Razuni Sultanate

The Razuni Sultanate is a relatively old nation located in the southern regions of Eldham, founded in the Fall of 61 TE (30th of May 2021) it has outlasted many other empires and still stands to this day. It is a land of rolling deserts, sprawling forests, and people who value community, peace, and justice above all else. It is a theocratic monarchy, the national religion being Salranism.

Prehistoric Era
The lands of the now known Razuni were once inhapitdet by the people of the Salranist Society. There is not much known about this first sign of life in the region, what only is known to today's historians is the fact that the Salranist people went to war with the god of nature, known by the name of Cree.

After this the trail of the prehistoric knowledge ends with the sign that the Salranists had traveled to undiscovered land and left Razuni forever.

Early Era
The first sign of population after the Salranists shows that 11 tribes settled in the Razuni lands. They learned about Razuni from the ruins.

The first Sultan
Salan Razud was born as the heir of the leader of the White Badlands tribe. He united the 11 tribes to the now know Razuni Sultanate, owning the lands of the White badlands, Yumarat, San Konaco and Sondor. After this he was crowned as the first Razuni Sultan.

He ruled the Razuni lands with great success and after his death, his son, Bashar Razud, heir to the Razuni throne, was crowned as the second Sultan of Razuni. His children are Malar and Kahuna Razud.

Golden Era
During the golden Era, Razuni participated in some wars and had to fight bandit hords which were raiding the capital Al-Razun.

Kunir War
The first war the Sultanate would take place in was The Kunir War. Being both members of the ARS and having a defensive alliance with the USSE, they felt it was their duty to protect their ally from what seemed like an imperialistic power and threat. Razuni soldiers would gather what few sets of enchanted gears and weapons they had (stealing some from other citizens in the process) and make their way to Port Crelov. Before the battle even began, one of the Razuni soldiers would be stricken down during a sneak attack. Due to the server restarting and connection issues, most soldiers would be unable to join the fight. It seemed that the server restarting was a blessing because of the immediate bloodbath that took place afterwards. Because of the absolute defeat in defending their ally, the Razuni Sultanate would attempt to stay away from foreign affairs and focus on internal affairs.

Skjold - Limuria War
However, this shift towards internal affairs would have to wait. Skjoldrbrodir would reach out to the Razuni Sultanate only 2 days later to help defeat the Limurians. After a unanimous vote by the House of Nobles, the Razuni Sultanate would join in assisting Skjoldrbrodir. However, because the nation was still recovering from the last battle, only Bashar Razud and Malar R. Kollisyaid were able to assist in the war. During the battle of Steinborg, they would in total defeat 3 enemies, and gain a good amount of loot. Razuni forces would not only assist in defending Steinborg but would make their way to the Limurian capital and do some looting. This battle was a decisive victory and raised morale throughout the Razuni Sultanate.

The Medena Emergency
During the first election in the newborn Republic of Medena was held, the government slowly began to destabilize, which was caused by the three democratic-focused political parties, which were against the monarchist party. The situation worsened to the point where the monarchist party leader Silver Van Bee withdrew from the election and the other three parties formed a coalition and declared victory in the election. Following the instability, members of the council of government, as Sheep Van Bee and Indeling reached out to the Razuni Sultanate. Luis Von de Hotin, a new politician in the Razuni Sultanate, took over the case and began to support the monarchist movement. Soon he took over the Monarchist Party and started public discussions with the ruling MSDP politicians. Those discussions led to the dissolution of the first government and the second council of government took over leadership. This council was majorly made up of monarchist supporters, which allowed the bloodless coup d 'etat, named "The Medena Emergency '', which happened during the First Medenian Festival of the nation, the mad Lehelium Party led by HentaiSlayer69 and Memeruler, choose to leave the nation. This also made the leader of the Libertarians, Myckul, leave, as he wanted to live in a democracy and so he departed peacefully. During the intigration plans of a counterrevolution from the two citizens GasCommando and Harry were revealed and both were exiled. The then Sultan of Al-Razun, KingTheoden756, decreed that the province is allowed to elect a Duke/Duchess (Emir) to rule over the province. The people of Medena would be Razuni citizens with all of the same rights and responsibilities including freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. And as of July 20th 2021, the Province of Medena would become part of the Razuni sultanate as an autonomous province.

Around the time of the end of the coup, the founder of Medena, John Ian, declared himself King of Medena and started the Free Medena movement, this was known as the Medenian Civil War, an unarmed conflict, which was only fought over diplomacy and denunciation. It ended a long time after the first festival with the dissolution of the Free Medena movement.

