arrived in a great Vessel that was found in the heart of Omeon keep, travelling over one hundred thousand years between the worlds, finally emerging in the Hardlands.  He could not discern why they left, only that there were none more coming after.

Demons of Tryed - Chapter 1: First Steps in Noom (684-689)

1.1 First Steps

For the first few years after the Vessel arrived into Omeon Valley there was little indication of upcoming upheaval.  The Hardlands of Noom are a difficult place to live: little rain falls there, the river beds snaking through the lands rarely have water in them, and the few plants that grow in the hard soil are not edible by people or livestock.  Before coming of demons Omeon Valley itself was a dry, unwelcoming empty valley running through South-Central Noom.  The Vessel emerged into the part of the valley that was a hundred and fifty farthens north of Roevar Mountains, far from where people went; the only regular track through the area was Yolü Road that hugged the coast of Sea of Frell to the east; Rundrow's Road, the only path that crossed the hardlands, has not been used for almost a century since the principalities of Roevar Mountains allowed Slonean and Lechowian caravans to pass on their way northwest.  Nearest settlements, small villages of the coastal sheyrates, were over a hundred farthens away.