Kingdom of Selwyssig

The Kingdom of Selwyssig (Olmë: Selwyssig Caedern) was the precursor state of the Elven Dominion formed from the unification of the chiefdom of Tuidd and the remnants of the Kingdom of Uil Achärn in 285 BC.

The kingdom was ruled by the line of Talagaer, also known as the Selwyssids or Tuiddar kings until the death of Nerain am Tuidd in 3 BC, upon whose passing a council of regents presided over the kingdom for a period of three years. In 1 BC, Sian ar Gwynnedd was crowned as the first of the Gwynneddar rulers, as well as the last King of Selwyssig as it would be reformed into the Caras Lenanhar some thirty years later.

Though its official founding remains dated at 285 BC, at the hands of Talagaer am Tuidd, the seeds of the kingdom are considered to have truly been planted by Talagaer's father, Oberon, a powerful clan-lord who desired to unify the disparate elven states into one nation. Even though his first attempt to face the Oglaëch kings failed, he had laid the foundations for his son to build upon, which Talagaer indeed did after Oberon's death in 292 BC.

Following the defeat of their main rival on the Starcast peninsula, the upstart Kingdom of Meícharn, the Selwyssid realm continued to grow and flourish over the next three hundred years. Despite suffering extensive setbacks in the 1st century BC, it successfully recovered under the rule of the penultimate Tuiddar king, Horad Andagor. It would meet its end upon its final reformation into an empire that would go on to conquer much of the known world and live on in one form or another for the next two and a half millennia.