The Daggerlands

The Daggerlands was a small region, made up of villages and feudal baronies, south of the River Uluin. It is now little more than a collection of abandoned settlements and crumbling castles, with little evidence that humans ever inhabited the area.

Early History
Villages in the Daggerlands probably began to form sometime in the Age of the Burning Sconce. By 782 AG there were several noble houses in the area who would, more or less, maintain their rule on the surrounding hamlets for the next 250 years.

The Weeping War
Sometime in the Decade of the Howling (1040 AG - 1049 AG), the head one of these noble houses, Leon Brancoviescu, became obsessed with looking eternally youthful. Somewhat cruelly, his arcane attempts to achieve this transformed him into a vampire. He began stealing children from the hamlets and towns under his rule as his obsession with regaining his own lost childhood became more and more sinister. Once his own people had been exhausted of all their offspring, he began to capture and turn his fellow barons into Vampire Spawn. Under his control, these spawn and their minions invaded Esterra and began to steal children from the families of woodsmen in the Daggermarch. This eventually led to the Weeping War and the total destruction of the Daggerlands.