First Kændàli House of Zyan

83-235 DR. First Kændàli House of Zyan.

The Zyan Dynasty of Kændal was short-lived. Following the Second Acèntyra-Dekàli War, the citadel at Kændal was in ruins and the ruling House of Landar were missing (never found). The seach for a replacement High Lord returned to Panæð which despite great destruction claimed an intact and ancient royal family. The heir apparent, Lord Arákan (soon to be the Tenth of Panæð) visited with priests of Kændlan for many years, providing them with supplies, money, and support to continue the efforts of rebellion within occupied Kændal. Dekàli Law required the priests to elect a High Lord of Kændal before making the necessary decisions that would be required of a full-scale rebellion. Kændlàni priests secreted the Lord to Tnir Lanlàdrâl were he was crowned in a private ceremony. Until a time when he could be properly seated and crowned in Kændal, he was given the title of Lord Removed which he carried until his death in 106 DR. Upon his death, his second son became Lord Arákan the Second, completing his father’s work in securing rebellion in 109 DR. At that time Arákan the Second traveled to Kændal and was presented the Living Crown.

Lineage

  1. Lord Removed Arákan the First of Kændal. He was named Lord in 83 DR by the High Priest of Kændlan. He was never crowned but was made Lord Removed in a ceremony on Lanádus. He married Lady Amàra Telor in 66 DR. He died in 97 DR at a family estate near Panæð, having never traveled to Kændal. His first son Tyránus was killed leading a rebel force into Kændàli territory. The lordship passed to his second child…
  2. High Lord Arákan the Second of Kændal. He was born 69 DR. He was named High Lord in 97 DR by the High Priest of Kændlan at Lanádus, ruling from the island state for five years. Following his father’s support for the routing of Elve forces from Kændal, he was crowned by the priests of Kændlan in 105 DR at Kryr Shùrulm, Kændal. He married Lady Iliara Do Morith of an ancient Kændàli line in 106 DR at Kændal. Arákan the Second was most (in)famous for his religious purgings. Following the Occupation, many had adopted Eylfāe ideas of spiritual and “natural” forces guiding their lives. Arákan the Second gathered these heretics and publicly executed many. He died in 133 DR at Kændal. The Living Crown passed first to his son…
  3. High Lord Arákan the Third of Kændal. He was born 107 DR. He was named High Lord in 133 DR by High Priestess Ularya the First in a grand ceremony of coronation in the tradition of ancient Kændal. It was evident from this first public appearance that Arákan the Third was not a well man. During the ceremony the weakened Lord slumped forward in his chair and the Living Crown fell to the floor. All onlookers fell silent as the High Priestess picked the crown from the ground and placed it once again upon the monarch’s head as two attendant priests held the man upright. He died in 135 DR at Kændal. The Living Crown passed to his sister…
  4. High Lady Arálōnōa the First of Kændal. She was born 108 DR at Kændal. She was named High Lady in 135 DR by High Priestess Ularya the First in a private ceremony. Arálōnōa the First was an effective and popular leader. Under her guidance many of the outlying temples and shrines were rebuilt which in turn brought prosperity and peace to the Fertile Coast. She married Lord Priest Hylun Mardòrun in 140 DR, a common priest she met while traveling the countryside viewing ruined temples. She died without children in 166 DR at Kændal. The Living Crown passed to her youngest sister…
  5. High Lady Urálya the First of Kændal. She was born in 116 DR at Kændal. She was named High Lady in 166 DR. She married Lord Elkun Kalmùren in 132 DR at Kændal. They had eight children. The eldest children married and had children, but died before 172 DR. She died in 172 DR at Kændal. The Living Crown passed to her third child, a son…
  6. High Lord Arákan the Fourth of Kændal. He was born in 136 DR at Kændal. At an early age young Arákan showed a talent for swords and combat. In 148 DR his parents sent him to Ummon to learn the arts of war from the priests there. Twenty-four years later a group of weary messengers arrived at the mountain city calling him home to take his mother’s place. He was named High Lord in 173 DR at Kændal. There was much speculation of turmoil in the Temple of Kændlan over his assumption of powers, as he was clearly a follower of Īrul rather than the Temple. Their worries were not unwarranted. In 176 DR, Arákan the Fourth raised armies throughout his realm, launching withering assaults on Ortòri homelands in the mountains that bordered Kændal. Over the next years, the Ortor-Murdrū were pushed far back into the mountains. Though the Ortor provided no more problems to Kændal during Arákan the Fourth’s reign, the Ortor that survived and were able to regroup formed the basis for the Bragnar Bar Ort. He adopted an old custom of Kændàli lords of marrying many women (concurrently). He married his first wife Lady Galhēa Mòr Aneð in 175 DR. He died in 202 DR at Kændal. At the time of his death he had seven wives and over thirty children. The Living Crown passed to his son…
  7. High Lord Kalar the Second of Kændal. He was born in 175 DR at Kændal. Unlike his father, Kalar was a disciplined warrior or scholar. He was prone to ravings and destructive outbursts, most of which were occurred beyond the notice of the public. The priests of Kændlan however were worried about the kind of High Lord he would become. A failed assassination attempt on Kalar in 174 DR was traced to a small group of priests close to the royal family. The ailing Arákan the Fourth ordered the priests put to death without trial, an order that could have been contested by the Temple but was permitted to avoid spectacle. He was named High Lord in 202 DR at Kændal. Kalar the Second was paranoid, accusing priests and family members of plotting against him. Few took these accusations seriously until members of the family began showing up dead. After the seventh sibling was found murdered in his chambers, the Temple called upon an Inquisitor from Lanàdus to investigate the killings. When the High Lord learned of this, three ships were sent to “meet” the visitor’s ship but returned to port weeks later. The Inquisitor’s ship never reached Kændal. After several more murders many of the High Lord’s siblings fled to the edges of the realm, or to other realms. Several fled to Panæð whereupon Kalar revoked their right to succession. At his death in 228 DR, of his 32 siblings, only three remained. It took the Temple three years to find them for they had been driven so far away by Kalar’s spies and assassins. The Living Crown passed to his sister…
  8. High Lady Asébelya the First of Kændal. She was born to Arákan the Fourth’s fourth wife in 195 DR at Kændal. Though only a half-sister to Kalar the First, her family’s reputation was destroyed by her predecessor. The Ortor that her father had pushed from the region were engaging in winter raids again and there was great distrust of the Crown. She was named High Lady in 231 DR at Kændal. Though a favorite of the Temple, Asébelya was unable to win the favor or trust of the Kændalyr. The accidental and separate deaths of her remaining brothers in 233 DR and her own sense of helplessness and guilt for the atrocities committed by Arákan the Fourth precipitated her choice to forfeit the Crown to the Temple so that they might chose a new family to lead Kændal (235 DR). Following this, Asébelya became a popular priestess of the Temple, eventually rising to the position of High Priestess and crowning the second of the Lor Dànið line.