The Land of Erik Helgaf

It has been hundreds of years since my native land was founded, when Nobleman Erik Helgaf was forced to make the great voyage across the sea, as punishment for subversive activity, whether real or imagined. Knowledge of whether it was a conspiracy against the man by The Old Kingdom, or that there was indeed a conspiracy of his own against The Old Kingdom, has been lost by now.

Through this inquiry may it be only in what amounts to a minority of details which would be a mystery to our posterity. And may this inquiry give strength for a better future for our land.

The Old Kingdom believed that the forced voyage would be a most savage fate in the frigid time of the year, when the unappeased Abyss could devour seafarers and their rigged galleys. Erik and hundreds of faithful companions boarded their vessels; Some were of similarly respectable blood, but many were the common citizens of his fief; general outcasts from the greater Kingdom as well. 

Even in peril, they stood by their lord, knowing that while he wasn’t the wealthiest or most powerful, he would find a solution.