Ilduvar

The Kingdom of Ilduvar, also known as the Kingdom of Anderia, was an island kingdom prominent among the Western Nations and the birthplace of the ancient Anderian Empire. Ilduvar was located in the Elder Sea, separated from the northwestern coast of Iadria and Adovias as a whole by the Strait of Vehihr. Ilduvaran history is intertwined with that of the Anderian Empire, which was ruled from the Anderian Peninsula on the isle of Ilduvar. When the Empire was destroyed in the Fourth Age Collapse, its Ilduvaran heartland bore much of the burden, falling into a state of steep decline over the following centuries. Deprived of its glorious empire, the now-isolated Kingdom of Ilduvar emerged from the ruins of the great civilization that came before it. Large swathes of the island were destroyed or left lifeless in the cataclysms of the Collapse, creating the cursed Ahmgar Isle and the Deadwood among other scars on the landscape. The Drow of the southern wood would also prove to be a constant menace to the nascent Kingdom, harrying supply lines and raiding villages before vanishing into the dark treeline. Despite these dangers to its stability, Ilduvar persevered, forging strong ties with Midaria, Kestalor, and several Iadrian kingdoms during the Fifth Age. Ilduvar, aided by its scholars of Antedarium and their collaboration with Leogoth, was one of the few Anderian successor states to preserve the Calendar of Aerodran and knowledge of the Three Great Empires in the immediate aftermath of the Collapse. The patriarchs of Leogoth and Anderium acted as dual heads of the Cult of Edos, a situation which would endure and unite most of the Western Nations in faith until Leogoth’s deification of Jareche Asterion led to the Great Schism of 6A 55. This split between Iadria and its neighbors prompted Ilduvar to assume full leadership of the clergy, propelling the Kingdom to international significance unseen since the Fourth Age. As a result, Sixth Age Ilduvar was largely motivated by revanchist sympathies, driven to restore its continental holdings in opposition to Iadrian interests. By the mid-Sixth Age, the most successful of these ventures had resulted in the creation of a colonial administration in western Nadash on the coast of Sethuria.