Galingrange (City)

The Holy City of Galingrange was founded by Heracles Galingere in the first few thousand years of the Age of Temples. It now lies within the borders of Avaray - a duchy in Fabrem - and is a major hub of the duchy's tourism and pilgrimage industry. It lies near the banks of Lake Vivienne. It is holy city to the goddess Gwendllyn - it being where her worship originated. In conjunction with Gwendllyn, the city is also holy to her mother, Galine, and is the home for smaller-time cults for Galine's two other children.

Early Settlement
The first leader and arguable founder of what would one day become Galingrange was an avian uso named Heracles Erēmos. Born in AoT 1986, Heracles was the youngest of many many siblings. Small, abused, and ignored, Heracles was frighteningly intelligent and ambitious. It didn't take long for him to run away from home and seek knowledge and power in the wider world. Through his youth he was hasty and forceful, but eventually found himself taking on responsibility for a collection of other uso. The first chapter of Galingere's history began with a settlement trapped under a particularly tyrannical dracuul uso. With deliberation and support from it's inhabitance Heracles defeated the dracuul and led those who chose to come to a new land. The land that would eventually become Galingrange.

As Galingere grew Heracles was thrust into the continuing role as leader. Crude walls grew up, and Heracles's own magical abilities grew. During this time he threw himself into the worship of Galine, goddess of Order, Knowledge, Unity, and Harmony; seeking every way he could apply and amplify her aspects in his own life, behavior, and settlement. A modest temple to her sprung up. The settlement grew and started to become a small outpost for travelers. It is in the very later years that the settlement was finally named. Originally being called "Galingere".

Not long after this naming, Heracles had his first encounter with the disguised goddess Galine herself, and earned her favor. In more ways than one. In AoT 2053 their three children were born. Most notably Wendy, their youngest child and the eventual goddess Gwendllyn. Heracles personally oversaw and protected Galingere until AoT 2221, where upon his deathbed he was taken home to Eclaze by Galine herself.

Late Age of Temples
It was in Heracles's latest years and after his death that Galingere truly became a city, and somewhere along the way found it's name corrupted into it's current "Galingrange". With the introduction of Gwendllyn to the pantheon and the earnest efforts of those that knew her in mortality her worship exploded, with Galingrange at it's center. The city's once crude log walls turned into impressive stone ones, homes and shops spilled over from the original boundaries and toward the banks of Lake Vivienne - a lake now sacred to Gwendllyn -, and the entirety of Galingere's original borders were turned into the massive temple system.

From the moment of Gwendllyn's ascension and her settlement wide vision to those who knew her, legend, lore, and story became an important part of Galingrange's culture. In the years stretching into the Age of Silence and beyond Galingrange was

Age of Silence
Because of the extended visitations of multiple gods, angels, divine spirits, and the thriving temple system; Galingrange was a hotspot of divine energy. It's pillar population lasted noticeably longer into the Age of Silence even as the divine energy of other temples in the world withered. But even this couldn't save those in Galingrange from the divine famine of the Age of Silence, it merely lasted a little longer. Despite this eventual succumbing though, Galingrange was seen as a city of safety, especially from the encroaching Voidwalkers.

In the time of the Daybreakers, the city of Galingrange had been run for almost a century by a leader who valued defense above all else, and their similarly minded successor,Igor Rochefort. The city's walls were once central staple to the original settlement, but by this time the truest walls standing were those that enclosed the temple system. Seeing the powerful threat the voidwalkers were becoming Galingrange's walls were rebuilt and fortified with the most cutting edge technology available at the time. Promising safety to all those who sought refuge.

Pre-Modern and Modern Eras
As the Age of Silence ended and things returned to something resembling normalcy, the defensive walls of Galingrange feel into disrepair. Becoming yet another thing to fuel tourism and pilgrimage and inflate the legend and legacy of the city. Galingrange proper is preserved in a way to look very similar to the Galigrange of the Age of Silence and the late Age of Temples. The whole city is considered a holy and historical site.