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The Rise and Fall of Shoracsburgloca

By K'avar Vhosek, Scholar and court wizard of Santaki
Writing in the year 420 of The Third Era.

Shoracsburgloca was a Cyro-Nordic city-kingdom built in the 1E on what is now modern-day Anvil city by the exiled court and allies of Felyndûr(or Felándir in Old Nordic) who was, before being king of Shoracsburgloca, Jarl of Snowhawk(Snøhåwk in Nordic), a city/hold in west-central Skyrim.

Felyndûr declared Snowhawk an independent kingdom sometime following the assassination of High-King Borgas during the Nordic civil war known as "The War of Succession".

The Kingdom of Snowhawk did not last long however.
In 370, the "Free-Kingdom" of Snowhawk began building the tower-fortress Taakeslottet on the mountain known as håwksfjell, and was meant to be a watch tower, a first warning beacon and the farthest point marker of Snowhawk's power. Now, of course Jarl Olaf One-Eye of Whiterun viewed this tower keep as "king" Felyndûr trying to spy on him and his armies as he fought with other Jarls vying for the throne in Windhelm as well as being a act of war on Felyndûr part. in the early morning of the 21st of Frostfall 373, Jarl Olaf One-Eye's armies attacked the tower as a beginning of his war on Snowhawk, taking the tower in little over a two hours reports say, but not before the tower's garrison were able to light the beacon of Håwktherra, warning Snowhawk of the coming army.

The Kingdom of Snowhawk did not last long after this first battle, however, Jarl Olaf One-Eye and his host defeated Felyndûr at the decisive battle of Korvanjúnð where Felyndûr Olaf Bjørntooth(Who was named after Jarl Olaf) was killed. With this battle, Felyndûr was pushed all the way back to his city where Jarl Olaf began the famous siege of Snowhawk.

After a three month siege there, Five of Jarl Olaf's greatest Tongues of Whiterun finally managed to lay low the walls of the city and sacked it, killing many. Snowhawk was burnt to the ground afterwards, never to be rebuilt again and Felyndûr was taken captive by Olaf's host but later allowed him to be exiled to Cyordiil.

Jarl Olaf One-Eye would later go on to win the War of Succession and became High-King a few years later.

Beaten and in ruin, Felyndûr and his exiled people settled in what would become Anvil in 1E, 373 and founded the city of Soracsburgloca: Walled town of Shor, with Felyndûr as it's first king.

While king, Felyndûr formed a "Language of the kingdom" by mixing his native Old High-Western Nordic with the Old Colovian-Cyrodiilic tongue. The language was only spoken by the nobility at court first, but within 100 years, it became the lingua franca of the kingdom and spoken by all walks of life with the kingdom.

The kingdom went through much in it's over 200 year history. Many years of peace, a succession crisis, a coup d'état/mini-civil war, a war with Îr-Nylúmida and a invasion from the Alessian Empire.

But that was all for naught, for this kingdom of Felyndûr's was not to last.

201 years after founding the city-kingdom, the Colovian Estates and the Alessian Empire were in a bitter civil war(and had been for a century) which was becoming more and more intense and soon dragged the Kingdom into the fray.

The Alessian Empire viewed the "savage" pagan, "Elf loving" Nords of Soracsburgloca to be of great threat to them for they were to join with the also pagan Colovian Estates, this, they thought, would give their enemy the edge they needed to win the war as well, the Empire was ever fearful of the great sorcerer-king of Soracsburgloca: Scinnlæca Hearding(the bold) who had ended the War of Îr-Nylúmida with great skill by enchanting his whole army to allow them to walk on the sea and invade the island kingdom.

On the eve of the 17th day Frostfall in the 573rd year of the 1st Era, the armies of Alessia's empire looped under the Colovian Estates in the West Weald and moved up through Valenwood and attack the city from the south.

Caught completely off guard, Soracsburgloca was conquered and sacked in only 5 hours. King Scinnlæca was wounded in the battle and his son,
Æþelwulf along with the queen Écgwynn of Gûndûrlyn dead, he and the High-Priest(who also was his brother according to records I've found) of the city, Shaman Froforgast, fled from the Palace; The "Stántorr of Cyningum"(and destroyed it as they did) to his Laboratory under the watchtower "Bæðwygca"(Sea Watch).

The Alessian Order learning that the falling king had fled here, had Imperial battlemages use great magics to locked the falling king in his Laboratory to die of dehydration and starvation. This was the last time anyone saw the king alive again.

After the sacking of the city it was burned to the ground much like snowhawk two centuries earlier and never again to be rebuilt and so passed the kingdom of Soracsburgloca, one of the the most fascinating cultures to ever be.

List of kings of Soracsburgian Monarchs:
(Note: Listed here is the length of their raining and not their lives.)
"House of Felyndûr The Founder"

King Felyndûr The Founder: 1E, 373-409
(Note: First king of Soracsburgloca.)

King Eádweard Ælfréd: 1E, 409-423
(Note: Son of Felyndûr I.)

King Æthelberht: 423-433
(Note: Son of Eádweard Ælfréd.)

"House of Kjoric"
(The High-King of Skyrim, Kjoric the White's son, Tryggvason Elfbane was married to Ælfgifu who was the only child of King Æthelberht, and in the tradition of Shoracsburgloca the husband of a female royal would inherit that family's titles. This was changed after Tryggvason was overthrown.)

King Tryggvason Elfbane: 1E, 434-439
(Note: Overthrown by his wife and the royal court do mostly for trying to start a war with the Ayleid city-state of Garlas Rŷrn'ôl'eg and the Alessian Empire.)

"House of Felyndûr The Founder(Restored)"

Queen Ælfgifu The Liberator: 1E, 439-467
(Note: only child of King Æthelberht. First female ruler of the kingdom.)

King Béowulf the Unlucky: 1E, 467-467
(Note: shortest ruling king of Shoracsburgloca. Died in a Shipwreck five months into his kingship.)

Queen-Regent Eanflæd: 1E, 467-472
(Note: Queen Eanflæd, the wife of the late king, ruled as regent until their eldest son Felyndûr came of age.)

King Felyndûr II/Felyndûr Dracaheorte: 1E, 472-493
(Eldest son of Béowulf the Unlucky.)

King Denádôr The Long, 1E, 493-530
(Note: Youngest son of Béowulf the Unlucky. Became king as all of Felyndûr II's children had died of plague. He was the longest ruling king as well. Died at the age of 107)

King Cynewulf: 1E, 530-545
(Note: Grandson of Denádûr the Long. Died in the beginning of the War of with Îr-Nylúmida.)

Queen-Regent Psymia the Ayleid/Psýmia of Dar Mínlar: 1E, 545-555
(Note: Wife of Cynewulf. Ruled as Queen-regent until their son Scinnlæca Hearding came of age. The only full blooded Elven ruler of the kingdom.)

King Scinnlæca Hearding/The Half-Elf/The Bane of Îr-Nylúmida/The Martyr: 1E, 555-573
(Note: Last "ruling " king of Shoracsburgloca. Overthrown by the Alessian Empire in 573. Son of King Cynewulf and Queen Psymia the Ayleid. Died in the Sack of Shoracsburgloca.)

Cynric the Fox/The king of Exiles: Lived - 1E, 571-602
(Note: The last known living member of the royal family. Grandson of Scinnlæca and son of Prince Æþelwulf , lead a guerrilla war against The Alessian Empire in what is now known as "The War of The Bandits" from the age of 16 to his death in 602. For more information please read My other book: "Cynric the Fox: The King of Exiles And The War of The Bandits.")