Aedadruv Star System

Aedadruv Star System

Major Holdings – General Information

History

The Aedadruv Star System

As Told by Witch Lord Bertwin Gisking Bearspear, Keeper of the Old Memory

 

Aedadruv was among the first jewels claimed by the Galans of the 12th Fleet of Mann when they began their long work of settling the Drucos Nebula. In those earliest days, its fertile world was a quiet prize, far from the centers of power, yet blessed with enough rich soil and gentle climate to sustain those who sought a life without the constant shadow of war.

 

Its destiny changed after the Feyan Withdrawal from Drala, when the tides of peoples and loyalties shifted. Many left the Feyan-held world of Scieranwyrhta, seeking more welcoming ground, and they found it in Aedadruv. Scieranwyrhta, a once lush paradise world, now a shattered world caused by warfare. I have read the old ship manifests and the charter rolls, and I have heard the stories from the descendants of those who came, of ships laden with the treasures of old halls, of relics hidden in plain crates, and of hopes heavier than any cargo.

 

In 27,756 AA, the quiet years ended. King Uhtred the Great of the Star Kingdom of Angul took Aedadruv for his realm, binding it into the chain of worlds that made his crown heavy with power. From that moment, Aedadruv’s fate was tied to Angul’s fortunes, its warriors called to fight in foreign campaigns, its ports swelling with ships bearing the Strongborn banner.

 

Centuries later, in the year 30,000 AA, the Starhold of Greim rose above the surface like a clenched fist of stone and alloy, a sentinel to guard Aedadruv’s skies. I have walked its upper battlements, from there, the world seems to curve away in an endless green-blue expanse, the same sight the Galans must have seen when they first claimed it.

 

Aedadruv’s role as a keeper of wealth came in 30,236 AA, when King Wulfrun the Elder ordered the creation of a royal Mint and Hoard. Coins stamped here bore the authority of Dralan kings, and treasures from across the sector were secured in its vaults. To this day, some claim that the deepest levels of Aedadruv and the Greim hold chambers no outsider has ever seen, where the crowns of fallen realms lie beside the ransoms of kings.

 

Aedadruv’s story is not one of constant battle, as so many worlds in Drala can claim, but it has been shaped by the same tides, migration, conquest, fortification, and the gathering of wealth. It is a world that has learned to endure, to welcome the stranger when the times demand it, and to hold fast to what it claims when the winds of war blow once again.