![[vlandia 1.png]] # Charas ## First Colony on [[Calradia-Conti.]] by [[Calradios]] the Great - 'Charasea' - Followed by [[Pravend]] --- # Backstory & History [[Big-Tuna]] runs a gang here. The city known today as [[Charas]] is traditionally reckoned to be the first Calradian colony on the shores of their new continent ([[Calradios]]). At the [[Calradian-Empire]]'s height, when the capital moved north to Paravenos ([[Pravend]]), 'Charasea' remained a key hub of sea-faring and trade, while [[Imperial]] aristocrats built their summer homes on the warm shores of the nearby gulf and cruised their pleasure-boats around its islands. When the Vlandians came, [[Charas]] fell into the hands of the ruthless House of [[dey-Cortain]], and its wealth funds their ambitions. This settlement is part of [[Kingdom-of-Vlandia]]. Owned by [[Vlandian]] house, [[dey-Cortain]]. --- # Game Files / Developer Diaries [[Barrelchest]] > My father had five sons. That wasn't unusual, but what was unusual is that we all made it to adulthood. There wasn't enough land for all of us, so the two youngest of us moved to [[Charas]]. Found work on the wharves, hauling in cargos from all the ships coming in. For a few years, it was good work. > [...] > One night I was walking home with my brother when we ran into a group working for one boss they called [[Big-Tuna]]. Told us our crew had killed one of theirs, and they were going to kill one of ours in return. Took my brother, wrapped a heavy chain around his legs, and threw him into the water. I don't know why they let me live. [[Ortysia]], named for the quails who inhabit the nearby coastal marshes, was the first Calradian colony on the shores of the Perassic Sea ([[Calradian-Empire]]). In its early centuries, it fell under the authority of the [[Kannic]] city-state of [[Quyaz]], but the Empire's expansion soon united the colony with its mother republic. For centuries, sailors coming from the pirate-infested islands of the Bay of [[Charas]] gave thanks when they saw its towers looming through the haze of the western Perassic, signaling a return to safe [[Imperial]]-patrolled waters. 'Paravenos' ([[Pravend]]) was the second major colony founded by [[Calradios]] 'the Great', and it soon succeeded 'Charasea' ([[Charas]]) as the capital of the Calradians ([[Calradian-Empire]]). Eventually, the Empire's center of gravity moved east, but 'Paravenos' retained its primacy as the economic center of the West. When [[Osric]] the [[Vlandian]] invaded ([[Kingdom-of-Vlandia]]), he recognized 'Paravenos' would be far more valuable as a seat of power than as simply as a source of loot, and negotiated its surrender with local Senators ([[Senate]]). It passed to a cadet branch of Osric's line, the [[dey-Tihr]] clan, and is today known as [[Pravend]]. Tubilis lies on the Bay of [[Charas]], which the [[Aserai-Sultanate]] call "Shariz". Villagers go fishing here amid the offshore islands in search of tuna, sardines, and shark.