Veldion

The Region of Veldion was a part of the continent of Plagos which was located on the western side of the Arlin Sea (Lake). The region was the homeland of the Veldski people, a subgroup of the Korolian people. The region was well known for being a chill place to live that valued building but also its peoples nationalistic attitude and republican values, until a slow change over time culminated in the final months of Veldions life where these values were discarded for a more pan-plagosi identity.

The Kingdom of Polskon
Veldski historical documentation starts with the foundation of the Kingdom of Polskon. The kingdom itself was a self-proclaimed kingdom that was never recognized by any other nations but itself. It was a small kingdom of one city in the continent of Plagos. It was founded by SirHolyChicken and Duegy. SirHolyChicken or Pesto Poultrix is a Poultrian from another realm to Rathnir that his people called Poultria. Poultrix left his homeland in search of adventure and found Rathnir. While traveling throughout Rathnir he found the Nomad Duegy living in the nation of Viodoxa. Duegy was a axolotl trader that was in the process of traveling throughout Rathnir in search of a home. Together the two teamed up and searched across Rathnir for a location for their homes. After ages of searching they landed on the shores of Plagos next to a mountain range. Here they created the town of Polskrige and the Kingdom of Polskon with SirHolyChicken and Duegy as a diarchal kingdom. It later changed, as Duegy stepped down, and it became a monarchy.

The city soon became a haven for immigrants, with refugees and tribal population joining it shortly after its foundation. Zartacla, adoptive son of Deithwein, who was owner of the nearby, pre-existing St. Deithwein Monastery, would be one of the first habitants, as well as Yes Zerkalo.

Integration into Plagatea - Polskon under the First Plagatéan Empire
The Kingdom of Polskon did not last long and was dissolved on May 15th. It became part of the province of Czervoslavia inside the Kingdom of Plagatea, despite being effectively self-governed by the people of Polskon. The Plagatean government diverted immigrants towards the city, pushing its population count higher. When Glurak Ravdrac was washed ashore near Ieon, he was sent to Polskrige by the citizen Mr Yes, who would become his best friend in the next years. Other notable citizens who joined during this time were DMO_craft, who later became a bandit, and Altaris, the builder of Mead Garden and Political Activist.

The City Council Movement
Shortly after joining, tension rose in the Kingdom. The government under Pesto I. Poultrix suffered from a lack of administration and was de-facto led by Yes Zerkalo, who wasn't able to lead the state entirely on his own, having to fulfil his duties as diplomat at the Plagatean Court as well. Newly joined citizens could not get a plot for their own home, resulting in poverty and homelessness amongst the populace. Citizens started building a homeless shelter outside the town. Three citizens, Glurak G. Ravdrac, Werner and Altaris, founded the City Council Movement (CCM) as reaction. They believed that a man alone could not be able to lead a nation, petitioning for a council of ministers and a monthly elected Prime Minister. When the King ordered the people to build a bridge from Polskrige to the Outpost Duegy had established on Dughold Mountain, the CCM saw a chance. When the citizens had assembled next to the building site, Glurak took the chance and decided to confront the king. After overwhelming protests from the people and support from Mr Yes for the movement Pesto Poultrix surrendered to the CCM, reduced to a mere representative of Polskon.

However, the movement was not entirely unopposed. A small, but well equipped elite of monarchists led by DMO_craft decided to attempt an assassination on Mr Yes, who they considered a traitor to the monarchy. The following panic resulted in the destruction of the old city plaza. Mr Yes was only slightly wounded and DMO was banished from the city. This was the beginning of the Bandit War period.

