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Historian's Notes

This is a collection of short biographies of some of the most notable figures in the history of the Kingdom of Wesnoth, and the Irdyan world, as a whole. The article is arranged by historical epoch, and the biographies within each epoch are listed in alphabetical order, using the name by which the person was most commonly referred to in the historical records. Dates are consistent with the system of chronology used in the Wesnoth History section. The appearance of a triple question mark (???) indicates that the information needs to be verified.

See also Character's stories, for brief descriptions of a wider range of the inhabitants of Wesnoth and the rest of Irdya.

The Rise Of Wesnoth

Addroran

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died:
    • Married:
    • Reigned: A King in the Green Isle, baesed in Southbay.
    • In game Appearance(s): The Rise of Wesnoth
  • Notable Deeds
    • Defence of Southbay against the orcs.
    • Makes a deal with Jessenethat wesfolk refugees may shelter in Southbay in exchange for information. She reveals that she can translate the book that allows Haldric to use the Ruby of Fire. Secondly she knows the way to the Great Continent.
  • Background
      • He knew Prince Haldric as a boy, and his people that preceded him. He tells Haldric that he considered King Eldaric an honorable man.
      • His legacy of descendents are a dead adventurer and a missing fool and as a result, his line ends with his kingdom.

Eldaric

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: After the second scenery
    • Married:
    • Reigned: A King in the Green Isle
    • In game Appearance(s): The Rise of Wesnoth
  • Notable Deeds

Haldric

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Founded Wesnoth

Jessene

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Makes a deal with Addoran that wesfolk refugees may shelter in Southbay in exchange for information. She reveals that she can translate the book that allows Haldric to use the Ruby of Fire. Secondly that she knows the way to the Great Continent. She was Addoran's son's navigator and companion.

Typhon

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Aethyr

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: at the hands of Lord Lich Jevyan.
    • Married:
    • Reigned:
    • In game Appearance(s): The Rise of Wesnoth
  • Notable Deeds

Lord Lich Jevyan

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: at the hands of Haldric's army
    • Married:
    • Reigned:
    • In game Appearance(s): The Rise of Wesnoth
  • Notable Deeds

Legend of Wesmere

Kalenz

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Defeats Landar in elven civil war.
    • Protector and companion of Konrad.
    • Extremely long lived, even for an elf due to Aquagar's curse that he would never find lasting peace in all his years and lose his dearest.
  • Background
    • From the forest of Lintanir

Cleodil

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Guardian of the book of Crelanu.
    • Warns Haldric II that the Ruby of fire can have evil effects on its wieldersand advises him to enclose it in a net or filigree of pure gold charged with the magic of light.
  • Background

Landar

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: 93 YW
    • Married:
    • Reigned: proclaimed himself High Warlord of the Elves
    • In game Appearance(s): Legend of Wesmere
  • Notable Deeds
    • Fought Kalenz in an elven civil war.
    • Died in a battle in the forest of Gitamoth.
    • Kalenz buried Landar with full honors and made him a monument worthy of a true elvish hero.
    • Landar’s remaining followers’ lives were spared, but they were banished to Gitamoth forest, henceforth known as Silent Forest.
  • Background

Olurf

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Fought at Kalenz's side.
    • Abandoned the elves after Landar slaughtered some of them.
  • Background

Velon

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
  • Background

Galtrid

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
  • Background

Aldar

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
  • Background

Delfador's Memoirs

Leollyn

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: Killed by Sagus near the end of Delfadors Memoirs.
    • Married:
    • Title: Chief Mage of the High Council, Master Leollyn
    • In game Appearance(s): Delfadors Memoirs
  • Notable Deeds
    • Delfador was the legate and emissary of Leollyn.
  • Background
    • One of Garard I's, King of Wesnoth's most trusted advisors.
    • A friend of Methor.

