The Battle of Dragul's Rest
The Sygyzy Contention was a civil war between two scions of House Nosferath, Ketrill and Veldanura, for the throne of the Dusk Imperium. The conflict began soon after Dusk Sovereign Bemalon the Dragonslayer acceeded to the Evernight Realms during the Centauric Sygyzy of 2410. Though Bemalon had ruled with unquestioned authority, the heir-apparent he had appointed, his son Bloodroyal Ketrill, was deeply unpopular amongst the Vampyr nobility for what many perceived to be his egalitarian sympathies. In particular, Ketrill was widely suspected of harboring a distasteful affinity towards the lowly Humans, the erstwhile rulers of old Terra before the Culling, who still teemed under Vampyric domination. Upon receiving the news of Bemalon’s death, his sister Bloodroyal Veldanura roused herself from her seat on Dragul's Demesne and announced her intention to succeed her late brother. Gathering around her a cabal of great noble houses, she proclaimed her nephew a race traitor and and aposta...