Polskrige Bandit Conflict
For multiple weeks the bandits (DMO_Craft, Duegy and SLIDEY_PENGUIN) continued to evade attempts by Plagatean law enforcement to arrest them, while also sending letters to several citizens trying to convince them to join their side. A day after the attempted assassination of Mr Yes, King Pesto Poultrix and Mr Yes came out denouncing the bandits. Duegy, after finding out about the kings denouncement decided to switch sides as he only joined the bandits because he thought they were acting in the kings interests when they were not. Duegy, along with another player who infiltrated the bandits team, known as 7_bruh, helped the Polskon militia and Plagatean law enforcement track down the bandits and raided their base simply known as Penguin. Seeing no other options DMO, Slidey and another player who joined them called W_alliss attempted one last attack on the city of Polskrige where they were soundly defeated by the Polskon Militia who during the battle was bravely lead by King Pesto Poultrix. The defeat and death of all the members of the bandits during the battle of Polskrige meant that the last trace of Monarchists inside Polskon were dead. The Republic movement which was now headed by Glurak G Ravdrac and Wilfred Zerkalo (Mr Yes) now had no opposition inside Polskrige which lead to Pesto Poultrix giving up his last trace of power with the signing of the Polskon Charta on June 26th 2021 which founded the Republic of Polskon.

Republic of Veldion
The government of the republic was weak in the beginning. This is due to many people having left for the newly discovered World of Eldham, including Altaris and Wernerkek. For the duration of three weeks it was led by a triumvirate of ministers, Glurak, Yes and Duegy. The writing of the Polskon Charta, the first constitution, was commenced by Glurak on June 26th. On July the 2nd, When the constitution was finally accepted by the king and the other ministers, Glurak was made provisional Prime Minister of Polskon, but also kept his position of Minister of Architecture despite a small protest made by Mr Yes against having two roles at he same time. After Citizens could sign up for candidacy, the first election was held in the young republic. Duegy, due to his larger popularity, won the election on July 10th. Glurak and Mr Yes were less popular due to accusations of tyranny, as they were both part of the provisional government which had not been elected democratically (Duegy was also part of the provisional government but made efforts to distance himself from the government before the election). The same day, after long negotiations, Polskon gained the status of a province in the Kingdom of Plagatea and soon after the UC constitution was edited to admit Veldion as a new member state.

The Second City of Polskon, Havenstad, was founded by Tyranno Van Krachtig and his brother Knightmare on July 18th, not knowing they had settled in Plagatean Territory. At this point, Polskons population was at its height, being the Second biggest Province in the entirety of Plagatea just behind the capital province of Sakura. The city joined Polskon soon after. Politically, the entrance of Havenstad into Polskon, was difficult. Not only did it require changes to the constitution, but it was soon realised that Havenstads culture was more different to Polskriges then originally thought. So to make the province less Polskrige focused the city council voted to change the name of the province from Polskon to Veldion.

The Two Parties
Shortly after the admittance of Havenstad into Veldion, the country quickly split into two opposing political factions: In late July, Knightmare von Krachtig and Bright Zerkalo founded the National Freedom Party, a nationalist libertarian party. As reaction, Yes Zerkalo and Glurak G. Ravdrac formed the National Liberal Party, favouring meritocratic principles. Due to growing conflict with his brother Knightmare, Tyranno van Krachtig-Numachi joins the party. Both parties competed for mayorship in the towns. Toxicity rose, eventually leading to Knightmare's expulsion from the state which somewhat calmed tensions.

Following the end of Duegy's term on the 31/7/21 the two parties campaigned against each other, but with National Freedom Party weakened after losing one of their main members the National Liberal Party easily won. Winfred Zerkalo (who was at the time the leader of the NLP) was made Prime Minister and immediately began planning a revolution from Plagatea, who he saw as oppressive imperialists despite their generous treatment of the province and his own position on the Plagatean Kingdom's Royal Council. Unfortunately, though the plot was eventually found out by the Plagatean's who only left them alone after they threw Duegy under the bus for previously attempting to through the revolutionaries under the bus, forcing him to flee to Ryzan. Following the debacle and the implementation of a new constitution, Winfred decided to step down and called for snap election, which were one by the popular progressive candidate, Oioiitsyaboi.

