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Clyffen (1247-1300,53)
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Notable figure amongst worshipers of Egu, founder of Clyffen Mission.
1247
Clyffen is born to notable parents north of the Urfall River in the Urfall Grasslands.
1264
Clyffen fights under an Urfall Grasslands lord against Lowlands forces east of the River Endalm.
1265
Clyffen continues campaigning in the Lowlands.
1266
Clyffen returns home to the Urfall Grasslands.
1268
Clyffen is granted an estate and lands at Kantoo.
1270
Lowlands invaders force Clyffen from Kantoo.
Clyffen leaves Urfall, heading west to the Caleronia Sea just south of the Breezer Mountains. Having heard much of Meht's prowess, Clyffen desires to travel up the sea to Meht to join and fight against the Fernmelk invaders.
Unable to travel to Meht past Domdor, Clyffen goes south east from the Breezer Mountains through Merfen and the Fenhall Plains to Tonful's Shadow.
1271
Clyffen, after a very short venture as a miner/mine owner, leaves Tonful's shadow for Cremton Hold.
Clyffen leaves Cremton Hold shortly before the city is destroyed by Plains raiders.
Clyffen travels to the small town of Jorfen and works a farming estate.
1272
Clyffen supposedly meets Renoldson at Jorfen.
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.
1273
Clyffen, now with reasonable wealth, departs Jorfen, desiring to head to prophets Meeting.
Clyffen travels down the Swat to Haffa on his way to Prophets Meeting. But he is turned back due to a large presence of Plains raiders.
Clyffen ends up in Elnock Refuge.
Clyffen becomes a courtier for the ruler of Elnock, Moer Hernoldfen, who at this time controls most of the Tonful Valley, down to Lernon.
Clyffen begins teaching about the Mother and Her Six Prophets to members of the Elnock court.
1274
Moer Hernoldfen takes notice of Clyffen's knowledge of Egu.
Moer Hernoldfen begins attending some of Clyffen's court sermons about Egu.
1275
Moer Hernoldfen attributes a great victory in a civil war battle to Clyffen's words on Egu and hires Clyffen as a religious and moral tutor for his grandchildren.
1276
Clyffen writes a few short documents as notes for his teaching of Mother Egu.
1279
Moer Hernoldfen grants Clyffen a span of land south of Elnock and resources to build a temple to spread the word of Egu.
Clyffen refues to construct a temple like that of the Pantheon and instead builds a great learning center, employing dozens of orators to study the Tenets and then travel the Tonful Valley preaching of Egu to the people.
1280
Clyffen travels between Elnock and his learning center several times a year, with residences in both locations.
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.
1286
Clyffen recognizes an overlap of influence between his two learning centers and pushes the boundary of his influence west, to Tonful Serpent, and builds a religious mission there. The location is not within friendly lands. The Hernoldfen dynasty provides him with renewed resources and wealth to establish the mission. Many mercenaries are hired out of foreign lands to garrison the mission.
1287
Helmuk begins to train extremely hard with fellow mission mercenaries. He also begins to actually listen to some of Clyffen's teachings.
Clyffen is named in Moer Hernoldfen's will to receive a large amount of monetary wealth to continue spreading Mother's tenets.
Clyffen invests nearly all of the wealth inherited from Moer into his mission along Tonful Serpent.
Helmuk becomes close with Clyffen, taken by his teachings and methods.
1288
Clyffen appoints Mission leaders from within, picking several of the devout mercenary leaders as Keepers of the Mission, resulting in an overly militaristic leadership.
Clyffen travels to his learning centers in an attempt to secure positive relations with the new ruling lords (following Hernoldfen's death) and to keep the learning centers running properly. Helmuk participates in the travels.
1290
Gennor meets Clyffen and Helmuk while Clyffen is visiting the Jorfen Learning Center.
1291
Clyffen returns to Clyffen Mission and resumes work in the area. Helmuk remans in Jorfen to learn to read and write better at the Learning Center.
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.
1293
Word of Clyffen's capture reaches the Jorfen Clyffen Learning Center.
Gennor travels to Clyffen Mission, joining their ranks. He trades in the comforts of the urban Jorfen Learning Center for the frontier at the Mission with the hopes of not only helping to spread Mother Egu's tenets in the region, but also to aid in the rescue of Clyffen.
1294
Gennor finds life at Clyffen Mission to be rugged and difficult. The absence of the mission leader Clyffen leaves the place like a snake without a head. The appointed keepers are disorganized and unable to cooperate.
1295
Gennor joins a mission keeper's impromptu scout force to travel north into the Lowlands and seek information on Clyffen's whereabouts.
Gennor's group capture and kill many Lowlands people while gathering information on Clyffen's confinement.
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.
Gennor is recognized by Clyffen for his outstanding service and is officially put in charge of the mission's self education.
1298
Clyffen dispatches men from his mission to act as defensive units to protect the new Merrod mining establishments from Plains raiders.
1300
Clyffen commits suicide at Clyffen Mission.
The men at Clyffen Mission continue to maintain the location and bury Clyffen on the grounds.
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.
1301
The Clyffen Learning Centers in Elnock and Jorfen fall under the jurisdiction and command of the local Hernoldfen dynasty lords. They continue spreading Clyffen's teachings but in a nationalistically perverted way.
1334
Mission Master Tyrhen Dul-Hyvak reorganizes many of Clyffen Mission's functions and operations, putting greater focus back on Mother Egu and Clyffen's teachings.
1340
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.
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