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Kingdom of Chélemby

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Chélemby Introduction

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The wind was gusting sou’westerly, filling the still damp sails and bearing the well-laden Karúnè swiftly on. Hârvald Wésen looked out to the north, across the Eván Gívè, and up the river’s mouth. He stood at the bowsprit as the ship cut a furrow up the Vúlden, and his weatherworn face broke into a broad smile as the city’s bustling quays came into view. It had been a long voyage, but they were home… home to Chélemby.

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The kingdom of Chélemby consists of three major islands, Chel Øy, Téchel Øy and Trévechel Øy, and several score islets at the mouth of the Gulf of Shôrkýnè off northwest Lýthia. They are collectively called the Chel Øyen (Chel Islands). Only Chel has permanent human habitation.

The natural vegetation consists mostly of mixed forest and woodland. There are also heath lands along exposed western margins. Prevailing winds are from the west. Much of the interiors are hilly. The highest point is Ámun Chadîr at 3100 feet. About a sixth of the land is cropland and pasture.

The first human inhabitants were Járind who settled in the islands around BT1600. Phâric peoples began to settle 600 years later. The result has been the development of a cosmopolitan seafaring culture.

Of the kingdom’s 49,000 residents, more than 22,000 live in the city of Chélemby, the ‘greatest city of the northern world’. This has a profound effect on the kingdom’s culture. Chélemby is sometimes referred to as a ‘city state’. While Chelémbians practice agriculture intensively, they cannot produce sufficient food for the kingdom and rely on fishing and the importation of foodstuffs from abroad. Chelémbian seafarers dominate trade along Lýthia’s northwest coast from Ivínia to Târkáin, and the island’s economy is wealthy out of all proportion to her population.

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LOCATION: Shôrkýnè Áfgrund / Iváe Hav [Shkn-G6+].

AREA: 1,200,000 Acres.

CLIMATE: Maritime Temperate.

POPULATION: 49,000 (plus 5,600 resident overseas).

VEGETATION: Mixed Forest & Woodland, Cropland & Pasture, Heath.

HIGHEST POINT: Ámun Chadîr (3100’)

LOWEST POINT: Sea Level.

ETHNICITY Hârbaalése 40%, Ivínian 20%, Járind 15%, Azéri / Shôrka / Eméla / Other 25%.

GOVERNMENT: Crown and Nálstrad (parliament).

FORM: Constitutional Monarchy.

FOUNDATION:

tr458, Chélemby Syndicate

tr663, Covenant of Aémon.

ROYAL HOUSE: Clan Aémon.

MONARCH: Sîrnen (Since 689).

ROYAL SEATS: Aémon Kîkè (Chélemby city), Aémon Nalârd (country seat), Vangála (hunting lodge).

PARLIAMENT: The Nálstrad: 57 Members (the Tia-Nalári). Sits: Ânstrad Kîkè (Chélemby).

LANGUAGES: Chelémbian/Hârbaalése, Ivínian, Hârnic, Emélan, Shôrka.

RELIGIONS Sárajìn (67%), Peóni (10%), Haléa (10%), Ágrik (5%), Laráni (5%), Other (3%).

SETTLEMENTS Chélemby city (22,000), Evánekin (521), Kolâdis (438).

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Geography

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Járind peoples arrived in the Chel Derýni (islands) around bt1600 and established a henge-building culture similar to that in surrounding regions. Little now remains; their structures have been recycled over the centuries, but standing stones, landscaping, and burial sites may still be found.

The Yârynè (Járind)

² The Book of Ghosts is a compilation of folklore by and about the Járind, collected and translated by various scholars over the centuries. It currently resides in Emélrenè.

The Yârynè, also called the Járind, came to the islands in tribal and clan groups rarely exceeding a few dozen in number. They found the land good, and the sea bountiful. They built villages and prospered. The early Járind were renowned for their art and craftsmanship. They worked in bone, wood, bronze copper and stone and their art was characterised by geometric designs, loops, spirals, and knot work. Most of the surviving examples are made in stone; even these are faded by the passage of time.

