- Great Kingdom
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In the "
World of Greyhawk "campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons "role-playing game , the Great Kingdom, or the Great Kingdom ofAerdy , refers to anempire that varied in size at various points in its history.History
The Great Kingdom arose from the Kingdom of Aerdy in -110 CY, when the Aerdi forces of Grand Prince
Almor II defeated theNyrond ese in theBattle of a Fortnight's Length . Aerdy nearly doubled in size, and was thereafter known as the Great Kingdom, though its ruler still held the old nationial title and office of Grand Prince. Despite the new moniker, power in the new empire would not become truly centralized until 1 CY, when Grand PrinceNasran I declared universal peace throughout the land and took the title ofOverking of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy.By the sixth century CY, however, the Great Kingdom had shrunk to a fraction of its size, limited to the lands east of the
Harp River andTeesar Torrent , and north of the Iron Hills andThelly River .In 586 CY,
Ivid V , last Overking of the Great Kingdom, was rumored to be dead after the devastation ofRauxes , the nation's capitol. This essentially brought an end to the Great Kingdom. Two successor nations, the United Kingdom of Ahlissa and the North Kingdom of Aerdy, now vie for control of the region.Geography
At its greatest extent, the Great Kingdom stretched from the
city ofRel Astra on the Solnor coast to theViceroyalty of Ferrond in the west; and fromSunndi in the south toRatik in the north.References
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