Who are the Amedi? (Unfinished)

Who are the Amedi?
By Maria Deltorre

Draft Notes 1: 
Amedi, the namesake of the Suloise barbarian savages in the jungle, was a suel mage of power who resigned that position to expand the Suel empire eastward, hoping to make himself emperor of a new Eastern Suel Empire. He never accomplished that, running into unexpected opposition from the olman, touv and to a very limited extent, flan, but he did manage to become a suel lich and construct a major pyramid like lair for himself in the jungle, which is now mistakenly attributed to Kyuss.

Amedi met his end when he subdued and coerced the black wyrm Tolakakabepal (toll-ak-ak-ob-eep-all: worm that rules the night) into slaying the nearby rival sorceress Sasserine. When Tolakakabepal completed this task and was released from his servitude, he returned and destroyed the lich too.

It's believed that Tolakakabepal is the now ancient great wyrm reported in the journals of Rogar of Gradsul, lorekeeper of the Matreyus expedition, as lairing somewhere near Lake Matreyus in unexplored ruins

Draft Notes 2:
In the middle years of the Suloise Imperium, after the Suel Basin (what is now the Sea of Dust) was settled, but well before the wars with the Baklunish that would bring both civilizations crashing down, the Suel emperors sponsored sporadic expansionist forays into the surrounding realms, primarily to the easily accessible south and west. The fate of these efforts is lost to history now, but one of the rare attempts at creating a colony east of the empire has left an unintended but strong legacy on Oerik's landscape.

Amedi was a wealthy, but minor member of one of the lesser noble houses of the empire. Unhappy with his status, and eager to bring his house glory and prominence, he began recruiting an expeditionary force of mercenaries, explorers and other troops, to brave the Kendeen pass and find a resource rich land east of the southern Crystalmist mountains (as the Hellfurnaces were known then). Amedi's plan was to create an eastern arm of the empire, with nobles from his house ruling it. So with a band of around 1500 soldiers and another 3 or 4 thousand settlers and others, Amedi crossed the Kendeen pass and roamed into what is currently Keoland.

Amedi and his people found the flan of Keoland in that era to be pitiably primitive, mostly hunters and gatherers wandering the lands, and even the growing "ur-flan" nation just to the north didn't interest them much. In trading and communicating with the bands of Flan along the coasts however, Amedi began to hear stories of a vast empire to the south, ruled by strange dark skinned humans who dwelled in (supposedly) cities of jade and gold. Intrigued by these stories, as well as the exotic products brought back from the Olman lands by flan traders, such as citrus fruits, rice, coffee and other delicacies unknown to the Suel folk, Amedi decided to lead his people around the shores of Jeklea bay and into the jungle.

Despite sometimes brutal conflict with the Olman and other creatures of the jungle, Amedi carved out a small realm on the northern shores of what is now known as Lake Matreyus. A grand city, Amedicia, was founded, and from there Amedi sent envoys back to the empire proper, expecting to be praised and heavily rewarded.


The Empress at the time, Jeklea II (whom other explorers had recently named the "bay" after), was not impressed by the strange goods the envoys bore, and the long, dangerous journey over the mountains and through the jungles did little to convince her of the worthiness of Amedi's colony, thus she chose not to grant him and Imperial charter, effectively abandoning him and his people to isolation in the jungle.