Peyton raids

In the hills and highlands above Midday Castle are a series of caves inhabited by the Peyton bandits in the year -442 RV. Feared for their terrible reputation, and reportedly well stocked armories, the surrounding lords spent years preparing for a potentially devastating series of attacks by these bandits and highwaymen.

The Peyton raids motivated the construction of town walls (such as around the sleepy town of Bertleburg) and the training of city watch regiments (such as the now famed Silver Regiment in Moon City). Perhaps the most famous response to the threat of the Peyton raids was the construction of Midday Castle itself, designed to shelter Sart the Grander.

It was a dozen years before it was finally revealed that the so-called Peyton bandits were in fact merely an unmotivated troupe of traveling minstrels and performers who had given up their lives of travelling and performing to settle into the highland caves. Rumors of bandits were merely trumped up stories spread by a guild of masons and armor manufacturers.