Gwathredion

Gwathredion was the first man of Ostre, became the first High King of Rhoman.

Life And Family
Designed of a middle age as to surpass a motherless childhood, Gwathredion was presented by the empyrean with a lady, the design in which he saw great beauty, for the two of them were gifts to each other, and it was this reverence of sacred gift that became later known as love. It was to the two of them a year before Ostre saw reason to bring others, and those he placed with Gwathredion and Irennae in the girdle of his shadow became the city High Ostre. For the land had been risen, a mound on which the first two had been placed, and it was upon this pedestal the city was built.

In the year they were alone, Gwathredion and Irennae built themselves a timber shack upon the mound. They learned before others crafts and trade, and when others came they shared their knowledge and resources. Together they had two children, Evebruel and Camlarin. Each outlived their parent and had their own turn on the throne.

Early Rulership
Gwathredion was the elected king blessed by Ostre himself, but in sharing his own newfound knowledge, and his leadership in livelihood teachings, they people later placed by Ostre accepted him as for his gifts of rule rather than birthright.

He with his people built around the shack upon the mound. Once houses had been erected, wells dug, livestock shedded and grain stores filled, the house of Gwathredion and Irennae was expanded to house halls of council and treasury, rooms of arms or celebration. And when it was completed it was looked upon, grander than any around it, and it was called the high palace.

The Gathering In The First
As celebration of completing High Palace, it was decided the time had come to walk the shadow to find those placed beyond his city. Gwathredion sent four messengers, two east, and two west, and these were known as Ostre’s Finders. They were Gorlois, Kehaden, Bruin and Bediveare. When they returned, they brought parties from the lands beyond, from boot and knee, and breast and helm. This assembly known as many things, the Uniting Along the Shadow, the Senseumbra, but would be most famously remembered as the Gathering in the First. Gwathredion announced himself and his peoples, and without prompt the four journeying clans of Steaderstone, Marketown, Crianta and the Westing Vale bowed before him.

Death
Gwathredion surpassed his spouse in life by a single year, for without that Ostre had given to him he saw no reason in his own continued existence. He was discovered by her grave, peaceful as if sleeping, and it was beside her his own grave was dug. In the wars that would later swamp Rhoman, their caskets would be transported to the crypts of Black Lamment to keep the resting place of the First at peace.