Sindara

Sindara is a city-state located in northeast Phoros. It was founded on approximately January 9, 2022. It holds close relations with the city of High Guard, it is an old member of the Dryad Coalition, and it is the protector and restorer of the Broken Trunk founding a settlement there as well.

Founders
Sindara was founded by the siblings Revior Sindara and Aurel Sindara. The two come from the Sindara noble family far from both Eldham and Rathnir.

Founding
The two founders had spent some considerable time wandering throughout Eldham living off of whatever they could find, mostly dried kelp and berries, whilst avoiding others. Revior Sindara found an unclaimed section of land and ruins and believed it to be a suitable area to settle in due to the complete lack of in-game claims on the area. Unknown to them at the time, it was the Uraki region of Silver Coast ruled by Princess Lexos. As soon as they had started building, other members of their family (Leitha) and their followers began to show up.

First Contact
Revior and Aurel would take shelter inside of a tower left behind. Leitha would soon arrive with others. They would soon decide on the name Sindara, cause the Sindara nobles had found this place. The Sindarans would immediately start construction, making the tower roomier and further exploring the surrounding ruins. While the others were asleep, Matt Sparrow would encounter Aurel informing the two that they were in the land of Uraka. There was a brief misunderstanding as Matt merely said that they should speak to the Lexos High Princess of Uraka. This sentence made the Sindarans think that Lexos was the ruler of all of Uraka rather than Neo, but this would soon be remedied in later talks.

Local Politics
Sindara would also encounter the city-states of and High Guard. One of the Sindaran nobles, Swervin would grow a friendship with the leader of High Guard Lolmatter. After contributing to their builds and doing mining, the Sindarans would receive a diamond spear as a gift from High Guard. As for Xonote, not only did Lolmatter warn the Sindarans about them but the leader of Xonote would destroy a Sindaran bridge, taking its material. Xonote would offer the Sindarans $250 as compensation, but the Sindarans would not be satisfied. In addition, Sindaran noble Swervin would report that Xonote killed anyone who entered their territory unprovoked. These would mark Xonote as a rival to the Sindarans. Lolmatter would distinguish Swervin as his heir's chief advisor with powers to override any of his heir's decisions, effectively putting High Guard under Sindaran control and protection.

The Broken Trunk and the Dryad Coalition
Either Revior or Aurel would discover the Broken Trunk. Revior would distinguish this place as something special. Upon entering it, Revior had many restless nights and would begin furiously writing about a religion he himself did not know. Revior Sindara would also encounter Quercus leader of then brand new Dryad Coalition at the time only with a couple towns as members of their association. Due to expressed interest from the Dryads, Revior would create a new settlement, at the time named Tree over the Broken Trunk and begin on its restoration with help of SofofLoaf.

Talks with Uraka
Talks would begin with Matt Sparrow as a representative of Uraka. Revior did these talks alone as he did not believe the Sindaran people would compromise with a foreign rule, but wished to respect pre-established borders. These talks would prove to be difficult, but eventually, the two reached an accord.

Fall of Uraka
Immediately after the talks had concluded, Uraka fell. With this, Sindara would reach an internal consensus that they were their own nation now as they were no longer within anybody's existing borders that predated their existence. The new Barbossa would however draw their new borders over Sindara and without asking Sindara. When Sindara contacted Barbossa about this issue over meta, Barbossa would express complete ignorance of Sindara's existence before meta accusing the Sindarans of squatting in Barbossan territory, comparing Sindara to "invaders."