Champion Era Gisredde (concept)
'Champion Era Gisredde' is the period of Peti Gisredde history following Pre-Collapse Gisredde. Named for the The Champion of Chevalie, the era technically began before their likely birth, but ended at their death and victory over Arch Lich Silas Stavro in Peti Gisredde. While Gisredde's shortest historical era, it was also its most fabled.
Peti Gisredde continually fought encroaching warlords in the Anarchy of the Five Crowns while dealing with the chaos caused by the death of Chancellor Perrit in The Brutality. It was only occupied once, ending with the now famous Night of the Winking Rose. Despite victory, Grande Gisredde fell to the Coup of the Wayfathers and gained independence. When Silas Stavro invaded Chevalie soon after, Peti Gisredde funded and supplied the realms of the living. This aid was not enough to stop Stavro from reaving far deeper into western Chevalie than any other. Tales say that when the armies of Chevalie retreated west, the The Champion of Chevalie convinced the Council of Gisredde of the need for unity and performed many great deeds across the city for notables and commoners alike. It is even said that they rooted out an agent of Stavro in the council itself, a noble of Grande Gisredde turned necromancer.
Convinced, the Council suspended the Gisreddepact for the only time in history, allowing the retreating armies to make their stand in the city. There, on the roof of the Palace of Gisredde, the Champion and Stavro battled. The Champion and Stavro would both fall, ending the Red River War. Hundreds of towns, cities and villages across Chevalie would then claim the Champion as being local-born. None claim this more loudly than Peti Gisredde, who claim that the Champion gave their life to protect the city they loved since birth, no matter a complete lack of evidence. The end of the Red River War brought forth the fittingly named era, Glorious Gisredde.