![[about_calradica_banner_2.webp]] # Kannic > Mesopotamia, *see* [[Kannic]] for more details. <br> > *Kannic* From *Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord* `settlements.XML`: > “*Kannic city-state* of Quyaz – but the empire's expansion soon united the colony with its mother republic. | Quyaz was once a *mercantile republic* that dominated the trade between the western ocean and the Perassic Sea, speaking the now all-but-extinct *Kannic tongue*, *a relative of Nahasawi*. | Razih is said to be the base from which *Kannic explorers* set forth to colonize the shores of the Perassic Sea in the *centuries before the coming of the empire*, the prows of their ships decorated with the intertwined vine leaves of the *Kannic goddess of wealth, wine, love and war*.” [^1] <br><br>(*Note*: this Kannic goddess was probably Ishtar.) [^4] <br><br> From *Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Digital Companion* story: > “Most intriguing to me were a handful of texts in *ancient Kannic*, *full of dashes and swirls and inscribed circles*.<br><br>(*Note*: Mesopotamian cuneiform was jagged and triangular, [^3] so this description does run counter to the Mesopotamia theory.) <br><br>As a child of the *Perassic Sea*, I would very much like to learn one day this language of *my distant ancestors*. […] <br><br> > (*Note*: “[[Asaios]]’ mother is Aserai, making him half Imperial half Aserai.”) <br><br> > The *Kannic lords ruled by bending jinn and demons to their will* through unholy sacrifices, he said, and their books are cursed to this day.” [^2] <br><br> > (*Note*: “Ghouls of the Arabian tradition—distinct from those Ishtar describes—are normally neither revenants or revived corpses, but rather an extreme form of another living species: the jinn, which in English became ‘genie’.”) [^5] [^1]: [[3-settlements-(Bannerlord)]] [^2]: [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] [^3]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/cuneiform#/media/1/146558/230081 [^4]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ishtar-Mesopotamian-goddess [^5]: https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201204/monsters.from.mesopotamia.htm#:~:text=Ghouls%20of%20the%20Arabian%20tradition,associated%20with%20magic%20and%20sorcery.