Kalkenstein

The Barony of Kalkenstein is a medium sized village located within ischanor under the confederate cantons of Lovvia right at the south eastern border. Kalkenstein is currently ruled by Baron Ludwig Otto of House Graber. Kalkenstein was technichly founded by the Vinitcan Empire but there are records of native Kalkinian people (that were related to the lachawakans) that lived in the region where the Vinitcans settled, but overtime those natives were forced to adapt to city life and let go of their old ways by the Vinitcans. And with the modern ischanorians spreading across the continent, modern Kalkenstein is a combination of Kalkinian Natives, Vinitcans and Ischanorians.

Etymology
The name Kalkenstein was choosen by the Vinitcans because it was the word the natives used for the rocks the mountain Kalkenstein was located at was made out of. Kalkenstein was also known for its high quality stone and grew to become the number 1stone miner in Vinitca but that quickly ended with the fall of Vinitca.

Kalkenstein is also assumed to come from the Mythical giant called Calker, who was a giant that lived before humanity existed and helped elru defeat evil spirits (atleast according to the legends told across the kalkinian regions)

Prehistory
The oldest records of Human civilisation in the Kalkinian regions date back to before the Vinitcan empire was founded where the Native kalkinains were split from what would become the Lachawakans. There is also archiological evidence suggesting battles between the Vinitcans and the Native Kalkinians, those battles would result in the death of an estemated 5000Natives.

Early History
Kalkensteins history before the Great herlundian slave revolt and the fall of Vinitca is only recorded through oral story that were later written down, books and letters refrencing Kalkenstein outside of the Kalkinian region and any litterature that survived the fall of the Vinitcan-Era kalkenstein. The following texts shall dive deeper into the creation, growth, fall and rise of Kalkenstein.

The Lowelthangians
The Lowelthangians (origionally the lorewalatangas in the Lachawakan tongue, meaning "people of the white stones") were the native people living in the Kalkinian regions. They are related to the Lachawakans and came with them into the regions but later got seperated as they travveld to the diffrent sides of a mountain. This enabled the Lowethangians to develop their own culture and history. But as you may know, the lachawakans are the only real hunter gatherers left so what happend to the Lowelthangians you might ask? The vinitcans came and constructed the City of Kalkenstein, a city build on mining and trading stone, and waged war against the native Kalkinians who were either forced to adapt to the city live, make their own village in the country side and farm food for the vinitcans or be killed. Only little is known about the Lowelthangians today but archeologists find more and more every year.

The growth of the City Kalkenstein
(WIP)

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