Dalmar¶
"Known by many as 'The Jewel of Dalmar'." — of Alghert, long after the kingdom was gone (S319)
Dalmar is the great land of the west of Numenia: in the Age of Magic a Danari kingdom counted among "the great powers of the West" with Pesh; in the Fourth Age a kingdom still, with a Great Library and frontier towns on its northern edge; and in the Fifth Age a name for a region rather than a realm, "consumed in dragonblight" in the 200s SM and parcelled thereafter among the Riven Kingdoms, two great Hollows, and a Sancturi frontier province. Its people were Danari above all, who "contribute a large part of the human population of Dalmar".
Also called: Dalmarr (in Proturan notes).
| Page | What it is |
|---|---|
| Angorath | The fallen kingdom of the Callat region, beset by banditry and Earthblight in the Fourth Age |
| Dalmar Province | The Sancturi frontier province taken from Floren from 700 SM |
| Harwith | The frontier village swallowed by the Icy Hollow of Hal'Gamesh |
| Kurano | The provincial seat, once Floren's Langstran |
The kingdom in the Age of Magic¶
The old gazetteers place Dalmar among "the Thalatian Kingdoms, Kingdoms of the Western Sea", "nations located on the Thalatian Sea", and make it with Pesh a great power of the West. Dalmar, Arne'Athosia and Faragond "all have a significant presence" in Athosia to the east. The draconian empire of Pherox "pushed into northern Dalmar and Arne-Athosia" by 690 MA, and "Central Dalmar was the site of nearly constant conflict. Almost every generation, a war would erupt between Dalmar and the empire, and territories of Central Dalmar would change hands." By the end of Pherox's second millennium it "had completely lost its hold on Central Dalmar". In 2016 to 2017 MA King Rodruk II of Dalmar "launched a massive invasion into Pherox in response to Pherox slaver raids", liberated northern Dalmar and most of Rhovun, burned the slave-city Chaulssad as a funeral pyre, and died with his army routed "at the gates of the Draconian capitol"; the losses nonetheless broke the Pheroxian empire. Dalmar also supported the Keepers of Valnyr on demonblighted Amarin with "money, supplies and manpower".
Whettan¶
"A region covering most of central Dalmar, as well as Hallath and Khet to the west. Most of the northern plains of the Thalatian Sea. (The name means endless Wheat in ancient Danari). Considered one of the most fertile areas in all of South Astia."
Callat¶
"A region covering northern Dalmar, Angorath and the southern coast of the Sea of Rhovun."
Hallath and Khet¶
Two lands "to the west" of central Dalmar within Whettan. The archive names them nowhere else; its Hallath is not the ruined northern kingdom of Halath.
Gap
No source names Dalmar's capital in the Age of Magic, its dynasty beyond Rodruk II, or its borders with Pesh and the Thalatian Sea.
The kingdom in the Fourth Age¶
The Fourth Age campaigns know a living Kingdom of Dalmar. "The Great Library of Dalmar, in Kingdom of Dalmar", lies "a month travel" from the trade city of Septnest on the far side of the Broken Sea, and is the place a freed wizard means to consult. Dwarven under-roads run east from Duer'allen, the capital of Dru'Bazan, to Dalmar, "then north on Dalmar roads". A ranger of the Demonlands dreams of "a nice stead in northern Dalmar by the Silverleaf forest" where he might "get work as a hunter or gamewarden".
Alderidge and Rockport¶
Alderidge is "a small community in northern Dalmar, near Rockport", raided by "wild men, goblins, orcs" in the years before the Underdark campaign; a halfling druid had settled there and a half-elf warlock lost track of his mother, a witch in hiding, in the raid. Rockport is the frontier port to which dwarven caravans travel and whose Rockport Rangers "intervened in the attack on Alderidge"; it lies "near the Athosian Woodlands", and from the mountains of Dru'Bazan the fastest road home to it runs north-east through Angorath.
The Silverleaf and Silverpine forests¶
The Silverleaf forest stands in northern Dalmar. An orc paladin's tribe lived in "the Silverpine forests" before it was "displaced and whittled down". The two names may be one forest; the sources do not say.
Gap
Nothing describes the Fourth Age kingdom's government or capital, or the Great Library itself.
The Sanctuary Age¶
"Much of Dalmar and Faragond is consumed in dragonblight" in the 200s SM. "Ebony dragons from the Cloudwall mountains raid frequently in these lands. The nations surrounding these areas are hard hit and many of their people choose to migrate further west." By 535 SM "the Northern Kingdoms have reasserted control in Dalmar, Angorath and Faragond".
By 704 SM the name belongs to a region. Alghert is "The Jewel of Dalmar"; Uthein, the largest Riven kingdom, lies "in the central plains of what was once eastern Dalmar"; the Arkuun Hollow sits "amongst the ruins of the ancient capital city of Dalmar", its name left blank, and the Thullozil Hollow "around the old city of ?? in western Dalmar". Udenica was founded by "pioneers from the Dalmar area", and the lands "which were once northern Dalmar, Faragond and Ghoresh" are Rovarion, the Rovers' range. The Knights of Ex-Malefica keep a Lord Commander of Dalmar. In 700 SM the Sancturi Empire's Dalmar Campaign carved Dalmar Province out of Floren, and its "Dalmar provincial capitol" is Kurano.
In the Proturan age the orc-led Urok'gar Confederation "has seen considerable success and growth in the lands of former Dalmar and Naher", and the last human bastion of the north stands "near the old kingdom of Alghert, north of old Dalmarr". Ruins "primarily from Lorsythe, Dalmar, Droburg and Athagilion" litter the Baegor Chain of the Rift.
The falls of Dalmarond¶
A waterfall of the Proturan north, twice a front line: the allied Proturan and Oesterkull army "were able to push the Araxians back to the falls of Dalmarond" in the Barbarian Wars, and in the Second Araxian War "the front lines had mostly stabilized in the east at the falls of Dalmarond".
Gap
The sources do not say which river the falls belong to or where they stand in relation to old Dalmar.