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<span class="DROPCAP">D</span>uring the time of Keitai Zakumo, around the year 1100, settlers arrived from [[Belinara]] requesting a land grant to begin a taun. The keitai, a magnanimous man, allowed them to pick a spot, happy to have a new source of tax revenue under his rule. Details were hammered out, laws explained, expectations set, and the hundred or so Belinarans went forth to find a suitable location to live.
During the time of Keitai Zakumo, around the year 1100, settlers arrived from [[Belinara]] requesting a land grant to begin a taun. The keitai, a magnanimous man, allowed them to pick a spot, happy to have a new source of tax revenue under his rule. Details were hammered out, laws explained, expectations set, and the hundred or so Belinarans went forth to find a suitable location to live.


They found a valley, lush and green and beautiful, right at the base of the northern Spine Mountains. Here they built their taun and named it Niwah, gardens. It is believed that they did well for the first two years, although times are hard to judge as the records are gone. Sometime before the third year, some of the children fell sick. Then a few more. Then the handful of older people, and soon enough the healthy adults were failing to what was called gut sickness because of the crippling abdominal pains that signaled the onset. A rider was sent to shato-Zakumo, and two [[clerics]] of [[Lucinda]] were sent back to assess the malady.
They found a valley, lush and green and beautiful, right at the base of the northern Spine Mountains. Here they built their taun and named it Niwah, gardens. It is believed that they did well for the first two years, although times are hard to judge as the records are gone. Sometime before the third year, some of the children fell sick. Then a few more. Then the handful of older people, and soon enough the healthy adults were failing to what was called gut sickness because of the crippling abdominal pains that signaled the onset. A rider was sent to shato-Zakumo, and two [[clerics]] of [[Lucinda]] were sent back to assess the malady.