King Mathidas
Mathidas was a king during the Third Age, known as the first provable member of the Old Dynasty in Kasa. He ruled alongside his wife, Thela Thenn. The exact dates of his reign are not clearly documented, but his dynasty lasted for three to four generations, ending sometime before the Cobalt Eclipse and the Lords' War.
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As the exploration era of the Third Age came to a peaceful close, settlements and homesteads had grown to become prosperous towns and cities. The largest of these towns became small kingdoms dotted around Braided Shore. Most of the kingdoms were lead and ruled by a single person each, these became the founders of the Old Dynasties. I would like to preface that the line between history and fiction has become muddled over the generations, especially when it comes to the Third Age. So it is best to keep a crumb of sceptcism in one's pocket when researching the legends of the Old Dynasties. There are many interesting Old Dynasties. Like the Habs of Rivenleaf or the Summer Foxes of Ovi Talif. However arguably the most famous of the dynasties was The Old Dynasty right here in Kasa. While we do not know their true name or their original founder, we do know that their first provable members were King Mathidas and his wife Thela Thenn. We believe the dynasty lasted three or four generations after Mathidas ending some time before the Cobalt Eclipse and The Lords War thereafter. Two events where many of the Old Dynasties met their ends. When Issa Halzhaan founded a completely new ruling dynasty from the throne of Kasa, the third age had ended and with it most of the Old Dynasties. I could drone on for days on the subject but I must get back to my writing. I do hope I have managed to inspire some sliver of scholar's thirst in you. There is so much history that has yet to be decyphered, it is both exciting and heartbreaking. Maybe one day you might visit Rivenleaf? I would be delighted to talk further then if your curiosity has not yet dimmed.
A gilded bronze ring with a cinnabar carnelian stone.
This ring was the creation of the Third Age court wizard, Aldebaran. Aldebaran's master, King Mathidas, owned a magnificent rainbow parakeet, gifted to him by a neighbouring vassal lord. Apart from its beauty, the bird also praised the King in the most flattering terms. Upon discovering that the parakeet stole treasure at night, delivering it in secret to the vassal lord, the King ordered Aldebaran to arrange some suitable vengeance to the audacious vassal and put an end to the thefts, without hurting even a feather on the bird, whose flattery the King much enjoyed.
Thus, Aldebaran created The Eye of the Taker. The ring puts a curse anyone claiming it without giving its previous owner anything in return.
What became of the ring was was long a mystery, as neither news of it nor the rainbow parakeet ever reached the citadel of King Mathidas of the Third Age.
Once, a foreign merchant came to the court of King Mathidas. He revealed a stunning display of glass items, impossible to reproduce in Braided Shore. The King purchased all the glass baubles and gifted them to his daughter Leathides. The little princess was spellbound by the glimmering glass and asked her father to make more. The King, not wanting to disappoint his daughter, asked his court mystic Aldebaran to create sand that could be made into glass. The mystic toiled for many moons in his laboratory, but it was for naught. Even with his brilliant mind, Aldebaran could only accomplish a sand-like powder, unsuitable for glassmaking. Dejectedly, King Mathidas returned to his daughter and said that creating glass with Braided shore materials was simply impossible. The princess shrugged, as she had forgotten all about the glass. Instead she requested a new spice to make her food taste less dull. Aldebaran, who had tasted the product of his sand-experiment earlier, presented it to the princess who thoroughly enjoyed the new spice. The King congratulated Aldebaran and named the new seasoning after the mystic's last name.
The story of the creation of porcelain stretches back to the third age. The daughter of a king became enamoured with Selkan glass and ordered her father to make glass objects right there in.
The king in turn ordered his court mystic to recreate glass. The court mystic tried many things to appease the princess but eventually landed on alchemically produced Porcelain as a glass substitute.
A replica of an antique suit of armour who's origin is disputed among historians. Some folk insist that the Kasyran cult were the first residents of Kasa, having allegedly built the city in a pattern honoring their leader "Queen Kasyra". Some legends even go so far as to claim that Kasyra was the mother of King Mathidas himself, although no evidence has been found to prove or disprove this theory. Kasyran has since then become a term for someone born in Kasa, even if the natives prefer the term Kasan.