Dalin Cadoc

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Dalin Cadoc, who was a realative of King Henry III, was a wealthy Cornish hemp magnate and land owner who 'aquired' the islands in 1145, in order to extend his empire and to cultivate massive hemp fields. At that time, hemp was a major trading commodity. The islands inhabitants numbered around 10,000, and were thought to be of Gothic or at least some kind of Germanic descent. Living in a mainly pastoral manner, they were self-ruled and lived in small villages. However, they were quite unsettled, and the villages often battled with each other over territory. Cadoc sought revenge there after his childhood friend and busines associate, Margh Hill, was captured and executed after an expedition to one of the smaller islands. Cadoc promtly put together a small army of Cornish mercinaries and attacked dal'qöria in 1143. The battle only lasted a matter of days. Cadoc saw a huge opportunity to develop his empire on the island and promtly rounded up some of his staff back in Cornwall, brought them to the island and appointed them positions in the villages and towns. Cadoc then headed back to Cornwall, and returned 1 year later, after settling some home-affairs and appointing associates to manage his estates, and he declared himself the islands leader.

Over the next 40 years, Cadoc revolutionised dal'qöria. He divided the island into 7 provinces and appointed a council to run each one. He formed a central set government to oversee this, which also had control over trade, general law and forign affairs. He also succesfully managed to established one of the biggest hemp productions in Europe, something which brought dal'qöria great wealth. He built made the province of Halcánia the main trading artery, built up towns and a city, (wich became the capital, Qalmánia), brought education, law and sanitation.
During this time, the population rose by around 60,000-mainly English and German migrators (probably due to Cadoc's good trading relationships with these countries). This inevitably affected the language, which is evident today.

Up until Cadoc's arrival, the dal'qörians were using an old writing system, a script, thought to have been invented by an old dal'qörian monk around the 4th or 5th century. This was a very simple system (at that time), as in fact was the language. Cadoc immediately set about reforming this, and created a new alphabet, intitially designed around Old English and Gothic. But this caused much tension among the dal'qörians since they felt that their heritage and individuality was being stripped away. After Cadoc outlawed the script, the island fell into a period of unrest and many revolts had to be quashed. Cadoc retaind his integrity by appointing key provincial positions to dal'qörian natives, (and insisting that it was the only way dal'qöria could intergrate itself into the modern world ,perhaps a slighlty selfish motivation). Eventualy, the dal'qörians backed down, but the new dal'qörian councillors insisted that they had a say into the new reform. Cadoc accepted this, and intergrated grammatical aspects of the script into the new writing system. He also agreed to individualise the alphabet with some non-latin characters.

During Cadoc's reign, even through the unsettled period, he became revered among the people. He was a fair and trusting leader, and sought not to richen himself and his own, (indeed Cadoc sold of his estates in Cornwall in order to build up his dal'qörian empire), but to lighten the burden of life in those times. He brought in a constitution, one which is still the basis of dal'qörian life today. In fact, it is through one of Cadoc's own idealogies that keeps dal'qöria a non-capitalist nation, that being:

'Not shall a person or more have the right of control of trades and produce, thus reaping the rewards of that which belongs to everyone.'

Dalin Cadoc died in 1195, at the age of 74. His son, Jowan, took over his leadership and continued the legacy that Cadoc had begun.

The Cadoc's continue to reign in dal'öria to this day. Although Cadoc family blood resides as Head of State and has political influence, the country is ran by a governmental system similar to the English.