Tsaeloma

The Kingdom of Tsaeloma (Traveler's Tongue: Kingdom of Shaloma) located in the north-eastern side of Cymru. It stretches from Adytum all the way to the Valroni swamp.

It is now a province inside of the IAU (Imperial Archonial Union)

Before there was Shaloma
Right when the VIR (Valderach Imperial Republic) fell apart, and the remaining supporters of the republic where persecuted. On an attempt of hiding from war and murder. Some citizens of the VIR refused leaving their homeland in Cymru, and decided they would hide underground until returning to the surface was safe enough.

But as time passed by, and old generations died of old age. The tales of war started a fear of the surface among young Shalomakiis. And thus, as leaders started to come and go, none of them wished to return to what once was home; for now they had a safer place to sleep in.

Before the Archonate
Shaloma became a nation the 16th of February of 2020, (the city state of Aund ron de Sloog existed for way before that) as the Republic of Shaloma. The young nation was composed of 10+ citizens at the time, its highest numbers reaching 30+.

Annexation of Shaloma
On febuary of 2021, Shaloma and Viodoxa made contact for the first time. Valen McSpiegel contacted King Richard Amphed to have a meeting in the city of De Sloog. The King thought of the meeting as a simple one on one conversation. But to his surprise, Archon Loic dem Spheniscidae and Valen brought 12 troops to the meeting, intimidating the king and the citizens of the capital.

On the other hand, the right hand man, and the Archon where quite surprised to see the city, and the clear sight of Shaloman culture. Heads. Valen McSpiegel had told King Richard a while after the encounter "We thouht you where head hunters because of all the heads, we where acually scared.".

The meeting ended in an agreement from the king and the provisional councilof Shaloma to join the government and the Archonate of Viodoxa. Even tho they agreed, Shaloma was purposely intimidated and that the Shalomans would not take lightly. This created a little rivalry between Shaloma and Adytum.

The Shaloman-Adytum rivalry started when Shaomakiis killed all the chikens of the neighbouring province. Not only that but shalomakiis stole various objects of valentum. The De Sloog government agreed to build a massive wall to protect itself from the people of Valentum.

First Purple Insurrection
The first purple insurrection was lead by Loic and the province of Shaloma. After Adytum tried to annex the whole province of shaloma. Without the king's approval, by imperial decree.

King Richard Amphed asked Tortuga for help in a revolution, in exchange of the shaloman kingdom becoming a Tortugan province. The situation scalated into a full civil war, with the Kingdom of Shaloma joining the TVA led by Loic and Tortuga.

(More infromation about the conflict in "Viodoxa")

End of the first Kingdom
After the first purple insurrection, the provinces of the old Viodoxan Archonate where free once again. The Shaloman people however where seen as traitors, and diplomatic efforts where not getting through the other old provinces. The kingdom was left alone for some time, untill the TVA and the old provinces agreed to unite under the second Archonate of Viodoxa.

In this new Archonate, the kingdom saw its new golden age under the new royal family the Spheniscidaes. The city of Blakwater became one of the most populars in the archonate and started to regain that old life to it. But it all ended when the reformist society civil war happened, and multiple grieffings occurred at blackwater and De Sloog at the same time. These left the city in ruins until the J horde (minority ethnicity at the time)took over, and the Kingdom of Shaloma was lost to this new rising power.

Second Kingdom
The Second Kingdom of Shaloma refers to the Shaloman Kingdom controlled by the Spheniscidae family. Which took control of the kingdom when the Archonial Union settled in cymru.

The new family is currently in an ongoing conflict with J horde.

Shaloman conflicts
Shaloma has been inside many conflicts, most of them where mostly unknown and short-lived


 * Dormirsia - Shaloma war
 * Blackwater - Sloog conflict
 * Emerald conflict (Valentum siege)
 * Entropy battle
 * Shaloma + TVA - IAV (also known as First Purple insurrection)
 * 3rd Coalition War (Under Viodoxa)
 * 2nd Kingdom of Shaloma - J horde (Present)

Culture
Shaloma's culture is refered to as Shalomakii (Travelers tongue: Children of Shaloma) it has two subcultures. The Slaekii (Travelers tongue: Children of Sloog) and Hantseakii (Travelers tongue: Children of Hanzeizh). Slaekii are the native people of the zone, related to te old VIR and the Valdreacher people.

On the other hand, Hantseakii are the creole mixture of Hanzeian and Slaekii ethnicities.The creole culture ended up being the most prominent and most advanced in the area, turning Slaekii into a minority ethnic group.

Customs
Shalomans have very unique customs. The most famous one is the well known Shaloman Spar

Food
Shaloman food is rich on proteins, specially on protein D and B. It usually very spicy, since the only available spices in the underground where paprika, and salt. Other spices where usually very rare, and considered exotic. Most crops in Shaloma grow massive ammounts in the summer time, so the summer is the perfect time to have big feasts.

Usual ingredients:
The most common ingredients in Shaloma are: Red and Brown mushrooms, Beans, Peas, glow berries, glow berry leaf, salt, potato, tomato

Unusual ingredients:
Lamb (Meat in general)

Prohibited food:
Any type of pig related dishes.

Yellow heart soup
Ingredients: Red and brown mushrooms, dandelions, water, glow berry sauce, paprika, salt, lamb (very rarely)

Dandelion tea
Dandelion tea is a very sour tea made in de sloog caverns. It is said to have roots on the old VIR, which took the recipee from the Bardonian republic."Ingredients: Dandelions, boiling water. (Sometimes, shaloman kids add slaeg ant honey to make the tea easier to drink.)"

Glow berry tea
Glow berry tea is a very sweet tea that's often eaten alongside paprika. It has a thick texture, almost honey-like. Some say that the glow berry tea makes children grow up to have better eyesight, but it has never been properly studied.

Ingredients: Glow berry leafs and vines, Glow berry juice, paprika."For more info on dandelion tea check 'dandelion tea'"

Language
Shaloma has two spoken languages:

Slaetsoneg
The native language of the region. It ended up becoming a minority dialect, in modern times, you can only hear it in De Sloog and its sorroundings.

Dursvardtsoneg
Once the hanzeizh immigration hit northern cymru, due to the proximity and anexation of Shaloma into the Viodoxan empire, aprocess of cultural assimilation happened in the region. The Slaekii culture mixed and the language became a mix between Hanzeizh and Slaetsoneg. This is now the prominent language of the region.