Historiae Kildari
The Historiae Kildari is an attempt to bring together the historical information about the Dutchy of Kildare and its heritage. It is written by the Audente historian Claudius Gel'Mur.
Contents
Prologue
Greetings, brave reader!
Let me use this moment to thank you for taking up this book that I proudly want to call my lifework. As you already can guess is that this work has a special meaning for me. For this to understand, I will shortly introduce myself to you: I am Claudius Gel’Mur, an Audente citizen from the Pearl of the East, the city which is better known under its formal name outside Kildare: Apollo City. I have studied, lived and worked at my birthplace but also had the luck to travel a lot throughout the Eastern Empire. During those travels I visited historical places and the many libraries that are hidden within the centuries-old cities. Just like every Kildarian I developed a love for history and our proud Apollonian heritage.
Through my last years as historian I however came to the conclusion that while our people love to fall back on their love for -and knowledge of- history during heavy discussions, all books that once assembled the stories of the past have either been destroyed during (civil) wars, fires or were just too damaged to be used.
With this in my mind, I decided that if we want that our brethren in the other States get to know us a bit better, we also have to learn a bit more about ourselves instead of relying on the many fragments that are spread over the many libraries of scholars throughout our Realm.
This book is also written by me in the langua franca of our grand Imperial Republic, Shirerithian English, on purpose for this goal. I myself grew up learning the language of the Ancient days, Audente, but the new generations are looking - like they should - forward: towards the Western language. We can't stand dwell on the past alone. We must face the future. I know that this are a bit of ironical words coming from a historian who just wrote a history book.
But I hope that with this I can, on my old day, add something of value to our society and help future generations to know themselves better, so they can try to learn to know others better. I hope that this foolish dream will, one day, no longer be a dream.
I now can only wish you a lot of luck!
Kildarian Historian
Chapter One: Place of origins (20,000 - 4022 bASC)
(Beginnings of humanity, first tribes) Just like in any job, a historian can also clash against certain limits. In our profession the most feared border of possibilities is the lack of an information source. My usual sources, the written kind, is useless for periods in which none took the time or didn't have the knowledge of how to write something down. Next to that, many of early sources have already disappeared many millennia in the past through natural or human-based disasters. Nonetheless, I always was intrigued by our early roots.
There is a reason why even now Kildare is still referred to as the birthplace of (modern) civilization. It's a title we wear with pride, but also an empty one if we can't answer why we are exactly called like that. Archaeologists try to shed some light in the dark and try to give us the answer on this mystery.
The first human groups should have walked throughout Apollonia around 20,000 bASC. Scientists seem to agree that they should have developed from a common ancestor, an unknown species, and even look towards the Micron race which was at that time probably already well-developed. One theory speaks about the west of Apollonia being the playground of Micron scientists who wanted to experiment to create a new - to them loyal and smart enough - species to serve them.
Several prehistoric statues show how the early Apollonians worshipped Microns that they were familiar with. In some cases there is even a name carved into the statue. It's unclear if this was done by travelling Microns or by the humans themselves.
What's clear, at least according to many researchers, is that humanity spread from then on over the rest of Micras. They also didn't give up their habits of hunting and living from the land till around 12,500 bASC. Several small villages and tribes came into existence, not larger than around 30 tribesmen, and some of them chose to permanently stay to live from a primitive kind of farming. In this time period we see an increased worship of a Micron called Tee Far'Mer.
