Feram Empire

The Feram Empire was and still is a formidable superstate in Eureos.

Rise (1300s)
It is not known exactly when or how the Feram came about. The prevailing theory is that a particularly virulent strain of the contagious wolf disease swept through the north of Eureos and infected the Elven/Human hybrids that lived there, permanently altering their genetics even after the virus was long gone.

It is also not known exactly when the Feram formed a state of any kind. Up until the end of the Greater Elven Empire, the Feram were anarchist and ran off a fuedal system of clans with societal castes. This is believed to have been formed out of the pack mentality that dominates actual wolf animals.

Regardless, the Feram Clans carved out northern Eureos for themselves and managed to keep the Elves from encroachng on their territory. The Elves were too busy in eastern Eureos to bother with the Feram, and considered them to be harmless and disorganized anyway.

At some point around the late 1300s, the Feram Clans united against the elves and struck deep into Efla, eventually destroying the Elven capital and taking the land surrounding it. They then swept south, and took the lower Elven provinces down to the coast. With their outer provinces cut off and supplies dwindling, the Elven Empire balkanized.

Dominant Period (1400-1720
The Feram remiained the fericest force in Eureos for the next two hundred years, and even after their armies declined and their society fell prey to decadence, they still remained too large a threat for any Empire to challenge.

Over their two hundred year dominant period, they managed to subjugate Comis and forced the surviving Dual Cominian Alliance to become a satellite state. After the rise of Lorris and Verasaur, the Feram engaged in a number of small skirmishes as a show of power. They were effective enough to keep Lorris and Verasaur from turning on the Empire.