Kadar (Karinian Bakoro)

Kadar is a chapter in the Karinian Bakoro escribing the life and actions of Kadar.

Content (49th Karinian Bakoro)

Kadar was born in a time before the oppression by the spirit-born Andu, at the end of the time of the misguided rule of the Okanarian Confederation. Kadar's father was Yandak, whose father was Ebak, whose father was Tagort. Yandak led the Arkaran, one of the one hundred loyal servant-drikes of Amoka of the Oken which made up the soon-to-be rended Okanarian Confederation. Amoka and his kin and extended kin were servants of the spirit-deceiver known as the Honour Lord who claimed divinity and promised boons to Amoka, his kin and his extended kin. The spirit-deceiver known as the Honour Lord was, as all spirits are, a deceiver, he told his mountain-kin, the Andu, of the weakness of the Okanarian Confederation and its kin. In the days when Kadar was still young the spirit-born Andu descended from the Thessda Range to wage a war of vicious conquest against the doomed Okanarian Confederation. When Kadar was old enough to fight but not enough to leave his father, Yandak and Kadar's two brothers and Yandak's two sons the elder Bantok and the younger Kamtak left Kadar to convene with Amoka who had assembled the one hundred armies of his one hundred loyal servant-drikes. Amoka's host confronted the Andu of the Andu Kur on the edge of the Karin Plain. The elder Bantok and the younger Kamtak were among the first to die but they were unimportant. Yandak was the first of the heroes to die, by the end of the day all one hundred were dead and Amoka was alone. With the cursed Okanarian Confederation gone the Karin plain descended into choas as the misguided and deceived drikes fought against other misguided and deceived drikes as the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur watched. It was many days before Kadar took Yandak's place as the Leader of the Arkaran on the second day of the next year.

With the twisted Okanarian Confederation torn into nothing the Arkaran were alone on the plain. In Yandak's time the Arkaran had been kin-friends of the Amarken who lived in parallel with the Arkaran. The friendship ended on Yandak's death and Kadar wished to make them kin-friends once more. He journeyed to the home of the Amarken and asked their leader and cousin by way of Yandak, Harmak for friendship. Harmak who was old and infertile and who had been whispered to by the spirit-deceiver known as the Honour Lord rejected Kadar's proposal of friendship. In addition to being old and infertile and whispered too Harmak feared Kadar's youth and that he would use his youth to overthrow him and take the Amarken and make them into the Arkaran. In time though Harmak came to overcome his fear and the whispers though not his age and infertility and agreed to become kin-friends with Kadar and the Amarken, in part due to fear of the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur who had begun descending more and more and again and again and killing those they didn't kill the first time.

Kadar was troubled and would often dream of an island both south and west of Akaria, where something not of Kadar's world or Yandak's world lived something that was both wrong and vile. When the dreams became too real and too vivid he departed south and west for the coast then departed south and west for the island through the storm then landed upon the island in the boat of his making. On the island he saw vast towers of reflective glass and impure stone and creatures that existed beyond his mind. The creatures were spirits and the island was the Isle of Mirrors but they were not the vile and wrong thing that Kadar had come for though they were vile and wrong. Kadar travelled south and west into the island, at the centre he found the largest and vilest and wrongest of the spirits. Kadar asked it its name and it gave him over one thousand all at once and will henceforth be reffered to as the King of the Spirits. From the King of the Spirits all other spirits of Kadar's time descend, it had come through the hole in the Isle of Mirrors and sought domination of Kadar's world via his children. It was from the King of the Spirits that Kadar learnt that the spirit-deceiver known as the Honour Lord who claimed divinity was not god but merely a spirit-deceiver known as the Honour Lord who claimed divinity. He learnt that this was the case for all deities, all were deceiver spirits under the command of the King of the Spirits. Kadar could not let his people, the Karinians of the Karin Pain, be opressed and enslaved by spirit-deceivers and challenged the King of the Spirits to a battle of wit and strength. The King of the Spirits, in his infinite arrogance accepted Kadar's challenge and was beaten by Kadar in both strength and wit. Kadar devoured the King of the Spirits and saw every detail of the universe all at once and was everywhere all at once. He saw the world he lived in as a large green pool and suspended above it was a brown pool where Yandak stood surrounded by spirit-deceivers. Around the two pools was a vast ocean of spirits. He was the first to understand the shape of the universe. In the green pool he saw the assembled armies of the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur and knew that they could be beaten and how he could do it. For a moment he was all knowing. Then nothing. He travelled north and east overland, the spirits had all departed when their king had been stuck down and devoured, he arrived at his self-made boat and sailed north and east, through the storm and back to the island of his birth, he then walked north and east overland to the lands of the Amarken.

As he arrived the infertile and old Harmak died of being infertile and old. For three days the Amarken and Kadar mourned the departure of the old and infertile Harmak. Some thought the the gods would guide him to the next life, others knew the Brown Pool by name, but only Kadar knew that he would get their of his own volition and would be enslaved by spirit-deceivers as they were in the Green Pool. When the three days had ended Harmak's son Ambat who was not as old but equally as infertile as Harmak, declared himself Leader of the Amarken. Kadar, knowing of Harmak's infertility challenged his declaration by the right of blood as they were kin via Kadar's father Yandak whose father Ebak was the brother of Engat who was the mother of Harmak who was the father of Ambat. The challenge was accepted by Harmak and a duel for leadship began. Kadar defeated Harmak with grace and swiftness and from then on Harmak was both infertile and dead. From Harmak Kadar took both the Amarken and Harmak's wife Araim of the Deram who he took as his second but equal wife. None challenged him.

