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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 1833698" data-attributes="member: 5278">I'm currently mulling over the idea of starting the campaign with the war between Avaldsnes and Sevland. Let me go over some bits of local history (taken from Snorre):These "kingdoms", and two others as well, were all located on the same island; neither of them were bigger than a few miles across. King Augvald of Avaldsnes is launching an invasion against Sevland. It's the last in a series of revenges and counter-revenges in a feud that started with disappearance of one sheep...King Augvald had no sons, but he had 4 daughters who were all trained warriors and served as his personal bodyguard ("shield-maidens" they were called). He also had a cow (yes, a live cow!) that he believed to have magical properties and that he brought with him everywere, even at sea or on to the battlefield. Unfortunately for Augvald the King of Sevland knew how important the cow was to him and had instructed his best warriors to not bother with the enemies; go for the cow!So the cow is killed, pierced by several spears, at the start of the battle. Augvald sees this and is convinced that now all is lost. He runs from the battlefield, down to the rocks by the sea and throws himself into the water. He's in full armor, so he sinks like a stone and drowns. His daughters, the shield-maidens, are so loyal to their father (or just don't want to serve as wenches under the King of Sevland) they follow their father to the death; jumping into the sea and drowning by his side.The battle is over, almost before it has begun. There is no King of Avaldsnes anymore and no heir to the throne. Some of Augvalds men hurry back to Avaldsnes to serve and protect their Queen, others desert and join up with the Sevland forces.The King of Sevland (whos name eludes me at the moment) launches an immediate invasion against Avaldsnes to revenge Augvalds invasion attempt. It's an easy victory, since a good portion of the Avaldsnes army is now on his side.He doesn't get to reign for very long, though. A certain Harald the Fair-haired (see earlier post) is bent on ruling all of Norway and he starts with Avaldsnes, considering that to be the most strategically import place in Norway. Years later, when he has fulfilled his quest of conquering and won his girl, King Harald settles down at Augvalds old place at Avaldsnes. (End of history lesson  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )I think this is very cool bit of local history that I'd love to work into the early parts of my campaign. I'm not really sure where to place the PCs, though...  :\  Avaldsnes? Sevland? Diplomats from a third King come to try and calm the two hotheads down? Free agents caught up in the events somehow?Anybody have good ideas about how to make this work? Other, completely different, ideas still welcome too of course!</blockquote>

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