The Southern Theatre, Part One
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"I kneel here today, the field in which much praise has been sown, yet there is a forest of desert fruits now barren."
Those were alleged words of Riah Abba Rah when she was honoured with the Riah'xe by Issa Halzhaan, a Kasan honour only given to a select few across history in recognition for heroics seen as wind-given.
The tale of her achievement is tied to the events of the southern theatre during the Lords War . It is difficult to establish what truly took place but the tale as told by the Halzhaan family and the tale that was widely accepted during the fourth age goes as follows.
During the cobalt eclipse, brave Sassa Omasarif of the Summer Foxes had embarked her army to combat the horrible evil of the Frost Hag to the north-east. However, at sea she was betrayed by her fleet admiral Ravkah who deliberately led the army transport ships along with the queen to crash into what is now known as Point Omasarif. When Admiral Revkha returned she captured Sissa Emir of the Summer Foxes and crowned him as her puppet ruler.
The relationship between the nomadic tribes of the Talif desert and the settled people of Ovi Talif had always been strained but respectful. They were both descended from the original explorers of the Third Age but their cultures had diverged since and was now as foreign to each other as the Deeplanders are to New Foundrians.
Sometimes the settled Ovi Talifans would encroach upon the territories of the nomads and sometimes the nomads would raid trading caravans. During these times hostilities would brew. But other times they would trade with each other, even aid one another during droughts or famines.
Mostly they avoided one another. When Revkha took control of Ovi Talif she was determined to pool the desert into her own pockets and began a long and bloody subjugation of the nomads of the desert.
Geva Kha, historian