VRIMINAX

Although the names of the original provinces are long since lost to us, several pre-Flathead maps have survived that show the original provincial boundaries. For the sake of convenience, the province of Vriminax is referred to by the name of its chief city. When Entharion the Wise united the city-states to form the nation of Quendor, Vriminax was one of seven-and-a-half provinces to enter the union (the others being Galepath, Mareilon, Quendor, Znurg, Bozbar, Frobozz, and Borphee).

During the Zucchini blights of the mid-fifth century, the zucchini crop in both Bozbar and Vriminax were ruined for four seasons (from 460 to 463). By 474, the wars as a result of these Zucchinis, as well as the population losses inflicted by the ongoing famine caused Bozbar to suffer the longest throughout the entire affair. City and provincial records record a population drop of an astounding 70% in just under ten year. This pathetic state of affairs was in clear evidence throughout the entire duration of the conference at Znurg which freed the nations from this conflict. Dundor of Vriminax was responsible for cleansing the entire city of Galepath from a yipple rebellion during 466.

At the time of Zilbo III's removal from power in 660 GUE, the provinces were divided along rather arbitrary and outdated boundary lines that had not been altered since the time of Entharion. In that same year, Pseudo-Duncanthrax raised a tremendous army to wage a systematic conquest of the neighboring kingdoms. He moved swiftly and brutally against the southern half of Borphee and put an end to the tottering and defenseless dynasty of Mauldwood. Finally accomplishing the merger of the two halves, Pseudo-Duncanthrax called the resulting territory Greater Borphee Province. This move began a trend; one by one, the neighboring principalities of Miznia, Gurth, and Mithicus were brought under Quendoran sway and given new provincial administrations. With the completion of the conquest of the Westlands, Duncanthrax was faced with the peculiar problem of absorbing lands several times the size of his original kingdom. Clearly it made little sense to turn each conquered land into an individual province, since any one of the new territories would be much larger than most of the original provinces combined. At this point, realizing that the original seven provinces were now too small to be effective in the new system, one of his many administrative reforms was merging Galepath, Mareilon, Quendor, Znurg, Vriminax, Bozbar, and Frobozz all into the Province of Frobozz, thus bringing to completion the creation of the provincial system as we know it: Frobozz, Greater Borphee, Miznia, Gurth, and Mithicus.

With the final collapse of the Quendoran state in the older provinces of the Westlands following the fall of the Empire in 883, the initial political evolution of the area was characterized by a surprising rebirth of the ancient city-states as prior to the days of Entharion the Wise. The old families of nobility that had long controlled Vriminax wasted no time in solidifying an alliance with Quendor, its nearest neighbor and the most ancient of the northern cities. By 884, the combined militias of the two cities occupied the western half of the former Frobozz Province, under the notion that taking the territory would provide a solid defensive zone between themselves and the already growing tensions of Galepath and Mareilon. When war broke out between Galepath and Marileon in 888, Vriminax and Quendor were in no position to help either, as both were more involved in protecting themselves against the incursions made by Kaldorn and Kovalli respectively.

By the beginning of the tenth century, Syovar's plea for a unified Kingdom of Zork was being considered by all the leaders of the lands. Both Quendor and Vriminax had already benefited in securing their own interests through Syovar's diplomacy. When the Conference of Quendor was held in the old city of Quendor in the Northlands, all the leaders of the surviving city-states, as well as representatives rom Kovalli, Kaldorn and Antharia agreed to met. The tremendous respect the nations felt for Syovar made the conference possible. As it approached, a truce between all the warring neighbors had been observed—but instead of working toward peace, the nations had merely used this time to build huge armies, poised to attack should the treaty not be signed. Nevertheless, the Treaty of Quendor was signed, resulting once again in the unification of the entire under one unified Kingdom of Zork.