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[[File: | [[File:Flag of Ardmore (1743-1931).svg|thumb|left|200px|Flag of the Kingdom of Ardmore from 1743 until its dissolution in 1931.]] | ||
The Ardmori kingdom during its early centuries was a highly ambitious realm. As returning to raiding and attacking mainland Levantia was not only an impossibility but also a highly suicidal task now that many of the Levantine realms were more than capable to repelling these raids, Ardmore instead sought to explore outward to amass new wealth by finding the source of all gold; said to be a land to the far east beyond [[Audonia]]. This obsession with gold was the result of the traumas accrued with the advent of the economic collapse of the 12th Century. In 1387, Ardmore become the patron of the [[Ænglish people|Ænglish]] mariner [[Paul Aster]], whose hypothesis about the source of all gold greatly appealed to the Ardmori elite. The resulting [[Aster's expedition|expedition]], despite not finding the source of all gold, led to the first time someone from the [[Occident]] had visited the continent of [[Crona]], and by the time Aster had returned to Ardmore in 1389, he became the most celebrated person throughout the Occident; arguably even the world's first {{wp|celebrity}}. | The Ardmori kingdom during its early centuries was a highly ambitious realm. As returning to raiding and attacking mainland Levantia was not only an impossibility but also a highly suicidal task now that many of the Levantine realms were more than capable to repelling these raids, Ardmore instead sought to explore outward to amass new wealth by finding the source of all gold; said to be a land to the far east beyond [[Audonia]]. This obsession with gold was the result of the traumas accrued with the advent of the economic collapse of the 12th Century. In 1387, Ardmore become the patron of the [[Ænglish people|Ænglish]] mariner [[Paul Aster]], whose hypothesis about the source of all gold greatly appealed to the Ardmori elite. The resulting [[Aster's expedition|expedition]], despite not finding the source of all gold, led to the first time someone from the [[Occident]] had visited the continent of [[Crona]], and by the time Aster had returned to Ardmore in 1389, he became the most celebrated person throughout the Occident; arguably even the world's first {{wp|celebrity}}. | ||