Southern barony of Stryre conquered by Red Dust nomads, now a blended nation
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In 1940 the mysterious Mahdi, preacher and leader from the Red Dust, led a horde of his nomads to assault southern Stryre. The nomads had raided the south of Stryre for centuries but always on a small scale; this was a full-scale invasion.
The desert horde laid waste to all of southern Stryre as far north as Lake Irrizar. Melirkos was sacked and burned. The region became a war zone as the Stryrans struggled to eject the elusive and mobile invaders.
By 2040, the region had become a kind of colony of the Red Dust, and was named Djasrem, populated by a mixture of the two peoples but ruled by the "Dusters". An uneasy peace came into being with Stryre, but formal trade and proper relations remain a distant likelihood.