The Gathering In The First

The Gathering in the First was the first meeting of the five peoples upon Ostre's shadow, those being Steaderstone of Ostre's boot, Crianta of the knee, High Ostre of the girdle, Marketown of the Breast, and Westing Vale of the helm. They converged at High Ostre, at the heart of Rhoman.

The Towers of High Ostre
After 22 years working the land, the first iteration of what would evolve into the bastion of High Palace was completed. Then, it was just a single-floored hall lined with a tower at each end. The work that had gone into such a steading was to be marvelled at, but the significance was in the stability of the growing city, because the hall had reached a capacity where it was able to cope with the day-to-day living burdened upon it. Grain stores and treasuries were added, as well as a library to store knowledge of craft, geography, medicine, and all other things learnt during the people's endeavours.

To celebrate, Gwathredion and Irenae deemed it time to walk the long shadow of the Empyrean himself and find those they knew he placed there, but had never met.

Ostre's Finders
Gwathredion held knowledge of the two lands either side of him, even though he'd never been to or been told of them. The task of bringing these peoples to him he handed to his eldest child- the only of his children to be of appropriate age. The four envois were his eldest child, Camlarin, as well as his three most trusted friends, Lord Kehaden and Ladies Gorlois and Bediveare. And he named the party Ostre's Finders.

Camlarin and Bediveare set out west to Westin Vale and Marketown respectively, Gorlois and Kehaden east to Steaderstone and Crianta. Almost a year they were gone. Envois to the inner-lying cities (those being Marketown and Crianta) were hosted by their city whilst they waited for the outer Finder to return. The easterly and westerly parties returned to High Ostre within three days of each other.

The Gathering
Almost a year they were gone, and the Finders returned with more numbers Gwathredion and Irennae could have imagined. From Westing Vale, Camlarin brought 71, from Marketown Bediveare brought 48, from Steaderstone Gorlois brought 60, and from Crianta Kehaden brought 82.

So with the gathering of peoples of different empyreal garments came the Uniting Along the Shadow, the Gathering in the First, the then-called Sensumbra. And to each of the present 365 was given a day, a day of the newly constructed year that would give order to the undertaking of events, and thus was created the timepiece named the calendar for those in attendance to take away and preach to their own. The recorded names were called the Days fo the Gathered, and was known as the Rhoman year.

And king, queen, royal and lowlife were as one as they entertained their long-awaited companionship of others. This was considered the first landmark in Rhoman history, and was where records begun.