Jutones

"Well, Marbad’s a good man and his people were scratching a living on the edges of the marshes at the mouth of the river. They’d settled there after King Marius of the Jutones drove them from their homeland after the Teutogens had taken their lands. I suppose it’s possible to live there, but why anyone would want to, I don’t know. The marshes are dangerous places, full of sucking bogs, corpse lights and daemons that drink the blood of men."

- King Bjorn Unbergoen, telling the woes of the Endals and the Jutones





The Jutones and sometimes the Was Jutones or simply the Juton tribe were an ancient war-like people populating the lands of not just Westerland, but also the lands of Nordland and parts of western Ostland, making them the descendants of the modern day Westerlander, Nordlander and close relatives of the Ostlanders. Like many other tribes, the Jutones came into the lands of the Empire in -1000 IC and settled within the coastlines that border the Sea of Claws. This, unfortunately, spelled much misfortune for the Jutones. In time, the early Jutones were slain and subjugated by the Teutogens to their south and due to their proximity in the north, also became the main victims of the Norsii when they invaded the lands of the Empire. Faced with the choice of slavery, starvation or suicidal battle against the joint threats of the Norsii and Teutogens, their paramount chief, the semi-mythical King Marius, persuaded a branch of his people to instead flee the Forest of Shadows and head west with all they could carry, in a great exodus.

However they got there and for whatever reason they left, it's agreed that the Jutones were in the Wasteland by the year -20 I.C. There, all the tales state, they've drove out the tribes of the Endals which once made the Marshes their homes and soon engaged in a fierce war with the Fimir, with neither side giving quarter, each bent on genocide. Around -10 I.C., the Jutones and the Fimir met in a climactic battle amidst the ruins of the Sea Elf fortress. The Saga of Dobbe Arend, the oldest known with fragments dating from the sixth century, says that Marius met the Fimir queen in single combat and killed her on Slagveldsrots ('Battlefield Rock'), the old name for the island on which the Staadtholder's palace sits. He laid claim to the marsh and all the lands between "the forests and the seas" and founded his city on the Elven ruins of the ancient Elven city, proclaiming himself King of Jutonsryk ('Realm of the Jutones'). Ever since then, the Jutones became fierce rivals with the displaced Endals, resulting in frequent retaliatory raids against one another. In respects to King Bjorn Unberogen for his efforts at repelling the hated Norsii, a small band of Jutones warriors were present at his funeral pyre.

He saw fit to name the city for himself, and built his tower on Rykseiland ('Realm's Isle'), these days called Rijkers' Isle. The next several centuries are shrouded in obscurity. A column in the crypts of the cathedral of Manaan bears carved names and accomplishments, some of which are still readable. Though styled 'kings', they can have been little better than chiefs in these days, ruling a crude fishing village amongst the ruins. King Euricius Mariuszoon and the twin-tailed comet of his reign are mentioned. Then Gijsbert Mannelykheid of th edozen sons in the third century I.C., and his heir, known only as Grootneus ('Big nose'). The Jutones tried to settle the Wasteland, too, especiallythe fertile country around the banks of the Reik. One can still see the artificial hills of old motte-and-bailey forts, some maintained as places of refuge to this day. Small towns and villageswere founded on the Tumble Downs, of which Aarnau is the largest and oldest. None survived any of the few attempts made to settle the Bitter Moors, Almshoven being the last to die. After the first few centuries, these attempts at colonisation werehalf-hearted at best, a bone thrown to disaffected factions or young nobles who "wanted land, not fish!" Even in these early days, Marienburg was not only the chief city of the Wasteland, it was the Wasteland.

Unlike the other founding tribes of the Empire, the Jutones, though having respect for Sigmar and his people, refused the call for unification and instead stayed put upon their homeland. The next time the Jutones enters history with any certainty is in the Chronicles of the Venerable Ottokar, an early Grand Theogonist of the cult of Sigmar. The unknown scribe records Ottokar's blessings on the efforts of Emperor Sigismund II "the Conqueror" to extend the domains of "the unity of Divine Sigmar". While the Chronicle concentrates on wars to the south and east, it makes brief mention of a campaign against the "barbarians of the Reik's mouth" in the spring and summer of 501 IC. Mustering a great army, Sigismund is said to have swept aside the resistance of the Jutones and received the submission of King Bram, the Jutones ruler. The chronicler praises the wisdom and generosity of the Emperor, for "he neither razed their Citadel nor reduced them to charcoal, but rather loved them as Children, making their King a Baron and Vassal of the Empire, and naming the new province 'Weysterland'. From then on, the Jutones of Westerland and one remains of the Jutones in Nordland finally joined Sigmar's dream of a unified Empire

Source

 * Sigmar's Heir (Fantasy Roleplay)
 * pg. 11
 * pg. 12
 * pg. 13
 * pg. 64
 * Time of Legend: Heldenhammer (Novel) by Graham McNeill
 * Chapter 3: "Morr's Due"
 * Chapter 13: "A Gathering of Kings"
 * Marienburg: Sold Down the River (1st Edition Fantasy Roleplay)
 * pg. 17
 * pg. 18

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