Bavold

Bavold is a lake port city in the fieldlands of Adâllon. It is located on the north eastern end of Silver Lake in the Three Lakes Region with the western road leading to it.



History
Second Age

Founded as a refuge for the criminal element that fled the harsh confines of their Firston overlords. It was originally nothing more than a swamp hole and a few wooden shacks. The settlement eventually grew due in much part to criminal organizations rising together and raising funds to hire masons to construct a city for them. Together they named it Bavold.

Eventually the Guilds of Bavold rallied together and organized the city into a structured settlement and for a time there was peace until the old ways of the Bavoldese citizens caused a new generation to take up Banditry and Piracy.

For a short time during the mid years of the Second Age, a man usurped the power of the Council of Bavold and declared himself King. King Theon ruled for a handful of years. A successful bandit and an even more tactiful politician, Theon ascended to King of Bavold and rallied his youthful populous into a military state. The King raised taxes and began expanding the borders of his small city state. Initially only taking the empty lands beyonds Bavold, Theon eventually claimed the whole of Silver lake and his greatest prize was Port Amestea which was won during the Battle for Amestea.

During the Battle of the Bloody Creek, Bavoldese soldiers were stopped by Battlemages and Warriors from Errïand who had hurried to intercept the humans.

Falling into a power vaccuum, Bavold eventually shifted many poor leaders who tried to create a triumvirate to replace King Theon but all of whom were either exiled, executed or fled before they could be executed.

It was the Pirate Lord Draven Darksword who found a resolution to the lack of unified leadership. He took control of Bavold for a short time as Lord Regent. Draven delegated his power thoughtfully and divided it into a three body system; The Council of Commons, The Council of Lords and the Judiciatorship.

In the Third Age, Bavold was under the attack of an Orc Warchief named Skulshagha until a group of adventurers intervened and aided the city.

When the damage of the city had been cleared, talks of revolution began and soon there was a civil uprising in Bavold.