Monday, March 15, 2004
The Kingdom of Cambria
Once, more than a thousand years ago, what is now the Kingdom of Cambria was a remote province of the Chu Empire. The western-most province of the empire, it was called Pars-Norwall.
The steppe-dwelling Chu horse lords had ruled for uncounted generations but had disappeared in the blink of an eye. Dynastic struggles, some said. Swift deadly disease said others. Cultural suicide and corruption, a slow slide into localism was the most common thought. This small part of the empire just slid slowly into the control of warlords and savage barbarism.
Only in the last 390 years has a sense of civilization begun to arise as a strong local dynasty began to unifiy the penninsula that had once been ParsNorwall under the banner of the Kings of Cambria.
1st: Came unified the "Seven Kingdoms of Cambria".
2nd: The new kingdom was attacked by but uvercame and conquered the Duchy of Ghent.
3rd: Under the farsighted leadership of King Robert Stronghand the Kingdom recolonized the old imperial fortress-city of Chestermont on the Old Grand Canal.
4th: With the Kingdom's Southern border secured by the ancient fortress a series of kings began a multi-generational march nortward up the penninsula. The Lords of Ironhill, NorPoint, Dwelf, and the Duchy of Norwall fell each in turn.
5th: Merely fifty years ago the forces of the Kingdom swept east along the Grand Canal and conquered the largely desolate plains of East Cambria up to the borders of the city-state of Veldt.
Just forty years ago, the last of the penninsula was united under the High Kings of Cambria after a crushing defeat of their last independent enemies on the famous Battle Plain of the Thousand Baronies. Augustus III "Longknife"accepted the fealty of the last lords and independent barons. With some difficulty the High Kings have ruled the penninsula ever since.
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Once, more than a thousand years ago, what is now the Kingdom of Cambria was a remote province of the Chu Empire. The western-most province of the empire, it was called Pars-Norwall.
The steppe-dwelling Chu horse lords had ruled for uncounted generations but had disappeared in the blink of an eye. Dynastic struggles, some said. Swift deadly disease said others. Cultural suicide and corruption, a slow slide into localism was the most common thought. This small part of the empire just slid slowly into the control of warlords and savage barbarism.
Only in the last 390 years has a sense of civilization begun to arise as a strong local dynasty began to unifiy the penninsula that had once been ParsNorwall under the banner of the Kings of Cambria.
1st: Came unified the "Seven Kingdoms of Cambria".
2nd: The new kingdom was attacked by but uvercame and conquered the Duchy of Ghent.
3rd: Under the farsighted leadership of King Robert Stronghand the Kingdom recolonized the old imperial fortress-city of Chestermont on the Old Grand Canal.
4th: With the Kingdom's Southern border secured by the ancient fortress a series of kings began a multi-generational march nortward up the penninsula. The Lords of Ironhill, NorPoint, Dwelf, and the Duchy of Norwall fell each in turn.
5th: Merely fifty years ago the forces of the Kingdom swept east along the Grand Canal and conquered the largely desolate plains of East Cambria up to the borders of the city-state of Veldt.
Just forty years ago, the last of the penninsula was united under the High Kings of Cambria after a crushing defeat of their last independent enemies on the famous Battle Plain of the Thousand Baronies. Augustus III "Longknife"accepted the fealty of the last lords and independent barons. With some difficulty the High Kings have ruled the penninsula ever since.
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