Brenran Integration
Just before the Razuni Sultanate would integrate the Province of Medena, the town of Hermonia was struggling in terms of money and population attraction, and Malar R. Kollisyaid felt that it would be best in Zacata Felis the Slimecatking's interests for the town to be fully integrated into the Razuni Sultanate, meaning their government would be forced to give Hermonia full support. In this integration, Zacata would become Emir of a few other islands in the creation of a new, special province; called the State of Brenra, which included the islands of Hermonia, Aera and Agon-Shar. The Brenran integration happened on the 18th of July 2021, which made the State of Brenra a province of the Razuni Sultanate.

Death of the Second Sultan
Bashar Razud died of old age, but some time before he had disinherited his children and named Jack Zackar as his heir, which was the end of the Razud Dynasty. And so Jack Zackar was crowned as the third Sultan of Razuni.

Entrance Into the Zamotz Union
On the 14th of August, Alaina Arianrhod, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, made negotiations with the Zamotz Union to start a trial period in joining them, Indo Abn Nasir Al Malik who was the current Sultan, agreed to the trial period as well though not being initially in favor of it, but over time he would grow to be attached to his new Zamotz brothers. After 2 weeks; the trial period was over, and it was confirmed that the Razuni Sultanate would fully join the Zamotz Union, but like the other nations, be autonomous. This action was taken to ensure more cooperation and participation on both sides than before.

Indo Abn Nasir’s Reign and The Zamotz Union
Indo Abn Nasir after having succeeded Jack Zakar, officially approved entrance into Zamotz only a day into his reign. Indo Abn Nasir at the start of his reign was promising, maintaining relative peace and stability in Razuni, and promising to rebuild the many outdated cities Razuni had at this time such as its capital, Maldeqem of Medena, Hermonia, Agon-Shar, etc, many of which he did give federal aid in the form of builders, citizens, money, etc. Upon entrance into the Zamotz Union, Indo was cold towards his new peers and statesmen but eventually warmed up to many of them, eventually becoming an important member of the union itself, even getting some countries to join Zamotz. However, Indo had his flaws, for one he was compared to many other Razuni and statesmen, rather brash and almost rude in some instances. Much of this came to a head during the several wars Indo would go on to represent Razuni in with the Zamotz Union and the Eldham Entente, during Indo’s time, Razuni participated in much more foreign affairs and wars than it had previously in an attempt to give his mostly inexperienced and untalented soldiers, a taste and experience in War. Indo himself remained very active, joining wars and fighting valiantly alongside allies, however, most of Razuni generally wanted peace, this brought much division and strife among his council and the Sultan, who now had to choose between his Razuni brothers and his ones in Zamotz. Eventually, it came to Indo’s attention after he received a letter from his successor, Malar Kollisyaid detailing how most of the councilmen had planned a coup after the increased divides, and Medena, a then province rising out of the ashes under the Arianrhod family. Despite his immense fury, he pardoned his council, a decision he is unsure he should have made. The divides reached a boiling point after the war between the Aurorans of Rathnir and the Eldham Entente when Razuni who was tired of being in Zamotz due to the widespread belief and in some cases, propaganda among the Razuni nobles that Zamotz, Shirokaneza, and the Eldham Entente that Indo had befriended over the long duration he had been with them in Zamotz, were cruel warmongers, which Indo and Elkool, the famed Uraki-Shirokanezan general of Zamotz and one of the heads of the Entente vigorously denied the accusations. Shortly after intense talks with the Zamotz government and Indo’s Lament, Razuni left the union, and its future was uncertain. Indo Abn Nasir’s reign had its ups and downs, while he developed infrastructure and rebuilt many cities, along with an attempted reformation of the military and putting down several attempted coups, he also made Razuni involved in many wars and rather intertwined with Zamotz.

The Vladigrad succession
On the 28th of November 2021 the town Vladigrad of the province of Medena was granted indipendence as the Principality of Vladigrad under Radislaw Rejewski.

Withdrawl from the Zamotz Union
After much debate and internal tension, it was decided that the Sultanate would leave the Zamotz Union. The following period would be a time of inactivity for much of the Sultanate's population, being dragged down by the stress of each other's inactivity and a few heated internal arguments.

