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As the Third Crusade approached though the Iddryitine Despotate gained a significant indigenous Sarpedonic population with little to no ties to the High Sarpedonic culture and state. The Iddryitine Despotate was not a Catholic state and was only serviced by the crusaders to combat the expansion of the Odduniyad Caliphate. When it came time to remove the caliphate from lands further into eastern Istroya though the Catholic crusaders would not allow their state to be led by non-Catholics. While the remaining outer lying islands of the Founders Sea were captured for the Iddryitine Despotate by 1150, the territory of the mainland would be established as state led by the crusaders directly. This state would come to be stablished with the onslaught of the Third Crusade and the Siege of Kronzciny. The crusaders formed a beachhead at the tip of Kronzciny island and cut off the island from the nearby mainland via the Obkhovid Canal. The knights were led by Adam Fonsphorum, the apparent son of Chaplain Otislav Fonsphorum. Otislav led a failed siege of the [[Melian Islands]] in 1139 after the northern islands were reconquered by the Odduniyad Caliphate but was honoured and well-regarded for his devotion to the Catholic faith. His son seemingly did not join their father and was unknown to even those that survived the failed siege of the Melian Islands. They were chastised for not joining their father at an earlier age and remained a low-ranking knight throughout their service starting in 1550. They served in the capture of Diakrunum in 1551, but otherwise only saw action on the Iddryitine front-line on the mainland. This was until the Siege of Kronzciny in 1554. Now 20 years old, Adam was charged with leading a cohort of knights past enemy lines to secure passage of crusader forces across the Obkhovid Canal. They were able to land on the shores while the bulk of Caliphate forces were preventing crusaders from crossing over from Kronzciny Island. Though Adam was tasked with taking out targets and clearing an alternative path for naval forces to make landfall they instead aided the populace in escaping from the city before the siege made it to the mainland. Once the invasion path was clear, they sent their men back without them, and went to meet the occupying authority of Kronzciny, Addas al-Ahzmira. Adam removed their armour, and revealed they were in fact not the son of Otislav Fonsphorum, but the daughter.