Eldred

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Delfador

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Defeats Iliah Malal.
    • Prince Eldred's killer.
    • Konrad's protector.
  • Background

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Chantal

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Heir to the Throne

Asheviere

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  • Bio
    • Born: 462 YW ???
    • Died: 518 YW
    • Married: King Garard II (478 - 501 YW), Widowed
    • Reigned: as Queen consort 478-501; ruled Wesnoth de facto & (debatably) de jure as Queen Dowager, & (theoretically) as Regent for her daughter 501-518; deposed, died in the course of her overthrow.
    • In game Appearance(s): Heir to the Throne
  • Notable Deeds
    • Mother of Li'sar
    • Catalyst in the deaths of King Gerard II, Prince Arand, and all male heirs within the contemporary royal family of Wesnoth (chief conspirator in all cases except for Arand, her son, with whose faction she was aligned).
    • Highly skilled & cunning politician, tactician, & strategist. Known in her youth for her great beauty, known in later life for her ruthlessness & willingness to spill (other people's) blood in pursuit of her goals.
    • Became a popular figure in subsequent Wesnothian folklore as a villainous tyrant, responsible for the deaths of all those around her, and doomed to destruction as a result of her own paranoid, over-ambitious plotting.
  • Background

"Perhaps it would be easier to condemn Asheviere for her evil deeds committed later in her life. Yet even rotten apples, not suitable for consumption, may provide the seeds for a fresh field of trees." - anonymous

Delfador

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Defeats Iliah Malal.
    • Killer of Prince Eldred.
    • Protector of Konrad.
  • Background

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Konrad

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  • Bio
    • Born: 500 YW
    • Died: 563 YW
    • Married: Li'sar (~520 - 563 YW)
    • In game Appearance(s): Heir to the Throne
  • Notable Deeds
    • Recovered the Scepter of Fire with Li'sar's assistance.
    • King consort of Wesnoth after the defeat of Asheviere (through marriage to Li'sar).
  • Background Information

"Identity curses men from birth, as does fate. Konrad, forgive me for the burdens which I shoulder you with. I pray that you will wear them as a badge on your heart, not a stone around your neck." - Delfador, at the coronation of Li'sar & Konrad

Had Parandra of Elvendom not been as prudent and as benevolent, the tale of the boy who became Konrad, King of Wesnoth would never have been sung in the minstrel's tunes. Konrad never knew his real parents; he was found by Elves, as an infant, abandoned in a copse a few strides off an Elvish trader's path. Parandra the wise, knowing the baby had been there for some time, (as evidenced by certain smells emanating from the child's swaddling clothes) set aside all hope of reuniting him with his unknown parents. She picked up the orphaned child and took him as her own.

Delfador arrived sometime thereafter, bearing the grim evidence of his failed rescue; the lifeless body of the murdered infant-Prince Konrad. Parandra and Delfador discussed the situation at length, including the co-incidental discovery of the other, nameless child. Both of them shared their worries that this plan, this trick, wouldn't work. However, staring down at the foundling in his new crib, touched by his liveliness and cheer, they agreed to give him and the people of Wesnoth, a chance.

That night, while the corpse of one child was laid to rest in the green woods, another child, the boy abandoned & left for dead, was given a new destiny as the fugitive Konrad, Prince & Heir to the throne of Wesnoth.

Delfador raised Konrad as his son, yet never pretended to be his father. Konrad grew up knowing only the life that Delfador created for him. Delfador trained him as a warrior and leader. Each new lesson gave way to another for the precocious student.

During his seventeenth year with Delfador, Konrad and his mentor fled the land of the elves during an attack led by Asheviere.

Konrad's life during these times is chronicled in the Heir to the Throne campaign.

Li'sar

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  • Bio
    • Born: 498 YW
    • Died: 563 YW
    • Child of Gerald II & Asheviere, only surviving member of the royal family after the death of Asheviere
    • Married: Konrad (~520 - 563 YW)
    • In game Appearance(s): Heir to the Throne
  • Notable as
    • Successor to the throne of Wesnoth (only legitimate claimant), became Queen Regnant after the defeat of Asheviere.
    • Respected as a skilled military commander within the armed forces of Wesnoth, prior to becoming Queen
  • Background

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The Hammer Of Thursagan

Aiglondur

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died:
    • Married:
    • Reigned: Became lord of Kal Kartha after Karrag's downfall. Early 551 YW
    • In Game Appearance(s): The Hammer Of Thursagan
  • Notable Deeds
    • Defeat of Karrag
  • Background
    • Great-nephew of Lord Hamel and Guard Captain of the east gate of Knalga.

