Vastar

Vastar was an orc kingdom founded circa -700 DR. It occupied the lands between Cormanthyr and Narfell where The Vast now resides.

History
In 331 DR, Vastar launched a surprise attack on Cormanthyr, via rickety boats across the Dragon Reach and by land north of the Reach. They destroyed Yrlaphon, slaughtered over 1000 Myth Drannan soldiers in their sleep and occupyied a portion of the eastern forest. Though the elves attempted to recover their lands many times, but it wasn't until the intervention of the human Velar 8 years after the original invasion that the orcs were eventually routed.

In 512 DR Vastar invaded again, this time attacking Impiltur instead. Swarming over the passes of the Earthspur Mountains, the orcs slew the king, his three heirs and their army, only to be defeated later that year by another army mustered by Duke Harandil Durlaven. The orcs fled back home but towards the end of that century Vastar came under repeated attack by the elves and from dwarves who were expanding their mines west into the country. The king Ologh was killed by the black dragon Iyrauroth in -572 DR. For 39 years (610-649 DR) Vastar was the Dwarven realm of Roldilar but the orcs regrouped and won a succession of victories against the dwarves above and below ground. Unfortunately for the orcs, opportunistic humans from the Vilhon Reach took advantage of the power vacuum left by the demise of Roldilar to settle the temporarily empty lands and pushed the orcs out of the region, establishing Raven's Bluff over the former dwarven capital.

Geography
Vastar was originally quite heavily forested but the trees the orcs carelessly cut down to fuel their war with Myth Drannor left only the few copses of trees surrounded by wide, empty grasslands that could be found in the Vast in modern times.