Kalkenstein

# Archduchy of Kalkenstein

The Archduchy of Kalkenstein, origionally named Calrion, is a City state located on the Continent of Vallkreon (...). It was founded 2000 years ago by the First Elven settelers, after they united Their Villages Into 1 City state.

The Name of The Man who united the Villages is Tribulon, he was a trusted and highly popular member within all of The Villages because of His hard Work, He also was the First member of The Council of Elders.

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## Etymology

The Name of The City state Kalkenstein origionally was Calrion, comming from the Elven Word Cålri meaning White and Øñ meaning Stone, White Stone. So the City, after it was formed, was named Cålriøñ meaning White Stone.

It was named Like this because of The Calcite it was built on. After the Blood Battles and The Red age, it was renamed to Kalkensteine to fit With the Humans that are now found a Lot in the City. (Kalken being a Mix of Kalzit and Cålriøñ an d Stein Just meaning Stone)

## History

The Archduchy of Kalkenstein is a City state located on the Calcite cliffs that are in the Frederichs Sea. Kalkenstein was founded 2000 years ago when the first settelers arrived through a portal created by the Markei Master Truberon. The people that arrived through that Portal were elves that fleed from their home world becasue of a infinate swarm of Green Monsters that appeard and started devouering everything in its path, while the Elven troops fought well they were ventually overpowerd and the 3 biggest Markei Masters had to step in and open a portal while Truberon held to swarm back by himself.

After the Elves landed in the new world that they called Vallkreon, they began to open up camps near the shore line where they could gather fish and nearby berrys. After a while those camps began developing into Villages and eventually, as the Villages expanded, they connected with eachother to form 1 City, that they named Calrion.

Calrion, before the 100 Year Falken War and the Dark age, was ruled by a Group of elders that became popular and trusted in their society through their hard work and how they helped others. Because of the dedication of those elders, it was quickly seen as dissrepectfull and bad to fail at ones work. While this put a lot of pressure on the people, it also helped Kalkenstein to develop quickly and with the help of the Markei that they had left they managed to build their first ships and open up trade routes.Fortunetly for Calrion, they were sitting on huge calcite and salt reserves which were highly demanded resources in their region at that time! Thus the people of Calrion quickly opend up mines and with their hard work and dedication they quickly managed to fill the city with riches. While this filled the people of Calrion proud of themselves, it would quickly have a dark turn. One day, while miners worked the mines and merchants sold stuff a earthquake occured, one that collaped the mines and devoured the Shrine of Truberon and pulled it into the earth, which also ended the common practice of Markei which is an elven martial arts technique that allows the user to controll all elements at will and channel that power through weapons, Because the Temple was the place where most of the techniques were stored and how to use them.

After this tradegy, dozends of people were found dead and went missing and in the middle of this chaos another threat to Kalkenstein started "attacking". Humans. Humans and the elves of Calrion never came along with eachother because the humans saw the elves as infirior and think they stole the land they build Calrion on. While their relationship never was good, there werent any physical conflicts or battles between them until now. The Humans, which in this case was a small settlement abou the same size as Kalkenstein called FalkenSchloss(these 2 Citys were neighbours), saw this earthquake as a weak time for the elves and without warning the Battleships of FalkenSchloss set out to attack the Port of Kalkenstein and seize controll over the city. But before they could accomplish this the elves were notified and the Elders Council took measures, activating their fleet and thus starting the first battle of the 100 Year Falcon War. The Battle at Kalkensteins Coast.

### The 100 Year Falcon War

The 100 Year Falcon war was a conflict between the elves of Calrion (Kalkenstein) and the Humans of FalkenSchloss. This war was started because of the tensions between elves and Humans that existed becasue Humans saw elves as infirior and as animals. The leader of Calrion back then was the Elders Council with Tribulon as its head. The leader of FalkenSchloss was the royal Family Kalkrer, with King Gerald as its leader.

#### The Battle at Kalkensteins coast

The Battle at Kalkensteins Coast was the first Batlle within the 100 Year Long Falcon War.

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