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The name Korri dates back to 1208 SA, when Talhan Milaka, the first king of Gemela, founded Korri Abbey. However, there had long existed near the site of the new temple complex several other settlements. To the east were the village of Wend and the Peonian monastary of the Sacred Heart of Rohmae Moor, while right beside the abbey was the Laranian monastary of Ael Tobran's at the Rock. This document details the history of these three sites up until the time of the founding of the abbey.
It is not altogether certain in what order the village of Wend and Ael Tobran's at the Rock came into being, though it is most likely that the village existed first. Ael Tobran's Diary states that when he came to the Rock, there was no one about "for many a league". However, at that time (1112 SA), the village would have been much further to the east than its present location, by perhaps as much as six or seven miles.
To claim that a Laranian saint exaggerated in his personal diary is not a step to be taken lightly; however, there is additional evidence that Wend already existed, and the source this time is the Diary itself. There, in an entry for the year 1116, Ael Tobran wrote that:
... I had little alternative than to dispatch Miro [a young boy] to the nearby village for the necessary provender. Fortunately he already knew the way; we had had frequent cause over the years for gratitude that the people there were of a generous nature, and their lord a man of noble and pious heart.
Therefore, though it may not be the most stringent proof, it is fair to declare that the village had not sprung into being within months of Ael Tobran's arrival in the area, and had been a part of the landscape for many years. It is only unfortunate that manorial records dating from that time do not survive for this region.
This Laranian monastary was named after the man who founded it in 112, Ael Tobran. Recognised as a saint in his own lifetime, he left his settled life in Shiran in 1109 at the call of his goddess. Told in a dream to journey west until he knew where he would die, he wandered for several years before arriving in Gemala and finding the Rock.
The Sacred Heart of Rohmae Moor is the name of the Peonian monastary that occupies the old site of the fort which overlooked Wend more than a hundred years ago. It is not known exactly when the monastary was founded, though it predates the founding of Korri Abbey and postdates the collapse of the Theocracy of Tekhos.
The fort, which was destroyed during the Theocracy, was built on the only really solid and elevated piece of ground for several miles around. By the time that Sacred Heart was built, the swamp had already forced the village of Wend to move further west, giving the monastary some isolation from the secular world about it.