I have to read this book for my HY-104 class but I work full time delivering pizzas so I barely have free time and would find it easier to listen in my car but the only place I found one was for 135$ on learning ally. If anyone has an audiobook for it that would be awesome
[Given additional time to write I would provide more details and stories about taking these new colonies in multiple posts, but hopefully I give a good summary here. Apologies if this is rough around the edges, I was a little rushed.]
The expansion of the Calabar empire happened slowly, and not out of any desperate necessity or higher calling, as had been in Alwinia. It was instead the externalization of the struggles between the new and old money that together struggled to rule over the kingdom.
The debacles of settling the holy island of Alwinia complicated matters, and for a time made further colonial ventures seem incredibly dangerous. Investors in such projects pulled away and instead focused on domestic developments. There was a period between 17 and 22 CE where expansion halted, and further ventures seemed like they may not materialize. The colonies in the Veledans needed to be consolidated, especially Alwinia itself as the Talsorian mercenary crisis unfolded. The crown was busy addressing concerns domestic and amongst the neighbors of the Calabars, with renewed piracy plaguing Cobola and seeking new trade agreements with the Kingdom of Urodel far to the south. The latter development might have been more significant than gaining actual territorial gains. Although it would not change the territorial boundaries of either state, the Middle Kingdom was a fantastic and large new market for Calabar goods, importing tobacco and grain. A trade route was forged that passed through Urros and the crown under King Tanco imposed duties on Calabar merchants seeking to trade with Urodel, allowing it to grow wealthy with a new source of income. They were able to charge additional duties to send soldiers of the crown to protect merchants along the route from the peoples that inhabited central Urros. This came alongside the exasperated sighs of a thousand banks-merchants who deeply despised having to pass through highlander territories and in doing so pay higher taxes to the king.
This led them to make the first move, in 22 CE. Tensions had already flared between the crown, nobility, and the banks-merchants with the advent of the scientific movement^1 and the resulting crackdown. The Calabars had already founded two forts at what they called the ‘Gates of Urros’, a pair of peninsulas which guarded the entrance to Cobolan and Calab
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[This will probably be a bit more info-dumpy than some of my other posts but I hope that it’s still a good read and informative. Also just to be clear, B.A is Before Audomar and A.A is After Audomar, in the style of B.C and A.D.]
##Introduction
The religion of the Calabars centers around the worship of a single deity, Alwin, who is portrayed as the creator of the world and all its creatures, among them the Calabars being her favorite. The exact point of origin for the belief among the Calabars is incredibly unclear. It was established many years before Audomar took leadership over the Herokan clan and conquered the other tribes, as at that point the many tribes of men while politically disunited were religiously connected through their shared worship of Alwin. The core texts make no comment on the origin of Alwin among the Calabars, and consistently write as though it was a permanent state under her worship – there was no time before Alwin was known to the Calabars.
The Calabars have always held a great tradition of writing and record keeping from even before they launched their conquest of the Calabar. For that reason, much of the religion’s beliefs and practices are founded in the writings of a few key authors. The central text of the religion is called the Vedara and is generally believed to have been written by Alwin herself and then placed in the world to be discovered by her favorite children. The book itself is basically a series of myths and stories, telling of Alwin making the world. There are mentions of other deities and mythical beasts, but they are generally either good and therefore allies of Alwin in creating and manipulating the world, or evil and are destroyed by Alwin by the time that the book is through. While it describes in mythical detail the creation of the world, the Vedara makes no direct statement on the way that Calabars should live their lives or what happens when they die. Therefore, it is from this work that other religious scholars have staked their own claims to religious legitimacy, passing on interpretations of how the lessons from Alwin may be applied in the daily lives of the Calabars. From this foundation, there are four important texts that form the center of the religious bureaucracy of the Calabars: the Qinar and the Numal, both from Liteponus, the Edar penned by Theoren, and The Othan attributed to Senucarius. In addition to these essential texts, there are the writings of Ambilos and Alwinia fr
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Coat of Arms (stuff used to make this is from Wikimedia Commons)
Location: The banks of the Calabar
Biology & Ethnicity: The Kingdom of the Calabar is a Kingdom of Men, and their slaves. The men which settle the Calabar are effectively like their kin in other realms and places in terms of physical appearance. They are tan skinned, averaging roughly 5 feet and eight inches in height for men, and slightly less for women. Distinct from their kin, however, is their lifespan, and most Calabars live between 100 and 120 years (they come to adulthood around the age of 20). The Calabars have, for hundreds of years, employed the halflings which once ruled these lands in their service, short and stout creatures on average three feet tall. They bear no traits of magical or otherwise unique significance besides thick hands, strong legs, and a history of subservience.
History: The historical starting point which is often cited as the starting point of the Kingdom of Alwin was the conquest of the halflings at the south of the Calabar by Audomar, and the declaration of him as the King of Alwin by the people. However, the history of the men who would come to call themselves the Calabars starts long before the conquest of the halflings. The Calabars originated as a series of tribes in the hills surround the Lake, which they came to call Alwin after the god they commonly worshipped between the tribes as their creator. These tribes often fought amongst themselves, and as time progressed, they coalesced towards the leadership of a leader, the head of the Herokan clan named Audomar, who through diplomacy and conquest, brought the whole of the men who inhabited the lands surrounding the lake under the banner of the red and white cross (which now forms the center of the coat of arms of the kingdom). These unified peoples would ride north, following the river, and would quickly come to battle with the halfling civilizations which at the time occupied the river, destroying them, claiming the lands for themselves and enslaving the halflings, proclaiming Audomar the king of the Kingdom of the Calabar. ( [m] I plan to flesh out the details of the history more as I continue to write for the claim, but this is the basics. [/m])
Society: The Calabars are ruled in a feudal system, although most men enjoy a relatively good standard of living as soldiers,
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