History of Kal'Alras

History of Kal’Alras Written by: Algoda Tombstone

Algoda Tombstone lived in Kal'Urguan during the first hectic days when all people were born again in the Temple of Aegis. Already on the first days he quickly befriended 2 dwarfs named Rasun'Dural and Omithiel Strongbrow, and they helped a lot in the building in the public mine. They also built big parts of the wall outside Kal'Urguan. But Algoda and his friends noticed a thing after a while. King Simppa was never there to witness it all, and wasn’t there to guide the dwarfs! He saw the new-born nation already fading away. The dwarfs had no army, no king, and almost no protection. And also there was rumors that a great evil was stirring in the north. Algoda knew that if that evil, whatever it would be, would come to Kal'Urguan, the whole city would be lost. So he made up his mind, and decided to make a fortress town, that should be easily defended and have walls surrounding the whole town. Algoda and Rasun started to make expeditions to the lands in the northwestern parts of the land, and found a valley, surrounded by big natural walls. They both thought the place was ideal and after a while they started the construction of the town.

Algoda and Rasun had much help from several dwarfs, that also thought it would be necessary to have a strong defense in the north, so progress was made very quickly. In less than a week the town was complete, much thanks to the Grand architect Omithiel. During the time of construction, the dwarfs replaced the old king Simppa with Charles Grimlie, and quickly built up the declining nation. He too saw the potential of that town, so he made the founder Algoda to Baron and Rasun to overseer.

Algoda and Rasun really wasn’t prepared for what to come. They had built 13 houses that they would house the guards, since the town would need a local guard force. But it only took 2 days after the opening of the town, and almost all the houses was either bought or reserved. People buzzed to the town like flies, so Algoda and Rasun had to quickly decide the town laws and rules. Neither of them were prepared for the quick population of the town, so they were very disorganized at the beginning. Then they sat down, and decided how much wages the guards should have, and other jobs as well. King Charles had also decided that all Barons should take taxes from their domains, so Algoda and Rasun needed to come up with a system for it. Luckily, Charles had appointed a Tax collector, who already had set up a system for it. After 2 days, they had covered almost all necessary laws and rules for the town, so stability and order finally came.

For many days Kal'Alras thrived and prospered. They had a population boom, and that made it possible to extend the city outside the valley for the first time, and make an outer wall. Then the undead invasion came. Kal’Alrasian guardians were put on high alert, and they was told to be ready to either defend Kal'Alras to the bitter end, or help out if Kal'Urguan was attacked. Fortunately, the undead have not invaded...yet. There were only unconfirmed reports of some undead attacking guardians on patrol.

Algoda quickly realized, after seeing Kal'Bryst be invaded, that Kal'Alras wouldn’t stand a chance if a necromancer would show up, so he and the leader of the Disciples of Valor, Janik, made an agreement to merge their towns, so they would work together against the evil. They started clearing out the woods between the cities, and started building a long and big wall to defend their lands. The plan was to turn the whole area into a city, but they saw that it would be too big, and started to make districts instead, that would work as small towns inside the walls.

Then disaster struck!

A human thief stole around 150 iron from King Charles personal belongings, and Charles retaliated with marching with an army to Al'Khazar and declared war against the Kingdom of Oren. That put Kal'Alras in a hard position, since both humans and dwarfs lived in the city. So they declared themselves neutral to the cause, and thereby seceding from the kingdom of Kal'Urguan. Reports indicated that Charles wouldn’t let us go without a fight, so Algoda, Rasun, Syrio and Valinsay started to venture throughout Aegis, hoping to find allies in the coming war. First they went to the kingdom of Oren, and convinced King Perea to help them in the war. Then they spoke to King Charles.

He gave them 2 options. Either give him 128 pieces of Diamond or be attacked. The Kal'Alrasians answered that they needed some time to think this through, and gathered the town council. A majority said that they didn’t trust King Charles words, that he would perhaps attack them for more, even after they would have paid the diamonds. So this time, King perea and Algoda ventured to Laurelin, hoping to gain the help from the elves as well. They found High Prince Native and had a meeting about what to do. Prince Native said that he needed some time to think this through, and that he would need to talk to King Charles first.

Now Kal'Alras fate hangs in a thin thread. Will they go to war against their rulers, and possibly lose the war, and by that the city as well? Or will they scramble everything they have to pay off Charles and hope he doesn’t attack anyway? Time will tell, but the citizens are worried, praying to the Maker that things will go peacefully...

Kingdom of Alras

Then, as things looked most grim, the Town council received good news! Charles is retiring, and is looking for a new king! They thought that by having a new king, the matter could settle peacefully, without paying everything they have or have to fight a war that could devastate them. They just hope that the new king, when he gets elected, doesn’t follow in Charles footsteps and continue to put pressure at Kal'Alras.

After some time, a new king was elected. Baron Belin of Himmelen was chosen as king, and it seemed like he didn’t care so much about Kal'Alras so the council proceeded in building the nation up, with a working government system, tax system and so on. But since the nation haven’t been made official, and the Kal'Alrasians was still not sure what the kingdom of Kal'Urguan will do, there was still tension in the air...

But then, after some days, Algoda went to see the new king Belin. Algoda was hoping to persuade the king to ease the price, but the agreement that was made that day was far better than anyone could hope. He agreed to let Kal'Alras to become independent without a price! The citizens were overwhelmed by relief, and now officially declared the Kingdom of Alras independent!