Vredour

سب سے اندھیرے می (In the Darkest Hour)

Vredour is located in the South of Aelloyln. Their lands are barren and it is hard to grow plant life there.

**Capital**: Nakoa

**Language**: Vredu

**Cities**: Dolan

**Symbol**: Moon

**Colours**: Red and Brown

**King**: King Ali

**Queen**: Queen Saara

**Princes**: Prince Jacques, Prince Tiam

**Princesses**: Princess Cirella

### **Beliefs**

* Worships: Dragomir, Ancient of the Moon and Night
* Vredour still has slaves in their region. They believe the more slaves one has the more powerful they are.

### **Festivals and Events**

* There are no festivals for the commoners in Vrendour. Only the rich have special events that are exclusive.

### **Climate**

There is only one season in Vredour. Summer. It is usually dry and hot. The only times it rains is two weeks when it is winter for the northern countries.

### **Resources**

* Coffee, tea, sugar, spice, glass, horses, common fish, sweet potatoes

### **Main Trade**

Main exports are coffee, tea, sugar and spices, most of which only grow in abundance in their arid climate. Most of the country is surrounded by inhabitable desert, but the country is also renowned for breeding the fastest horses in Aellolyn, though smaller in stature than most other horses, they are known to leave almost all competitors in the dust behind them.

### **Relations**

* Vredour keeps to themselves in the Southern regions. It is unknown what their intentions are and who their alliances are with.

### **History**

Vredour, son of Dragomir, Ancient of the Moon and Night born during the Great Fervor. Vredour broke off from the others created during the Great Fervor, heading south to the edge of Aellolyn, he settled at the edge crossing an inhabitable desert. Vredour spent a majority of his time, isolated, dedicating his time to building his home, the palace of Nakoa. His struggle came when he was staring at the ceiling of his home when he set upon an idea. What if there was a way to star at the sky without being subjected to the elements? Vredour dreamed of being able to watch the sky at night, from his bed, no matter the weather.

Staring out at the dunes of sand, he noticed the way the light almost appeared to *reflect* off it when hit at the right angle. Vredour set about, determined to find a way for the desert to provide his dream. After fifty years, he finally cracked it. He found a way to heat sand up to such a degree that it became a clear fragile substance. Glass. Though Vredour died before his bedroom roof could be replaced with a glass ceiling, his son, King Ca, built the palace from the ground up to honor his father.

Over the next one hundred years, Vredour created all the various types of glass in Aellolyn, finding ways to even capture one's reflection. All while they spread the new invention through out the continent, Ca worked to complete his father’s legacy. By the time Ca died, his son took up the task, finally seeing it complete over one hundred and fifty years after his grandfather started. The capital city of Nakoa is home to one of the great marvels in all of Aellolyn, the palace is made entirely of glass. Over the years the glass makers of Vredour perfected their techniques creating some of the most beautiful and powerful items. Glass as strong as stone stands around the castle, some of their soldiers even arm themselves with glass swords, almost as strong as Grimmwing steel.

Though glass is the thing it’s known for, it is not its major trade. The son of Ca, Leander, realized that in order to be prevalent they needed something more than glass. They needed trade. It was Leander who first captured a man who’s debts to the crown left him penniless. Rather than execute him on sight, earning nothing, Leander made him the first slave. The man was a descendant of Citali, the Ancient of Sky and Lightning, an enemy to Leander’s own divine heritage. Soon Leander realized the profit to be made from free labor, increasing his slaves to all corners of the continent, over the years the other nations adapted this practice. He started with all children marked by the Ancient Citali, making them the first slaves, abusing them throughout the years. Through a deal with the then King of Candonia, King Leander helped to create the Grand Market in Velaris, allowing his concept to spread throughout the continent. Prisoners became slaves, debtors, poachers, people who looked at him wrong once, people who disobeyed him. Leander felt that slavery was his key to power, and he infected the rest of Aellolyn with the practice like a disease.

Though Leander focused on slaves as his main trade, he also felt the need to foster crops which could only grow in their arid climate. Vredour remains one of the countries that still flouts this practice, its fields all worked by men in chains. However, the current king, Feichin, knows that with Evan the Black’s taking of Candonia, his time is limited. It’s rumored that he is preparing an army that will challenge the conqueror and ways to use his ancestor’s inventions as weapons of war.