Ostena was founded in CE992, and quickly became an important merchant town. It was staunch rivals with a former city on the opposite side of Ostena Harbour, known as Montabeka, until Montabeka was all but destroyed in the eruption of Mount Una in 1122. Refugees from Montabeka fled to Ostena, but were diverted it's sister city Sellaport, as they were "not welcome" in Ostena. The population spread rapidly, to over 1 million inhabitants in 1800. In 1802 it was proclaimed the Capital of Viaska (the capital previously being at Vorgrad), and the government was moved there into a massive new building called Magdalen House. The first Premier to use Ostena as a capital city was Lehman Bauer. The adjacent city of Sellaport became a victim of Ostena's rising house prices in the early 1900s, as people