The Second Medenian Festival and the Irisnian Split
The situation of the Sultanate in that time eventually surmounted offered the current Duke Vanderis Arianrhod, and the razuni minister of foreign affairs, Alaina Arianrhod, to pressure the Razuni government to give the Medenian province more and more autonomy. Their reason was anchored by the fact that after the Medenian Emergency, there was never a treaty signed, which would have settled the status of Medena. Those independence movements came to an all time high during the Second Medenian Festival. Which, as the first one of its kind, was just a disguise for political warfare, in case of the Second Festival, it was supposed to gather Razuni Officials together and pressure them to accept the demands of Vanderis and Alaina for independence. Despite the occupations of the government members, the Arbiter Slanority Kollisyaid attended, who they later then lead out of Eldia, once the announced their independence, to show that they from now on will not raise the Razuni banner anymore. Along with the province of Medena, the city of Agon-Shar with its population of the so known Nagosi declared independence as well. The next weeks would be full of only tension, while Medena and Agon-Shar formed the Irisnian Kingdom, and seized Sondor(South Nagos), this launched the Sultanate into overdrive, after they only were to lose the Sondorian lands, because of their weak armed forces. The once inactive population flew into a fast-paced activity after Indo, the previous sultan, stepped down once the Irisnians declared independence from not wanting to deal with it. The next Sultan was quickly crowned, being Malar R. Kollisyaid. The people were at the time very angry at the Irisnians, feeling hurt by their backstabbing tactics.

Vassalization by the Pale
As the tensions, to Irisnia, cooled down, and the threat of a war in the region was only speculation from nationalists of both sides. The region was threatened by an fast expanding empire, which was known by the name as the Dandelion Empire. As the influence of this empire reached their neighbor Oceanum the Razuni government as well as the Irisnian government, started to search for protection, which led them to their northern neighbors: The High Kingdom of the Pale. After negotiations with their government, the Razuni Sultanate became a Vassal, while Irisnia integrated itself fully. At this time, the region was in some way unified once again, but still there were tensions between the two fronts of Irisnia and Razuni.

The dissolution of the Pale
With the dissolution of the Pale, the region looked more balkanized than ever before, not long after the Pale granted Irisnia independence, the last Irisnian King, Agorith Fazdor came to an agreement with the Medenian, Z’swaku Sheep Van Bee to split up Irisnia and have both an own sphere of influence. The northern coast as well as the lands known as Sondor/South Nagos became part of the Brenran Empire, while on the the Medenian Core Lands and the Medenian Highlands, the Second Republic of Medena was formed, with the Citystate of Eldia and the Island with the State of Sylfeatel (Sylfaetel was made an own state under the leadership of Adonis to guarantee freedom of religion for Sylfeaism) as their vassals.

Vassalization by the Velerin Empire
As the Pale collapsed the Razuni Sultanate was now also standing by itself, but not for long. The Velerin Empire, the at the current time strongest and as well richest empire in Eldham made an offer for vassalisation as long as the Razuni Sultanate would see it fit.

Unification step by step
The Archduke of the Medenian lands, Z’swaku Sheep Van Bee came to the Razuni Sultan, Malar Razud Kollisyaid discussed a second integration of Medena. The actions of the Archduke were based on his own view of this Medena being not more free then before, as it wasn’t ready yet to stand on its own old feet. This led to the return of the Medenian lands under the Razuni banner, along with the city state of Eldia. (The Medenian vassal of Sylfeatel was not part of the integration)

The next step of the unification was the purchase of the Sondor/South Nagos lands by Waffles Barbomir, Witch-King of Sondor, which marks the peak of the current Razuni unification.

The Fall of Velerin
On the 1st of December the Velerin empire was met with unrest which caused an emergancy meeting with it's memberstates. It was clear that the Velerin Empire won't continue and will fall. Razuni declared it's indipendence on the 3rd of December as Mars Exulte saw it's opportunity to declare war on the Empire of Velerin with the official reason to wipe out every bit of Velerin Imperialism. The following day, Imperius declared the dissolution of his empire and granted indipendence to all it's territories. After the empire had fallen, some of the member states formed the Aftermath Alliance, but Razuni decided to stay on it's on. Razuni is back on the geopolitical stage.

Government
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old version: The government of the Razuni Sultanate is that of an absolute monarchy. It is currently ruled by the Blackwood Dynasty, with Malar R. Blackwood acting as the Sultan. Underneath the Sultan is the House of Viziers, a group of trusted advisors who help guide and assist the Sultan in affairs of state. However, the Sultan has final say on all matters. The Sultanate is split amongst multiple towns, each run by an Emir/Emira who manages their affairs.

Territories
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