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The Járind settled along the southern and western coasts of Chel and on northern Téchel. Two sites were important henge-culture sites: Dínibôr and Témiansynen (Témiansten). These sites linked with sites on Hélegat (Calamísa) and in southern Hârbáal, such as Kôresten Anúz in Lédenheim. “Chel” means jewel in ancient Járind, and Chel was, indeed, a jewel of the oceanic henge culture of the thirteenth century bt.

While some scholars have sought to depict the ancient Járind as a peace-loving and gentle society, they could be a violent folk:

Járind warriors were known for their unsurpassed valour. Their ethic was that of personal prowess and loyalty to the clan. While their modes of combat varied from place to place and from time to time, they are best known for shunning most forms of body armour in favour of bright paint. Armour was not necessarily a mark of cowardice, but the soul of a slain warrior might not be able to free itself through bronze.³

³ This position is often overstated. The Járind made bronze weapons and armour that was far superior to that of contemporary. The ‘naked’ Járind warrior is at least part myth. There is also evidence of leather, scale and even mail in use among the Járind.

The Yârynè ‘cult’ of personal prowess did not always serve them well. Járind warriors often failed against less skilful, but better organised forces. Járind armies did not retreat or surrender. In desperate situations, they tended to throw themselves into charges. These tendencies left them ill-equipped to drive out foreign invaders.

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Eventually, the Járind would learn guerrilla tactics and accept the virtues of feint, manoeuvre, and even well-planned withdrawal, but by this time, most of their lands would have fallen to the Phâri.

Coming of the Phâri

It may be said that the immigration of Phâric peoples to the Chel Øyen began c. bt1000 and still continues. Around bt1000, small Phâric tribes began to arrive. There was abundant land and most immigrants made their homes peacefully, particularly around the Vúlden river (Vúldenâr). Immigration was a catalyst for cultural change and brought about gradual agrarian development of the hinterlands.

Immigrants were developing better metallurgy and more efficient farming They tended to build small, fortified settlements. In some parts of the island, the Járind felt surrounded and squeezed out. Sometimes they assimilated or were assimilated by Phâric immigrants. Occasionally, they simply moved to different areas.

From about bt950 the indigenous Járind constructed ‘hill forts’. These were fortified villages with relatively large populations. The fort at Kóladhârè (Kolâdisbak), for example, had more than seven hundred inhabitants at its zenith. Palisades and earthworks surrounded these settlements. They contained scores, even hundreds of dwellings with livestock and tofts. They were usually built on large, more or less flat-topped hills. This limited the number that could be built since there are relatively few suitable sites. Sometimes, the Járind undertook earth-moving projects to build suitable sites, but these projects were rare on Chel.

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The hill forts would become cultural and trade centres and came to dominate the islands’ political landscape. Even so, the distinctiveness of Járind bloodlines was lost as the people blended together into a new Chelémbian ethnicity.

The Sea-Towns

By bt500, the chief Járind settlements in the islands were Dínibôr on Téchel, and Témian, Kóladhârè, Vúldenâr (f. c.bt620 Venârivè P15) and Vàsîredh on Chel. These and mainland settlements like them formed the ‘Sea-Towns’ culture which included the Járind or mixed Járind/Phâri towns of Lyth, Calamísa, Shátrah, Trepûra, and even Beréma. The ‘towns’ of Chel were timber-built and fortified by wooden palisades.

Their rivalries were generally friendly enough; Vàsîredh traded primarily with the mainland, but Dínibôr and Témian traded with each other. Dínibôr was, among other things, a religious cult site, known for its religious and mystical scholars. Her missionaries and mendicants travelled across the region, and the library of Dínibôr was famous.

The Járind certainly had violence in their nature and there were conflicts over the centuries, particularly between Vúldenâr and Vàsîredh. In bt400, the hill fort-town of Kóladhârè was destroyed by the legendary Ivínian adventurer, Chadîr. Some suggest that Chadîr was, in fact, a mercenary leader hired by Témian to destroy their northern rival. Certainly, Témian benefited from the fall of Kóladhârè.

