During the Fifth Age, much of the continent of Pendria had fallen into chaos, as countries were destroyed or fragmented during the war against Gorthar, and civilization (especially in the south) withdrew to small fortified towns and castles.
The country of Attellaria was founded in 645 Eighth Age, when the ruler of a small town named Aertael formed alliances with several other small towns and castles. This man was named Attell, and he was eventually crowned as king when the area grew large enough to need a central authority; this was as much due to his town being the richest and having the largest armed force (not really large enough to be called an army yet), as it was due to his personal charisma and his reputed possession of the Scepter of Law.
Over the ensuing centuries, his descendants have expanded the territory they ruled many times, at times surrounding and enveloping other small territories, towns and castles. Most of the kings of been relatively benevolent; the nobles generally complacent with the rulership (though there have been a few plots and rebellions), and relations with nearby countries usually peaceful.
The royal line of Attell. The family name is used only rarely.
Attell, b. 612 EA, enthroned 645 EA, died 677 EA.
His son,
Edward the Elder, b. 652 EA, enthroned 677 EA, died 702 EA.
His son,
Aelfward, b. 689, enthroned 702 EA, died a few months later. Second son of Edward, took the throne when his brother was at war, died before he returned. Possibly murdered.
His brother,
Aelthelstan, b. 684, enthroned 702 EA, died 727 EA. Took the throne when he returned from war.
His son
Eadmund, b. 710 EA, enthroned 727 EA, died 734 EA.
His brother
Eadred, b. 727 EA, enthroned 734 EA, died 753 EA. Took the throne as a child, not actually crowned until 743 EA; a council ruled until he reached his majority. No children.
His brother
Eadwig, b. 747 EA, enthroned 753 EA , died 757 EA.
His brother
Edgar, b. 750 EA, enthroned 757 EA, died 783 EA.
His son
Edward, called The Martyr, b. 769, enthroned 783 EA, died 785. He was assassinated. No children.
His brother
Aethelred, b. 775, enthroned 785, lost throne in rebellion in 820 EA, when Edward was raised from the dead; this was revealed to be a ruse, led by Sweyn Forkbeard (see below). This was the beginning of a long tradition, later made into law, that disallowed anyone in the line of succession from being brought back from the dead.
Rebel king
Sweyn Forkbeard, b. 767, took throne 820, when Tharn invaded and defeated the armies in a series of battles on the plains to the west of Luinaelin Lake.
Restoration
Aethelred, b 775, throne restored 822, died 824. A general of the army, Sir Trask of Trask Castle, led an attack that routed and destroyed Forkbeard's army and slew him. For this, Aethelred made him a baron. The Trask family has been very close to the royal family ever since.
his son
Edmund, b. 797, enthroned 824, died 824. Edmund was a general in several major battles during the restoration, and continued to fight after Forkbeard was defeated, putting down the last of the rebels. He was killed in battle. There was a 26 year period (824-850) during which the borders were substantially withdrawn, and the rulership of the country could be claimed by either the Attell family as listed below, or the kings of Tharn.
his brother
Edweard, b. 809, enthroned 824, died 848. He ruled almost the entire dissolution period, which saw almost continuous war with Tharn.
He had no sons; his only daughter married
Godwin, second son of Baron Trask, b. 829, enthroned 848, died 848. He died in battle, near the end of the dissolution period, when his camp was overrun.
Edweard's brother,
Edgar, b. 822, enthroned 848, died 894.
His daughter married
William, third son of Baron Trask, b. 855, enthroned 894, died 924.
his son
William II, born 885, enthroned 924, died 937. Died without children.
his brother
Henry, born 895, enthroned 937, died 972. He, and much of his close family, and a large number of high nobles and his court, died when their ship sank in a mid-ocean storm. There have been stories of treachery, but none have ever been proven.
The throne was briefly seized by his nephew
Stephen, born 943, enthroned 972, died 973. He was supported by many of the surviving high nobles, even though Henry's daughter, Matilda lived (as she was not on the ship, having been left behind).
She led a rebellion and seized the throne, becoming the first ruling queen
Matilda, b. 953, enthroned 973, died 999. She ruled from 973 until 978, when
she married
Wulfhere, b. 951, enthroned 978, died 995. Wulfhere was ruler of what is now northern Attellaria, with the capital of Belegram and the northern forests. With their marriage, the two countries became one. As a compromise, the new country took the name and laws of Attellaria, but Wulfhere became king and the rulership of the country. Many nobles were opposed to the idea of a female ruler, and accepted a foreign king as an improvement.
His son
Coelred, b. 981, enthroned 995, died 1002. He was probably assassinated; he died of poisoned food. There was question of his legitimacy, as his birth was a difficult one, and a priest of Odin was called in to perform healing magic; afterwards, opponents claimed the child had been switched at birth, and that the magical aura he bore was proof of this plot. Since then, royals have refused to allow magical actions of any kind around their children until after their first birthdays.
His son
Wiglaf, b. 1002, enthroned 1002, died 1004. Almost certainly murdered. He was succeeded by
his uncle, Wulfhere's younger brother,
Beornwulf, b. 983, enthroned 1004, died 1007, in battle with Tharn. This was the last time these two countries fought a major war; the Tharn army was crushed, driven all the way to the sea, towns and castles were sacked, and the country has never been able to raise any significant armed force since (though they did finance a mercenary force in an.
His son,
Eadric, b. 1002, enthroned 1007, died 1067.
His son
Leofwine, b. 1033, enthroned 1067, died 1094.
His son
Aelfgar, b. 1063, enthroned 1094, died 1120.
His son
Nimlaure Aglarion, b. 1100, enthroned 1120, died 1166.
His daughter
Faithra Thaos, born 1122, enthroned 1166.