So charged by the eternal king of the far North, captain Hekov and his lieutenant Torig set out with a small fleet across the ocean to scout the newly discovered land of Sharridgrur, and prepare the way for a further invasion fleet... ...a fleet that would never come.
Cut off from his Homeland, Hekov began to settle the coast as best he could, claiming the fjord-bordered peninsula he had landed upon as 'Roselade'. Upon the three high islands at its southern tip there came the 'Watchdogs of the South', Falgovir, Degori and Wulgade. Falgovir and Wulgade became famous among the settlers, and revered as mighty defending forces, for from the East there came the Dwallr, who had lived upon the land long before Hekov and his people had arrived, and from the West the forces of the Jundi, the high king of the Dwal. Degori lapsed into a state of unpreparedness, for from the Tusrud there came no Dwal or Dwallr; the barbarian natives seemed to avoid the vast, uncharted land to the south when they could, the land they called the 'Gulewild'. Why the natives of the Sharridgrur avoided the Gulewild the Colonists couldn't say; only that farmers they sent to populate the Tusrud would often become superstition, paranoid, and speak of strange things that would sometimes wander north from the misty wilds.