The ruin of Contha`s... «Kings of the Wyld»
RamingoWS24 августа 2018The ruin of Contha`s fortress had served as a rallying point during the War of Reclamation. In the shadow of its walls the Company of Kings had driven the remnants of the last Horde back into the Heartwyld Forest. Eventually a settlement sprang up around it, a place where those brave enough to enter the Wyld could gather and supply, and for those who returned to spend their newfound riches or drink away the memory of the horrors they`d barely escaped. Before long contha`s Camp grew into a proper town. Someone built a wall, and when the town swelled into a big bloated city, someone built a bigger wall. Somewhere along the way the name was shortened to Contha`s, then eventually to Conthas, though it was also called the Free City, for although it was technically within Agria`s borders, the king (in this case, their ond bandmate Matrick) laid no claim to lands so near the savage border. There were no taxes there, no tariff on goods that passed through. Conthas was a bastion of enterprise and opportunity. On of the last wild places in an ever more civilized world. That being said, Conthas was a shithole, and as far as Clay was concerned the sooner they were rid of it the better. <...> No king meant no law; no guards to keep the peace or discourage violence before it got out of hand. No taxes meant no one to clena gutters or lay down stone for roads, and so Clay and Gabriel sloshed through what they hoped was mud as they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home.
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