Chapter 10: The Abbot's story
"You're going to forgive me but I'm old and I have to organize my ideas. So I'm going to tell our story from the beginning. Scholars agree that it is not known who were the first rulers of the area now occupied by the Empire. Now, we do know that since ancient times there were certain settlers who came here from the wide steppes of the East, who moved to the lands of the west, far from the mountains of perpetual snow in the northeast and who ended up forming several kingdoms. The most important of them was the Sinard kingdom, which was first in the northwest but gradually spread to the east and south. They were the ones who founded the port city of Kalistos, which would end up being their capital".
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