Mârna Brachía

=Origins=

The Mârna Brachía were originally a simple nomadic folk living near the Iriànvatta(Second Cold Water) river which no longer exists. They lived near the riverbanks on villages constructed from wood gathered from the forest Fora nézir Doan((E - The) Forest That Is Everywhere). They first met the Carothinians while traveling west, seeking the end of the Iriànvatta. Though they never came to the Great sea they did travel to Roo-roth, a grand town built out of material from the Fora nézir Doan. Mârana was the leader of this expedition to find the end of the river and he was greeted by Grand Cá-Rai Rab. A treaty was made between their people, and it held for two hundred years until the great swallow took place. The Carothinians and the Crabîra (as the Mârna Brachía called themselves then) traded knowledge of the lands and great friendship came amongst them. The Carothinians also told the Crabîra of the great shadow their leader Rab had met, the Crabîra where mightily scared of something like that walking on the world yet decided to not show it and lo they laughed at the Carothinians. And so the first seeds of mistrust were sown. On the eve of the seventy seventh hundred and fourth passing of the Irigár(Shadow-cold destroyer ie the sun) a great tremblor shook the world and the earth itself ripped open. Half of the Iriànvatta disappeared into the gaping hole and took with it most of E Fora nézir Doan. The Crabîra were unlucky enough to have recently relocated to a new place they called Mirigél that was situated at the edge of the soon to be gaping hole. When it happened they sent through unknown means a great light into the sky that signaled for help from the Carothinians. Two days later a great host of Carothinians appeared on the ledge and said, "For this is why you have called us?" and their leader was not Rab of old but a new one who called himself Erarai. Mârana answered with a shout, "Where has Rab gone?" but the new leader did not look him in the face and turned saying "He who was known as Rab is no more, I am the new leader of my people and I say, be gone with you!" Shocked Mârana cried out to him, yet the Carothinian ignored him and took his host away. Spitting on the earth beneath his feet Mârana turned and said to his people.

"Never shall we forget what transpired here, Betrayed by our only friend..." "And from this day one we shall be known as the Mârna Brachía, Mârana's Friendless"

And they turned to the earth and they were heard of no more....