TEXT:  
  Keoland
   
  Keoland has often misunderstood the GyriEven the Keoish name for our country, Geoff, 
  is a mistranscription from the Flan "Gyruff."  Nonetheless, Keoland has also welcomed 
  the Gyri, curious about our strange ways, and has often treated Gyruff as a beloved, but 
  confused foster child that must be raised up to see the proper world view.   
   
  Gyruff’s historical relationship with Keoland has been marked by periodic invasions by 
  Keoland followed by periods of relative stability.    Given the current instability in 
  Keoland, our future relations with them are hard to predict, but all Gyri hope that when a 
  new king is chosen, he will continue his predecessor’s policy of supporting the 
  Liberation. 
   
  In 1912 Flan Tracking (CY -238), the expanding Kingdom of Keoland founded five 
  counties along the Javan.  One of these counties was Hochoch.  The Keoish settlement 
  immediately drew the ire of the local Flan tribes who began raiding the area.  After 
  several decades, matters settled down and many of the local Flannae came to Hochoch to 
  trade. 
   
  Approximately 350 years ago (2396 in Flan Tracking), ambitious barons from Keoland 
  began making forays into Gyruff leading to full-scale invasion as the Gyric resistance 
  increased.  The Keoish invaders were ultimately defeated when Iowerth the Far-Sighted 
  united the various clans of Gyruff.  Following nearly a generation of border skirmishes 
  and warfare, Gyruff and Keoland signed a treaty in CY 316, when Brenin Edywain the 
  Glib married the daughter of the Count of Hochoch and Gyruff was incorporated 
  peacefully into the Kingdom of Keoland as the March of Geoff 
   
  Just over a century later, Keoland again invaded, basedupon the belief that Gyruff had 
  assassinated the Keoish courier, a noble by the name of Dartun Dasco, who had been 
  delivering Tavish III’s order summoning Gyric troops to Keoland’s Northern offensives.  
  At the bloody Battle of Gorna, the Gyri again defeated Keoland and increased their 
  independence from the Lion Throne.  Keoish warriors slain in the invasion remained in 
  the Stark Mounds as undead swordwraiths to guard against another Keoish invasion.  
  These undead guardians were believed to have been created by the wizard Vargalian as a 
  last line of defense against the Keoish invasion.  Through the actions of some noble 
  heroes, their spirits were at last laid to rest in CY 593, closing on of the most unfortunate 
  chapters in the long relationship between Keoland and Gyruff. 
   
  The war was resolved in CY 464, when Keoland's Court of the Land ordered a peace 
  negotiated with Geoff.  Gyruff returned to the Court, and the Brenin was elevated to the 
  status as Grand Duke because of the family connections to the Rhola. 
   
  In an effort to strengthen ties between the Lion Throne and Gyruff, Owen the Brenin and 
  King Kimbertos Skotti agreed upon Owen’s marriage to Kimbertos’ daughter Calisse in 
  CY 592.  From this alliance, the Brenin gained the promise of military support from 
  
  Keoland and King Kimbertos gained the Brenin’s vassalage through a new Oath of 
  Fealty.  As part of the marriage agreement between the Brenin and King Kimbertos, the 
  King granted Gyruff the use of the Yeoman Army of Freedom for two years to aid in the 
  reclaiming of Gyruff and provided nearly 2,500 Keoish Royal Standards to aid in the 
  attack on Gorna. 
   
  Through the efforts of one Burkan ap Carteria who researched Vargalian’s creation of the 
  Swordwraiths, those undead soldiers were contained long enough to allow the Keoish 
  Royal Standards to cross the Stark Mounds to assist in the attack on Gorna in CY 593.  
  Following the defeat and retreat from Gorna, King Kimbertos withdrew the Royal 
  Standards back across the Javan to Fortress Ravonnar, citing an unspecified new threat to 
  Keoland.   
   
   
  In CY 594, the King Kimbertos Skotti ceded the Downlands to Gyruff and organized a 
  Geoffugee army to aid in the assault on Pregmere.    Following her cession of Arweth to 
  the Gran March, the Lady Regent Blackblade decided to begin developing the 
  Downlands.  Perhaps even the seat of the Griffon Chair will move there, once settlements 
  are established. 
   
   
  King Kimbertos, acting through the person of his third daughter, a Knight of the 
  Dispatch, acquiesced in the Gran March’s annexation of Arweth, with the caveat that the 
  matter will be revisited upon the return of the Brenin or the Brenines.  
  Now that King Kimbertos has been killed, Keoland’s future policy toward Gyruff is 
  unclear..  The only “Keoish” forces remaining in Gyruff are the Yeoman Army of 
  Freedom, which has been committed by vote of the citizens of the Yeomanry to the cause 
  of Gyruff’s liberation for the foreseeable future.  Therefore, one can only hope that a new 
  king, whoever he may be, will continue  to aid the Gyri in the liberation of Gyruff.   
   
   
  
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