3rd Age of Greyfeather

Age of Despair
A dark period in Greyfeather history began with the death of King Kensak X. A sinister force moved in and snared the throne from the Kensak family using guile and charisma, but quickly showed his true colors. The lich, Bife, stole the crown and proclaimed himself King of Greyfeather. A brutal war began, the forces supporting the rightful heirs versus the forces of darkness. For over two hundred years, these armies battled the heroes of Greyfeather against the armies of Lord Bife.

After 200 years, the heroes were depleted and Bife was as strong as ever. The war ended without fanfare and the people of Greyfeather resigned themselves to servitude. Life under Bife's rule was cruel at best. The people bordered on starvation and most of the coin that was earned in the land went to taxation that went beyond extreme, all to fill Bife's coffers. He raised undead armies to enforce his edicts, and when the population attempted to fight back, Bife unleashed his undead lieutenants on them to put them back in line.

Bife had spent most of the first 100 years of his reign seeking out every single Kensak family member he could find and had them executed, hoping that there would never be another Kensak to challenge him for the throne. One by one, the Kensak family line began to die out, leaving no one to step forward and attempt to wrestle control away from the lich.

For 250 more years, King Bife reigned supreme, until a rogue resistance cell formed to unseat him. With careful planning and recruitment of new heroes to fight Bife’s army, they were able to ultimately defeat him and wrest control of the lands away. The key figure in this was the death knight, Vecter, who had watched Bife rule the land unjustly and found a way to redeem himself in the eyes of the gods. He paid a group of heroes to locate Bife's phylactary so he could destroy it and thus destroy the lich. One of the heroes just happened to be a lost granddaugther of Kensak noble birth, Samantha Kensak.

Thus began the squabble over who would ascend the throne. Though Samantha didn't realize she was an heir, another of Kensak IV's grandchildren, Duke Kensak XIV, came out of hiding upon Bife's defeat to lay claim to the throne. The two sparred over the appointment until finally, the gods grew weary and decided to end it themselves. In a cataclysmic episode known as the Great Sundering, flaming meteors, earthquakes and tidal waves, destroyed the land of Grendoth, splitting them into tiny island nations, but left the island of Greyfeather intact. By divine ordination, Samantha Kensak was granted the throne of Greyfeather.