The Broken Kingdoms¶
"Kingdoms are shattered and reborn constantly in this region." — the Terrun Compendium (S372)
The Broken Kingdoms are the petty kingdoms of the eastern shores of the Broken Sea: in the oldest gazetteer "a group of 20 to 30 small kingdoms", "generally a land of turmoil, conflict and change". The same coast in the Fifth Age held Angorra and its breakaway Seawall, Tallachia, the draconian conquest-state of Myrox, and the old names Turas and Myrkan, until the Sancturi Empire made them its first provinces. Myrkan has a page of its own.
The old kingdoms¶
The Compendium of the Age of Magic counts twenty to thirty small kingdoms on the eastern shores. "A few of these kingdoms date back a thousand years or more", and it names the most notable and oldest: Turas, Thallassia, Myrkan, Iskandar and Agmond. Nothing further is recorded of Thallassia, Iskandar or Agmond.
Gap
The Compendium gives no account of the Broken Kingdoms' rulers, peoples or borders, and no later source mentions Thallassia, Iskandar or Agmond.
The eastern kingdoms of the Sanctuary Age¶
Angorra¶
Angorra was founded in 2 SM together with Sanctorum, "by Telgrim and the followers of Anariel", and was among the nations "rebuilding and prospering" in the first century after the Age of the Dark Sun. Seawall declared independence from it in 410 SM. "Angorra and Myrox are formally at war from 511 SM until 516 SM when Angorra, Seawall and Tallachia have submitted to Myrox." By 554 SM the Sancturi had "consolidated their hold on Angorra, Myrkan and Turas", and Angorra remained a Sancturi province thereafter.
Seawall¶
A dependency of Angorra that "declares independence from Angorra in 410 SM" and submitted to Myrox with it in 516 SM.
Tallachia¶
Named only as the third kingdom to submit to Myrox in 516 SM, and as the setting of a campaign that "ends in 514 SM: the group disappears in the underdark in search of the White Tower Dwarves" (see the Tallachia Campaign).
Myrox¶
The Draconian nation of the eastern shore. During the Faewild Wars one of two great draconian forces "operates from Turas and strikes into Myrkan"; "Draconian forces overrun Myrkan and take the Kithallen Plateau in 425 SM. The new draconian nation of Myrox is established." Myrox warred with Angorra from 511 and had taken Angorra, Seawall and Tallachia by 516 SM. The Sancturi broke it after 522 SM: the last dragon west of the Cloudwall Mountains fell in 524, and "in 527 SM, the draconians have completely abandoned the Broken Sea and survivors have returned to Pherox".
Turas¶
One of the oldest Broken Kingdoms and, in the 400s SM, the base from which a draconian army struck into Myrkan. Consolidated under the Sancturi by 554 SM. In 657 SM the Keepers of Abaddon "destroy the Hollow at Blackhall in Turas".
Blackhall¶
A place in Turas whose Hollow the Keepers of Abaddon destroyed in 657 SM. Nothing else is said of it.
Earlier accounts¶
The first campaign notes for the Sancturi setting (S132), marked by their author "Timeline is WRONG!", put "Myrkan vs Angorran full scale war" in 511 SM and have Myrkan "defeated and the draconians scattered back to the north" in 521 SM, with a new human faction pushing back "Myrkan and Fae" from the ruins of Sanctorum. The later timeline (S326) names the draconian state Myrox, dates its collapse to 524 to 527 SM, and is followed here.