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Yârynè Chel Derýni Járind Chel Islands bt700-tr200

In bt107, a raiding party from Témian managed to start a fire at Dínibôr that consumed the palisades and about half the town. The dispute was of a religious nature and soon settled, but Dínibôr was in ruins. The folk rebuilt their town over the next ten years, complete with stone walls and some stone buildings. This marked something of an architectural revolution for the Járind. Some Járind settlements (such as Calamísa on Hélegat) would later copy the innovation, but Témian was more conservative, perhaps believing that stone should be reserved for religious purposes. The folk of Témian and the rest of Chel largely kept their traditional buildings.⁴

⁴ While both towns would eventually be sacked and abandoned, only the ruins of Dínibôr can still be found.

Over the centuries, there was ongoing settlement on Chel island by small clans from Hârbáal, as well as some Shôrka from bt400 onwards. While there was some conflict and disruption as a result, by and large these immigrants were peaceably assimilated.

By tr100, the population of Chélemby could be described as ethnically Hârbaalése, although there remained significant Járind and Shôrka minorities.

Many of the clan and place names were Phâric, particularly in the south, but there was still plenty of evidence of the islands’ Járind heritage.

Beginning in about tr200, Ivínian outlaw clans, mostly from Menglána, began to raid the coasts of the Chel islands. At first the ‘sea towns’ successfully repelled the raiders, including a particularly successful combined defence by traditional rivals Dínibôr, Témian and Calamísa in tr242. However, the raiders’ ships gave them the element of surprise, and the ability to concentrate at ‘weak points’. The raids eventually resulted in the destruction of Vàsîredh, Témian and Vúldenâr (d. bt313 Venârivè P16) in the third and early fourth centuries. Only Dínibôr remained.

These Ivínian clans were mostly the outcasts of Ivínian society, refugees, families fleeing from increasingly centralised Ivínian states. They began to settle on Chel Øy, as they called it, in the first half of the fourth century. Without organised resistance, most of the local clans were relatively easily overwhelmed. This was a dark time for the people of Chel.

The Syndicate & the Nálstrad

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In tr458, several new immigrant clans formed a syndicate with some local clans to establish a ‘wintering camp’ on the west bank of the Vúlden, at the site of the destroyed town of Vúldenâr. When it was established in tr461, this more or less ended the raiding and established a balance with the new–comers. Because it was on the isle of Chel, foreigners came to call the camp ‘Chélemby’. It was well-positioned for commerce and raiding in the Gulf of Shôrkýnè and the Sea of Iváe, and attracted more immigrants from northwest Lýthia. Chélemby became increasingly cosmopolitan. Other clans, both local and foreign, joined the syndicate, and by tr490 there were twenty-six. At this date the meetings of the Syndicate began to be called the ‘Nálstrad’⁵. Increasing membership blurred the lines between newcomers and indigenous clans, and the rules for membership came to include a land-holding requirement.

⁵ ‘Nálstrad’ is usually translated as ‘council of landholders’, but it is thought to have several other meanings.

Founders of the Chélemby Syndicate

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^* Clan Ekàtriása is of Azeri origin, but settled for a time in lower Huriséa (where they still have relatives).

^† Clans Jâren and Zârion are of Járind descent. Even they are not sure when their ancestors arrived in the islands.

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The Covenant of Aémon (663)

Ivârh (670-683)

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The Invasion of 674

The Battle of Evánekin (683)

The Regency of Petrýs

The Emélrenè Alliance (690)

The Cape Rénda Disaster (707)

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Comparative Chronology

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Chelóyen & Surrounds

Poetic Map: Chel Øy — Jewel on the Sea

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Chel Øy — Jewel on the Sea

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The Overking of Hârbáal thinks Chélemby is part of his realm; most Chélembians disagree. Comfortable in their island, their ships ply the known world, push back the margins of the unknown and cradle their dreams on the rocking seas. No folk are more laden with treasure. Yet the 'Jewel Isle' has it's worries: devious intrigues, unscrupulous pirates, feudubg clans, and a crown hoping to be more than the 'first among equals'. The price of wealth in the wide and jealous world is vigilance.

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