I am writing about a fantastic Empire. These chapters are "the origins" of what is happening in the time when the story is written, about 1000 years before...
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The Abbot, sitting in the green chair in Frey Kaistos's laboratory, leaned forward a little to begin to speak:
- You're going to forgive me but I'm old and I have to organize my ideas. So I'm going to tell our story from the beginning. Scholars agree that it is not known who were the first rulers of the area now occupied by the Empire. Now, we do know that since ancient times there were certain settlers who came here from the wide steppes of the East, who moved to the lands of the west, far from the mountains of perpetual snow in the northeast and who ended up forming several kingdoms. The most important of them was the Sinard kingdom, which was first in the northwest but gradually spread to the east and south. They were the ones who founded the port city of Kalistos, which would end up being their capital.
Awlin, from his hiding place in the ceiling lamp, realized that he was not even a bit sleepy. He was focused on what he was saying at the Abbot and, for once, he felt that he was forgetting even the concerns about his own origins.
The Abbot passed his hand over his forehead and looked up and then continued:
- As you know, that small Sinard kingdom is the basis of the Empire we know today. The commentators of the ancient texts, sometimes written in a rather crude manner, tell us that it was a mountainous and orographically complicated terrain, with a very cold climate and difficult conditions, which made the population strong, rude, rebellious and tenacious. Although there have been people (essentially critics of the current Empire) who have doubted these characteristics, no concrete fact makes us doubt that this was their true character. The chronicles of their first beatitudes (which is what the ancient hermits who lived in small buildings suspended in the mountains were called) show us people who, with few possibilities and resources, built true mountain architectures, which grew more complicated and stronger as they were acquainted with the characteristics of the materials they built them with.
Awlin looked at the dog. Uzi was lying peacefully at the feet of Frey Kaistos and only occasionally raised one ear a little trying to hear something. But there didn't seem to be anything enough worrying for him, so he continued lying calmly, almost inert on the cold stone floor. Then he looked at the messenger owl, who was watching with those expressionless eyes, motionless. He didn't believe that he had discovered him but with those animals he never knew. The tranquility that was felt in that room almost seemed unreal after the night they had spent.
- Over time, the expansive force of the Sinard kingdom made it begin to conquer territories that either did not yet belong to any other potentate, as happened with the area of the three rivers in the center of the territory, a very rugged place that wasn't then interesting to anybody; or they won over other nobles and occupied their territories in a more or less violent way. From the chronicles we know that some of those territories willingly accepted the occupation, such as the grand duchy of Anirándina, in the southwest, while others opposed it and the conquest was hard and complicated, as happened with the county of Tandras on the island located in the Kalistenin Ocean, southeast of the Peninsula that constituted the territory of the Empire.
