Facts from the history of the world of the Last Captain. These do not necessarily have anything to do with the stories, but some are connected to references in the books.
In 1680, Kennan MacEwan, Captain of Orenn’s Royal Navy, received from Zayatim al-Amin a pair of flintlocks made by the weapon smiths of Sintan al-Sa’ud, a wealthy Alqamian lord and a descendant of Albukhur al-Sa’ud, the legendary warlord of Alqamia. Zayatim got the flintlocks from al-Sa’ud’s son after the lord’s death in the battle of Ej-Dana in 1675.
The battle of Ej-Dana in 1675 was a fight between Sintan al-Sa’ud and the outlaw leader Akham ir-Osan in the valley of Ej-Dana, the valley between al-Sa’ud’s palace and the forest of Ashaw, where Akham and his men lived, exiled from Alqamia by al-Sa’ud for the assassination attempt on al-Sa’ud and his family. Al-Sa’ud’s army won the battle of Ej-Dana, killing Akham and scattering his men, but al-Sa’ud was mortally wounded, and died of his wounds not an hour later.
In 1705, Ogon Plamyenov, general of the army of Myrnia, marched across the northern coast of Eichenland to take Frodstan, one of the most important fortresses in Eichenland. Poplar Bryncwell, recently-turned lord of Trewbury, heard of his coming and met him in single combat to stall him while the soldiers and civilians could get out of the fortress. Plamyenov was called by his people the immortal one, for many had tried to kill him, but he was untouchable because of his bodyguard. But on October the 21st, Poplar and Plamyenov met in single combat, and Poplar slew Plamyenov, saving the people of Frodstan.
In 1038, the recent settlers of Eichenland found resistance in their attempts to colonize the wild land by an ancient people who called themselves the gwedfran, but were called by the Orennians the Bancruca. After a year, the gwedfran leader, tired of sending unheeded threats, led his men and massacred the settlers. A few ran to Orenn in search of help, and the Orennians, long enemies of the gwedfran, agreed. In 1040, on the north-eastern shore of Eichenland, they with the Eichenlanders drove back the gwedfran once and for all. On the battlefield, Asvaldr, the first king of Eichenland, erected Frodstan, a small stone fortress, as a promise of friendship between Orenn and Eichenland.
In the fifth year of the reign of Udir, chieftain of the Kosgolog, he went out to battle against the khudiyam, a fierce group of creatures bent on the destruction of the Kosgolog. The battle went awry and Udir and his men were trapped by the khudiyam in a series of caves inhabited by the khudiyam. Udir sent messengers to the camp to call for reinforcements, but only one reached the camp. Aigiarn, wife of Udir, saw that no one was willing to go, so she went herself, and, by her husband’s side, the battle was won, and an epic poem, in the style of the oral traditional poems of the Kosgolog, was invented by the court storyteller in their honor.
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