Fight for Cerudesh

On the continent of Cerudesh lies eight kingdom nations that are each ruled by a king and they make up the Council of Eight and should ever a split arise the final vote goes to the High King always a descendant of Deruthor who first settled the lands over a thousand years ago and appointed eight men as kings and their descendants always were the king of their respective lands and soon in the Cerudeshan year of 1342 the current High King Setirus has a mage named Zerukad who brainwashed the high king so that he would be named king upon Setirus' death and two years later poisoned and killed the high king and wiped Setirus' sons memory and sent him away as he was only six years old and therefore posed little real threat and then Zerukad started his campaign of making the eight kings loyal to him alone and by the year 1354 Cerudesh was under his grip and darkness fell upon the lands as Zerukad exploited and blackmailed the kings to his bidding and Setirus' son Ianoli was 18 and with another