Gandai

Named for the father of this nation, Gandai consists of the collection of settlements begun by Gandai between 1 and 10 SA, on his slow and careful route to the Pillar of the East Wind. Wisely, Gandai halted his march each time he came upon a favorable location. There he would set up a settlement, and send out giants to map the way ahead. These settlements were intended to be self-sufficient, and produce enough food and supplies to send onward to the Pillar. In his absence, he set up wise leaders to oversee the growth, development and defense of each one.
He didn't so much as set himself up a kingdom as he did develop a tight-knit coalition of colonies. It was the mandate of each colony to aid her fellows, and to send supplies for the construction of the Temple of the East Wind.
In 54 SA, Gandai was still at the Pillar, helping to plan the building of the temple's outer wall, when messages came from his colonies about the Great River. The messages told of a huge influx of refugees from the north, fleeing persecution from his brother, Danlau. Gandai traveled westward, over some of the first roads built in the Known World, built by his colonies to expedite communication and transportation. Soon he was hearing the stories of human sacrifices, the murder of a prophet, and a brutal inquisition. Gandai began sending messages north, entreating his brother Danlau to open talks with him. But Danlau ignored these. Fearing war, Gandai began leading his colonies to set up defenses and train strong giants for battle.
In 64 SA Danlau began to send envoys to proselytize his brother to the south, and to regain those who had fled his inquisitions, but their preaching was not peaceful. Danlau's emissaries demanded that Gandai's colonies surrender all who had fled to them from the north, and ordered the towns themselves to bow the knee to Wailong-gu Nasai. Gandai refused. Danlau sent envoy after envoy to entreat conversion, but Gandai and his people refused to bow the knee to a false god. So in 76 SA Danlau sent his envoys again, but this time they sent them with a great army of giants. That same year Danlau's army came across the first of Gandai's settlements and besieged it. Gandai called all his available forces to bear and marched onto that location, nestled upon the banks of the Great River.
The fighting, the first giant vs. giant conflict seen since the Sundering, was catastrophic. In many places the giants' warfare pressed deep gullies into the earth, in others their fighting rose up great mounds, and the course of the Great River was altered, pressed that way, squeezed, this way, and released into wide basins here and there. The waters of the river carried the blood of many giants with it, and hundreds of the golden folk, first born of the firstborn, lay broken on the field. At last Danlau's forces retreated. Danlau himself, viewing the battle from a mirror of sorcery, was stricken for his pride and blasphemy. Not long after the battle, he sent a new envoy seeking terms of peace.
And peace did indeed reign in Gandai's realm until his death in 132 SA.

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Confederation