Transcribed by Henry of Durfast
The end of the Great Empire came in the Cataclysm of 498. This lead to great floods destroying most of the most populated areas leaving only the mountains and highlands as what is now know as the Heartland's. After the cataclysm, all the provinces fought for the command of the remnants of the Great Empire. Tebron the Great City fell, and after many years of war the provinces were shattered into many petty kingdoms all fighting for control of the lands which would one day become the nations of Edrejia.
In what would become Cymrija, a great Dragon despoiled the land and the people lived in fear in many small settlements each hoping they would not be the next village destroyed by the Dragon. Some say that it was at this time that in Erin the Second War against Domnu was fought all across the land. It was at this time that Hugh Gorsennydd entered the legends dressed in his Golden Armour, bearing the shield now known as the Dragon shield and carrying his war spear and great black sword. Lord Gorsennydd rode forth and fought the Dragon which was despoiling the land which was to become Cymrija and a after a fierce battle of which little is known he vanquished it and claimed kingship over Cymrija.
He built his great keep, Castle Gorsennydd, upon the Western coast of Cymrija and slowly as he brought order to the land and forged the nation of Cymrija from the many scattered tribes about the keep grew the great city known as Gorsennydd, the Capital of Cymrija. The task was not easy however and many despots and evil creatures had to be overcome, but Hugh overcame them and as each was defeated he imprisoned them in the great dungeons below Castle Gorsennydd, where some of them live to this day imprisoned behind doors that only a Lord of Gorsennydd can open.
The end of Hugh Gorsennydd is not known to me although perhaps there are still those in Cymrija who know that tale. My tale is not quite over. At the Gathering of Peoples in 1098, Lord Ash told a strange tale of the end of the Second Great War of Erin and of how Medbh was defeated. He told of legends of Hugh Gorsennydd reaching out across the Erin channel and as her forces were vanquished he took Medbh and carried her back to Cymrija, to Castle Gorsennydd where he trapped her within the dungeons there.
