Rohan

Rohan is one of the older factions on the server. It has had only a few kings, Theoden Ednew (maurizo_blaze or Arvasil) being the present one.

History
Theoden (Arvasil) is the king who has ruled the longest. Rohan has had only 2 wars which are The War of the Straw-heads and The War For Rohan.

Rohan began with SkullChrusherNl. The first builder of the very first Edoras, it all began with Theoden(SkullChrusherNl) Theodred(another player), and Arvasil(Gamling). Due to it's early state, the neighbouring and bloodthirsty Uruk-hai under Garothmuk(Koray) harassed these men little and paid no heed, instead decimating the Elves of Lothlorien. Arvasil, under the word of SkullChrusherNl was tasked with befriending Garothmuk, which at first was hard, but he completed the task, and due to such actions, Rohan survived during this terrific period of Isengard and Evil as a whole's history. After this, the very first rendition of Aldburg was made, proving to be a small, but memorable build of old Rohan. The leader of Aldburg, Theodred, left due to personal reasons, and it was now up to Gamling(Arvasil) to either take on the mantle of Theodred or Eomer, but he took Eomer as to respect the prior Theodred. Arvasil had also been working on Grimslade, a rather poor and first build by Arvasil as Rohan, but it worked, and fought off a few hunts.

It was then that Arvasil began the very first Helm's Deep. This most terrible build was small at it's first stage, but elves of both Lorien and Mirkwood aided the construction of the Long Wall. Half way through construction however, Theoden left. At first he went on vacation, but after the build of Helms Deep was essentially completed, he still was absent. This was when Arvasil became Theoden, and finally outlasted them all, becoming the final rohirrim before the reset. Around the time when Helms Deep was nearing completion, the menace of Dunland, rocksolid4 began harassing Arvasil with a friend of his. They tormented him, and Arvasils ability at pvp was non existent. Every time they fought they took his gear, unless Arvasil was behind the walls of the hornburg, shooting them, which did win him a few conflicts. Eventually, the battles died down, but left Arvasil with a severe hatred for Dunland, one he would not soon forget.

The map reset took Edoras and Aldburg, and by this time Arvasil was a Test-Mod. This proved helpful as Arvasil, after finishing off the Hornburg, looked onto the daunting task of Edoras and the Golden Hall of Meduseld. The build was probably his best yet, but still shades beneath any mediocre build that existed on the server. However, Arvasil barely worked on the build and his pace was slow as he had school work and the materials were hard to come by without a proper wheat farm. This was when stef4o11 joined. From nowhere came stef, who originally was just another player that Arvasil assumed would leave. However after a month, he remained. This was when Arvasil allowed him to be Eomer, and made him his right hand man. Months later, Edoras was all but completed, even as bad as it used to be. He claimed Rohan with the few members he had, and Rohan finally became a Kingdom, with Eomer as Arvasils right hand man and most loyal friend.

With the arrival of _Deathly_Shadow_(Grimbold) and KonradSoderlund(Erkenbrand) Rohan had a military, and a military needed food. Stef helped create a large farm for Rohan, while Arvasil made one in The Wold, which at the time, was easily the largest wheat farm on the server. Months and months passed, but finally the friendship between Arvasil and Traceus began to bloom. At first they were close as all else, and aided one another in many a hunt, however soon Traceus took a turn for the worst. He soon hunted his own players, and even got himself banned, which Arvasil took no part in. This led to the player Carm_Caramel claiming Mordor. After seeing how many factions failed at attacking her, Carm turned her gaze upon the fields of Rohan, and Arvasil knew he could not win this. He not only sued for peace, but allied with her. After his friends such as Eomer, and SiDeus(Gandalf) convinced him that the must face this evil, odds being as they were, he destroyed the pact one day hence before he could turn to true evil. And so, while Carm prepared to attack Rohan, she went inactive and was not heard from again.

The wars of DOME did not happen and factions lay dormant - all but Gondor and Harad. With Valaglar(KingTotalWar) just claiming, he instantly went to war with the fertile. Theoden saw this, and his valour remained, or mpreso his folks, as in the first siege of Harad he sent Grimbold and Erkenbrand to aid them and stayed behind with Eomer. It resulted in a defeat for them, but he did not sway, and instead sent himself with Eomer, and still Grimbold and Erkenbrand the next time, taking up all 4 aider slots. They attacked harad with all they could in the fourth siege, but Harads men were war-hardened, and even though they fought to the bitter end, Ji-Indur decimated every man, and hope was all but lost for the final siege on Gondor. Finally, the war was won for Harad and the region taken, and they burned the White Tree of Gondor. Harad decided not to attack Rohan, and both sides agreed not to cross the Mering Stream into each other's lands.

The time came for more evil when a Rohirrim known as Vendetta_V attempted to usurp the throne, only for Theoden and Eomer to fight him off, and thus he took Dol Guldur as his home. He began harassing Rohan and other good factions, but when he picked a fight with Erebor, all hell broke upon him, and Lord Dain (Lord_Frerin) tore him apart, and so ended another for of Rohan.

