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destroyed them.
But in time, the Alorn Kings met and determined in council that these
strangers were not the servants of Torak, but bowed instead to the God
Nedra. Then they agreed to let the ships sail the Sea of the Winds
unmolested.
"For," the Rivan King told his fellow monarchs, "a time may come when
the sons of Nedra will join with us in our struggle against the Angaraks
of Torak One-Eye. Let us not offend Nedra by sinking the ships of his
children." The ruler of Riva spoke wisely, and the Alorn Kings agreed,
knowing that the world was changing.
Then treaties were signed with the sons of Nedra; who took a childish
delight in signing scraps of parchment.
But when they sailed into the harbor at Riva, with their ships bearing
full loads of gaudy trinkets upon which they placed high value, the Rivan
King laughed at their folly and closed the gates of the city to them.
The sons of Nedra importuned their king, whom they called Emperor, to
force the city gates so that they might hawk their wares in the streets,
and the Emperor sent his army to the Isle. Now to permit these strangers
from the kingdom they called Tolnedra passage upon the Sea was one thing,
but to let them land an army at the gates of Riva without challenge was
quite another. The Rivan King ordered that the strand before the city be
cleared and the harbor be swept clean of the ships of Tolnedra. And it was
done.

Great was the wrath of the Emperor of Tolnedra. He assembled his armies
to cross the Sea of the Winds and do war. Then the peaceloving Alorns held
council to try reason upon this rash Emperor. And they sent out a message
to advise him that, should he persist, they would rise up and destroy
Emperor and kingdom and sweep the wreckage thereof into the sea. And the
Emperor gave heed to this quiet remonstrance and abandoned his desperate
adventure.
As years passed and the Rivan King realized that these merchants from
Tolnedra were harmless, he allowed them to build a village upon the strand
before his city and there to display their useless goods. Their
desperation to sell or trade came to amuse him, and he asked his people to
buy some few items from them - though no purpose could be found for the
goods thus purchased.
Then, four thousand and two years from the day when Accursed Torak
raised the stolen Orb and cracked open the world, other strange people
came to the village which the sons of Nedra had built outside the walls of
Riva.
And it was learned of these strangers that they were the sons of the
God Issa. They called themselves Ny-Issans, and they claimed that their
ruler was a woman, which seemed unnatural to all who heard. The name of
this queen was Salmissra.
They came in dissembling guise, saying that they brought rich gifts
from their queen for the Rivan King and his family. Hearing this, Gorek
the Wise, aged king in the line of Riva, grew curious to know more of
these children of Issa and their queen. With his wife, his two sons and
their wives, and all his royal grandchildren, he went from out the