| abstract | - Demîk was born at Tâna in T.A. 1107. He was heir to the lordship of nearby Brôd, a small, upland kingdom that once formed the western portion of the core territories of the great empire of Lôchas Drûs. His father ruled the kingdom, but the Drâl family coveted the realm of Lôchas to the east, and Demîk grew up swearing that he would see a Drâl on the Lôchan throne before he died. This passion guided his life. The Drâls traced their ancestry back to the Hionvor Ôervîk Drâl (S.A. 3461-T.A. 27). Exiled less than a month after Ôervîk's suicide, they fled to the loyal citadel at Brôd. There, they began a long and painful residence among the cool foothills of the Ered Mountains of the Wind.They ruled Lôchas Drûs for an astounding 1,120 years before their departure, and the painful memories of their ignominious overthrow burneddeep in their hearts. Demîk Drâl avenged the crime and returned Drâl rule to the Lôchan capital of Tarsa in T.A. 1148. Capitalizing on the civil strife arising out of Vrâk Tanûk's challenge to the Lôchan Hionvor, he turned eastward after ten years of expanding Brodan rule along the flanks of the Orosûli. Leading a combined army of Brodan and subject Tanan, Nay, and Waalar warriors, he joined Vrak Tanuk's rebels south of Ruseva and crushed the remnants of Lochas' embattered army at Hothac Smew. A week later, Demîk Drâl became the new Hionvor of a reunited empire.
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