The Kael Arran were a people that existed on Ispar. The name Kael Arran means "Desert Dancers."[1] They existed in the somewhat undefined time that was described as the "earliest days of Milantean glory,"[1] and a few hundred years prior to the founding of Gharu'n,[1] which occurred in 924 RC.[2] The Kael Arran people were completely wiped out by the young Milantean Empire.[1]
History
In their time, there were larger tribes, and certainly armies better equipped. But none who met the Kael Arran in battle emerged victorious. Although they did not desire, as their Gharu'ndim brethren would a few hundreds years hence, to sweep across and claim the Naqut desert for themselves, they certainly had the ability. [1]
The young Milantos Empire is responsible for exterminating the Kael Arran, a people who presaged the Gharu'ndim and the Rouleans, back in the earliest days of Milantean glory.. It took over 10 years and a hundred battles. At the place that would become known as the Red Sands, the Kael forsook their usual skirmish and retreat tactics as the Milantean Red filled the horizon from end to end. There was nowhere left to run. At the end of that day, over 50,000 Milantean Red soaked their last into the sands named after them. And the Kael Arran ceased to exist.[1]
Culture
"...and we shall dance and cry.
Dance and laugh.
We cried before there was a Beginning.
We laughed after the End.
And we danced, danced throughout.
We shall not stop,
Though Sorrow plays the tune."
- Death-Poem of a Kael Arran warrior, found carved in a rock at the Red Sands"[1]
Texts
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 2001/11 The Gathering Storm - Writ of Refuge Text
- ↑ 2003/03 The History of Auberean: Volume V: New Arrivals (-540 to 13)