Perwyn

*Further information: The Inundation*
The original home of Humanity on Callidore.

## Description

Perwyn was a mountainous subcontinent located somewhere in the Eastern Ocean.

An island covering several hundred square kilometers. It served as the base from which human terraforming and later colonization of Callidore began.

The Island was previously a territory controlled by the Alka Alon before it's gift to Humanity with the blessing of the Seafolk.

## Political Structure

### Early Magocracy

For around 4 centuries, Perwyn remained the center of human civilization with the Archmagi ruling from the great city of Nomaowi. This period of time was known as the Early Magocracy. Perwyn was lost when the last Archmage used the Emerald Staff reclaimed Samprinso Bay from the sea.

## Early Colonial Period

From Minalan the Spellmonger's treatise on **The Early Colonial Period:**

*"Those islands, Perwyn chief among them, became bases for a mighty effort to take the poor soils and discouraged lands of the mainland.  At the same time, they became the first lands of Callidore to bear the fruit of Terra, as they were heavily settled with colonists from the **New Horizon.** Perwyn was a wide land with a few gentle mountain ranges, just to the south of the Golden Reef.  It quickly became home to several cities either dedicated to the mainland effort or toward making Perwyn Base Colony, as the settlement was originally called, as much like the world they fled as they could."*

(Later in the same work, some excerpts concerning Perwyn)

*"But it is at Perwyn that the roots of our civilization began.  That small island was the crossroads for humanity’s arrival on Callidore.  It was at Perwyn that the great ships fell from the sky and landed, crammed with thousands of men eager to build a new life."*

*"Not content with bringing new life to the land by the air, the manufactories and smithies of Perwyn constructed great hulls of steel and took cautiously to the waves.  As new wonders fell from the **Horizon**, they embarked from Perwyn until they took port at the small havens in Vore and Merwyn. There, great herds of animals were* *unloaded from the steel ships.  Soon importasta beasts, both wild and domestic, roamed from the shores of Cormeer to the far Mindens."*

*"While the farms and plantations along the Merwyni rivers produced great abundance, the nexus of humani civilization was Perwyn.  Great universities and colleges of learned men took to the study of their strange new world with an exacting eye, while others learned all they could of the Alka Alon and their poorer cousins.  The Vundel, already ranging the Shattered Sea but sparsely, kept their distance from the newcomers.  The few conflicts between the two races were settled, apparently, through the auspices of Unstara, to whose rulings the folk of Perwyn always obeyed.*

*When there were dangers in those early days, the colonists seemed far more united than in later years. In particular, they brought with them a cadre of warriors, few in number but great in valor.  They were fierce on land, at sea, and in the air: the legendary Calcoldef.  They took for their home and fortress the inhospitable southern island, Novaminos. Their steel ships, flying boats, and ingenious weapons were a match for nearly all the strange dangers the new world presented them.  Yet it was the guile of humanity which doomed the Novaminosi and all of Perwyn.*

*The Later Settlement: Perwyn*

*Perwyn was an isle of meandering lands between deep inlets, gentle mountain ranges, nearly thirty thousand square miles of verdant territory that was transformed before anywhere else.  While much of the land was mountainous and rocky, the gentle vales between the ranges and on the long, broad coastline made up the lack.*

*There were several distinct settlements in this period.  Research has shown that the first colonists were explorers and scholars educated in the obscure sciences of land and soil.  Though the initial colony was headquartered at a site near the eventual town of Gurnsei, within three years new colonies were established around the central peaks of the southeastern end of the island.  Bryton, Calcatalon, and the future capital of Nuleidan were all established during that earliest period of our history on Callidore.*

*From the first, we were a maritime people.  The geography of Perwyn encouraged the practice of this art, which we apparently had on our homeworld, and soon freight and folk were being shipped around the island by sea as often as they were transferred by flying boat.  This was a great novelty to our Alka Alon ambassadors, it is noted, for though they had been on Callidore for ten thousand years they had no sense of seamanship.  The Vundel seemed to view the mariners of the* humani *with an amusement, for few of the other races they’d invited to Callidore braved the seas where the Vundel dominated.*

*After the first three decades, most of Perwyn was suitable for human habitation, and the tiny villages the explores founded were soon flooded with colonists from the skies. After the initial wave of settlement, the colonists who arrived during this time were organized by company, and took ownership of land in common.  The first few of these great companies dominated later life on Perwyn, and later Merwyn and Vore, as they competed among each other for opportunities in the new land."*

*"The government of Perwyn in the Early Settlement seems in retrospect a time of peace and prosperity, where the rapid settlement of the isle and the mainland proceeded without great mishap."*

*"Alas, the emergence of magic coincided with a growing crisis among the colonists.  Not only were the cities of Perwyn straining under their own growth, but there were growing rivalries between companies, as they transformed into nations.  The emergence of rajira in some among the lower classes complicated the matter as Wild Magic allowed Talented folk to use their newfound powers to agitate."*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mancour, Terry. Spellmonger: Book One Of The Spellmonger Series.Kindle Edition.
2. ↑  Author's contribution, March 26, 2021