| rdfs:comment | - Mothermarket (Sefenlander: Mahexiaxou, "Motherhome") was the capital, and most-populous city of the Kingdom of the Ghost Isles (now the Calm Isles), one of the Seven Sefenlander States of the Empire of the Sefenlands, with a population of 555,550 people (500,000 slaves, 50,000 peasants, 5,000 serfs, 500 "freedmen," and 50 slave masters). The city lies between the Keylmes Kove, and the Witewynd Mountains of Slave Master's Isle. Its ruler is Lord Helmes Nightbright of the House of Nighbright, who rules it from Bammfir Isle's castle seat of the Night House. The city was finded by the Keylmes Klan, an ancient line of chieftains from the Beyerlands. The Ghost Isles, for thousands of years, remained a relatively obscure kingdom of desert islands within the Empire of Sefenlands.
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| abstract | - Mothermarket (Sefenlander: Mahexiaxou, "Motherhome") was the capital, and most-populous city of the Kingdom of the Ghost Isles (now the Calm Isles), one of the Seven Sefenlander States of the Empire of the Sefenlands, with a population of 555,550 people (500,000 slaves, 50,000 peasants, 5,000 serfs, 500 "freedmen," and 50 slave masters). The city lies between the Keylmes Kove, and the Witewynd Mountains of Slave Master's Isle. Its ruler is Lord Helmes Nightbright of the House of Nighbright, who rules it from Bammfir Isle's castle seat of the Night House. The city was finded by the Keylmes Klan, an ancient line of chieftains from the Beyerlands. The Ghost Isles, for thousands of years, remained a relatively obscure kingdom of desert islands within the Empire of Sefenlands. When Ilzor Hairas usurped the House of Eleses, he became the 1st Emperor of the Sefenlands. Ilzor, in an attempt to cultivate his empire's economy, based it in the cultivation of citrus. For this he needed farmworkers, and so he established slavery in the Sefenlands. The Ghost Isles, and cities along the Sandbar became havens for slave masters, and hubs for the slave trade. Several slave revolts occurred on the Ghost Isles, but were generally followed with power vacuums filled by former slaves. The final slave to rise to power was Benbon Fairas (Ben the Black, Ben the Blacksong, Ben Blacksong, Ben the Songson - from ben bon, "son of the song"), who finded the House of Fairas, and was succeeded by eight consecutive generations of slave masters. Finally, Erz Black, a promiscous man who sought to expand the sex trade in the Sefenlands, managed to alienate his wife, Haslenn Hasset through his affairs, and involvement in the sex trade. The woman, a Henkenner by birth, returned to her country, where she converted to the Faith of the Nameless Child. One day, Haslenn was subject to a vision. Once in a generation, to match the nameless child there is the Finder. The Finder is subject to a vision telling them where to locate the nameless child. Haslenn saw the Wall of the Mother Bear. Just one month before, Belo Katar, later Billow the Slave, had been captured by the Darksong, history's greatest tailor, and been brought to the Wall to be sold as a slave, likely as a sacrifice. Haslenn bought him, and planted him in the Ghost Isles. Within two months, Billow had rebelled, killed all the slave masters, and killed King Erz Black himself using the man's prized halberd. Mothermarket was left a ghost town, and only exists as a symbolic holding for the House of Nightbright.
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