Fenbar (Occupied)

The island just north of Sahaladir. Fenbar was forcibly annexed by Sahaladir in [year]. Fishing settlement with large mining, lumber, and construction industries - including shipbuilding and machining. Fenbar creates some of the more fantastic machines fitted with crystals to animate them. Maybe Alison should have originated here so she can still have that mechanical history?

Fenbar couldn't have been an easy acquisition and occupation, which would have made it difficult and perhaps infeasible for Sahaladir to keep annexing territories. Perhaps Alison was never a citizen of Sahaladir and instead fought in the resistance at Fenbar and then went into the merchant trade. She would have no love for Sahaladir and would know machines reasonably well. This history could have put her on the path to privateering and piracy. As an annexed territory, Fenbar might not have representation among the Scriptors, but also might not have quite a strict a social expectation. Still any rules might have been too much for her.

Sahaladir would still have issued a proclamation that Fenbar was to become part of Sahaladir, which the leaders of Fenbar rejected and insisted on the trade terms (which did include a clause for the preservation of Sahaladir). This clause became the justification for the annexation as Arbas Gaelith gained control over the newly discovered crystal mine where Sam was conducting experiments.

The fear was that Arbas Gaelith could gain a foothold on Fenbar and construct war machines to attack Sahaladir from across the strait.

Fenbar was - until the Sahalian invasion - ruled by an assembly of nominated leaders from among the laborers, such as shipwrights, miners, loggers, cobblers, masons, machinists and so on. Following the invasion, this structure was wiped away. The districts now nominate a single person to act as the representative of Fenbar in the Sahalian council. To this day, this representative is still only in an advisory capacity. Fenbar once nominated a goat to fill this role which Sahaladir took as a sign of improper behavior, obtain the vote record, and duly punished all in favor house by house.

Fenbar did not handle the occupation of their island well. There were numerous occasions of rioting and assaults on Sahalian soldiers, each met with the same cold Sahalian justice. As is the rule in Sahaladir, visitor and trade ships arriving on the island were isolated to designated areas for trade and housing separate from the main residents. Friends and relatives visiting from other islands had to stay in this housing. The natives of Fenbar could visit with special dispensation for a specific period so as to avoid contamination of the social order.

Fenbar remains a manufacturing powerhouse, but much of the social fabric that created that ingenuity has been ripped away.