2 The Kingdom of Sarnor (pre Aegons Conquest)
Sarnor
Geography:
The ancient Kingdom of Sarnor was situated in the northern part of Essos and most of is today part of the great grass sea. The Kingdom had roughly 600 miles of coastline along the shivering sea with access to the Bays of Sarnor and Tusks. The Countries longest river was the Sarne. The Largest Lake of the Kíngdom was the silver sea wich was connected to the sea via a river wich ended in bay of tusks. To the West the Kingdom held parts of the great Forest of Qohor while to the east and south two mountain chains provided partially a natural Border for the Kingdom.
Sarnors ancient borders:
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Sarnors 2 mountain Chains:
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Administrative Divisions:
Sarnor was not a centralized Kingdom under a single absolute ruler but a confederation of multiple City States each with it's own King under the sovereignty of a High King who was also the King Sarnath. The number of the Kingdoms that formed Sarnor was 11 with each King controling one of the 11 great cities of Sarnor.
1. Gornath
2. Hornoth
3. Kasath
4. Kyth
5. Mardosh
6. Rathylar
7. Saath
8. Sallosh
9. Sarnath
10. Sarys
11. Sathar
Resources :
The ancient Kingdom of Sarnor was a country with access to a lot of resources like wood, stone, iron, cooper, zinc but but also more prescious one s like Gold and Silver.
The main source of wood were the areas close to the forrest of Qohor. Most of the stone, gold, cooper and
silver were mined in the two major mountain chains. While the cink was mainly mined close to the bay of Tusks.
Economy:
The Tall people were famned merchants who mostly traded with the Ibbenese and Valyrians. One of their most exotic goods was spider silk.
They were also good Bronze forgers their Bronze jewelry remained unmatched throughout the known world.
The Rivers of the kingdom provided a perfect base for growing large crops making it one of essos two major Breadbasketts.
History:
Pre Century of Blood:
Acording to the Citadel, the only major centre of education in the Sunset Kingdoms the lands of Sarnor were witnessers of the great migration of the first men as they set of from their ancient homelands east of the bone mountains and passed through them.
No one knows the full details of Sarnors foundation as the great Libary of Sallosh was destroyed during the century of blood leaving large of our history to be shrouded in mystery but acording to what legends and myths tells us Sarnor was founded by the King Huzhor Amai who lead our ancestors the tall men into battle against his their enemies the Gipps, the Cymmeri and the Zoqora and finally conquered by marrying the 3 daughters of their Kings. Those three nations would over the centuries get assimilated into the rest of Sarnor.
Over thousands of years Sarnor would see times of both peace and war. During Valyria's wars against the Ghiscari Empire Sarnor would often find itself fighting alongside Valyria against the Ghiscarii. It would also see a lot of actions against the Qaathi people.
Century of Blood:
The century of Blood succeeded the Doom of Valyria wich occurred in 102 BC and would see the fall countless civilizations. Along with the Qaathi and Ibbenese the Sarnori became victim of the Dothraki a nomadic folk of raiders who inhabited the area between Sarnor and the Bone Mountains.
As the legendary Khal mengo united all the Dothraki and by doing so became the first Great Khal in History. The rest of Essos erupted into an all out war. Taking advantage of this Mengo and his successors would evolve from a spark into a fire that would bring down the ones great civilizations of central Essos and leave an inferno of destruction behind it.
Ones having been the second strongest entity west of the Bone Mountains Sarnor was reduced to a single holdout with no hope of ever recovering back to it's former glory.
At least that is what we thought.
Because no prediction would ever turned itself out to be that wrong when a few decades ago a light was borne in city of Saath. A Light that would ignite a Sarnori fightback that few had deemed possible.
The reconquest of Sarnath itself.
The reunification of the realm.
written by Parosh Zorah Royal Historian of King Agadosh Crathos
The End
