- History
- Creation to War
- War to Chaos
- Chaos to Now - Nations
- Irgar
- Jurica
- Lasinia
- Vegdarbarra
HORIZON IS OVER!
The webpage remains up as a permanent archive of game material, mainly for the benefit of nostalgic players - although if you'd like to run a Horizon-inspired game for your friends, that's wonderful too. Horizon will be succeeded by Legacyin Trinity term of 2006.If you like you can look at the (sketchy, incomplete) GM notes as well.
Vegdarbarra
Vegdarbarra (pronounced Vegg dar ba ra) is a geographically rather than politically marked region, mostly because no one in their right mind would want to live there. It is about 80 miles wide and many thousands of miles long. The land is at the foot of the Wall and so is in its shadow for most of the time. And the lands are dark, cold and icy.
During the Empire
The land was claimed by the Emperor at the end of the First age, having taken all else that was present in the True Lands. The land at point was home only to the occasional shamanic tribe who offered little resistance to the Emperor's well-trained forces.However, about 3000 years ago the outer provinces started to send reports to the city of waves of monsters and daimons coming from Vegdarbarra. The Emperor sent his forces back into Vegdarbarra to purge this threat, wave after wave entered the cold lands and few returned. After almost a hundred years of this the daimons were beaten back into the Treacherous Lands.
The Emperor thus decreed the construction of fortresses to span the length of the Wall so as to halt future waves of daimons. And so a great stone fortress was constructed every 10 miles, each manned by some of the Emperor's finest men. With constant supplies of food and men from the city the forts held the threat and even in some parts managed to repair the Wall where breaches had occurred.
However, this was not to last. In the Third Age the Emperor needed his forces to hold the True Lands from the other nations and so the supply of men dwindled, as did eventually the supplies of food as the Emperor became forgetful in his madness.
In this time many of the forts disintegrated and are now merely ruins. Some continued their noble effort to protect the Empire. Other joined forces and fought against the Empire.
After the Empire
Not much is known about Vegdarbarran history in the time following the Empire's abandonment of the chain of fortresses. The country was controlled by powerful warlords, some of whom led remnants of Imperialist forces and desired the reformation of the empire. Others were power-mad dictators and were in a state of constant warfare with their neighbours. Many of the forts became abandoned ruins, home only to outlaws and daimons.Recent History
Shortly after the end of the siege against Horizon in 3964HR, Captain Qveton - who had led the Vegdarbarran warlords providing support to the Four Nations in the siege - proclaimed himself Monarch of Vegdarbarra.In 4000HR the peace was disturbed by the appearance of Captain Alexander Vasilivich, an Imperialist warlord who (along with his entire legion and the residents of his fort) had been put to sleep by the fae more than 500 years previously. Upon his awakening he and his forces attempted to take Horizon.
When it became clear that the fractious and bickering Vegdarbarran warlords could not contain Vasilivich a joint force from Horizon and Jurica attacked, beat back and destroyed his forces, with assistance from the powerful northern warlord Baron Yuri von Litkenstein, an expansionist who refused to recognise Captain Qveton's authority. This assault led to the defeat and execution of Vasilivich before the end of the year.
Following the end of the war against the lost legion, Baron Litkinstein turned his attention to Captain Qveton and invaded Qveton's territory, claiming that the Captain had collaborated with the Imperialist forces. In a brief campaign, the Baron conquered all the lands loyal to Qveton, who fled to the city and won sanctuary. The Baron's ambassador came to Horizon to sign the Last Treaty, and since then Baron Litkinstein has been recognised by all nations as sovereign ruler of all Vegdarbarra.
Litkenstein embarked on a war against Imperialism in order to rid Vegdarbarra of any remaining Imperialist warlords. By 4015HR, with the removal of the last resisting warlords, Vegdarbarra for the first time formed a single nation under the complete control of Baron Yuri Von Litkenstein.
Rumours
Reports from refugees indicate that Vegdarbarrans are being worked to death under Litkenstein's forces, which has been denied by the Baron's embassy.Vegdar-dust production is said to have been spread from Urtovsk to many other parts of the Wall in order to compete with the trans-Wall colonies and their plentiful supplies.
It is rumoured that in the north of the country are row upon row of factories churning out a great weapon for the Vegdarbarran army.
There are believed to be wild tribes of ghouls and kraelings hidden in the deep forests, as well as some undiscovered tribes of man.