Hartend

The town of **Hartend** lies in the continent of Aldovir , in the Galadonni County of Leodon, in the historical lands of Carn. Hartend borders in the north to the cities of Lanstein & Arkal, in the west to Licritia, in the south to Guslandia and in the east to the Great Factory of Winzeck. Altough it has no direct connection to the Sea, it is located near the Astyllean Sea, where it is seperated from by a mountain range. Hartend) can look back on a years long history.

The culture of Hartend is made of a mix of Carnian and Galadonni culture, altough most people within Hartend see themselves mainly as Galadonni.

## Districts of Hartend

Hartend is devided into the Districts of Evansyllo, Bentonia, Hartend and New-Hartend.

* Evansyllo: Evansyllo is said to be the oldest district. In its center lies at a small farm village surrounded by large areas of fields with different kinds of crops, of which wheat is the most comman one. Evansyllo used to be its own town before it was in 2021/2022 integrated into Bentonia (nowerdays Hartend). In the south of the district there is the graveyard of Hartend with the famous statue of Ferol (former mayor, prince of Galadonn). In the east of Evansyllo is an estate and library which has not been finished yet. Underwards it lies the ancient catacombs of Hartend, an old, vacant underground city which was cut off for centuries from the surface before it was rediscovered recently.

## **History**

### Pre founding

Bentonia wasn’t the first settlement in the region. The area had seen several civilisations in the past. The earliest documented instance of a nation settling the region was roughly 2000 years prior to the founding of bentonia, with this nation being the Sagaviri Empire, one which would at its peak span the vast majority of the aldoviri subcontinent, however, little remains of their settlements, aside from a series of mines under the town which became abandoned after an earthquake collapsed sections of it, resulting in a prominent vertical shaft forming in the riverbend. Said quake also would block the flow of the river, causing it to drain differently and the few remnants of it to pool in scattered ponds. The river would remain in this state until the city was founded, with drainage remaining almost obsolete. It would be almost 2 whole millennia before settlements would be built in the area, and this time it was reyllea which set up the town of evansyllo nearby. A village would be built around where the longest cut off stretch of the river was, eventually setting up a thriving farm. Shortly thereafter, kerplis would start work on a castle. However, said castle was later abandoned by the time only the keep, the east wall and one of the houses had been completed, with the village falling into ruin around the same time. Another castle, fort tarye, was built around this time, however, its days would also be numbered. Reyllea would become incorporated into the empire of yimmu audal (then known as Theios Essukdal), and upon the lardburgians arriving, would change name to coenia. Soon afterwards, coenia would become independent of YA and would immediately merge with several neighbouring nations to form the empire of Aldovir. In this time, only one construction would occur nearby, the coenia west gate, between what would become bentonia and lantstein. Even into the earlier days of aldovir, the area was degrading at a significant rate. The restoration and renewal would however, occur from the most unlikely source.

### Founding and old Aldovir

One day, a newcomer, who went by the name of Jecten strolled through the landscape, looking for a place to settle down. After passing through the run down gates on what would later be known as the east wall, the weather turned from clear to rainy and he was forced to settle in a cave to shelter from the rain. This would become the place where Jecten would now settele down and build from now on, what would become known as "Bentonia" named after Jectens Dog Benton.

**Hartend under Jecten**

Under Jecten the walls of Hartend (back than Bentonia) would be finished. Furthermore Jecten constructed the underground of Hartend, which nowerdays houses in governmental facilities, such as the throne room, the Discussion room, the Carnian Museum of Hartend, the Earls museum and the Royal office of the King.

### Hartend under Ferol

When Hartend was acquired by Galadonn it was immediately given to Prince Ferol Ven Ishtara who wrote countless books and constructed a handful of buildings. Ferol was a philosopher poet and politician and took great pleasure in developing Hartend famous wheat and potato farms. Until, one cold night in the winter Ferol was found dead in his home in Hartend.

### Hartend after Ferol

The death of Ferol was a deep hit for the town of Hartend, because it caused a wave of inactivty and stagnation for it. What did not help either was that the question of who would now take care of Hartend was uncertain and took very long to be solved.

After a few months a player by the name of Ernst started to look after Hartend. Ernst came originally to Hartend just as temporary home for the time that the Capital Lagos was under reconstruction but when the reconstruction took way longer than expected he decided to make Hartend his new permant residence and started to rebuild some of the run down parts of Hartend such as the farm fields and later on some buildings.

At that point the Ernst could not do much because the question of the leadership was not solved yet and Ernst did not know what he was allowed to do and what not until finally a new Earl (mayor) for Hartend was appointed by the King of Galadonn: presidentpablo.

### The Golde Age of Hartend

#### The rise of Hartend

Now that the question of the leadership was finally solved an era began in which Hartend saw and sees to this day much development, with lots of new houses beeing build and an massive rise of population and activity never seen before in the history of this town all within a short amount of time with the joined effort of Ernst and Pablo.

#### The question of the architectural future of Hartend

    During the great revamp of the inside of the walls of Hartend the question came up on how to build in Hartend. With one side wanting to build in the old carnian stlye mainly supported by pablo or the blue-house style mainly supported by Ernst and Vonestly.

Eventually both sides agreed on compromise in which the decied that inside the walls would be build in the old Carnian style and outside the walls with the Blue-roof style. The reason for that was that they could agree on the old carnian style fitting more to the walls of hartend and that they wanted to embrace the carnian haritage of Hartend while they sticked with the blue-roofs outside because they were iconic for the town of Hartend and the heritage of the former Earl Ferol.

#### Stoylisk Raids

Due to the fact that in the Golden Age of Hartend, Hartend was pretty much the most active town in Galadonn, Stoylisk a nation consisting of galadonni exiles started to raid Hartend very often under the leadership of Ghostclaimax. This is also recorded in a letter of Stoylisk altough its debatable if it is not very biast actually because it was written by Stoylisk. It is called: Rhenden and Hartend Raids.

As one of the measures against the raids was that the Senator of Defence bonk ordered a panic bunker to be build which turned out to be used several times.

#### The Chief-Bonk Tower

Chief\_Thomas and Bonk built a beautiful tower at the north-east edge of the Hartend walls as personal residence for themselves in Hartend and lots of brewing space which they connacted to and old pub underwards.

#### The Wolves of Hartend title

Ernst of Hartend created a title called "Wolves of Hartend" which is given to loyal Hartend Citizens. The Big "B" at the beginning and and stands for the wolf Benton after which Hartend used to be called Bentonia. People who has been honoured by this title for their great constributions to Hartend are:

Vonestly, Pablo, BongoCatMC, Kaasko, Jecten of Bentonia (old mayor), Dahn\_xx.

#### The Cass-Pub

A player by the name Menalitus built a pub near the entrance of Hartend, altough it is quite new it is already very popular amongst the hartenese and has many visitors daily.