After three even-numbered days since the beginning of the mourning Kadar gathered the people of his parallel drikes and held the greatest feast since the time of the rotten Okanarian Confederation. As the ceremony wound down Kadar revealed to his people the true nature of the spirit-deceivers who claimed to be gods as spirit-deceivers claiming to be gods. He told his kin of his journey to the Isle of Mirrors and how he met, fought killed and devoured the King of the Spirits. He told them of how he saw every detail of the universe all at once and was everywhere all at once. He told them of his desire to strike back against the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur, that he now knew their weaknesses as he had known Harmak's weakness. He told them that he would unite the Karin Plain as the indignant Okanarian Confederation had done and and fight the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur when they next stepped upon the Karin Plain. Some among the parallel drikes of the Arkaran and Amarken were not convinced at Kadar's plan so he gave him his speech of four hundred Rs "Revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution!" and all among them were convinced.

Kadar looked to rally what was left of the former one hundred loyal servant-drikes of the decrepid Okanarian Confederation. The first to arrive to Kadar was Atet of the Deram. The Deram by this point had not yet been corrupted into their present state in the hills and Atet was among the finest Deram of Kadar's time. Atet's sister Araim of the Deram had been married to Ambat of the Amarkan before he was cut apart by Kadar and Araim taken by Kadar as his second but equal wife. There had been suspicioun that Atet had intended to decieve and usurp the Amarken with the marriage but the Deram were still trust worthy at this time. The second but equal marage to Kadar meant that Kadar and Atet were kin of a sort. Kadar made Atet his greatest advisor and most skilled warrior as though he were a younger brother. From Atet the Arkaran, Amarkan and Deram were joined by the Bokok led by Amkat, Kakay led by Notak and Perat led by Phakear.

Kadar traveled south to the land where Amoka of the Oken had settled after the death of the one hundred heroes. He met with Amoka and gave his speech to him but the cold and uncaring Amoka was unmoved by the speech as he was crippled with fear, he feared the coming of the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur, that they would finish him off, he had fought the mountain devils before and knew them as well as one knows their own brother. His fear ran deeper than any of Kadar's time. Though Amoka of the Oken was crippled by fear his son, Chalatun of the Oken was not, having never seen a spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur and having not witnessed the horrors that they infliucted unto the one hundred heroes and the the one hundred loyal servant-drikes of the putrid Okanarian Confederation. Chalatun and some of his kin offered to join Kadar and his kin and extended kin in their fight against the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur. Chalatun would be the last good Oken until Komeok during the time of Aket. For his crimes against the Oken Amoka banished him from the drike. Chalatun of the Oken, now Chalatun of the Banokan swore himself and his kin into Kadar's extended kin. With the Banokan, Kadar's web of kin and extended kin had expanded into a seven-sided pentagon.

The spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur marched into the Karin Plain with the intent of unmaking Kadar's alliance of seven sides and bringing the fragments of the foul Okanarian Confederation under their full control. Kadar met with leaders of his seven-sided pentagon, two of which were himself, an announced the he would lead their forces again the spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur with Atet of the Deram by his side. Kadar used the knowledge gained from his brief omnipotence to out manoeuvre and outplay the mountain devils. On the day of strings the skies erupted in the east and the armies of the mountain devils were reduced by several portions. As the spirit-born forces withered Kadar sent his armies into their twisted mountain home. There, Kadar of the Arkaran Atet of the Deram, Chalatun of the Banokan, Amkat of the Bokok, Notak of the Kakay, Phakear of the Perat and Kadar of the Amarken prepared to attack the Andu's devil-citadel of Kanda. After a battle the city fell and the seven-sided pentagon rested in the city for some days. By the second day no spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur had come to try to wrest the vile city from the seven-sided pentagon so and Kadar ordered the city's population to be be enslaved and removed and for the vast majority of the city to be painted brown. By the eigth day no spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur had come to try to wrest the vile city from the seven-sided pentagon, but the seven-sided pentagon was growing restless. Kadar ended the war then and for three days he and the rest of the seven-sided pentagon argued over what to do next. On the third day Kadar bound the seven-sided pentagon into the splendid Akarinian Confederation, which Kadar would lead. Kadar's extended kin then left leaving Kadar and his two parallel sides alone in the now brown Kanda.

The spirit-born Andu of the Andu Kur still retained most of the mountain and despite Kadar having ended the war were still a threat to his new confederation and the rest of the Karin Plain. Kadar orded a series of fortifications to be built near the point on the Karin Plain where it became the Thessda Range of the dreaded and cunning Andu. He ordered the brown city of Kanda, where he and his kin still lived to be painted green once more and to be given the new name of Agrada and to have it repurposed into a fortress city from where Kadar and his kin would justly command the wonderful Akarinian Condederation. Kadar funded these expanisions himself through funds of gold and copper which he had gained through his cunning, skill and fair dealings.

Kadar eventually became old and died of being old. When his green body turned brown his kin reshapaped his skin and bones into a drum and bashed on it speak to him in the next world wherever that might have been. The next world, as Kadar had known was the Brown Pool, once there he spoke to his father Yandak who suggested using the body of the King of the Spirits, which had come to the Brown Pool with Kadar into strings. Kadar did as his father suggested and turned the skin of the turned the body of the deceiver king into strings. Kadar used these strings to rasie himself to the top of the brown ppol. From there he yelled across the ppol and told the Karinians there of the shape of the universe and of the deception of the spirits. The people revolted and in under five days all spirits had been driven from the brown pool and Kadar became the first King in Brown. After he turned the bones of the King of the Spirits into large sticks which he sent through the bottom of the brown pool into the green pool to comunie with the living. Though no of this would be known in the Green Pool until the time of Aket.