The Death of Turgon Càma
In 2945 Turgon and his closest followers were ambushed in the Jungles of what used to be Turgon’s fief in his brother’s kingdom of Candau. In the field already fighting the bugbears, he learned that his capital was under attack. Turgon had reached the cursed city but too late to be of any avail. Obviously damned, the place was already being abandoned and the majority of the refugees from the region, along with a large portion of Turgon’s army, under the command of Benès Lomin, fled due south. They were following a similar but smaller group led by Vemon Beän who had fled the sacking of the cursed city by sea. Turgon’s small party was the last to leave the area, only after all others were on their way to safety.
Both the Lomin and Beän contingents made it safely south of the mountains. Turgon it seemed, was doomed to share his brothers fate. His party of less than fifty[1] was ambushed somewhere between the cursed city-port and the mountain pass into what would become present day Vemon. Along with him perished Rakh Isenwarian, a great hero and generous heart. Many of those who knew him believed that if the succession had been different then he would have been a great emperor. Also Seigfried Wigfruma, the senior political figure in Candau after either king, who kept the eastern lords involved and prevented schism. Between them, Seigfried and Rakh kept open the Càma brothers relationship with Veluna as well as working to ensure that Candau was a colleague of Veluna, rather than a vassal. With the loss of these two and the King, the emperor Angborn II had a relatively easy time in assimilating the now leaderless principalities of Candau into the empire.
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