Karrag

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  • Bio
    • Born:
    • Died: At the hands of Aiglondur's forces in the underlevels of Kal Kartha. 551 YW
    • Married:
    • Reigned: Lord of Kal Kartha until early 551 YW
    • In Game Appearance(s): The Hammer Of Thursagan
  • Notable Deeds
    • Became a lich
    • Launched fiercely xenophobic war against other races

Hamel

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Eastern Invasion

Gweddry

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  • Bio
    • Born: 605 YW ???
    • Died: 655 YW ???
    • Married: ???
    • In Game Appearance(s): Eastern Invasion
  • Notable Deeds
    • At the sight of their new born boy, Gweddry's parents decided to name him after a close friend who fell under Gweddry's father's command. [1]
    • Sent by Konrad II with Dacyn and Owaec to man the old River Guard strongpoints. (625 YW))
    • Gweddry breaks through Mal-Ravanal's Undead armies lines to reach WeldynGweddry's army kills Mal-Ravanal. Wesnoth is saved. (627 YW))
    • Gweddry is made Grand Marshal of the Wesnothian Army after he saved Weldyn from destruction. [2]

Dacyn

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Dacyn successfully competed with Ravanal, an eastern wizard, to becomw the king's advisor. (589YW)
    • Advisor to Haldric VII then Konrad II after Haldric's death. (612YW)
    • The journey outlined in Eastern Invasion. (625 YW- 628 YW)

Owaec

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
  • Background
    • A horse clan noble with loyalty to the Wesnoth crown

Konrad II

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • King of Wesnoth
  • Background

Mal Ravanal

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
  • Background

Dead Water

Kai Krellis

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  • Bio
    • Born: ???
    • Died: ???
    • Married: ???
    • In Game Appearance(s): Dead Water
  • Notable Deeds
    • Evacuates Jotha under threat of Mal-Ravanal's undead onslaught.
    • Defeats suarian slavers and freed their prisoners.
    • Gains support of Tyegëa, high priestess.
    • Reconquers merfolk city Jotha from undead.
  • Background
    • Grandson of high priestess, Tyegëa.
    • His father, Kai Laudiss, and mother die at the hands of orcs from the city of Tirigaz

Son Of The Black Eye

Kapou'e

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Leader of the Great Horde
    • Made a mug from his rival, Shan Taum's skull
    • Made Barag Gor his capital as Orcish Sovereign
  • Background
    • Son of the orc leader, Black Eye Karun





Earl Lanbec'h

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Launched invasion of orc lands determined to extinguish the orc menace.
  • Background
    • The most powerful human warlord of the North

Howgarth III

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  • Bio
  • Notable Deeds
    • Issued an invitation to Kapou'e to join the Northern Alliance. Kapou'e declined.
  • Background
    • Sucessor to Rahul I as Lord Protector of the Northern Alliance

Under the Burning Suns

Kaleh

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  • Bio
    • Born: in post Wesnothian times
    • Died: still alive at the end of UtBS
    • Married: N/A
    • In game Appearance(s): Under the Burning Suns
  • Notable Deeds
    • Leader of the Quenoth elves
  • Background

Kaleh, as happens to some great leaders, fell into the job of leading the remnants of the Quenoth elves. The once great town of these sand dwelling elves was decimated over night by meteorites. Their leader slain, the remaining elves looked up to Kaleh for guidance as he was the next in line.

Nym

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  • Bio
    • Born: in post Wesnothian times
    • Died: unknown
    • Married: N/A
    • In game Appearance(s): Under the Burning Suns
  • Notable Deeds
    • Sidekick of Kaleh on the great journey of the Quenoth elves.
  • Background

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Zhul

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  • Bio
    • Born: in post Wesnothian times
    • Died: unknown
    • Married: N/A
    • In game Appearance(s): Under the Burning Suns
  • Notable Deeds
    • Head priestess of the Quenoth elves.
  • Background

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