Story: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 oppresion 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 uninportant. 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 desended 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 jos 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 began 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 on 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 traveled 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 in an instant he saw every detail of the universe all at once, was everywhere all at once. He saw the world he lived in as a large green pool and susspended 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 single moment he was all knowing. Then nothing. He travled 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 sail 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 new 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 who's father Ebak was the brother of Engat who was the mother of Harmak who was the father of Harmak. 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. Kadar was now the leader of both the Amarken and the Arkaran. None challenged him.