Free Castle

Free Castle was a squatter settlement in the Aldovir Peninsula, located to the north of The Lunar City State of Lirgal and west of the Sironian city of Asalath. During its existence, it was considered to be an illegal proxy claim by the Sironian government and as such was removed by administration.

It was originally founded in December of 2021 as a small squatter town inside the territory of the Empire of Aldovir (later Astyllea). While its Lunari inhabitants claimed that the castle was destroyed and looted by Astyllean forces, Sironia maintains that the castle's former inhabitants agreed to abandon it voluntariy.

It was later found by Arkanae Morningstar, who resettled it with Lunari PvPers on orders from the government of Lunaris.

History
The Lunari inhabitants of Free Castle fabricated a historical background on which to place their claims. This was done by inventing the Kingdom of Lóthra, which was said to have controlled the northern Aldovir peninsula, and was created in order to potentially expand claims over all of Sironia. The veracity of these claims has been disproven by Sironian archaeologists and historians, as there is no historical evidence for the existence of Lóthra. Free Castle was therefore supposedly created as a fortification against "Sagaviri invaders" and claims that it was one of the main settlements that served as a point of resistance against the rise of the Empire of Sagavir, although it is common knowledge that Sagaviri tribes in fact inhabited all of Aldovir before the Asara tribe united them.

It further invented Barony of Anráce, which supposedly would have prevailed the fall of Lóthra, being protected by the marshland and the hilly terrain that surrounded it. The settlement was called Kaithráce, now translated as Free Castle, to express their continuted opposition to native Sironian rule over their own territory. Local claims of the destruction of the settlement by Astyllean forces were also fabricated, as the settlement was abandoned after its former squatter inhabitants came to an agreement with Sironian authorities.