Valreach

Not to be confused with the Valdreach.

The High Kingdom of Valreach is a nation located in the region of the Drakesland, in Eldham. It was founded on the 25th of October of 2021 by Vix Aulian and Vin Helianthus, first Diarchy of Valreach. Since then, the nation has grown becoming the biggest in number of citizens and settlements in the Drakaen region. Valreach became a a cultural beacon for new citizens and nobles.

Description
The High Kingdom of Valreach, previously known as Nujh, Nidaros and Neo Drakaes, is a nation situated in the southern bit of the region of Valresh in Eldham. Valreach is organisated in a constitutional diarchy. Two High Kings are the Heads of State, a Government with a Prime Minister chosen by the parliament who runs the country, and a parliament controls the Government and approves laws. The vast land is sliced into separate provinces with their own regional and local governments and administration.

The nation was established after a unification between two previous nations, The Isle of Nujh and The Kingdom of Nidaros, that after a long time separated, they finally reunited into The Kingdoms of Valreach. (now known as the High Kingdom of Valreach) Short time after the unification, the nearby nation of Neo Drakaes became Zie Drakaen Regnum and joined Valreach becoming the 3rd Kingdom.

More than two months after the reunification and after the dissolution of The League of Vircon, Valreach joined with Catania to form the Valrean-Catanian Commonwealth in the eastern territories of the Drakeslands.

"Either fuck or get fucked."

- - Valrean Proverb

Separate Kingdom
After the fall of the mighty Regnum Drakaes, and the Concordat that came after it, a bunch of independent states arose from the Fallen Dragon. The following nations were founded: The Republic of Amarillo, The Kingdom of Nidaros, Mugen, Saror (New) Haven, fully independent nations; Smegslands, Koinsburg and The Old Guard, vassalised by Barbossa, that also took some lands; and finally, Andliria, that came back to claim their imperial lands.

Some of those states claimed being the Successor State of the Regnum and the War of Drakaen Succession started the day after the fall. The war ended in Victory after for Mugen in The Battle of Jorvick. The Kingdom of Nidaros that stayed neutral during the war, made some deals with New Haven, taking some lands from them before the colapse, and Mugen, exchanging some land to better cohasionate the territory. With that last land exhanche, the territory of Nidaros remained untouched for some time.

Since the foundation of The Kingdom of Nidaros, The King Vin Helianthus ruled as monarch with Roland Sien as his hand and, eventually, after his death, his daugher Delta Sien. Their main focus were the stability of their territory and nearby countries. Including the cooperation with the allied countries of the Coalition and then The League of Vircon. Their principal threat was to the south, with the expansion of the city of Jorvick to their borders. That conflcit led to a de facto alliance with Mugen and a rise of tensions with Jorvick. The Kingdom of Nidaros also hosted the Nido Games, becoming the biggest event ever hosted in the Drakeslands.

Vix Aulian declared Northwich's full independence from Nidaros on the 8th of August. They instantly joined the League of the Bay of Peace and after that, Northwich became a founding member of The League of Vircon. Northwich changed his name in two ocasions, starting with The Northwich Dynasty, lately renamed to just Northwich, and finally changed its name to Nujh or The Isle of Nujh. Some time after the last rename it joined Uraka as a vassal state. Nujh became an Autocratic Republic with a newly approved Constitution. And Vix ruled until the reunification with the approval and supervision of the Assembly.

Background for the Reunification
The idea of a reunification began developing almost two months after Nujh's independence from the Kingdom of Nidaros. The main person interested and who pushed the most for the reunification was Delta Aulian, that, being Hand of Nidaros, but at the same time, Pricess of Nujh, wanted to end with the disputes of the Heads of State of the Countries and bring the nations closer.

Cooperation Treaty between Nidaros and Nujh
The first step to a reunificated country was the Cooperation treaty signed between both nations. It was a peacful attempt to not only have a pact of non agression, Mutual Defense and even aid on internal affairs if needed, the Cooperation treaty recognises the common history and culture of both Kingdom and establishes that as a reason for comming together.

The original diplomatic talks that led to the treaty were meant to be for a real union between Nidaros and Nujh, the negative answer of The King of Nidaros led to only have the treaty mentioned before. Vix and Delta Aulian kept planning a reunification.

Regnum of Aulian
The Regnum of Aulian was a sudden attempt to force a Reunification between Nujh and Nidaros making Vin leave the throne of Nidaros to allow the merge. It was schemed by both Vix and Delta after the cooperation treaty.

The original plan of the Regnum of Aulian, after excluding the idea of integrating Nidaros into Nujharia, was to establish a unified state, that would rule over those territories with the royal House of Aulian as Monarchs of the Kingdom. The plan started as accorded, The Island of Nujharia sent a ultimatum to Nidaros to make Vin Helianthus abdicate of the Nidarosean trhone and establish a provisional government until an United Kingdom was formed. Delta, Hand of Nidaros, gave public support to the reunification and wrote a letter of dissapointment to Vin, pushing him to accept a deal with Nujh.

Vin refused to merge with the conditions Vix offered. The Round table of Nidaros was divided between the ones wanting to accept the merge and the ones wanting to keep the Kingdom of Nidaros independent. In a desperate move to save his position, Vin tried to get Aristios to annex Nidaros and be integrated into the Empire.

This event caused the first big crisis in The League of Vircon as a whole, making Yuvaria, that recently joined, leave the League and bringing other nations to rethink their position inside the League.

The conflict ended with a referndum imposed by Uraka and Aristios, intervening on Nidaros' Sovereingty to prevent a conflict between Nujh and Nidaros. The referendum ended with a negative result to the proposition of reunification. The tension between the nations rose up more being very close to an armed conflict. Once again, Delta Aulian reunited again both leaders to organise proper talks to a unificated country.

National Anthem
The National Anthem of the High Kingdom of Valreach, "My dear, great and bright land." is a choral hymn that tales the nature and beauty, and being part of Valreach.

Lyrics:"My dear, great and bright land, With foaming coast and ice and mountains, You are my heart, all my wisdom, and my mind, You're my home, you're my shelter.

My dear and great and dark land, And the crypts of Nidaros and the Nido caves, And the Frostbite and Segrespent, I love your width and your depths.

You are my churches, my worship, my faith, You are the sunrise and the sunset, You are my sorrow, my joy, my peace of mind, You are my mind on the right and on the wrong.

When the northern lights sway in dissonance, Across the night's great celestial apse, then I'm whirled into a boundless dance, But rise from the morning's catharsis.

My great and icy land, I am yours, Send me wind, send me snow, and send me storms. But give me the summer night as red as a ruby, A brief second, a kiss of sun and warmth.

I love you, whirly, beautiful land, I love you more than anything on Earth, You're my soul and you're my wisdom, My mind and my heart, you are Valreach!"