Radiant valley history
Deep within the mountains of Appalachia, a consortium of mages known only as the Manhattan Council assembled a small settlement to conduct secret magical experiments of the extremely dangerous variety. After years of magical experimentation, their practices became well known to other kingdoms and courageous adventurerse came to settle the area looking to find and control the mages. The council was never found, but legends and artifacts prove their existence.
The first group of settlers to the area were led by Kalidor and Snicker, forming their home in the Mystic Glade. As time went on, leadership was passed to Gilan and Shalazar. Mystic Glade’s population has had its fluctuations, but it remains to this day a group of highly skilled warriors that form the protective backbone of the area.
As the Mystic Glade grew larger, a group of dissenters--led by Wolf--left the area, settling nearby in the domain of the Sleeping Dragon and creating a division in population as well as tensions between who would control the land. As the two states grew in power and in population, fighting broke out between them with no clear winner taking the lead. Mystic Glade may have had an elite fighting corps., but the forces of the Sleeping Dragon were more magically charged and just as fierce. Many battles took place in both lands, ravaging the countryside and destroying precious lands.
In time, a third group of settlers became tired of the constant warfare between the two states. Hearing legends of the Manhattan Council, the group split away to search for the forgotten mages. Gimpy and his crew surveyed the area, finally settling on a quiet, Radiant Valley. They spent many months searching for the fabled mages, but found no trace of them. Soon, the valley became a refuge for those uninterested in war.
Eventually, Mystic Glade devised a clever plan to undermine the Sleeping Dragon, and would effectively wipe them off the map in one viscious blow. The remainder of the Dragon’s forces came to the Radiant Valley with intentions of peace. Having no qualms with each other, Radiant Valley and Mystic Glade began expanding hand-in-hand, finding other nearby tribes and settlements to deal with, creating the Central Eastern Alliance. Seeing the alliance’s potential, the Southern kingdom of Neverwinter came to the alliance with a proposition. This was the formation of the Principality of Winter's Edge under the supervision and sponsorship of Neverwinter.
The Manhattan Council is said to be long removed from the area, but rumors still circulate from time to time claiming that they are simply hiding underground, waiting to unleash their deadly magic upon the world.
-Story as told by Báró Squinty Footlong
