Geraria

Geraria is a nation in the far west of Eldham in the Stoneworks Server. The nation was founded on the 31/8/2021 under the name Azedon and has since experienced much history but only one true leader. A long and tragic history that resulted in the birth of a new era.

Founding
Before Azedon was developed it was a part of Vamore which had control over the area and was owned by SnowRD (a respected person in Stoneworks). The land was first granted to a Monarchy under the condition that it would remain peaceful and close to the GEAR defensive alliance. The land was originally granted to Fufu and on the 31/8/2021, Azedon was born under a monarchy.

After a few months, Fufu (the founder of Azedon) became inactive and handed ownership of Azedon to a kind woman. Somnia had become the new Queen of Azedon. She developed a capitol city and placed in the center of the nation. Somnia was a very kind and generous person but the nation she had taken leadership of began to slow down. Citizens stopped joining, buildings stopped being built, citizens became inactive and Azedon was dying. On the 19/6/2021, ten players following a Gerarian general (BluDogCam) were exiled from a small island in tortuga after a misunderstanding led the Tortugan government to believe that they were rebelling. Somnia invited the Gerarians into Azedon in hopes that she could get some activity in the nation, to this offer ,the Gerarian's agreed. And the small group of players moved to eastern Azedon near a bay the next day. After Tortuga had realized their mistake, they invited the Gerarian's back to their camp on their island, this offer was declined by BluDogCam.

Gerarian Arrival
When the 10 players arrived in Azedon from the far East of Eldham, they were met with a very different terrain and vibe. There was peace and for the first time in a very long time, the Gerarians had found a place that they could call home. They quickly erected a town hall and 25 houses, they were not the wealthiest people, but they knew how to work hard and quickly. They requested that they have a separate state they could call their own, the queen agreed and the state of geraria was born. It seemed that Somnia's plan was working, as from a national population of 6 people, the state of Geraria alone quickly recruited 14 players, then 20, then 30, until the population of Geraria was 56. BluDogCam was a person who didn't rely on his people to build for him but instead he would make sure every one of their needs were met. He was also a master of persuasion and propaganda. It seemed that Somnia had hit the jackpot, but there was one problem.

Even though BluDogCam respected and fully trusted Somnia, Somnia did not trust him back and would keep secrets from him. Somnia always felt mistrust and as a result, she made sure to have the biggest allies, one of these allies was Aristios. Azedon was closely involved with the GEAR alliance and the leader of Aristios had tried to pull many "stunts" on the nations of Gear one of these stunts was the Annexation of a state of one of the key nations of GEAR under the authority of a Citizen. Usually a Citizen does not have the power to give land to another nation, and this is no different. This action costed a small bit of Aristios' reputation and the GEAR alliance agreeing to not get in any diplomatic alliance with the untrustworthy nation (this was one of the laws that Somnia had broken). Somnia also kept secrets from GEAR (This is the second law she broke) and planned an invasion of a much bigger nation (Ravenguard) hoping to use her allies much larger militaries to overwhelm Ravenguard, thus disturbing the regional stability of GEAR and the western region (This is the final law she broke). BluDogCam was unaware of these laws that Somnia had broken as well as the secrets she had kept from him until he got one message that would change the course of Azedons history forever.

Gerarians uprising
10/15/2021, BluDogCam received a call from an anonymous GEAR member, who told BluDogCam everything that Somnia had been keeping from him as well as her crimes. BluDogCam was then asked if he would help defend the peace of the west by helping remove Somnia from power. After ten minutes of questions and a lot of hesitation, BluDogCam agreed to help GEAR to protect his people and the region.

On the 16/10/2021, Gerarians publicly announced that they had stopped recognising Somnia as the Queen of Azedon due to the many uncovered secrets that was made public to them, and her many crimes against her own allies. She was deemed unfit to rule and a ruler who relied on others to protect her nation, and failing to solve a bandit threat in the area. It was made clear by Gerarian officials that although Somnia was undoubtedly a kind person, she could not be allowed to ruin everything the Gerarians had built. Somnia wasted no time in contacting massive nations, calling them to her aid. BluDogCam received many rude and confronting dm's from these nations specifically Aristios who was not shy on calling him names.

Shortly after the Gerarian people had announced their stance to the Queen, a player with armor sent by the Gods with max enchants was sent to the State, a mass loss of life was experienced that day. Many people in the Gerarian citizenship were not fighters, but were workers. So when a player who could pvp very well came into the town at peak activity, many were injured and more were massacred. Many of the victims were farmers who were gathering food to send to a town in Tortuga that was suffering a famine, which the Gerarian government had brought swift aid to. The massacre caused many players to demand solutions, to this BluDogCam built a wall that was to block the city from Geraria and protect the players within.

