In the elder days when the realm still struck terror in lesser lands with blood and iron, reigned king Brandon the Feeble-minded, his cruel mind forever lost in the mists of old age at the twillight of his wicked life. Discontent brewed among the jarls of the realm, stirred by the ill-fated rule of the king and the insidious grip of prince Hunter the Debauched and his sycophantic cohorts over the feeble-minded monarch who they ensnared for their own greed and ambition.

The treacherous jarls foresaw their own doom in the king's impending downfall. Seized by dread for their holdings, they plotted to rise up in rebellion and dethrone the faltering ruler to raise a new lord beholden to their will.