![[vlandia 1.png]] # Pravend ## 'Paravenos' - Second Colony Founded by [[Calradios]] the Great After [[Charas]] - "City of He Who Rules By Heaven's Will" --- # Backstory & History '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]]. This settlement is part of [[Kingdom-of-Vlandia]]. Owned by [[Vlandian]] house, [[dey-Tihr]]. According to [[Asaios]] - [[Gosard]] lives here - an informant of [[Istiana]]. > Not knowing what else to do, I continued on my way, asking on the outskirts of [[Pravend]] for [[Gosard]]. I found him soon enough, in his hunter's hut outside the walls, with the paupers and migrants and fugitives that live in such places. The place was hung with dead pheasants and rabbits and curing meat, and stunk to high heaven. I told [[Gosard]] of my mishap and, with barely a grunt of explanation, he wandered off. An hour later he returned with my purse, which seemed to have been untouched. --- # Game Files / Developer Diaries [[Arigun-(Cc)]]'s parents moved to [[Pravend]] once upon a time. [[Vlandian]] ruling clan 4_1, 2, 7, 13 --> From Calradic Parzeonerea: 'City of He Who Rules By Heaven's Will')--> 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. Every realm has a city whose inhabitants are mocked for their provincial unsophistication, and for the [[Calradian-Empire]] that city was [[Jalmarys]]. One of the first [[Imperial]] colonies established inland of the Perassic Sea, it served the Empire as a base to subdue the western [[Palaic]] tribes. 'Paravenos' ([[Pravend]]) was happy to accept the plunder and slaves sent to them from its garrison, but snickered at them behind their backs. That changed when the Jalmaryan general [[Carsos]] staged a military coup. When a Senator ([[Senate]]), stymied by his thick accent, nervously asked him to repeat a decree, he unsheathed his sword and said, 'Do you understand this?'