Aencar Burlisk

Named Aencar (ay-AN-kar) Burlisk, Aencar was a Dalesfolk hero who united all of the Dales (excepting Archendale and High Dale) in The Year of the Spreading Spring (1038 DR). It is unknown when Aencar was born. Aencar was raised by elves in Battledale, where he learned military strategy, forestry and other skills that would become essential during his fifteen-year rule of the Dales.

When he grew older, Aencar left Battledale with a group of mercenaries known as the Mailed Mantle. The sellswords were a Sembian mercenary group that found great success battling corruption in Sembia for various employers. Eventually corrupt Sembians and other foes they had made put a bounty on their heads and the Mailed Mantle returned to Battledale.

There, Aencar found his people being opressed by corrupt merchants and common thieves. The Mailed Mantle set to work to clear them out of Battledale, and in The Year of Warlords (1030 DR), Aencar was proclaimed the Lord of Battledale. In his nine years as the ruler of Battledale, Aencar did not sit idly. He looked after the Dalefolk in Battldale and he adventured against their enemies. The Mailed Mantle became the patrollers of Battledale, and visitors of Battledale noted its strong and competent leader.

In 1038 DR, Aencar then began his campaign to make himself the King of the Dales. He persuaded some to join his cause, such as Tasseldale and Shadowdale, and against the others he struck swiftly and surely, putting Mantle members in seats of power across the Dales. Aencar ruled the majority of the Dales for six more years, and he ruled them as masterfully as he ruled Battledale in his previous years. Aencar earned his title as The Mantled King as a result of his wearing a red hood and mask. He wore these items to hide a rotting disease that an enemy wizard had cursed him with.

In The Year of the Singing Shards (1044 DR), Aencar was invited to a feast in Essembra. This turned out to be a trap laid by evil mages who summoned a dracolich to slay Aencar. One of his lieutenants defeated the dracolich, but Aencar was dead. One of the evil mages was Alacanther of Arrabar, who burned down Aencar in his keep. The ruins of Aencar's castle can still be seen from Rauthauvyr's Ride, the road running to the Standing Stone, and it has not been reoccupied since his death. A descendant of Aencar's chief swordcaptain, Chancellor Ilmeth, rules Essembra and serves as Battledale's delegate to the Dales Council.