But he would never come to learn more than that. Beneath was an endless maze, incomprehensible in its construction. And one day, the young erl broke through. His obsession became his son's, and his son's son's. He dug his entire life and never found what he sought. They had been sealed with rock and soil, deliberately so. The erl devoted his life to excavating the ruins below the keep. What was first a prospect of great wealth turned to maddening obsession. The very first Roadwarden, Cafed Eodhart, forged a badge of office, the Whispers of Yenwood, which are said to be only ever found by those meant to rule the keep. In recognition of the keep's strategic location, all rulers of Caed Nua were granted the title of Roadwarden. This made it a lucrative target during the colonization of the Dyrwood under the Aedyr Empire, with the first Erl of Yenwood erecting a keep on site to protect his family's claim to the ruin and excavate it in peace. It was the only ruin across the Eastern March that Eir Glanfath refused to defend. The Engwithan ruins lay abandoned for centuries, deterring all attempts at exploration or exploitation. Although only fingers of the great adra titan constructed adjacent to the research center remain on the surface, they are a testament to the scale of this massive project that spurred research into deeper branches of animancy and advanced Engwithan megastructure construction skills. Necromancy or the science or immortality? Whatever the name they chose to grant to it, the escalating strain on the people Od Nua ruled and ruthless, bloody experimentation eventually culminated in a mob of angered Engwithans storming the castle and putting an end to Od Nua's research. The entire keep became a research center focusing on life, death, and preventing souls from passing the Shroud. Beloved by his people, he was driven into madness by grief and machinations of the Children of the Wheel following the death of his son, Maros Nua. The site of Caed Nua once belonged to the vast estate of Od Nua, the legendary king of the Engwithans two thousand years ago.
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