The Bretonni, proud and warlike horsemen, had arrived to the lands west of the Grey Mountains and north of The Vaults around -1000 IC, and began a centuries-long war against the greenskins that roamed in these fair realms. Three hundred years later, the Bretonni lands became dominated by twenty main tribes, who absorbed or destroyed the rest, and kept fighting among themselves for control over the territory - although they kept allying against the Orcs and Goblins. When they attempted to penetrate the Forest of Loren only a handful survived, driven mad by the fey terrors, and the forest entered folklore as being a haunted, magical place. They built many great strongholds and castles, but in 577 IC an increase in the greenskin raids saw four of the major tribes destroyed - the other sixteen