Kindara/The Chronicle of Kindara

At the dawn of Kindara, its founders dedicated themselves and their new realm to learning and enlightenment. Within this Chronicle can be found the work of generations of scribes who have worked to record the history of Kindara and the lives of those nobles who have shaped it.

Kindaran historians accept that their knowledge of the times before the Chronicle was commissioned are somewhat lacking. It is their hope that lost scrolls will be found to create a full record of the Kingdom.

As things stand, the Chronicle begins just before the start of the war between Kindara and C'thonia. Following repeated insults by the then King of C'thonia, Kindara marched to war. The battlefields were few in number as the C'thonians were outmatched by the better funded and organized Kindaran forces. C'thonia also lacked allies to march to its side since their King had similarly insulted the rulers of many other realms.

In a short space of time the C'thonians were driven back to their capital city of Hatdhes. A long and brutal siege followed which lasted for an entire autumn and winter. The King of C'thonia (proclaimed insane by the Kindarans) drove the population into a religious frenzy, to rise again and again against the Kindaran troops until only a few thousand common people remained and the city was reduced to a ruin. Rather than accept that the city could not be defended, the C'thonian King decided to see it destroyed before it was taken. Some of the remaining lords and ladies of surrounding rural C'thonian regions chose to bring their lands under the Kindaran banner of their own free will rather than subject their own people to a similar fate. So fell the realm of C'thonia.

At the end of the C'thonian war it was hoped that a time of peace would follow, but it was not to be. Only a short time later, Kindara found itself at war with the few territories of Cathay that remained after internal divisions had split their realm to form Toupellon. Following some unpleasantness in which a trader from Cathay had been thought to have tried to threaten a Kindaran Duke, the armies marched. Much like the war with C'thonian, Cathay found itself hopelessly outmatched. The siege of the then capital city of Azros only lasted a short time before it fell. Most Kindarans felt relief that it had not been a repeat of the siege of Hatdhes. So soon after the fall of C'thonia, Kindara found itself responsible for the end of Cathay.

After these two wars in such a short space of time, Kindara turned to a time of peace and introspection. Some nobles were uneasy that a realm that had been founded on peace and learning had come to be responsible for the end of two other realms, one after the other. Other nobles simply felt that Kindara was struggling to come to terms with such a rapid expansion and the new territories that it had gained.

During this time, Kindara largely withdrew from the larger matters of the Far East. But fate was stirring again to the north, where the young realm of Toupellon was being torn apart by internal divisions. Toupellon soon fell of its own accord and the new realm of Sorraine was born from the wreakage. Eventually, the remaining regions of Toupellon were reformed to create a new realm with an old name - Cathay.