Rohan aided Gondor in their war against Near Harad Fertile, but eventually Gondor still lost. One of the gondorians who lost was Duilin (Konradsoderlund), a Ranger of Ithilien. Following the war, Konrad left and fled to Rohan, due to the intrigues of the Gondorian traitor Amphion (juststan147). The only players in Rohan at the time were Theoden and Eomer (stef4o11). Here Konrad rose to power as Erkenbrand, the Marshal of Westfold, along with his friend. When Beta 28 came, both became inactive due to an issue downloading the new version Konrad came back first as Erkenbrand, but when his friend came back a new guy had joined Rohan and become Grimbold (_Deathly_Shadow_).

Then came the first big conflict with Uruk-Hai. They grew mighty with about 15 active players. Meanwhile, Eomer (stef4o11) wasn't able to be as active because of IRL reasons. Erkenbrand, Grimbold, and Theoden had a tough job ahead of them. It was mostly Grimbold and Erkenbrand who were to hold off the mighty Uruk-Hai in battle. No offical war was declared, but during the conflict at least 30 hunts occurred, with many of the battles happening at the fort of Isen, because the gate into Rohan laid there and it was well-guarded. The first battle was between Erkenbrand, Grimbold, 4 Arnorians, 2 Dwarves and about 5 Uruk hais, 2 Haradrim, and 2 Gundabad orcs. It was a general bowfight in which one Uruk fell, and then good charged out and got massacred. The good side realized that, while their opponents all use Orc draught, few of them had used Miruvor; the use of Miruvor became standard after that. But Rohan managed to win some battles. For example, Erkenbrand and Grimbold were able to win a hunt against 5 Uruk-Hai at their fort by Isen. Eomer, Grimbold, Eorlos, Theoden and a few Gondorian allies were also able to defeat 8 Uruks, killing their king and 2 commanders.

Eventually, many of the Uruk players left, while morе players joined the Rohirrim. This is when Bredgan the Duke of Anduin, and Eomer came back. New faces like Eorlos (Sith_Anakin) and Arador (xTimpugz) also came. Long after, Gondor was granted to Rohan and Arvasil, who then gave it to King of Arnor, Halbarad (Lammerant), till a new king was found.

Rohan soon claimed Anduin, resulting in a golden period for the Rohirrim. However, internal conflict led many players to abandon the faction, leaving it much weaker.

The first war Rohan went through was one they didn't expect. At the time Harad was 3 kingdoms, not 1. The mad king of the Desert declared siege on Edoras, but quickly got destroyed by Rohan and their allies from the Woodland Realm. At this point, Eomer wanted to continue the war since Umbar and the Near Harad Fertile didn't support the desert. But Theoden made a non-aggresion pact with the 3 kings and Dale which was just claimed by Lord Brand (SirWilsonGS).

After that Rohan had peace and quiet for a long time until the Uruks claimed. Lead by their fearless leader Gurlakdar , they would have beaten Rohan, never to let it rise again. But then their leader left, for unknown reasons. Everything was going well until Arvasil was banned. With Rohan not being able to get claimed for 10 days chaos started spreading. But Eother, Eomer and Eorlos managed to keep everyone calm until Arvasil was able to come back. Arvasil tried to claim, but he failed. He let Eomer claim and become the second king of Rohan. After Arvasil left Rohan, Eomer ruled Rohan for about 2 (?) months before Dunland, Gundabad and Uruk-Hai decided to make their strike.

With the Uruks declaring war on Rohan, Eomer had no choice but to just hope Lurtz (CharizardGG) got banned since he knew there was no way of beating the uruks. But after some time, he got banned himself, Lurtz following him shortly after. This meant that only Eother (ItsJelmer) was left, but with almost no contacts, Eother was forced to try to build a new city. However, when the city was almost done, Eother reclaimed Edoras and with it the throne of Rohan. Thus, Eother became the third king of the Rohirrim.

Eother has a tough job with starting between 2 rising enemy lands (Isengard, Gundabad) but still claimed the big land between the Misty Mountains and the Greenwood, the vales of the Anduin. But that also means he has got another rising threat now, The Hill of Sorcery is now on his doorstep, and he is now even closer to the Lands of Gundabad. But he is also closer to the Grey mountains dwarves and the kingdoms of men in the north.

List of Rulers

 * Theoden (Arvasil)


 * Eomer (stef4o11)


 * Eother (ItsJelmer)

List of active members

 * Theoden Ednew (maurizo_blaze or Arvasil)


 * Eomer, Captain of the Meduseld Guard (stef4o11)


 * Gamling, Marshal of Westford (Dr_FlupperPupper)
 * Tirassi, Stablemaster of Rohan (MadisonnRoxx)


 * Fengel (Darcy)


 * Boama (Carguk_The_Old)


 * Boern (RavingPancake)

Cities

 * Edoras (Capital)


 * Eorlburg


 * Helms Deep


 * Eastmark


 * Grimslade


 * Aldburg


 * Woldhall


 * Coombtown

(to be continued)