Buy me a coffeeNorth East Africa
The Nubian kingdom of Maqurrah has been overwhelmed by an inflow of gnoll raiders, ejected from Egypt by the catfolk rulers. The gnolls have continued migrating south and west, pushed on by the expanding power of the catfolk to the north.
Under the Zagwe king (know as Prester John in the West), the Ethiopian empire expanded, its formidable army winning territory from the surrounding pagan tribes. Ethiopian colonists were planted in the newly-conquered lands, and new monasteries founded in these areas, bringing with them Ethiopian culture.
A new, militant state, the sultanate of Adal, has become the centre of expansion in the region, spreading the faith amongst the Somali pastoral tribes. This period has seen a gradual escalation of fighting between the two kingdoms and now the two powers are in a state of near-constant warfare.