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In the same year after the war, Lord Theo Swygert was assassinated by what was assumed to be an agent of Lord Hersy. In response the new lord Jammos would bend the knee to the Royce as kings so that they could focus their anger north at those they deemed responsible. At the end of the year they had officially segmented their teachings formally showing to the rest of the Vale their religious ideas. In response the Hersy declared them heretics in which the Swygerts and their followers would respond in kind. The new version of the faith, known as the Faith of the One was formally born, worshiping not the 7 aspects but the one god behind them.

in 126 A.I. the son of lord Samson Melcolm, Masart Melcolm would die, leaving only daughters. His eldest daughter Lady Tynissa Melcolm would inherit backed by her husband Tinog Royce. Members of her family in opposition to this would flee north to the Hersy joining their naval might to theirs. Tynissa herself would die a year later in 127 A.I. leading to her young son Anderrs Royce to inherit, formally creating House Royce of Old Anchor.

In 128 A.I. a crusade from Andalos came under word from Hersy and the Moonfells about the herasy in the Vale. One member, Lorent Rhysling would end up marrying the daughter of lord Hersy Mya to cement the loyalty of half the crusade. The other half under Lord Bar Drox after investigating the accused heresy and finding no evidence, alongside word from the newly converted Lord Dolf Dog of Lord Hersy's threats. Under Bar Drox half the crusade left for the north chasing the ghost of the arch traitor Tyrell, this brake in the crusade led to Lord Loreon Hersy to declare the end of the protectorship and lock himself away in a sept.

In 130 A.I. both House Royce and House Horn invade the now independent Strongsong which ended with the Mondagne branch being wiped from the area and the land split between the two kingdoms. The Lipps, exiled old god worshippers from the cut displaced by andals generations ago was settled in the new lands and made lords of the entire Strongsong under the Royce.

Lord Loreon Hersy would die in 132 A.I and his daughter, said to be mad with grief lunched a war of extermination with the andal crusade remnants to wipe out House Horn once and for all. The war raged for 2 years in which both House Dog and House Marsh from the neck would join to defend the Horns. All 3 were beaten in a climatic battle in the Cut, yet instead of waiting the victory drunk andals chased the retreating armies into the bogs of the neck itself. At the same time, Bronze king Russ Royce had returned from a coronation in the Whispers and upon hearing word of the war marched north with House Hunter and Waynwood to put an end to this madness once and for all. Battle was joined once again at Wetweir in which the host of house Marsh reinforced by those of the Horns held the line as long as they could, yet even in the bog the tide was turning against them. When all looked lost the host of House Royce entered the fray having been led in by the bogmen, their forces along with their allies helped the Horns turned the battle. Of the 6000 men who entered that day, only a handful under house Hersy escaped to tell of it while the entire crusade died in the bog.

Soon the forces of House Royce, House Horn, and House Dog would march into the Hersy land and finally in 135 A.I. the Hersy fell and the war came to an end. The old Hersy land was split with the son of Lady Hersy being taken south to Old Anchor to be fostered. Lady Mya Hersy herself would die in 137 A.I. bringing the time of independent lords of Hersy to an end.

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