Inbrus & Albrus
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Tale of Two Towns
Inbrus, which is on the interior of the river, is named simply for that reason. River in English translates to Brus in the local dialect of Agalese, spoken by the people of Agalee. Inbrus, or as it was formerly known, Brus de Presque was a small settlement on the Southwestern shore of the Brus.
In the previous age, The Kingdom of Erresuma sent a contingent of soldiers and promptly conquered it. The settlement was razed, but all surviving members of the settlement were enslaved and utilized to build the fortress that sits on the northern side of the Stiigla Stream that feeds into the Brus. The King of Erresuma recognized the scheme of his growing kingdom that placement would be an important crossing and a potential commercial center due to the depth and width of the Brus at that point.
Too busy with his expansion campaign the King appointed Rezel, the son of his economic advisor, and friend of his own son to see to the creation of a settlement. At that time it became known as Inbrus to make it easier for soldiers and other travelers to recognize it. The Kingdom of Erresuma continued its expansion eastward and razing small Agalee villages and sending them to established posts such as Inbrus. To his credit, Rezel mandated adequate housing arrangements for new arrivals before they began their task of building the settlement. He even allowed an Agalee church and cemetery to be established on the same grounds of Brus de Presque. Under the guidance of the Kingdom and the allowance of the Agalee culture to remain, Inbrus thrived.
Inbrus began to grow with the influx of Agalee and soldiers returning from the conquest. Rezel implemented a system for crossings using ferries along both sides of the river. Docks were built to begin fishing, and within 20 years the first cargo freights (designed for river travel on the Brus) arrived. The street pattern was planned out by Rezel in the same style as the Erresuma capitol of Errdiko. Rezel continued his reign establishing a college put kept a heavy hand on the development of Inbrus with several military posts and barracks. The north side of the river began to develop much more slowly than Inbrus with relaxed regulation the merchants truly flourished.
The year before Rezels 50th year of rule, his friend the King of Erresuma was killed in a coup. The Kingdom fell into disarray and Erdiko largely became a shell of itself due to infighting of loyalists and the coup supporters. In his old age and benevolent governance Rezel commanded the loyalty of Erresuman soldiers and Agalee alike, and decided to sit out and protect Inbrus rather than embroil it in the civil war. The war continued to his death, and took his only son in the violence. His death left a void of leadership, but a strong loyalty to the Kingdom as Loyalists and supporters had settled in Inbrus. Unbeknownst to them, rebels had taken a stronghold on the North side of the Brus. Rather than trying to take the stronghold that was Inbrus, the rebels sent an envoy to the military commander asking for an independent city. And so 50 years after the founding of Inbrus, an agreement was signed by prominent Loyalists and military officers agreeing to the conceding of the North shore, to be named Albrus.
Time passed and the two towns live amicably. Inbrus has retained status as the capitol of the small autonomous region surrounding that part of the Brus. Ruled by a hereditary monarchy, Inbrus legislates the South shore. Albrus legislates for the North shore and is ruled by an oligarchy of the 3 merchant families that fueled the rise for independence. The two towns are currently working together on a bridge large enough to cross the river and continue to allow the passage of the ships that allow them to prosper. The quarries are on the northern edge of each town.
