Var Bandor
The Free State of Var Bandor is an independent city-state located between the Arien Plains and Qilarn. The former heart of the Republic of Earendam, it was conquered by the Arhakhla during the War of Night, they overthrew the shuddeni and became an independent city-state. Now an open plutarchy, it is ruled by matched councils comprised of the city's merchants and scholars and overseen by a Lord-Mayor.
Geography & Weather
Var Bandor is located in the former heart of the old Republic at the fork of the Dantaron and Aragol rivers, built on rich loam. It is southeast of Qilarn and north of Nendor, and the main road through Arien leads east through the plains to Earendam. It is built on rich loam, and its climate is temperate and humid, making much of its outlying territory ideal for farming.
History
The region Var Bandor presently occupies was settled originally by the ethron of clan Yonmi, who held it along with the entirety of Nendor and current-day Lithling Valley. After the founding of the Republic of Earendam post-War of Fire, the primarily human and aelin Earendamians came into contact with the few surviving Yonmi of the conflict in Lithling Valley, which had remain largely untouched by the fiery devastation of the war. The Yonmi ethron, their population decimated, put up little resistance to Earendamian settlement.
