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Marrishland has a long and violent history. Several civilizations have risen and fallen, here, and the book tells about events during one of the most turbulant periods - a period whose events determine whether a civilization survives or dies.

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Kalkoraen Nation (ca. 700 - 1000 I.D.)

Most of the Kalkoraen colonists did not leave the subcontinent when the supplies stopped coming from the west. Some might have possessed imperialistic ambitions or a desire for adventure or some other grand goal, but the journals of the time seem to indicate that most simply considered the subcontinent their home — especially if they lived near the center of the colonies and not on their far more dangerous borderlands. Once an exodus back to the land of their ancestors became impossible, however, it became abundantly clear that the Kalkorae were not equipped to maintain their position on the subcontinent.

By now, the Totanbeni had discovered the essential uselessness of mede offspring to their necropoli, so they no longer bothered taking Kalkoraen prisoners. They had also successfully determined the importance of infrastructure to the invaders and embarked in a campaign of encroachment intended to disable conduits and harvesters, making many border outposts virtually helpless against them. Within a decade, the Kalkorae had lost control of all their holdings north of the Fens of Ruer, and even Domus Palus itself faced constant attacks from the north.

Hope came from the alliance of tribes the Kalkoraen mapmakers had cobbled together during the previous three centuries. While still small, these tribes' early exposure to Kalkoraen devices and their acceptance of magocrats among them had allowed them to conserve the majority of their magical energy. Moreover, they still bore no small grudge against the Totanbeni and were perhaps even a little eager to take up arms against the death tribe.

The combined might of wint and mede magic drove the Totanbeni ahead of it. Within ten years, the Totanbeni held only a strip of land from the southern edge of the Novichnevich Peninsula to the Fens of Reur. While this strip was, nevertheless, roughly four hundred miles wide from east to west and nearly a seven hundred miles long from north to south, it represented only a third of the land that the Totanbeni had occupied the previous decade, and only a quarter of their holdings at the time of the Battle of Strand. It seemed certain the Totanbeni would soon cease to exist.

(Contributed by Weard Leif Gesyk)