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All of Rounders Kingdoms: From the Beginning

Grabling Froomchop, a well respected historian, made this valiant attempt at creating the definitive history of Battal from the beginning until year 0 MSKP. The work was begun in the year 100 MSKP, to celebrate the centennial of High King Ronard's birth. It was "completed" shortly before Grabling's death in 173 MSKP.

Having still only reached the year 19,232 by the time that he was an old man he decided to "punt," and state at the end of his book that nothing else of not happened in the final twenty thousand years before 0. When the book was first released, Froomchop was asked about the curiously abrupt ending. He is quoted as saying, "generally this stuff is terribly dry, and anyway, that conflict was ended in year 0, by the birth of the child who would grow up to become King Ronard."

Much to the disappointment of virtually everyone who purchased the book, and very much to Grabling's dismay, the historian was never able to determine why the archaic phrase, "All of Rounders Kingdoms," was used to refer to Battal. He strongly suspected that there was once a mighty empire, like the one forged by King Ronard, that stretched across all of Battal; he also mentions the possibility that "Rounder" was actually a prophetic corruption of "Ronard." But he could never definitively prove either suspicion, and it is likely that the phrase came into common usage some time during the nearly 20,000 years of history that Grabling never got around to researching.

Given that this seminal work sold very well in scholarly circles it was a long time before any new research was done on that era.

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