Ethir Gwathló

The Ethir Gwathló (S."Mouths of the Greywater") had once been a cardolanian principality.It had included a narrow strip of floodplain along the great river and a goodly expanse of treeless grassland inland, but the portion of it within the bounds of  Cardolan became a short-lived military march.The Princes of Ethir Gwathlo were a corrupt line, its Ernil commonly an absent ruler,  usually living in luxury in Tharbad and concerned only with the prompt arrival of his taxes.Mainly concerned with his tolls on traffic on the river the last Princes of Ethir Gwathló had allowed a few Dunman tribes to settle in his territory for vague and  rarely fulfilled promises of tribute.The population grew greatly as times got rougher, swelled by refugees from the north and east.The emergent culture of the clansmen of Saralainn had little use for their absentee landlord, and generally cooperated when  the usurper Gordaigh Trollbane drove out the forces of the last Prince and proclaimed himself a King.So the new Kingdom of Saralainn became the first successor state of the Principality of Ethir Gwathlo and it's capital, the port formerly called Mistalonde or Lond Gwathlo, was renamed Suduri in honor of the first King's father.