With the death of the Crown High King Thassad II in the 864th year of the Second Era, Hammerfell was taken by the Septim Empire, though some concessions were made following a successful revolt in Stros M'Kai. The Crowns, who followed the traditions of the Na-Totambu, violently resisted the efforts of the Forebears, named for the original warriors of the Ra Gada, to assimilate. Over time, Redguard society divided into two groups, depending on their allegiance to the old Yokudan ways or the new ways of Tamriel. Following the successful alliance, the cities of Hammerfell – as Volenfel had come to be called – finally began trading with High Rock and the Colovian West, joining the battles against new foes, such as the Sload of Thras, thanks to an alliance with Bendu Olo, the King of Anvil. Over a century of unrelieved hostility only came to an end at the appearance of a common enemy in the form of the Orcish kingdom of Orsinium. The Redguards' slaughter of men along the coast was not quickly forgiven, and their open scorn for their neighbors did nothing to ease relations between the newcomers and the Bretons. The high domes, the flying dew sails, and the mosaic colophons were constructed over the old and new ruins of past civilizations. The Na-Totambu, the government of Yokuda, was transplanted whole, together with their traditional system of agriculture and religion which was well suited to the unforgiving climate of the Redguards' new home. The Redguards, as the Ra Gada came to be called, made no concession to the Breton settlements along the coasts, slashing through the southern Iliac Bay, winning the entire area that is now the Province of Hammerfell in only a few major battles. The disorganized Orcs fell to them quickly, as did all the infestations of monster and beast further inland. The Yokudans left their continent following a cataclysm (discussed in a later section of the Guide), arriving in Tamriel in an invading fleet called the Ra Gada. By the time of the Ra Gada, over a hundred years had passed since any civilization had touched southern Volenfel. Akaviri and Nordic pirates plundered much of value from the abandoned cities, predators from the inland desert prowled the empty streets, and the harsh elements took their toll as well. Like the other Dwemer, the Rourken seem to have vanished suddenly from Hammerfell, leaving their wonders to the open sky. The House Rourken's severing of ties with the Dwemer in Resdayn did not protect them from the results of the War of the First Council. Settling far from the Bay, along the southern coast, they soon established an easy trading relationship with the elves to the south and Bretons to the north, and the Deathlands took the Dwemer name of Volenfel, "City of the Hammer", after the Dwemer capital whose ruins now lie buried under the sands of the Alik'r near Gilane. They were of Rourken's people, rebels against the alliance of Dunmer and Dwemer in Morrowind. In the year 420 of the First Era, a tribe of Dwemer arrived in the Deathlands from the east. Wind spirits, fire spirits, goblins, trolls, and scorpions the size of horses regularly crept in from the desert, and were rebuffed at the frontier, sometimes at a terrible cost. Nor were these the only dangers of record. The elves and later the Bretons did set up outposts in what are now Sentinel and Lainlyn in order to protect their fisherfolk and seafaring merchants from the Orcs who had taken over the interior of the land. It was desolation, a wasteland where hot winds blew over burning rock, and the only feet that walked the sands belonged to monsters. Not that there was much reference to it historically. Hegathe, as a name, lives on as the name of the original Redguard capital, but into the First Era, the Nedic name began to be used by one and all to refer to the barren land north of Colovia, south of the Iliac Bay. Before then, it was called Hegathe by the Aldmer, and Deathland by the Nedic people, roughly saying the same thing. History Hammerfell only acquired its name with the coming of the Redguards. They quickly adapted to the harsh desert of their new homeland and made a former wasteland into a power to be reckoned with. The most recent arrivals to Tamriel's shores are the Redguards of Hammerfell.
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