Soon after the wall was built, the player responsible for the 19/10 massacre returned but was this time chased away by 3 inexperienced Gerarian guards as well as BluDogCam who wanted to defend his people. The Gerarians had not invested in war supplies so they had basic diamond equipment with basic enchants. After a pursuit into the mountains, the figure stopped and put on his armor, BluDogCam tried to ask why he was lurking so close to the walls, and explained why the State was on high alert. This was when 2 other players also with good armor joined the figure on top of the mountain. As BluDogCam was typing his question as to what they were doing in Azedon for the fourth time, the group ender pearled to him and knocked BluDogCam off the edge of the steep mountain, and the three guards moved closer to defend their beloved leader. But by the time they had reached the group, BluDogCam had been slaughtered, but did quite a bit of damage.

The three guards managed to get some hits on the hostile group but retreated to the wall where poison arrows were fired at the hostiles. After a good 5 minutes of constant arrow fire, the hostiles pushed towards the wall where they began to break it. The guards knowing they wouldn't win a melee fight retreated to the town hall where they continued to fire poison arrows from the rooftop. A few other players came online and began firing arrows from their houses, and ambushed a hostile player who was separated from the others. Arrow fire continued until many began realizing that they were running out of arrows, and logged off but some stayed and continued the fight until all the arrows were used. Once the hostiles had broken the wall completely, they left the Town and went back to their later discovered base (Fort_bonk). The attack on the wall was one of the most devastating attacks during the war, and crippled the Gerarians ability to defend themselves.

Decline
After the attack on the wall, Gerarians fled their homeland to a neighbouring country where they settled for 3 weeks. During this time, Azedons population plummeted as all the loyal Gerarians followed BluDogCam's footsteps. Azedon was dying, and the possibility of a world war was growing more and more possible, with somnia bringing Aristios' widely disliked Emperor Otto into the picture who was threatening to bring the TE (Triple Entente) to the battlefield against GEAR. Luckily, a few powerful nations banded together and stopped Otto from achieving his ideal solution of war, and Somnia was thrown out of Azedon.

Uraka Era
Under a new agreement signed by Emperor Neo of Uraka and SnowRD (traditional owner of Azedon), Neo was to occupy the land but treat it as a separate country. Neo was allowed to empower others to rule in his name and the land was to be returned to Vamore after Neo resigns or upon request. Neo quickly empowered Tylics, who took swift action to the issue of activity, bringing many of his followers into the nation. BluDogCam and his followers returned a week later and reclaimed their home Town, and started from scratch, building everything all over again and taking down all defensive obstacles built for the war as well as all the grief that the hostile mobs left behind. Azedons population began to increase dramatically and for the first time, the population hit 100. This number decreased over time as many followers of Tylics became inactive. And after a while, and Gerarians slowing down and stopping their building projects for the new king, he came to the conclusion that he was being used by GEAR and left back to Uraka where he created a new city from the ashes of an old one which he named Dragons Perch. BluDogCam was elected the new leader to replace Tylics and improved the harbor, houses, paths, shops, and docks. Later he (with a team of 3) built a wall in the south to keep out all bandits who were coming from Ravenguard.

Azedon was not known for its wealth and riches, nor did it have any money to spare. That was until a magic player was found with a magic potion. This magic potion would grant anyone who drank it Haste 4 for 5 minutes but would give weakness for 8 minutes. The potion was quickly used for its abilities and Azedon quickly grew richer and richer.

The New Era
On the 10-3-2022 Geraria was reborn. Not as a settlement. Not as a town or city. Not as a state. Geraria was born as a Nation, one with meaning and history with many who had spilled their blood for their banner. At long last, after many months of Somnia's rule, and then many more under Urkai occupation, Geraria was finally able to rebuild their culture within their own borders under their own flag.

New Opportunities
With a large economic boom, Geraria had become one of the wealthiest nations in the region with a treasury balance of over 3.4 million In a massive effort to fund opportunities for Geraria and its people, the government invested 1.4 million dollars into buying new land so that more cities could build and be part of the nation. On the 24-4 2022, a new area of land was claimed by Geraria which doubled the nation's land mass and brought more opportunities to everyone living in Geraria.

Integration of Luxendef
The leader of Luxendef, Natin Pidgeones gave his citizens a vote on whether they should join Geraria on 2/6/22. The vote was a landslide in favour of joining Geraria at 13 to 3. Over the next following days, Natin and Bludog set up making a treaty which was signed on the 10/6/22.

While this led to more players for the country it left a bad taste in peoples mouths. On the 4th of September it was announced that the Luxendef area would be wiped to allow for the cities to be rebuilt. It took 2 months and in that time many players left the area. The towns of Luxengrad, Aqiagrad and Zyapjug were abandoned shortly afterwards. in late December 2022 former resident of Luxendef, GamingGeneral39 was sent to establish a new settlement there called Azbenia however this expedition ended unsuccessfully.