Seraphon establish eastern border of Quemara

The loss of the Kharadron presence in the Eastern Marches of the Realm of New Quemara brought an ever increasing encroachment of the tree-kin to the villagers of men that dwelt in the valleys south of the Vallee Liontaine. At first, the trees simply grew unnaturally quickly, but gradually, the force of nature itself seemed to turn against the settlers in the region, bringing failed harvests and shortages. The Lords of Vinduhr offered aid, and began to help the inhabitants cut back the encroaching forests.

At first this policy worked well, but as Year 10 of the Permenia calendar drew to a close, the aelves and spirits of the woods took action, raising many small villages in the Eastern Marches and marching on the town of Clerton. Clearly the alliance of the east had decided to expand their empire, as the enmity between aelves and men had not diminished since the incident at the Silverrush. The Lords of Quemara and the Kharadrons of Karak Findar were petitioned for help in throeing back the invaders, but the sky dwarves had no fleet to spare, since they were prospecting in the north. The city of Vinduhr stayed silent, unable in truth to raise an army, and dissent in the Eastern Marches grew.

Eventually, as the population began to risk turning to other paths to save their lands, the Slaan intervened. Seen as a mysterious other-worldly figure as he strode through the ranks of men defending Clerton, at first he was regarded with suspicion, but as the aelves drew up for battle, the might of the Slaan drew to him a vast host of Seraphon that materialised between the defenders of the town and the invading dryads and tree-kin.

In the battle that followed, the Seraphon overcame the aelvish host, driving the tree kin away from the Eastern Marches, although the Slaan was wounded in the process. He refused all aid however, and simply disappeared once more, a mysterious protector of the people of Quemara, some of whom began to even worship as a god. Five times the Seraphon had now come to the aid of the Quemarans, and twice against the Blood Coast Alliance, a fact which concerned the aelf lords of Bael Fierste. For some reason the legendary mystics of Azyr were helping the humans and dwarf empires above their own, and in the eleventh year, the Alliance sent an emissary to Vinduhr, agreeing peace between the two nations and recognising the Silverrush as the border between their lands.