The Ferdskjon Clan Sylvanelske was founded in 648 b. OW by Victyr Ulfson. It was essentially Victyr's private dominion, established de facto by force of arms without clear legal support, and without strong roots in the region. It acted mostly as a military outpost, first for the Ferdskjonner armies, then for Drubark.

Ferdskjonner

In midwinter 648, shortly before the end of the year, Victyr Ulfson and his fellows assassinated Trebkernstad's City-Chief Kaspjer the night of his wedding to Sylvan Sylvandottr. Victyr thereupon pronounced himself chief of a clan he founded on his own authority - though with the support of the important mercantile interests in the town (including the Dwarven Empire) - and took Sylvan to wife as his own.

Thus the ruler of Sylvanelske, along with his entourage of young noble warriors, whom he named his clan elders, was a ruling class wholly detached from its subjects. They were all offspring from the powerful clans of the Seven Halls Alliance. They preferred being free military lords out in the wilderness over having to abide by the stricter rules and superior authorities back in the large cities, however.

Chief Victyr, in addition to his "elders" and a corps of seven professional men-at-arms, maintained a standing army of 30 levies from the town and its immediate surroundings (they were paid extremely little). He deployed his forces in 647 until late autumn to support the Human Auxiliary's campaign in the northeast following the Captives Scandal, and thereafter to protect the territory that accepted his authority against orcish raids, operating primarily out of the settlement of Velenstek and the Old Redoubt (the humans to the northwest, of the Trapper's Guild alliance, refused Victyr's rule, and he did not attempt to enforce it). The small Garrison Chapter supported his army in a scouting role.

Sylvanelske was accepted by its nominal parent, the Farn-Clans, because of the fait accompli. Facing a concerted threat by a 200-strong Treesnatch army in 644 (a Drubark vassal), Sylvanelske asked for and received the support of a 100-man Farnijsle levy, though that force came with its own independent commanders. In the decade that followed, there were skirmishes nearly every year out in central Mjnfar, and Sylvanelske relied on forces from other places in the Ferdrskjisle to support it. The personal ties of the clan leadership with the Seven Halls also helped get the occasional support of a Varskji force or other, though these deployments usually didn't last longer than a year.

The Human Auxiliary pulled out of Trebkernstad entirely in 637. The Dwarves, who had been giving support through their intermediaries in the aim of maintaining some stability in the region and keeping the orcs (against which they were waging war on other fronts) weaker, also largely withdrew around that time.

The Ferdskjonner deployment continued growing with time; Trebkernstad, though a distant and economically minor outpost, was still seen as and important bulwark against orcish occupation of Mjnfar. The fighting remained restricted to armies in at most the few hundreds, and always against mercenaries or local tribal levies, not actual Drubark forces.

In 633, a Drubark army of 3'000 landed in Bomborg. The Farn-Clans chose to respond by deploying a thousand-strong army of its own. There were skirmishes in the woods, and a battle fought on the Trebflow's shore some hours' march north of Trebkernstad. But the Ferdskjonner were defeated and the army, alongside a large part of the civilian population, evacuated. Chief Victyr, most of his retinue, and some guildsmen chose to remain, however, assuming they'd be able to treat with the orcs (the Trappers' Guild to the north was successfully trading with Bomborg after all).

Drubark

Victyr managed to make a deal with Drubark, agreeing to become its client in return for staying in power. He now had to raise and pay out heavy taxes, and support the orcs' establishment of a minor base in the town. Trebkernstad mostly remained a mercantile hub, though now directed at the Drubark army on Mjnfar rather than trade with the Ferdrskjisle.

Relations with the Drubark and tribal overlords were always strained. Victyr initially tried to argue from a position of power and keep his autonomy, though he was soon forced to tolerate an orc castellan's presence inside his castle walls. The free operation of those guilds and artisans who had remained was also hampered, and the orcs in part forcefully established their own business.

Militarily, Victyr only held on to around twenty armsmen. The other military forces were either gone or disbanded and ordered to work the small farms and artisans' shops. Victyr's men were made responsible for keeping order, but there were often conflicts with orcish soldiers bossing around in town.

In 630, there was a massive dispute between Victyr and a visiting Drubark officer who wanted to have the whole castle for himself while he stayed. The dispute ended with one dead man and the enslavement of Victyr, Sylvan, and two dozen other humans, sent north to be sold in the Free City of Karogeborg.

This marked the end of the Clan Slyvanelske.