Abdul Al'Shar was a border prince from Araby who settled his realm in the Border Princes on 1606 IC. Abdul Al’Shar has invaded the region of Masserschloss, conquering the villages and claiming the land for his own.[1a]
Abdul Al’Shar was an ambitious warlord from Araby. Not content with his lot in his homeland, and perhaps as a reaction to the Crusades that despoiled much of his homeland, he looked north, intending to do to the Empire what they did to Araby. He gathered his armies, set sail, and landed in the region of the Border Princes. He knew he needed new supplies to make a serious attempt against the Empire, which was starting that slow decline into unrest and anarchy. So he intended to create a petty kingdom to swell his numbers with mercenaries and plant crops enough to feed his forces. What he found was a land infested by Greenskins; a place of desperation, plague, and death. He led his army north, but he watched with horror as each new engagement with the Orcs whittled away at his numbers, unravelling his plans and destroying his dreams of conquest.[1a]
Faced with annihilation, he settled for a piece of land and ruled over the scattered homesteads and struggling villages. Luckily, the poisonous desert had stopped expanding, and much of the horrors it was said to have held had since ceased. He invested more resources when his scouts discovered an area rich with iron. Sensing the opportunity to rebuild after his losses to the Orcs, he focused all of his efforts on the mine. Months passed, and it seemed less and less likely that Abdul would recoup from the initial invasion, and a year later, one of his lackeys murdered him while he sat on his chamber pot.[1a]
Over the next 200 years, Abdul’s principalities fell to a series of lesser and lesser men until what little law their was collapsed under the weight of its own corruption. The iron mines that had supplied this land with wealth dried up. The land fragmented, fraught with civil war until the whole region simply fell to the rampaging Greenskins and later to other settling Humans.[1a]