A Tale of Sea, Sun, and Apples. [The Epic Tale of Abalach, the Southern Territory of Warre]

[Warre]

Year Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Three: The Fields of Neptune [Southern Great Sea/Green Sea, Northern South Sea. Approximately 60 miles off the coast of Western Himyar]- The waves hammered the Cu Manaan over and over, almost knocking the Galleon into the waves quite a few times as the seasonal monsoons engulfed the straits between Himyar and Vespera which so many called 'the Fields of Neptune' within maps and scholarly tales of the world.

It was the first of many ships which would be apart of a Warreic endeavor to tap the untapped avenues of trade that were the southern half of Himyar and beyond. While the ship was more of an explorer in nature than it might otherwise be, it had all the equipment needed to survive as the ship was forced off course- out of the path of the open sea and the fields of Neptune, towards the Himyari Coast. The brave crew of the Cu Manaan fought hard, and the ship never found itself crashing on the hard rocks of the Himyari coast.

But as they fought, weeks passed and their supplies dwindled. They had lost too much time to make it to any of the rich ports on the underbelly of Himyar, and would have to take port somewhere upon the coast of the strangely uninhabited land they had stumbled upon, to find supplies so that they might survive.

A quest for gold would change the face of a nation, the face of a race.


Year Fifteen Hundred and Seven: Abalach, Far [Southwest] Himyar- The Sons of Warre whom had landed in the lands of Far Himyar were greeted first with the lack of cities or established settlements, and second, with a territory which was highly reminiscent of their own home, a long coast of islands and peninsulas which were heavily fertile, surrounded by mountains at a certain point the east, and with temperate fruits growing wildly. Apples growing wildly, ruins with symbols which weren't too far off the ancient runes of Warre herself- this place could have only one name, and so it had been given it.

Abalach, the mythical land of heroes- far from the mortal plane, and filled with fertile apple orchards, with gold and with rare black stone which the scant tribes of natives called 'Onyx'. As part of the crew returned to the land of their ancestors, the Warreic Kingdom- others stayed with their native wives and the insular native tribes which had allied this strange band of outlanders. Years passed and the beginnings of a proper Warreic settlement were built, paving the way for the seven ships which hugged the Boreasic Coast until they could no longer, sailing through the fields of Neptune, and sailing down the Himyari Coast until they could see the sign that the sailors who had stayed prepared. The foundations of a Warreic Carrick, or Castle. It was visible even from the edge of the coast, with the ad hoc version of the banner of Ochre and Azure that the nation fielded flying high.

The seven ships landed upon the land with a majority of their crew and passengers left unharmed, and within months the Warreic Carrick was the center of a new settlement. Some of the crews stayed to circumnavigate the Himyari continent and find the cities which they had viewed before, other ships stayed to explore the area which they had placed a settlement within, and the four others went home to repeat the process.

They chose to call the place CarrickArtur, after a near mythical king who's name perpetuated even to the Anglo dogs and their Breotish and Engellexic cousins. The Captain of the Cu Manaan had been named Duke of this southern land, and told to act for the Warreic Ri, and so he would. First by granting titles of nobility to the tribes which would ally with them, guaranteeing them rights and lands within the fledgling kingdom, but also seeing the need to have allies in case they needed to forcibly take workers from the other tribes they encountered. As the tribe they had first been assisted by were granted nobility, so too were they swallowed by the sheer masses of Warreic, Bantyric, and Hyborean settlers who had taken the journey to this land of riches in the south.

Time would tell what would come of their settlement.

 

[mrnutty]

The Time of Eight
Approximately 1507
Southern Himyar Coast
Southwestern Nuttian Territories

While many northern European nations found themselves entering new ages of Enlightenment and an expansion of scientific thought and technology during the 1400-1600s; the Nuttian Territories were less fortunate. This was what would later be known as the 'Great War of Eight' in Nuttian history, and many myths would be written about this period, for no Nuttian could read or write outside of those who studied the Qur'an, and those were few and far between in this era.

In this era the Nuttian Territories were far more expansive, extending west and southwest of their current boundaries, not through sheer force but rather migration. The Eight, a powerful 'Dark' tribe that had migrated from the west several centuries earlier had pushed out the mountain Shield Maiden of the Nuttian mountains, and forced them to take up new life along the southwestern coast, far from the other Six ethnically Nuttian tribes. The Eight was a powerful and violent tribe, unconcerned with the preachings of the Qur'an, they had marched through the western Jungles that had formed a natural boundary for the Nuttians.

For a time, the Eight coexisted in peace, but it was their movement beyond the Jungles and up into the steep Nuttian cliffs that would spark this great conflict. It was at this point in history, so historians claim, that the Nuttians found unlikely saviors in what were documented as 'White Angels of Mohammed' who ferried themselves not by boat, but traveled the water on the backs of great Dragons they had tamed and Sea Serpents they had bent to their will. Modern historians have researched these accounts in depth, and concluded that this was simply a primitive interpretation of Gaelic culture and seamanship, but nonetheless it makes for a riveting story among Nuttian campsites.

The conflict that would follow would leave a lasting mark on Himyar, and the Southern political dynamics of Europe as a whole. Though long since forgotten as myth by the Nuttian Tribes, historians even today find more and more evidence implying the tale may have been more fact than they had ever envisioned.

Thus began the War of Eight.

 

[Warre]

Year Fifteen Hundred and Seven: Abalach, Far [Southwest] Himyar- As the fledgling settlement of Abalach slowly began to settle, to build itself up, and to map out the land around them, they would inevitably meet the Uroduah tribes known collectively as the 'Nuttae'; within the southern reaches of their new realm. Even as new colonists flooded in from the homeland and fortifications and militias were built from the experience of the Warreic Clanns who dwelled in Kayah Tanah's explanations of their own travails in that far off land. When encountering the muslim tribes, the christian and psuedo-christian tribes of Warre undoubtedly struck a strange visage, with the majority of them wearing the Celtic Triskele painted somewhere on their body, to signify the trinity; as opposed to simply a cross around their neck.

As they encountered the 'The Eight'; the powerful tribe of Nuttians and the Warreic colonists would inevitably come into conflict. Armed with crossbows, steel weapons, with knowledge of medieval artillery and often well versed in warfare from the minor clann wars which sometimes erupted in Hyborea or Warre herself. And in the stronger case for the defeat of the tribe of the 'eight'; alliance with some of the Seven 'true' Nuttian tribes, and with diseases ferried from them to 'The Eight', by way of the Eight's isolation and lack of immunity to diseases which had once ravished the north, such as measles and chickenpox.

Inevitably, the southern 'duchy' within the Kingdom of Abalach would seek to ally itself defensively with the other Nuttian tribes even more so, by marrying the second son of the 'Duic' of that settlement, to the second daughter of the Nuttian Tribe which seemed the most personable and strongest to the Warreic colonists.