The Duchy of Namdalen was formerly the Videssian island province of Kalavria, which unlike many of the other Videssian successor states, was not invaded during the Khamorth invasion, but fell centuries later to Halogai pirates sometime after reign of Avtokrator Krispos. Additionally, Namdalen also included another island just east of Opsikion and half of a peninsula on the mainland that was once the territory of Thatagush. Namdalen is unique for its belief in Phos' Wager, the view that the outcome to the final struggle between Phos and Skotos cannot be known, but everyone ought to choose Phos in any event and bet on the good succeeding. To the end of the Phos Creed they add: "On this we bet our very souls." It is hinted that this view originated centuries earlier, by gambling Kalaviran mer