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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2105290" data-attributes="member: 630">Heehee--loved it.  Also, I'm glad that someone is adding to Xaleris besides me...The history of Xaleris and Eyros is long and entangled.  It was Xaleris's invasions at the height of its power that caused Eyrdeyn to unite with its sister cities to become an empire--it was to protect other lands from the Xal, initially, that Eyros troops were deployed in other nations.  There have been numerous attempted invasions of Eyros by Xaleris and of Xaleris by Eyros over the long years, though these have been growing more and more infrequent as time goes on.  The most recent one was over 70 years ago, when the ambitious half-orc general Salla Zul-Dagvar launched a secret expedition with over 2000 soldiers (mostly foreign mercenaries and discharged legionares) into Xaleris's Haza Dre (Spine of the Mother) Mountains.  While his forces met with some success initially, ultimately their relatively small numbers were no match for the Xal's unrelenting attacks, and Xaleris's merciless climate.  (Xaleris is swelteringly hot and dry, though the annual rainstorms are infamous for their ferocity.)  Salla's legion was slaughtered to a man--Salla himself had earlier perished from a fever.  Salla's actions nearly led to a war between the two nations, which was only prevented when the Grand Monarch demonstrated that the general had acted on his own initiative, a story the Xal, hardly eager for conflict themselves, chose to accept.  Though most believe this explanation, some are dubious.  After all, they point out, isn't it strange that a general as skilled--even legendary--as Salla would undertake a lunatic invasion with so small a force, with no expectation of support?  So the matter stands, still a matter of grumbling and theorizing after all these years...</blockquote>

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