Lore:Sardavar Leed

Sardavar Leed
Type	Ruin
Continent	Tamriel
Province	Cyrodiil
Region	Great Forest, Bloody Grasslands
Appears in	Oblivion, ESO

Sardavar Leed at the end of the Third Era

Sardavar Leed circa 2E 582

Sardavar Leed (also Sardarvar Leed) (originally named Sard) was an Ayleid settlement located south of Lake Rumare in the Great Forest of Cyrodiil, in an area known as the Bloody Grasslands.

Sard was known for the breeding of men by the Ayleids. Many tribes of men were brought from all across the Nibenay Basin, and some were even imported from southern Skyrim. They were bred for slave labor or to be tortured for the amusement of the Ayleids. It was here that the future Saint Alessia was brought as a youth and raised. She prayed to Akatosh and the Aedra for freedom from Ayleid slavery, and in 1E 242, she escaped from captivity and launched the Alessian Slave Rebellion, which ultimately led to the fall of the Ayleid Empire. At some point the settlement's name changed to the modern "Sardavar Leed", and it was eventually abandoned.

An Imperial fort was built east of the ruins and was named Fort Alessia, likely in Alessia's honor. By 2E 582, the ruins were occupied by a group of Daedra summoners led by Velandare.

By 3E 433, the ruins of Sardavar Leed had been taken over by a hostile group of conjurers.

In 4E 48, Crown Prince Attrebus Mede and his guards set up camp by the springs near the ruins when they were betrayed. Led by one of Attrebus' guards and lovers, a Redguard named Radhasa, the group was massacred by a group of mercenaries hired to assassinate the prince. Radhasa spared Attrebus' life and brought him south, intending to sell him in Elsweyr. The ghosts of those massacred helped the Penitus Oculatus in eventually discovering that Attrebus still lived.