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Lowlands Region (NA - NA)
Plains region around the Endalm Mountain.
1264
Clyffen fights under an Urfall Grasslands lord against Lowlands forces east of the River Endalm.
1265
Clyffen continues campaigning in the Lowlands.
1270
Lowlands invaders force Clyffen from Kantoo.
1272
Around this time, Clyffen begins converting to the Mother and Her Six Prophets from the Pantheon. Few people from Urfall believed in the Mother during Clyffen's youth. The Pantheon had a strong grip on the Lowlands. Merrod had a decent mix of religions and beliefs, but the Mother and Her Six prophets had by this time gained a strong, if small, following in the south.
1282
Clyffen, still with vast unused resources bestowed on him by Moer Hernoldfen three years prior, moves to Jorfen and builds a new learning center to spread the frontier of Mother Egu's reach, knowing the Plains and Lowlands are essentially devoid of Mother Egu's tenets.
1292
During one of many standard short expeditions across Tonful Serpent to preach, Clyffen and his men are intercepted by Lowlands troops and taken captive.
1295
Gennor joins a mission keeper's impromptu scout force to travel north into the Lowlands and seek information on Clyffen's whereabouts.
Disappointed with the leadership and control of the mission keeper on his first expedition into the Lowlands, Gennor gathers his own group of volunteers and travels north.
Gennor's group capture and kill many Lowlands people while gathering information on Clyffen's confinement.
Gennor leads a second group into the Lowlands, capturing three family members of an important Lowlands figure.
1296
Clyffen Mission negotiate Clyffen's release with his Lowlands captors.
Gennor leads the group to drop his captives back in the Lowlands in exchange for Clyffen. Clyffen is released and returns to the mission.
1300
Clyffen Mission establishes a defined rank system: Missionary, Clyffenman, Eguman (Man of Egu), Mission Keeper, and Mission Master. The majority of the members of the mission fall into the militaristic category of Clyffenmen. The Mission Keepers are enthusiastic about the system because they get more individual power, while Gennor likes the changes because they address the snake without a head situation seen when Clyffen was held captive in the Lowlands.
1316
Clyffen Mission captures and controls much of the Garien Stretch to prevent Lowlands raiders from accessing the Tonful's Shadows mining population, allowing better focus to be placed on defending the operations from Plains raiders tot he south.
1340
Mission Master Tyrhen Dul-Hyvak, at the urging of Mission Keepers and the Hernoldfen dynasty, turns his attention to the north. With the Plains raid threat pacified, the Merrod lords want the growing Lowlands threat to be concentrated against Clyffen Mission rather than their own interests; Mission Keepers also eagerly eye the Lowlands lands as more easily settled than the Plains Region.
Clyffen Mission launches a permanent invasion force against the Lowlands to extend Mother Egu's influence in the strong Pantheon area. Clyffen's teachings are prominently recited, with Clyffen's blatant bias against the Lowlands from his lifetime experiences there.
1341
Eager recruits flock to Clyffen Mission for fame and glory... and promise of land and wealth from Mission keepers. Promises of fast track promotions to Clyffenman and Eguman rank and land deals attract many missionaries to fight for Clyffen Mission in the Lowlands. The mass amounts of wealth provided to the Mission keepers from the Hernoldfen Merrod is redistributed to Missionaries that prove themselves in battle. Nobody farmers are able to escape their masters in distant lands, make the long trek to Clyffen Mission, and be wealthy land owning Egumen within months after surviving only a couple of battles at most. Those that do not survive are inexpensive to the Mission. Mother Egu and Clyffen's teachings often take second place to rank advancement and financial compensation. Many Lowlands lords find it more profitable to give up lands to the Mission Keepers in exchange for payment (or perhaps even rank within the Mission) than to fight to hold them. The Mission Keepers are being flooded with money and resources from the east and as long as they continue to use it expanding the buffer between hostile Lowland kingdoms and Merrod, as well as extending Mother Egu's reach, the money will keep coming.
1345
Despite the lack of attention being paid to actually converting and expanding Mother Egu's Tenets and Clyffen's teachings during Clyffen Mission's Lowlands campaign, the religion takes a decent foothold in the area- mostly due to the wealth being flooded into the greater region. Nationalistic pride is non-existent to a commoner, who could become wealthy and possibly even own land overnight by simply cooperating with Clyffen Mission Keepers. The influx of wealth to the simple folk is then often attributed to Mother Egu, spreading faith. Despite the wide-ranging corruption and self-serving interests amongst most Mission members, a strong core group is devoted to the genuine desire of spreading Mother Egu's tenets and the teachings of Clyffen.
1347
Clyffen Mission continues fighting Lowlands resisters in the north while also facing opportunistic raiders out of the Urfall Grasslands.
1350
Out of money, Mission Keepers and Egumen alike abandon their holdings in the Plains, fleeing back to Clyffen Mission, the Lowlands, or abandoning the region altogether.
A Lowlands army strikes hard out of Merfen, capturing many key Clyffen Mission outposts and strongholds in the Fenhall Plains and North Endalm.
The flow of compensation to Lowlands lords staying complacent to Clyffen Mission occupation starts coming to a halt.
1351
Egumen in key posts in the Lowlands begin to abandon their positions, with the promises of wealth and land being unfulfilled, mercenary forces abandon the Mission Keepers that recruited them, leaving only the devoted and devout Egumen and Clyffenmen behind.
Clyffen Mission Keepers attempt to fortify key positions in the Lowlands and northern Plains in order to maintain control or the areas.
Clyffen Mission Keepers retreat even closer towards Clyffen Mission, vastly decreasing the radius of attempted control, only maintaining hold of a few outposts in the Lowlands and some land along Tonful's Shadow.
1352
Clyffen Mission is forced to concede and abandon most outposts in the Lowlands.
1353
Clyffen Mission's strongly fortified Garien Stretch holds well against attempted Lowlands invasions. Mission Keepers actually join in the fighting personally for the first time in years- due to necessity and vested interest in defending their Stewardships.
1418
Pavel arranges to have Herber travel through Durnhall to the Dranmeck Sea, around the continent to the Caleronia Sea, then through the Lowlands to Merrod and finally to Teymon.
1424
Cyfurrel II travels to Castle Eglin in the Lowlands via the Trefel River and through Merrod, stopping for a week at Jorfen for a festival. The journey to the Halland Slopes takes about 50 days.
1433
Cyfurrel II hires Jormal Shayson and a troop of 6,000 riders out of the Lowlands. Jormal brings 500 of his own mercenaries. The riders travel to Port of Errfulfel, Jormal and his group travel to Ortund.
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