Lore:Camoran Usurper

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During the first few years of Emperor Cephorus II, 3E 249, the Camoran Usurper began his methodical invasion of Tamriel. From out of a nightmare, in the words of Eraintine, the Camoran Usurper (rumored to be a lich) had led an army of daedra and undead warriors on a rampage through Valenwood, conquering kingdom after kingdom. None could resist his onslaughts, and as month turned to bloody month, fewer even tried. Cephorus II sent more and more mercenaries into Hammerfell to stop the Usurper's northward march, but they were bribed, turned into undead, or slaughtered. In short, the destruction of the forces of the Usurper had little do with efforts of the Emperor. The result was a great regional victory and an increase in hostility toward the seemingly inefficacious Empire.

In 3E 253 the Usurper invades and captures the region of Dwynnen and holds it by an army of zombies, ghosts, vampires and skeletons.

The Baron Othrok and his less legendary allies, the rulers of Ykalon, Phrygia, and Kambria, finally ended the Usurper's carnage in 3E 267. News of the Usurper's barbaric treatment of captives and abuse of conquered lands, mostly true, spread rapidly through their territories, and then to their neutral lands. Within a few months, the greatest navy ever combined organized along the High Rock edge of the Iliac Bay. Only the navy of Uriel V's ill-fated invasion of Akavir was comparable. How the combined forces of High Rock defeated the endless army of the Camoran Usurper is certainly worthy of a lengthy book in itself. And perhaps, it is best left to the public imagination. Certainly the weather worked against the Usurper, which is reason in itself to attribute divine intervention. He is believed to be the father of Mankar Camoran.^[1]