Editing Gethin (section)

== History ==

=== The Age of Deeds ===
The formative era of Gethinisharr, in which the kingdom's reputation was won and the ancestral idiom of its proclamations was fixed. This age gave way to what its own chroniclers would later describe as an era of complacency and imitation — a period in which imitating the king became the fashion, privilege bred an appetite for leisure, and a courtly class of trendsetters displaced the warrior nobility that preceded them.

=== The Rebellion at Zarune's Mouth ===
'''[[Talgrin Velz]]''', a disgraced knight of [[Canmore]], arrived on [[Braymarc]] by [[wain]] in the guise of a merchant, studied the defences of [[Zarune's Mouth]], and departed for the coast [1]. There, among the '''tarnmen''' and '''fendril''' villages of [[Caer Brenyn]] — folk who had severed their dependence on the wains and whom the lords of Gethinisharr neither taxed nor guarded — he found shelter and assembled a fleet.

The fortress fell in a night. Its ramparts had been raised against threat from sky and sterf, not sea; the garrison broke before orders could reach it. Talgrin then levied tribute upon every noble who passed the gates, an insult that fell as heavily upon [[Canmore]] as upon Gethin, since Talgrin had once been Canmore's man.

'''[[Prince Arwell]]''' answered without waiting on his father's word, commandeering an armada and a host of mounted warriors and retaking the fortress by land and sea in a single coordinated assault. The victory made his name and deepened the humiliation of [[King Donchad]] of Canmore, whose knights had failed to bring Talgrin to justice before he could damage the realm of Canmore's closest ally.

=== The Proclamation and the Tourney at Levens ===
King '''[[Pritchard Rawkin]]''' seized upon his son's triumph. He issued a proclamation to all noble courts and sovereign thrones, declaring Gethin a people hewn of stone who kneel to none, and summoning a tourney upon the fields of [[Levens]] in accordance with the rites once hallowed at '''[[Ezzenval Tharu]]''' — pointedly ''not'' beneath the domes of [[Ju'kov]]. He took at the same time the style of '''High King of the Aether Crown'''.

The summit that followed drew the weight of the spheres: [[King Donchad]] of Canmore with his lords, including '''Josten Keldrath''', invested with Talgrin's forfeited lands and title; the veil-eyed priests of [[Madhushana]]; the merchant-kings of [[Antalya]], richest of the unblooded. From [[Nervak]] came '''[[Ezmalik Erikan Khoradûn Ezarûn]]''', the [[Malik]]'s younger brother, escorting his two nieces — a rare appearance by the Malik's family beyond [[Ju'kov]].

The gathered lords had grown accustomed to expecting little of Gethin. The tourney at [[Aeryth Yaruun]] confounded them: feast, pageant, music, and soaring flame, offered as only those born to lost glory dare offer — lavishly, and without apology.

The [[Malik]] declined to answer the proclamation's provocation. ''"The sky above Levens is not ours to bind,"'' he said, and summoned no rival decree.

=== The Siluška Crisis ===
During the '''[[Bîrak Feșathen Nervak]]''' (the Conquests of Nervak), King Pritchard grew convinced that his realm had overreached and that his lords' loyalties had wandered. His unease fastened upon '''[[Siluška]]''' — the faith of the nomadic [[Cushit]] people, whose adherents by then included prominent Gethin lords and ministers.

The white moon '''[[Jaretol]]''' had been entrusted to '''Lord Gethin Rydderich''', but its remoteness kept him from court. Displaced Cushits, driven from their lands by the [[Duns]] and the knights of [[Canmore]], had begun to gather there in numbers.

'''[[Gavinhaol]]''' — formerly Gareth Awbreys, castrated for a crime he maintained [[Prince Arwell]] had orchestrated — held the king's spy network and saw his opening. Drawing on his agents' reports, he persuaded Pritchard that Lord Rydderich had converted to Siluška under Jaretol's foreign influence. The king stripped Rydderich of the moon and granted it not to Arwell, who had scorned Gavinhaol in his former life, but to the younger '''[[Prince Wyn]]''', a scholar and diplomat inclined to peaceful settlement.

=== Decline ===
By the era of [[Malikhat Niryath]], Gethin was widely regarded as a kingdom in decline, its standing among the great powers maintained more by ceremony than by force.