Valondor

The Hierarchy of Valondor is a pirate mushroom nation and kin of Tortuga based in western Sparwood. Its capital Waldblume is one of the major cities of Sparwood and includes a unique Valondor architectural style. To get to how and why Valondor's culture and way of life is in present time, we must go back long go, to the roots of this ancient land. Only then will Valondor's way of life, Culture, Environment even, will all make sense.

History
Long ago, the inhabitants on the lands of what's currently known as " Waldblume " was land where Primitive' natives lived on the land, bordering the Free State of Tortuga. Tortuga was a Nation filled to the brim with Piracy but even then, they came to the Natives bearing gifts, teachings, and even offered them to join Tortuga as a City-State for infinite protection! But the natives didn't appreciate what the Tortugans offered, and took it as a threat to their lands, and did something so foolish, it costed them more than just their lives, but also the end the ownership they had on the land. The Natives attacked The Free State of Tortuga and very swiftly, the natives were gone. With all of the Natives gone Tortuga claimed the lands and named it Cyrumar, and flourished with pirate culture and stability for awhile. With this strange Mushrooms, larger then spruce trees, were found through-out the Native's old land but back then, it wasn't thought upon.

The Empire of Cyrumar
Main article: The Empire of Cyrumar

A man by the named Alpha, struck a deal with the Tortugans to make the land a sovereign nation, but in doing do, the nation with its independence, also gained a enormous amount of debt. Alpha, however did not take the debt seriously and began to exploit others to pay his debt with another nations money, making more debt with other creating a cycle. Eventually Cyrumar became friends with a nation named Tulipia and as time progressed, Tulipia was more liked by the Citizens of Cyrumar, Alpha, angered cut ties with Tulipia and a result being, Tulipia declared war on Cyrumar and won.

The Republic of Tulipia
Main article: The Republic of Tulipia

After the fall of Cyrumar, Shaerelia  a important person to the History of the land, used elf-nature based magic to bring a flourishing and brimming environment and with this act the mushrooms that were so tall, shrank to a normal size but still undiscovered why they were able to grow differently then the normal fungus found through out Rathnir, and if they had a magic associated with them. Shae ( Shaerelia ) renamed the land from Cyrumar to what's now known today, Waldblume! Many months went by and Shae, left the nation of Tulipia meaning leaving the lands of Waldblume. Shae's absence meant the mushrooms within the lands of Waldblume began to grow back as the land was dying from the withdrawals of the Shae's magic. This brought the ideology to the lands of Waldblume to care about a fair democracy but stable and without corruption as they witnessed their previous provincial leader Shaerelia, leave due to the System Tulipia had. Even with Shae's absence she brought something that will be held dear to the culture, to care for the environment and plant-life, since she was a elf that used nature magic.

The founding fathers
 Spades , Toki, and d3mi, unhappy with Shae leaving Tulipia and how it reveled the true instability of Tulipia's system, and how it was inevitable for the nations death. Spades reached out to Toki about the idea of a Declaration of Independence from Tulipia, then agreeing both brought D3mi, then the entire Waldblume citizens and in only days, the entire province all agreed upon the idea of becoming our own nation. To slowly push this idea, Spades was Chancellor and a Governor of the Province of Waldblume, released and published the Waldblume State Constitution , with this added ways to allow separation/independence from Tulipia through a peaceful manner , and so Tulipia soon after failed to meet a criteria and allowed Waldblume to Declare independence! But what the name of the nation was uncertain.. Spades and Sake ventured into uncharted land as they now need to map-out all of what Waldblume owns, found a large mushroom that pulsed energy of relaxation, but in front of the tall and mysterious mushroom tree, was a grave stone marked "Rest Valondor, the Two-sided Mage!". Spades and Sake were confused by this and found what appeared to be a book called The Two Sided Mage! This book was a folktale of the mage named Valondor, and it explained why these abnormal fungus only grew on Waldblume lands. Fascinated by this, this folktale instantly became a large influence in the culture so much that the flag and name of the nation was inspired from this very tale.

Declaration of Independence
After finding out what the nations name would be, what was needed was a government, unlike others before. A government system that ensured stability, distribution of power, and democracy. It so happened a Democratic Oligarchy was the best government for Valondor! Right away finding now the essentials, the officially announced The Declaration of Independence that established Valondor to the world stage! Right away the Democratic Oligarchy system took place with branches of Military like The Bandit Guard being created along with it. Along with the F:L:B and the Code of Moralism. This was just the beginning for the new nation, as they hope to see a little bit of their culture everywhere in the world one day!

Tortugan promise
Once Valondor announced its independency to the world, The Pirate Domain of Tortuga, got ahold of it and jumped at the start of exchanging diplomacy with Valondor! Tortuga saw the potential in Valondor as a nation and with it containing similar culture, offered a deal to Valondor that's called the Tortugan Promise. Spades the Chairman of DRT(Diplomatic Relations and Trades) signed and the Treaty was now in place! Valondor was given warm greetings by all of Tortuga and was accepted as a fellow brother in arms. This promise brought even more stability within Valondor and bringing more peace to mind of the Citizens now that we are ensured our existence as well as brought new friends.

