Kallor
Stern, Pious Rulers of the Lorent's Craggy, Expanseward Uplands; Vassals to Jura
Kallor is a theological regency covering most of the craggy highlands of the Lorent, in the the Broken Empire. They are a still-loyal vassal to Jura, even fifty years after Juran Empire inexplicably receded to their heartland. They have a reputation as a dour and distrusting people, grey as their weather, who believe Gondaran "primitives" were better off under Lorentian rule. Nonetheless due to the full cease of hostilities and political pressure by the Jurans, Kallor has opened its doors to Gondaran diplomats and tradesmen, though their hospitality sometimes leaves something to be desired.
The Kallorians officially rule over the Ten Thousand Islands, though well over half the islands are effectively independent.
Their descriptor is Kallorian and their language is Kallorian. They are sometimes known as Craglanders. A popular epithet is Walruses, as the stout Kallorian males often wear large moustaches.Geography
Description
See also: Image Gallery: Fashion & Scenery of Kallor (External)Kallor are the official stewards of Colossus Alpha (the western tower of the Coreward bridge that crosses the mighty Worldscar), which the Kallorians call Hallowguard. It is one of four surviving towers connecting two surviving bridges, marvels of First Age architecture that could not be replicated today.
The major settlements of Kallor are as follows:
- The Holy City of Sorrow (Capital)
- Adamanseyrie
- Midras
- Harloch
- Irmenach
- Sidaris
- Hallowguard
- Drumsport (Dhund, one of the Ten Thousand Islands (TTIs))
- Sedaris (Dhund)
- Dauth (Kunisia, one of the TTIs)
- Fort Talaus (Talaus, one of the TTIs)
Rule
Kallorian society is strictly heirarchical, with the majority of citizens ruled unquestioningly by the Apostles of Stone, also called the Titanswatch Regency. They claim to be direct descendents of the godlike Adaman Titans, who were said to rule Kallor prior to Second Impact. The Kallorian national religion is especially centred around The Deluge: it is said the Adaman Titans used all their power to raise Kallor’s peaks to the sky, thus not only rescuing it from the catastrophic, plane-wide flooding but also protecting the neighbouring, Voidward lowlands from the ensuing tidal waves. (Clergy often expect a thankfulness from ‘Grasslanders’ that they do not receive, contributing to the Kallorian reputation for being prickly and arrogant.) Their massive, mountainlike architecture often disdains windows, leaving such privileges only for the higher castes on the “summit” floors of their various temples and government buildings.
Though technically independent, the Titanswatch Regency remains stoutly loyal to the former empire of Jura, and thus rarely make political ventures that would anger the ruling Conciliat Panharmonica.Nature of the Titans
It is written that the ancestor to Jura, prior to its birth under the Meranthic sorcerer and messiah Galbraith of Kunisia, was also ruled by kings who were said to be "giant sized". It's believed in many anthropological circles that these early kings were related to the Adaman Titans of Kallor. At least two races among the First Empires—the ghent and the onidoshi—were said to be larger than Meranthic humanoids, but there is no substantial evidence connecting them to these early rulers.
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