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The Plagatean Lords Revolt
After avoiding annexation into Second Empire of Plagatea Veldion settled down into a period of relative inactivity. The large region did not have enough people to population all three of its towns and its leaders did not have the experience to keep a nation active. This inactivity caught the eye of the new Plagatean leadership who saw letting Veldion leave the Empire as a horrible mistake. The Veldski leadership which was officially just King Glurak G Ravdrac but acted more as a diarchy between him and his diplomate Winfred Zerkalo (Mr Yes) started to become worried after Plagatean Tagavor Revo began to talk openly about annexing Veldion stating that "it will be the greediest thing I will do" and "Plagos will be one." These constant threats were seen by Mr Yes as a direct threat to the Veldski nation which lead him to attempt to find allies in the region. Veldions biggest ally at the time was the Plagatean province of Sakura which was headed by Aisuru Numachi. Aisuru was not happy with the Plagatean leadership following the coup of her empire. Mr Yes began talking to the Sakuran Queen and other Asarakaen sympathisers which slowly morphed into the planning of a revolt by Mr Yes and Aisuru. At first Glurak was reluctant to join the revolt seeing it as his diplomat going against his will again but after Plagatean tagavor Leon Olsen-Tanaka made attempts to intimidate the King into removing his diplomat, Glurak gave his consent to the revolt.

The planning of the revolt was mostly the two allies attempting to build up enough forces to contend against Leon's large force from Eldham which they had sever trouble with. Around this time Winfred Zerkalo became sick (busy irl) and was replaced by Alexander S. Numachi of Sakura as the revolts main diplomat. The two partners soon caught a break as the two Tagavors of Plagatea attempted to remove Aisuru and arinovla official and leader of the Seivija province Pepek for being to anti government. Normally this would be seen as a bad thing but the incident bought Pepek and his provinces citizens into the revolt. The three leaders got together in polskrige and decided that a revolt would lead to the Plagatean empire annexing all three of them after the event if they succeeded, so they all decided a coup of the Plagatean government would be better for them long term. The trio released this document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FGYVKG9aaerR_-KAHVlA_5qASFFm53w55ijRFIx4vG8/edit?usp=sharing proclaiming their support for Princess Futo Naho to be the ruler of Plagatea. Tagavor Leon in response mobilised the entirety of Plagatea which worried the trio who knew they could not face the Plagatean forces though they were still ready to fight against Leons army until Pepek dropped out of the coup following negotiations he had with Plagatean officials.

After Pepek left, the two leaders and Alexander called for negotiations to begin. During the negotiations a messanger came to Polskrige bringing news of the revolts end. Mr Yes thought that the trio had lost the war in a battle and that a Plagatean army was marching straight towards Polskrige, this was due to him being bed ridden and not being able to keep up with current events. Mr Yes notified the people of polskrige of the loss and advised that all of them flee the city which most did. The builder Zartacla opted to hide out in his Monastery. Mr Yes then committed suicide leaving all of his stuff his son Yeshua Zerkalo. The next morning King Glurak arrived back into Polskrige to find his friend and diplomat dead in the towns baths. He then wrote a will giving the Kingdom to Duegy and attempted to commit suicide. In the negotiations Veldion was to be reintegrated back into Plagatea with Revo being deposed for his actions and replaced with Alexander Numachi. As per Gluraks will founder of Polskrige and former leader Duegy took the throne. At this point most of Veldion had been abandoned with just a few citizens left like Bright and Zartacla.

The collapse of the Second Empire of Plagatea - An Independent Veldion
The Second Empire of Plagatea found itself at war with Alamayni rebels, being defeated at the Battle of Aljazair. After this many provinces both in Eldham and Rathnir realized their protectorate's ignorance and declared independence. Upon this realization the then Lord of Veldion, Mr Yes, declared Veldion's independence alongside one of the Veldki's great friends, Aditya Artis who decided to join his brothers by declaring himself and his city, Linwan, formerly of the Lordship of Sakura, as a new part of the Kingdom of Veldion.

The Immigration Crisis
Right After the collapse the northern core territories of the Second Empire of Plagatéa got absorbed into the Simulami Empire as the Goshuma District. A large number of citizens did not accept the new changes to their lands so they decided to migrate towards the last indepedent Plagatean state, the Kingdom of Veldion. During the migration a lot of plagatean Restorational agents managed to inflitrate the nation, leading to an inevitable clash with NERP

Reform of the post-Empire Monarchy
After the collapse of Plagatea, Veldion headed on for new reforms to the government and encouraging immigration, becoming the Kingdom of Veldion under the Monarch Mr Yes. The people elected Aditya as the new Prime Minister of Veldion and the new military commander of the Veldski Guard, the Council was reformed and new members appointed and immigration became the largest government priority. Diplomatically, Artis and Yes sought to align themselves with former enemies of Plagatea, the North-Eastern Rathnir Pact or NERP, joining the organisations, as well as remaining close to former fellow Sapphire Commonwealth member Simulami. After this reform, Mr Ys abdicated, passing the throne to Aditya Artis.

