Being a roll of the Warlords, Princes and Kings of Calontir and those who helped them.
By Master Crag Duggan

Calontir was born into the Known World on the Twenty Ninth day of May, in AS 12 when Geoffri of Warreine begged a boon of Finnvarr de Taahe, fifteenth King of the Middle Kingdom, and Finnvarr did grant it.

Long have the folk of Calontir labored to build a Kingdom worthy of that beginning dream. None have worked harder than the Rulers of the land, and their Great Officers, Lesser Officers, Advisors and Retinue.

Lest we should forget them and their labors, and the lessons dearly bought, I have begun the work of preserving their memory and codifying their lessons.

The historian knows that the most valuable resource is the first hand account of events. Though fraught with the biases of the observer, they are spare the subsequent layers of accreted error from secondary source analysis and commentary.

I have set as my task to produce, while it is still possible, an accurate account of the history of our kingdom. Besides my own eyes and ears as someone who was here almost from the beginning, I have known well every Warlord, Consort, Prince, Princess, King and Queen of Calontir. I have spoken with them all, many times over the years as I have interviewed, recalled and pieced together an image of the rich tapestry we have woven. Countless eyes have seen and cross checked these works for accuracy.

The detailed attribution of every source would be an overwhelming burden, taking up more space than the works themselves, and would so obscure the whole, as to make it unwieldy and useless. These are a requirement of modern scholarship for analysis at the secondary and tertiary level. Footnotes and detailed attributions are not found in primary source documents in period, and rarely in primary source documents today. Examples of such primary source documents that I have studied and emulated include Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Speaking People, The First Crusade - The Chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres, The Secret History of Procopius, and the Chronicles of the Monks of San Juan de la Penna. In modern times newspapers and broadcast media are accorded some expectation of accuracy though they are aggressively protective of their sources.

If one reads period histories there is no pretense omniscience on the part of the writer. Bede and Finnvarr who have been my inspirations would tell you that. Neither do I usurp the prerogative of God to judge men's hearts. I will content myself to tell what happened, and by whose hand it happened, and what I thought of it at the time, and thereafter. Where there is controversy, I have tried to let the combatants tell their own storied, and let everyone be free to draw their own conclusion.

This roll of rulers and those to whom they turned for help, was initially begun several years ago to help me write the Chronicles of Calontir, I rapidly found it to be a worthwhile work on it's own merit. For over the twenty years of our journey, memories fail and the number of laborers in this garden ever grow greater. I hope you will find it of use as you remember and as you ponder how came we here, and wherefore do we go.

Master Crag Duggan
Grimfells, Calontir
January 22, AS XXXI

Warlords, Princes and Kings

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