Sunndi

In the fictional World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Sunndi is a political state situated in the region of the Flanaess. Sunndi was originally given a very brief description by Gary Gygax in the 1980 publication World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. In 1999, a much expanded description was included in a new "reboot" of the Greyhawk campaign setting published by Wizards of the Coast. This new edition describes Sunndi as a former province of the Great Kingdom with a history of interracial tolerance that has only recently declared itself to be an independent kingdom. In the massively shared Living Greyhawk campaign (2000-2008), Sunndi was a region assigned to Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Developmental history
In 1980, a brief paragraph about the County of Sunndi was published by Gary Gygax in the The World of Greyhawk folio (TSR 9025). In the campaign's start date of 576 CY, Sunndi's population was listed as 50,000+, and its ruler was identified simply as the Count of Sunndi.

An almost identical paragraph appeared in Gygax’s World of Greyhawk boxed set in 1983 (TSR 1015); however, the ruler was now identified by name as Count Hazendel, and the country’s population was more specifically given as 60,000.

Gygax left TSR in 1985, and TSR took the Greyhawk storyline in a new direction via a boxed set called From the Ashes (TSR 1064). The storyline was advanced to 585 CY, the year after the end of a continent-wide war that had taken place 582-584 CY. Sunndi had been overrun by the armies of Ivid the Undying during the Wars, but had managed to regain its independence. The overall departure of the Greyhawk campaign from Gygax's original setting to this darker vision of post-war Flanaess was not well received by the public, and TSR stopped publishing Greyhawk material in 1993.
In 1996, Wizards of the Coast took over TSR, and in 1998 revived the moribund Greyhawk setting for their new Third Edition of Dungeons and Dragons. The storyline was advanced to 590 CY, and now dealt with the new alliances and problems that had developed in the wake of the Greyhawk Wars. The description of Sunndi was expanded to include a short but comprehensive history; Sunndi had declared itself to be a fully independent kingdom, Count Hazendel was now Olvenking Hazendel, and the population was doubled to 125,000. And the Vast Swamp is both a blessing and a curse, for although it defends Sunndi's southern border, it is also home to disease, strange monsters and warlike bullywugs that emerge from the fens every 15-20 years. Snow is a sure sign of magical evil afoot. and each lord of the Congress has been appointed count of one of these new regions.
593 CY
Raids on Sunndi from denizens of the Vast Swamp rapidly increased, although the forts being built along the southern border were not yet completed. This threat seemed to be driven by followers of Wastri
594 CY
A priest of Nerull had evil designs on the Silent Valley.

The long-dreaded invasion of bullywugs from the Vast Swamp began, forcing war upon Sunndi.
595 CY
Although the evil Priest of Nerull in the Silent Valley had been killed, his ghost continued to haunt the area until it was destroyed.
The war against the Wastrian bullywugs did not go well, and gradually, the Sunnd army was pushed back.
596 CY
Even as the Wastrians continued to press north, evil attacked from several new directions: A madness of some sort destroyed several hitherto peaceful villages; and Hextorites plot against both Wastrians and Sunndi.
An old tale that the golden treasure of Pitchfield's temple of Pelor, taken by an orc raiding party centuries ago and allegedly hidden in the Vast Swamp, proved to be false.
597 CY
While Wastrian forces pushed Sunnd troops back to their capital of Pitchfield, a strong raiding party of orcs and giants attacked from the north.
598 CY
The force responsible for the villages mysteriously destroyed in 596 was discovered to be a demon hidden within a cursed staff. In a final effort last-ditch effort, the Wastrians and their allies were finally driven back into the Vast Swamp, at least for another generation, but the formerly fertile country of Sunndi lay in ruins.

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