Voriator

Voriator, is the largest city of the north of the plateau of Nemeator and the second largest city of the kingdom. During the first centuries of populating of the plateau, a small village was built in the strategic area that connected the inside region with the out world. The village grew in size and when Nemeator created a coalition it joined. When the beastmen came it suffered greatly but in 1180 king Leon II fortified the town and left a permanent garrison. When the beastmen threat was over the kingdom expanded north and out of the plateau. Voriator became a strong military base and trading center connecting the kingdom with the sea and the lands beyond. A long paved road connected the town with the capital and many paths led to the city. All the villages outside the plateau acknowledged their sovereignty to Voriator and the town grew into the leading city in the north. It was destroyed in the first orc wars after a five-year siege in 2010 and remained in chaos for many years after the near annihilation of the kingdom by the orcs hordes. It took many years for the depleted population to return to the north and it was by 2150 that few survivors returned and rebuilt the city but it was a squalid place harboring thieves and bandits that harassed the survived farmsteads around them and any daring merchants that came to trade. But the kingdom was staggering and it took centuries to be rebuilt and reach its past glory. Voriator was left in peace but as the kingdom grew and farmers occupied plains nearby the bandit village become a nuisance. But it wasn’t until 2650 when the king arrived with dwarf masons and craftsmen hunted the criminals and demolished the ugly place. In only twenty years a great fortress was built that became the seat of the northern king the capital becoming the two kings’ common ground. The fortifications expanded and sealed the northern passage and Voriator military value was esteemed in many parts of the west. The city continued growing and expanded its network of communications with the building of a very long coastal road that led to Tragis and connected the kingdom with some ports that traded with Islandis. It was in late 6471 when the unification of the two royal lines and the coming of the dynasty of Tarantians that changed the long-standing tradition of two kings. Kerdan was the last king of the northern line and his son Kerdon the first governor of Voriator and the northern regions.