Kerweg Star System

Kerweg Star System

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History

Kerweg… few star systems in Drala have a history as stubbornly bloodied and as steeped in shifting banners. I have walked its fields, felt the weight of its still air, and heard the old hunters swear they could hear the howls of the Cursed under a silver moon. Perhaps they imagine it. Perhaps they do not.

The Galans of the 12th Fleet of Mann were the first to tame its soil, forging the Galan Star Kingdom of Kerweg long before the Feyan Conquest. Under the Dominion’s hand it prospered, not broken, but reshaped, its cities dressed in Feyan stone and its halls echoing with the measured cadence of the Faith.

When the Feyans withdrew from Drala, Kerweg did not fall silent. A Feyan–Galan realm rose in the gap, ruled by those who still bore the habits of the old order. That peace ended under King Ealhflaed Magon Ghostborn, Ealhflaed the Shield-Guardian, whose Star Kingdom of Magon was a union of fiercely loyal clans unlike many others I have known. Their banners flew with rare unity, their loyalty to their tribal lord fierce as iron.

Yet even such bonds do not hold forever. King Cwenhild the Warlord of the Old Ways of Angul came in fury to Kerweg, and the Battle of Kerweg was fought in blood and fire. Cwenhild’s fleet shattered the fleets of King Oslac the Storm Blade of Vota, killing him in battle. The tales say Oslac prayed for the lives of his guards when he knew death was upon him, a rare grace among kings. It did not spare him from the indignity that followed, for Cwenhild had his head and limbs torn away and displayed upon stakes. In that same battle, King Orva Umbra Strongborn fell, but Angul claimed the greater prize, Kerweg itself.

King Uhtred the Great later wove Kerweg into the great stone-and-void work known as Uhtred’s Boundary, a chain of star fortresses meant to hold back Combrogi raiders from the northwest. I have seen its ruins, in their day, they were the teeth of a lion.

Then came the Great Savage Crusade, and with it, the unmaking of much that had been. In 30,148 AA, the Skane warlords struck Kerweg’s heart at Scirop. There they toppled the Great Feyan Temple of the People’s Light, raised generations earlier by the blood of Cwenhild’s own line. The Star Kingdom of Angul fell that year, and Uhtred’s Boundary, once a proud shield, was abandoned to dust and silence.

In the Crusade’s wake, Kerweg became a harbor for the victors. The Skanes gathered there in 30,192 AA, repairing their hulls and filling their holds. Yet in time, the realm’s tattered lords began to stitch together their strength. Bjorn the Lord of Angul built the Starhold of Brycge in 30,224 AA and Witentreu in 30,226 AA, great bastions to anchor Kerweg anew. Bjorn even moved relics of Feyan heroes to Scirop, far from Skane hands, perhaps hoping strong defenses could shield memory itself.

Still, Kerweg is more than war and conquest. Plaesc, one of its proudest worlds, was the last stand of Tribe Magon before they bent the knee to the Strongborn kings. Scirop became a royal mint and hoard under High King Wulfrun the Elder’ in 30,236 AA, stamping the coin of Drala with the weight of its history. And always there are the whispers, that Kerweg was once the cradle of a Wergh-cursed bloodline, purged by Feyan zeal, yet never truly erased. Those who know its wild places say the night there still belongs to the howl.

Kerweg’s banners have changed more times than I can count, but its character has not. It remains a place where loyalty is given hard, vengeance harder still, and where, beneath the work of kings and conquerors, the old bones of the Galan realm lie waiting.