Kostaria

Kostaria is a nation built by the survivors of a powerful faction expelled from another universe.

A God's Wrath
A God's Wrath is a historical account by Firey51 of how Kostaria, then known as Kings of the End, was transported to Rathnir.

Arrival
The Kings of the End angered their god, Magic, who came to wipe them from their land. A stray burst of magic accidentally hit the dragon's egg, which caused a portal to form, giving the Kings of the End an escape. They took it.

Scattered throughout the world, the remnants of Kings of the End found themselves in a foreign land. Their gear gone and many of their members dead, they had no choice but to start their nation over.

The remaining members bounced from claimed area to claimed area before finally finding an archipelago unwanted by any other nation. The Kings of the End registered their new nation under the Cartographer's Guild, and the island nation of Kostaria was born. A few basic shelters were set up while everyone got acquainted to their new world.

Meta
All information in this section is out-of-character to Rathnir's lore.

Before Stoneworks
Kostaria was preceded by the faction Kings of the End on a semivanilla multiplayer server commonly referred to as the TrappedSMP. The survival-multiplayer server was created by a YouTuber, MagicGum, who wanted a simulation of a scenario in which every person in the world was transported into the world of Minecraft. Unfortunately, after sparse moderation by the skeleton crew of a mod team leading to rampant cheating and features ineffective at simulating a "trapped in Minecraft" scenario such as heavy debuffs after killing too many players and a claim system, many players on the TrappedSMP felt that the server had become "2b2t but worse."

After much of the server had lost interest, the Kings of the End was one of the first factions to leave due to their infamous reputation, and so decided to look for new grounds to expand, much like many of the other factions that decided to move to different servers or create their own SMPs.

In Stoneworks
Kostaria had a rough time from the start. With the influx of new players coming to Stoneworks, and not all of them being the nicest people ever, the people of Rathnir already had their mind made up about the players coming from TrappedSMP. Kostaria managed to withstand these attacks thought and eventually managed to claim some land for their nation

So far the land of Kostaria was attacked only once by two bandits