Massacre of Year 280

In the year 280 Lumin, Gorn, and Shvon were in the midst of a trade agreement with the northern country of Enochria on Southern Khaen-Maal in which Shameah would supply the north with extra weapons for the soldiers fighting against Saerodin and Enochria would supply Shameah with Infused Hontoa to use against Shan-Sho. In the third month a group of traders set sail south from the Bay of Blo’Sharr to Jemko with enough Fire-Infused Hontoa to decimate an entire fleet. The trading ship however was ambushed in the night roughly 100 leagues north of Shameah by masked bandits. Every trader on the ship was slain, but the bandits, not knowing what the cargo was, thinking it was gold, beached the ship. When the ship hit the beach, one which was just north of Jemko, the entire ship exploded and killed all the bandits instantly.

Lumin, Gorn and Shvon, thinking this was the doing of Shan-Sho sent a fleet to go raid the island of Talton and try to kill of the rest of the dictatorship. The raiding party was known to be coming by Shan-Sho because of spies in the capitol. The raiding party was quickly dealt with and Shan-Sho immediately tasked a counter force comprised of assassins to infiltrate the capitol.

One month later Lumin, Shvon, and Gorn were in a meeting with their council when a guest arrived. The estranged man claimed to be from Saerodin, a refugee. He asked for help to save his people, which Shvon knew was the code. Men emerged from the corners of council room and slit the throats of Lumin and Gom, their lifeless bodies sliding towards the ground while the refugee removed his mask and congratulated his associate.

Shvon’s men then killed the supposed refugee, Shan-Sho, who was completely unaware he was being double crossed, by sending their spears straight through his knees and letting him suffer until death. The banners of Shvon fell down over the palace in Jemko and all of Angrar with the exception of Gorn’s land, which fell under the control of a new leader. Gorn’s son Jerath took over the lands of Gorn and led a rebellion against the traitor to Shameah. This dawned the first day of the Second Great Shamean War.

People throughout the streets in Jemko celebrated that the leader who had for so long placed such a burden on them was dead, and Talton also fell under the grasp of Shvon. Voljysik held true to their old alliances with Gorn and sent thousands of soldiers to fight to keep Jeraths’s land free. In the north The Grand Council of Elders and Magistrates was shocked, but refused to diverge their focus from Saerodin.