Hartend

The city of Hartend, formerly and unofficially also known as Bentonia is a medium sized city in eastern aldovir currently controlled by galadonn and has a history spanning several years and many nations.

Pre founding
Bentonia wasn’t the first settlement in the region. The area had seen several civilisations in the past. The earliest documented instance of a nation settling the region was roughly 2000 years prior to the founding of bentonia, with this nation being the Sagaviri Empire, one which would at its peak span the vast majority of the aldoviri subcontinent, however, little remains of their settlements, aside from a series of mines under the town which became abandoned after an earthquake collapsed sections of it, resulting in a prominent vertical shaft forming in the riverbend. Said quake also would block the flow of the river, causing it to drain differently and the few remnants of it to pool in scattered ponds. The river would remain in this state until the city was founded, with drainage remaining almost obsolete. It would be almost 2 whole millennia before settlements would be built in the area, and this time it was reyllea which set up the town of evansyllo nearby. A village would be built around where the longest cut off stretch of the river was, eventually setting up a thriving farm. Shortly thereafter, kerplis would start work on a castle. However, said castle was later abandoned by the time only the keep, the east wall and one of the houses had been completed, with the village falling into ruin around the same time. Another castle, fort tarye, was built around this time, however, its days would also be numbered. Reyllea would become incorporated into the empire of yimmu audal (then known as Theios Essukdal), and upon the lardburgians arriving, would change name to coenia. Soon afterwards, coenia would become independent of YA and would immediately merge with several neighbouring nations to form the empire of Aldovir. In this time, only one construction would occur nearby, the coenia west gate, between what would become bentonia and lantstein. Even into the earlier days of aldovir, the area was degrading at a significant rate. The restoration and renewal would however, occur from the most unlikely source.

Hartend under Ferol
When Hartend was acquired by Galadonn it was immediately given to Prince Ferol Ven Ishtara who wrote countless books and constructed a handful of buildings. Ferol was a philosopher poet and politician and took great pleasure in developing Hartend famous wheat and potato farms. Until, one cold night in the winter Ferol was found dead in his home in Hartend.