Conerick

Conerick the Unifier was a Beorn chieftain who, during the course of the Xsian wars to conquer the Beorn lands, brought the varied clans together under a single banner. His greatest achievements were the unions with the clans of the Eastern bay (by way of a marriage to warlord Pravoche's daughter, Jana) and the mountainous South (by marrying off his sister to the warlord Malmund).

Conerick and the warlord Garland were both natives of the Western riverlands of Beorn, where the fighting was most frequent with the Xsian invaders coming down from the passes out of the Misty Valley. Conerick counted Garland as a brother, and the tale of their friendship and eventual falling out are part of modern Baronian folklore.

One of the greatest differences between Conerick and Garland were their religious outlooks. Garland and his clan held to a firm faith in the traditional shamanistic ways of the noble Beorn clans, but Conerick was a convert to the Cult of the Light, and had enforced the spread his faith to all the clans he allied with.

Though the line has since been broken many times with the passing of centuries, Conerick's issue would eventually found the first ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Baron.