The Talon

A summary of the the Talon

Origin
The Talon is a rocky island in the east of Mallyer. It is shaped like a talon with the fortress residing on the thick part of the island. The Talon was raised after the humiliating loss of the War of the Blood Bay which occur 1000 years ago. The Grand Drake at the time was Markus the Inept, a leader who was ineffective and was infamous for dividing the very strongly knit Mayyar kingdom and fracturing it. Dividing the kingdom into three parts, with the Dreddsons ruling the north and east. The Hadrians ruling the south and the Dralls holding the west.

Herakles I (the Mighty), Markus II grandson built the Talon to try and regain the Dreddson dominance, he was successful based mainly on his charisma and reputation he was able to bring the Dralls back into the Dreddson fold, and at the very least was able to force the Hadrians to comply to his demands.

Demands
When Herakles Dreddson raised up his fortress he sent forth commands for every land-holding family to send their sons to the Talon for six years starting at ten years of age, where they would be trained in the arts of war mostly, but also in politics and history. The Talon was very successful in training and molding the recruits to fight for a more unified Mallyer. Most boys did not hold any strong allegiance to any lord and were intrigued with the high status that any man could achieve with training at the Talon. It was in this way that Herakles bound the feuding lords into one cohesive unit. Herakles also demanded that one-fifth of the great drakes army should be positioned at the Talon.