The Arlanq
In legend they had lived on the shores of the
Land of Anhurr- it was then an island, and were pirates- hodbods,
and navigators. The Arlanq considered themselves foremost among the
wilderlings; and looked down upon their brothers. Among their own they
would talk about the 'oddlings'; those that were quite different among
them. The Arlanq were tall, but well-built fellows, ship builders and
sailors; they possessed skills and some knowledge of the sea and stars.
The Arlanq were more acceptable than their brothers it seems, for they
were quiet; and stood somewhat aloof from their 'brothers' of the highland;
and of the South, who were always swept up in some turmoil or other;
and with each other. They were also inquiring and given over to adventure
and exploration, they were far sighted and forward thinking; and above
all, kind and thoughtful. They would seem to be yet another race of
Wilderfolk, but they are treated always separate in the history, perhaps
because they were rivals, and were brave and feared; even more likely
they were- when it came down to it, ultimately in the service of their
'brothers' further south. In any case, they were easily led when it
came to war; and were eventually led astray by their own wicked personalities.
Once so bent to an evil cause, they became savage and cruel, destructive
and deceitful; they possessed a split personality stirred by evil. In
such a war as they might take part, they would unleash every excess
in fighting; they knew no notion of chivalry. The Wilderfolk would say
they even delighted in war, and some tales tell that they invented excesses
to wallow in. They were part of every deception and trick, which they
enjoyed. They were of course damned for all time after taking the side
of Anhurr in the war.
THE LAST AGES 2117-2536
This was the birth of the Second Strato- 2117. It
was also the age of the Rotamazian Colonisation and Conquest of the
Northing. And the age of Valy-For, the Garb, Indo-Strato and the rise of
Greenscien.
Lolenia and Canap sought to halt the threat of the
Northing by turning Plato City into the capital of this Age. All power
was given to the City by seeding the possession of the three War Crowns
of Muggy to it- and they became symbolic. The Second Strato was
proclaimed at Plato City and so began the Last Ages and the decline of
Canap.
The Plato was a Union of Capitals. It was divided by
the Great Righting Line- the Muggy river, into the two great assemblies
of the Left and Right Strato- each a union of capitals. The Plato was an
effective arrangement against Valy-For and Rotamaz in the Plato Wars.
Within the Plato, it was an age of co-operation. The Plato Calendar was
devised. There were great improvements in written script, law, map
making and astronomy.
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Illuminated manuscript 'Englished'
from the library of the Plato. It tells the story of the God Tor,
Charskamede and their sons and how they devided the land. These
stories are the foundation legends of the cities. |
By 2020 a powerful river economy emerged for all the
lands within the Strato. Hereditary Kings were abandoned and rulers
chosen from the Capitals. It was an age of fabulous coins- Kings Coins.
And remarkable treasures and architecture. And there was a single
currency- although some local ones persisted. Roads were improved and
trade flourished.
In response to the wars against the Northing, the
Great Keysadore Canal was built across the Mayhavian Peninsula. In 2206
Rotamaz abandoned war and her alliances with Valy-For and joined the
Strato. The Northern War Crown was brought into Plato City.
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The uppermost part
of the Tor Column from Plato City. It depicts the Tor Star, the
sheave of wheat from the land of Ordwi and old script. It was said
to have come from the door-well of her house in that
land. |
The Plato had become the first Empire to hold all
the Four War Crowns of Muggy. Rotamaz became part of the Right-Strato
and now turned to the conquest and colonization of the Northing. The
quest of the age was the War Against Valy-For and the Garb. Rotamaz
turned this into an expansion of her Empire by conquering the Northing.
However, the Capital became the Rotamazian Colony of Yar Biddaro and
thus Rotamaz assumed great power in the Right Strato.
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The lower part of the Tor
Column showing the signs of the Gods that were in legend the
founding symbols of the great lands. On the top is the Quilatron
of Canap; and in the middle the four tusked Assar elephant of
Peara. |
This was one reason for the great disputes within
the Plato. The other was that the Left and Right Strato were eroded in
the hands of despotic rulers who waged war and political intrigue to
confiscate the riches of the Capitals. The Plato began to decline into
internal strife and war.
Rotamaz threatened to become an Empire within the
Plato. She found herself at war with the Plato that left her unable to
hold onto her Northing conquests. Thus, Valy-For arose against the Plato
and the Rotamazian Colony of Yar Biddaro in 2300.
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The mountain
of Kap Yar is the highest in Muggy. It stands in the Northing and
is the cause of the legend of Tor. The great colony of Yar Biddaro
stands on the plain below this mountain. |
At great cost, the Plato put down the Rotamazian
resurgence. The rise of Greenscien under the Garb in 2336 to the Capital
of the new Northing Empire of Indo-Strato brought war against the
declining Plato after 2356. Thereafter, the Plato was engaged in ever
increasing battles against Indo-Strato.
Lolenia and Rotamaz brought all their armies against
the invaders in 2356 but were defeated. The Strato collapsed and Plato
City fell. Indo-Strato and Greenscien were triumphant! The city of
Greenscien rose to dominate Indo-Strato and the affairs of this
age.
But in all this the Four War
Crowns of Muggy disappeared. So began the years without them and the
years of Argo Bello. But eventually even the late Empire of Greenscien
with all her armies faded. Finally, there arose Deset in 2496- a new age
seemed have dawned.
These last known events are often wrongly called the
Lost Age. This was in many ways the age of the cities of Deset, Syre,
Zhebech and AZ. There was a new great war when the Azians rose up
against Lolenia. This was the time of the Fifth Immortal- Argo Bello and
the Last War of the World that concluded in 2510.
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"Tell me wise old
owl! Tell me you old fool! How can water be a
jewel?" |
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