Éadóchas: A Comprehensive History

(originally posted on @therottingsundaily on Instagram)

Welcome to the ig account of The Rotting Sun Daily, the one stop for the latest updates of everything Éadóchas. For our very first article, let us dive deep into the history of this tiny rock in the middle of the sea that we call home. It was 1200 CE when Sir Alexander Kabot, first of his name, and his group of adventurers landed on this island. Troubled by turbulent seas and depleting resources, the group decided to spend some time in recovery here. Upon arrival sir Alexander discovered remains of a civilization, however there were no natives in sight. According to journals by Sir Alexander Kabot, these seven days were filled with sorrow and death for the group. There was even a mutiny! However, on the eighth day the indomitable spirit of Sir Alexander Kabot prevailed and the crew set sail again for their homeland. The island was then rightly named and put on the map as Éadóchas (which literally means ‘despair’ in the mother tongue of Sir Alexander Kabot). For centuries later, the island had no permanent human settlement due to its utterly infertile land and erratic climate but it was used frequently as a watering hole by seafarers who spent only the necessary amount of time on the island. It was only in 1843 CE, in a time period where the Kabot offshoot of the Boneflare Royal Dynasty had lost much of its influence, the eccentric Carl Kabot took it on himself to build a civilisation on the island. It was this time when he built the Kabot Manor which is still used by Klaudia Kabot. He sold the land on the island at subsidized rates to incentivise people to move here. This wasn’t successful strategy technically because only a few bought land on this island due to this reason. The majority of the population moved here consisted of artists and contemplative descendants of old money. Though the importance of the Kabots kept decreasing as time went by, the townsfolk have always held the Kabots in high regard. Though the climate of the island continues to be erratic, making it impossible to connect to the mainland without its special ferry services, the town today has come far from its original barren, desolate state!

posted by Harry Mathews on Instagram on 03.02.2018.