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[h2]Chapter 2: Blood Tide[/h2]

[center][i]...and so it was decided. Erlendr of the Red Knots was elected Regent in a contested Moot, backed by a majority of the clans. Varvudda and its dependencies withdrew south, seceding from the High King's rule. The northern Clans likewise withdrew from the ancient compacts binding them to Kingsport and Clan Stonecutter, and returned to their endless war with the Pale Men, determined to ignore the feuds of the south. 

The Stonecutter Clan Fathers insisted that these insults be avenged and that Evar Varvudda be made to recognize the authority of the young King. The Regent, backed by the Queen, the Shattered Moon, and the Runecarver, denied the Stonecutter's vengeance, arguing that forces must be marshaled to repel the southmen, not wasted attacking wayward clan-kin.

While some of the Stonecutter lords were cowed, Clan Father Relgar the Blacktooth defied the new Regent. His longships, and those of many sympathetic to him, set sail for Sentinel, to punish the Varvudda upstarts.[/i]

- From: [b]A Recent History of the Northern Barbarians, Book II[/b]
by Aisha daz Nagath, Remembrancer of the Grand Scholam of Zar Mythrad[/center]