Environmental nations meet
As time passed, Valondor began reaching out to a nation what was named The Kingdom of Floria  (Changed to The Realm of Floria) -a nation located in Cymru, and opened conversations about another's culture, system of government , and ways of life. It turned out that Floria liked Valondor's system to where they changed their government to a Democratic Oligarchy as well! After some basic treaties signed, we decided to created a official alliance between our nations and adding a culture tie since we're so similar! The Blood-Bonded Alliance was highly agreed upon by both nations. and as a gift to Valondor, Floria gave away a amount of land with the requirement to be a embassy. Valondor accepted this and there created what's known as Spider Lily's Cove and the document called The Friendship deal, and was signed by both governments!

The land deal from Tortuga
After the fall of The Dutchy of Akrakia, Tortuga gained a large sum of land, to which Valondor reached out to see if they were willing to sell! To Valondors surprise Pirate Lord Ulifer, gave Valondor land free of charge as we are good friends with one another! This land deal was named Brotherly Land's! This land deal lead to the creation of the Province known as Parrot's Beak, Valondor's intentions of the land were to create a Trading Port along the coast of Parrot's Beak, whether they would be able to sustain the population down there due to it containing a disease called " Hufflatis " and caused severe rash and ear bleeding, often leading to death after 2 weeks of catching it. During this time period Valondor entered a Golden Era, meaning peace, tranquility, advancements in diplomacy, education, technology and Culture! Most importantly the amount of Diplomacy and Connections that were made during this period.

Creating new friends alike
Valondor, showing a new form of a stable democratic government , began to influence people around the world and it made its way to a nation name The United Provinces of Carvinia. After some discussion and friendly conversation, Carvinia asked for a NAP (Non-Aggression Pact) with Valondor, to which Valondor agreed since they were a democratic nation. As well Valondor sent back a Dual-Citizenship pact and was agreed on certain terms being Carvinia stays a Democratic Oligarchy. Then a few months past, and the leaders of Valondor and Friholm, that have been close ever since Valondor became a independent nation,, their love for piracy and the seas really brought the one another close. The Treaty of Elfenbankje was signed on February 14th, a day of love, and joy for all with the leader, Wassel, and Spades signing together then throwing a major banquet in the Capital of Friholm.

Floria's Intergration
After some time, The Realm of Floria's population dying of unknown sickness's and the government collapsing due to the large amount of unrest. Valondor and Floria already so close, Floria decided it would be best to just become apart of Valondor, through the Floria Integration document, Floria merged officially with Valondor, creating the provinces of Rose, Wisteria, Libertalia, and Azucena. This was to ensure that Floria's land did not go to the hands of greed. With the integration of Floria into Valondor, more pressure from the neighboring nation of the continent of Cymru would arise, and with Valondor gaining these lands, tension began to rise, and the Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa began to press for either peacefully buying, or through forcing, gaining the ancestral Florian land Valondor holds dear, the only thing preventing war between the IAU, and Valondor was Tortuga, a dear ally of both nations, had told the IAU to stop putting pressure towards their protectorate Valondor, for the time being it seems to of worked.

Revised constitution
With the recent major growth in land, people, and towns. It was beneficial to all of Valondor to revise and update our Constitution. Spades, the author of the Constitution proposed it on March 10th 2022, and was approved by the rest of the government on March 12th 2022. With this, The Valondori Constitution & Declaration of Independence was updated to current needs of Valondor. This Constitution was made with the intention to stand for all days and nights Valondor will see. Valondor after implementing the revised Constitution, began working more internal then doing foreign diplomacy for the time being.

IAU/Valondor land exchange
Times of tense relation between the IAU and Valondor were at a all time high as the IAU wanted Valondor's land holdings in Cymru to be their own, and were consistent with offers, such as money, a NAP, so on, to which Valondor declined. The response from the IAU was a threat of war. In order to avoid mass-war over land, the nations of Valondor and IAU came to a agreement, trading IAU's land holding in Sparrwood to Valondor in exchange for the Florian land Valondor owned in Cymru, along with the agreement of Avaria, the nation Valondor and Tortuga were about to go in conflict with, the land from after the battle would go to Valondor as compensation. The war between Tortuga and Avaria didn't last long, as the Avarians military wasn't organized enough to fend against the might of the pirates. The land was given to Valondor, to which created the modern province known today as Orthkol, and the Sparrwood land given to Valondor created the modern province known as New Lequta.

Ancestral pact
After the exchange between lands, Valondor offered a MDP to the Valondori-Florian ancestors that lived on the old land, which is modern day Eisenland. Eisenland and Valondor had cultural ties through our blood, and history with the IAU looming with non-appreciated force. The pact was then named  The Ancestral Pact  and signed by the leaders, the IAU did not like how Valondor had a treaty with Eisenland and wanted one themselves, so in order for the pact with Eisenland to be recognized, Valondor also signed a NAP with the IAU called the  Ryoujing Treaty .