The Tables of the Histories of the Stoneborn of Dynkyr - Table XVI

In the days when Kranig ruled Dynkyr alone, the Vyrum Alds became the greatest powers in all the world. For the strength of the Fairies had been broken, and in their place the Alds rose in might. The Primum and Alternum of those dominions grew wealthy beyond compare, and the tread of their armies was said to shake Erenth itself.

Kranig did not trust that even the Bastions of Dynkyr would stand secure against such strength.

So it was that when Larifon Emeratus was Primum of Ald Saloren, he rode at the head of a great host and came before the Curtain set between Mir Vath and Mir Nahr. His banners were many, and his ranks stood in ordered silence upon the plain. There he called for Kranig and demanded his obeisance, declaring that by just tribute the Stoneborn of Dynkyr would know safety and prosperity beneath the protection of his Ald.

Larifon was known to be as measured as he was powerful, and his word, once given, was seldom broken.

Kranig weighed the matter long within the Deepwards. At last he walked forth from the Bastions and passed through the gate in full sight of both hosts. Before the Curtain, and before his own people upon the ramparts, he bent the knee to the Primum of Ald Saloren.

Thus tribute was agreed, and peace secured.

Under Larifon’s protection Westrun knew long quiet, and Dynkyr did not suffer want in those years. Trade flowed freely. The Deepwards remained inviolate. No army laid siege to the Curtain.

Yet the Stoneborn did not look kindly upon the memory of that day. Though they did not want, they did not forget. In the Arvanaith the tale was recited without ornament, and the bending of the knee was counted as necessity, not honor.

Kranig the Kneeler was Regn for four and two hundreds of years before he died. He was succeeded by Thorlin the Regn.