Hi Kurenai
I'll be glad to oblige. The best person to ask about Bellam would be Bobby. However I'll chip in what little I know.
Here goes:
For Eastern Anuire one thing held true over the last 15 years. All that had gone before would undergo a period of such massive change that present day's residents would scarcely be able to remember the awesome power behind a name like Ghoere and the Duke Gavin Tael. His legacy simply vanished, torn apart by blindness. He had gambled on his ability to control his lessers in an iron fist, but was caught unaware, paralyzed and stabbed multiple times by his loyal lieutenants and newfound ally. The Sword Mage lord of Tornilen, Ghorien Hiriele lord of Ghieste and Jaison Raenech usurper of Osoerde.
Ghoere was no more. His lands were split and swiftly divided between the three.
The Swordmage sat astray Tornilen, brooding in darkness over this foul deed, but receiving no reproach from a temple of Cuiraecenites that was in the process of swift disintegration, the Swordmage decided to conserve power and wait out the conflict that soon tore the eastern world apart. Under the Swordmage's enigmatic rule, not one invasion ever crossed Tornilen's border and but priests of Haelyn decried this wizard as an enemy, all else let the Swordmage live in guarded peace. Why bother someone of such possible treachery?
Untill one day a holy pact was made, a band of heroes set off for the icy reaches of deepest Five Peaks. There to fight, once and for all, the terrible entity the Eyeless One, scourge of northern Tuornen and Alamie. The Swordmage was one of them and there she revealed her true identity and took her place as a member of Anuire, perhaps not well-respected, but respected nonetheless. Her alliance with the shining hope of mankind, Pontiff-Cardinal Gielbert Aurlien, the path to her redemption in public eyes. Unfortunately, her redemption came at the price of his abdication. But that is another story.
This tale had a not uncertain impact on the Swordmage's northerly wizardly neighbour, Regien. He was intrinsically connected to the land and well-being of his nation. Thus to see it torn apart in strife and bloody mayhem, cast a terrible curse on the elusive wizard. But a secret he discovered. Some new terrible power had marched alongside Daen Wyld into Mhoried, hoping that the usurpers sword and shield would provide cover for his wrestling of Mhoried's sources away from Regien. It was the Warlock, a man of evil and singular purpose. Driven on by dreams of ever greater power, he engineered the bloodbath that was Mhoried.
Only the brotherhood of temples were strong enough to stop Wyld and Warlock in their tracks, and on their side fought Regien, some say even unto death and miraculous resurrection! Nonetheless Regien was a shadow of himself, accursed poison running through his veins, a dark purpose drawing him ever closer towards darkness, despair and the blood thereof. The Warlock had brought with him Azrai's curse and let it fall heavy and hard upon Regien.
It is said that Pontiff-Cardinal Gielbert Aurlien cured Regien. It is certainly known that Pontiff-Cardinal Gielbert Aurlien engineered an alliance most strange and unnatural, indeed foul and evil to many. An alliance that ensured victory against the Eyeless One, as he gave the charge of Protector of the Five Peaks to the Warlock. And ensuring this nasty entity vacated Mhoried, never to return. Not many wept when Pontiff-Cardinal Gielbert Aurlien abdicated his throne. He was considered a man who had walked too close to the gates of Shadow. But that is another story.
Regien's current fate is unknown. He is alive most certainly and actively working for the restoration of Mhoried. It is not known if he has succumbed to the curse, for he is a reclusive being, shunned by even his own for his strange and some say evil ways. Regien cares not, he is gifted with higher purpose.
