Callierd

’’Tyndal’s new banner, a yellow haystack with a green mage’s star on a blue field, flew over the gatehouse.’’ ref: Thaumaturge.  Chapter 25.

East side of the Magelaw

## History

At one time this was a prospers settled domain, with the town of Nandine which had a population of three thousand people and the entire domain held a population of ten thousand.

But it was one of the first places that the guavani sacked in the early days of their genocidal war. Most of the population was either killed or taken away to the Penumbra.

After Minalan takes charge of the Magelaw, he summons Tyndal to have him take charge of Callierd as it’s new Lord.

Callierd is the Northern most domain of the Magelaw and Minalan needs someone trustworthy for security.

## Overview

Tyndal arrives in the Magelaw at the head of a caravan of knights, adventurers and retainers and finds out that his reward is a depopulated ruin domain.  But it was once used to raise horses.

He vows to create a force of Horsemen that will rival The Megelini Knights as a fighting unit.

It is also the closest domain to the Kasari at Bransei

### Nandine

The largest town in the NE Wilderlands was decimated during the original invasion, mostly just the rooftops of the buildings were burned and the granaries looted but left intact. Once it was the local market town with many artisans that could provide much needed goods and services to the domain’s population as well as a couple of Temples to help educate the children and care for the sick as well as keep records of marriages, births and deaths.

## Summary

### Thaumaturge

Minalan summons Tyndal to the Magelaw to have him take up his new duties, becoming a Domain Lord. He and his gentlemen had their work cut out for them in clearing out the Guavani, some were from the mountain tribes and some were run-aways, but they all would loot and try and capture the humani for slaves.

He recruits peasants from the ex-slave camps and sends word back to Sevendor if any of the ex-Bovali wish to return to the Wilderlands he would pay for their trip and settle them in his new domain, over a hundred families took him up on the offer.

Tyndal also restores or builds watch towers in each area where there are settlers and rotates his knight magi through the halls where they stay for only a short time and moved on. Their duty is to protect the settlement and trained the peasants in arms, not to rule it.

He also recruited artisans some from Sevendor to either set up shop at his castle or in Nandine.  He established a small garrison of Knight magi and men-at-arm in Nandine as well as a larger force at the Castle.

When Tyndal took over the domain one of the earlier projects of his was to start the repairs to the town of Nandine and make it more defensible with plans to build a proper stone wall around it.  He also plans on building a defensible keep within the town for the citizens to take refuge in if they are under attack and to house a permeant militia in it.

Ishi’s Avatar contacted Tyndal when he was in Vorone and asked him to create a temple for her and a new abbey school in Nandine, which he immediately started restoring one of the existing and empty temples already there.  With the new abbey school, plans were discussed to start an orphanage and a horse farm at an ecclesiastic estate.

A settlement of Karasi came to his lands and settled near to Nandine, some of them old friends of his from their adventures in the Land of Scars.

Tyndal builds his calvary force recruiting Knight Magi and Knights as well as some ancients and securing good horses for them.

He also set about recruiting any of the people that had once lived in Callierd

When word got out that he was planning on raising thoroughbred destriers and quality rounceys, many like-minded people wanted to be a part of it and move to Callierd.

The terms were so generous that many people took him up on his invitation to settle there.  By late summer many eager people were bringing their horses to either the Magelaw to sell or to Tyndal’s domain to settle down and raise them.  Preference was given to those with any talent in their family, he was somewhat choosy about who he let settled and the ones that did settle recruited and trained squires for future knighthood or Knight Magi’s.  Tyndal was building up his forces.

### The Randy Rouncey

But his pet project in Nandine was ‘’The Randy Rouncey’’, a three-story building that he repaired first and immediately put to use.  Where he could fulfill his dream of owning a tavern and being able to drink for free.

When Minalan visited Tyndal late in the summer to see what progress he had made and his preparedness for war, while they were drinking at “The Randy Rouncey”, Tyndal told him that he had someone that he wanted Minalan to talk with and took him upstairs to visit with his guest.

It was Gurkarl who had been on a mission for the Alka Alon council to speak to the tribal Guavani in the Kulines and to counter what the Urgulnosti missionaries were telling them.  After completing his mission, he sought Tyndal out.

Gurkarl had just come from the penumbra, King Ashakarl’s court-in-exile at Mekadarshku, once known as Castle Dayne. He passed on the latest news and tidbits that they knew about the Nemovort, but mostly paved the way for future talks and discussions.

### Knights of Callierd

When Minalan finally called his banners right after Luin day, Baron Tyndal arrived with 100 well trained, well-armed and armored horsemen.  Men he had been working all summer on training for military duty and formation fighting.  They had been required to practice and train every day all summer long.  He equipped them all with arms and horses out of his own pocket.  Called the Knights of Callierd, they were mostly young men that were either Magi or Sports with some very intriguing abilities.

*Further information: War of Winter*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mancour, Terry. Thaumaturge: Book Eleven of the Spellmonger Series. Chapter 7. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mancour, Terry. Thaumaturge: Book Eleven of the Spellmonger Series.  Chapter 25. Kindle Edition.