The N.E.R.P-Plagatea crisis
As part of the immigration reform, Aditya Artis had encouraged new population to come from anywhere. As a result, many former Plagatean government officials sought refuge in Polskrige, one of the few remaining bastions of what was Plagatea still wholly independent (after Simulami annexed the core provinces of Sakura, Seivija and Tempo). This led to a rise in Plagatean sympathies throughout Veldion, with citizens beginning to look fonder and fonder back over the Second Empire and beyond. Several high-profile former Plagatean officials joined the Veldski council to help reform, including briefly former Tagavors Alexander S. Numachi and Pepek Tchangsui. Pepek especially came to wield significant power and influence. It was later revealed this was a part of the Chumon Ito plot to coup Veldion.

All this prompted alarm in NERP, who feared the potential for the return of Plagatea, on top of the issue of an aggressive and rising Lunari Empire. To stem the Plagatean immigration and gain greater control over the situation, as well as seem larger in size to deter Lunaris, they sought to bring Veldion under NERP control by its annexation by Nova Regna, as well as ejecting a Veldion diplomat from the NERP council. Upon finding out about this, King Aditya was horrified, and sought to prevent it, seeking support from Kazan and later Lunaris. The tensions soon escalated into war, with NERP declaring war upon Veldion when King Aditya officially refused to allow Veldion to be annexed by Nova Regna. Ieturu Kumagaya, the former Plagatean Shogun, also arrived with a significant number of allied mercenaries. Veldski, Lunari, Kazan and mercenary forces were victorious over their NERP counterparts at the Battle of Nausicaa, but this was not the end of strife.

The Veldski Civil War and Destruction of the Veldski Culture
Soon after the war and NERP's recognition of Veldski sovereignty, Ieturu Kumagaya turned his mercenary forces on the weakened Veldski and marched on Polskrige, declaring that the Chumon Ito (Plagatean's) were now in control of the government whilst a transition took place, with him ruling as Shogun. Whilst initially stable, this soon prompted the outbreak of the Veldski Civil War, between Monarchists, Republicans, Chumon Ito (Plagatean restorationists) and the Blue Fleet from the remnants of the Second Empire in Eldham. The civil war lasted for several weeks with both Veldski factions eventually merging into one to face down Chumon Ito and the Blue Fleet which had similarly joined forces. Eventually though the Veldski were defeated at the Second Battle of The Canals and the Plagateans asserted their control once more. Following the loss many of the Veldski fled the nation with figures like Yeshua Zerkalo and SirHolyChicken fleeing to southern Rathnir where they lived out the rest of their days. Those that remained faced many assimilation attempts such as the attempted "Japanesification" of the region where many historic buildings and monuments were turn down to make way for Japanese style architecture. This is where Veldion's second biggest town, Havenstad, met its end. Torn down for a planned Japanese style town that never came to be. These assimilation projects essentially killed the Veldski culture, replacing it with a Pan-Plagosi identity for the rest of Plagatea's existance.

Re-Establishment and Final Years
After the Coup in Greater Plagos which saw the complete takeover of Plagatea by Lunaris, Veldion was once again established as its own internal state. At this point though the region was all but dead, with the great city of Polskrige (which had been spilt from Khorisal and re-established) now but an insignificant husk on the edge of the continent, a shell of its former self. The region limped on until the collapse of the Lunari Empire which saw Veldion's history come full circle when Czervoslavia came back into ownership of the land after nearly three years of being a seperate entity. Under Czervoslavia, Veldion had a slight revival with many of Veldion's old Korolian friends moving into the area. The revival was not to last though as Czervoslavia's declining status on the world stage led to it, along with Veldion, being annexed by Seahaven, causing a massive drop in playerbase and inactivity once again. This is where the position region remained in until the end of the world.