Volkoregrod

Volkoregrod is a Ryzani city located in western Bardonia on the border of Andorn to the west. It is the capital of the former capital of the Empire of Ryzan, and has been historically a city that always had been the centerpiece of many scapegoats.

Foundation
Volkore was founded in late November 2020 by Bronvic Sigrun (Theburger3) Thinker Sigrun (Thinker) and Athos I Sigrun (Athos). Although the city was founded on the orders of CanadianToss with the purpose of colonizing the northern territories, Athos still had dreams of a great Volkorean Empire no longer bound to Ryzan. Soon after Volkore's establishment, the Golem known as Russischebanana joined, who helped sculpt many of the cities natural wonders - the grove, the mountains, Shiny Cave, and the crystal mines - that still stand to this day. Within days of Volkore's founding, tensions rose significantly with Erebor, whose people were soon removed from their land in Ryzan's first ethnic cleansing event.

Volkore Crisis and the Wessreich
During this period Volkore created close ties to Bardonia as the city was trying to distance itself from the (at the time) weak Confederacy of Ryzan. The city took up arms alongside the Trillium Alliance in the Coalition War while also supplying them with much-needed recourses. With future plans of annexing Volkore into Bardonia, the Bardonians made Volkore into Ryzan's defacto leader. However, the city's luck didn't last forever, and the worst happened - Thinker disappeared. The next in line for the Volkorean throne was his son Athos I Sigrun. Athos was hot headed and very hostile towards the Confederation of Ryzan, quickly declaring war on neighboring Nebskoslavia. Volkore's justification for the war was the fact that Nebskoslavia had settled land that Volkore had purchased recently and refused to move out. This frustrated Athos immensely, who had decide to settle the feud with a duel. After the duel Athos emerged victorious, who exiled the Nebsk people in what came to be known as Ryzan's second ethnic cleansing event. Athos then announced the Volkore-Wessreich. At long last the empire was independent, but region events gave the new country a very short fuse. The Wessreich quickly claimed massive swaths of Ryzani, Balreskan, Remtalese and Bjorynskullan lands expecting Bardonian support - which never came. Without the Bardonians' backing, Ryzan swiftly thwarted all of Athos's attempts at taking over the nation. With no players left and Athos in voluntary exile, the city was declared "dead", left empty and in a state of major disrepair.

Revival
After Athos's exile Canadian and Athos had made up. Athos let his old character die and began playing as Anastasia Athos II Sigrun; daughter of Athos I. Together they returned to Ryzan, declaring the Second Tsardom of Ryzan, allowing the city to be reclaimed by Athos and reintegrated into the new government. Anastasia had spent a good amount of time alone in her city during the start of Tsardom as it hadn't given much traffic to the nation, partially due to the fact that neither Canadian or Athos were popular at the time. Only after the collapse of Canadian's reign and the establishment of the Republic did Volkore see people join it, and not a small number of people. An explosive growth in population allowed Volkore to quickly become one of the most active cities in the entire nation. Now with around 30 active members building the city, restoring its former glory and going much further, the city grew in importance. It was renamed to Volkoregrod, with new houses constantly cropping up, military storage facilities and a small brewing industry were established, convincing even the new Tsarina to move in. With the Palace of Ryzan nearing completion, talks began between Athos and President Aveleksei about making Volkoregrod the new capital city.