Grandia

The Archduchy of Grandia, or simply Grandia is an autonomous division of Yimmu-Audal, is located on Rathnir and was founded by Relmont. It is presently led by archduke V0idf1sh_.

Foundation
Once while travelling along the coast of Azuria the travelling merchant ship had crashed into some rocks. No port for miles they had to make camp. While sleeping, Relmont had dreamt of a man digging into the ground where the merchants had camped and finding a chest of immense amounts of riches out of which a massive tree grew, growing on it gold and diamonds. Not knowing of what this dream meant Relmont went to a witch not too far from where they camped of which he had heard of. The Witch told him the dream meant that there a city would be  a city of riches. Relmont knew that this was a sign from the Gods to build a grand city, a city of those riches the centre of the Rathnir economy. Many convincing took for the Merchants to settle here but eventually they did. They started building the city called Grandia “city of merchants”. Crowing Relmont as the Archduke of the city. Eventually the city grew to the Archduchy of Grandia.

Establishment of Nathria
Grandia had been considering an expansionist venture on Eldham after the opening of the server in order to increase income of their government, and this eventually came to be as they had assisted the Second Coalition during the Second Coalition-Ellysian War resulting in them being allowed to set up a colony by the name of Nathria out of former Ellysian territory. On June 23rd, 2021, MeltdownLou was elected as the Colony Governor. On October 31st, 2021 the colony would gain its independence under the rule of the third governor of the colony Micc and merge with the nation of Yuvaria into Yunria.

Foundation of other main Grandian towns
Grogonia - The original settlers came after their old nation, Grentatia, was destroyed in a Great War. They drifted for many years until they found refuge in Grandia. They were proud and strong people who survived much and couldn’t be in a city not of their own. So they bought out the alcohol stalls and followed the coast all the way to an unsettled mountain range on a secluded and defendable island. Here they created there city of Grogonia. Eventually the people of Grogonia integrated into Grandia.

Dendalis - The people of Dendalis are settlers from the city of Grandia. Sick and tired of not being able to grow anything in the bad soils of the surrounding city area and of the stagnate colours of the area they left to settle a new city near Grandia in a plains biome where they would be able to practice farming, husbandry etc. They created a city called Dendalis "city of nature".

Ethala - Once at night a meteor fell from the sky hitting the ground and creating a crater where Ethala stand now. Some people hearing the crash from the near by citys Grandia included, rushed to see what had happened. After arriving to the area they saw the meteor and the purple light shining from it. They where hypnotized by the purple light, it seemed to have casted a spell on them of some sorts. Eventually the people created the city in the crater tempted to study the meteor and its magic creating the city of Ethala "city of magic".

Independence and joining of Yimmu-Audal
Grandia gained its independence on 27/10/2021 after Frosterium disbanded, paying BacktoTheHub 300K.

The present Archduke V0idf1sh_ and some higher ups had decided to join Bardonia but another group lead by Relmont the founder and first Archduke, argued to join Yimmu-Audal the discussions where heated but eventually with the intervention of Yimmu-Audal, Grandia joined the nation as an autonomous duchy.

Government
The government of Grandia is an absolute monarchy led by archduke V0idf1sh_.

other ranks are:

Jezter is the highest judge in all of Grandia. His duties are to oversee all court cases and to accept or deny citizenship to people.

Hertugs(diplomacy, economy, war) are the archduke's advisers in there respected sphere. There duties are to advise the archduke in there sphere related matters or execute policys in there respected sphere.

Archsage is the person that oversees all education all artistic activity. His duties are educate the nations people, spreed knowledge, arts across all of Grandia and document the history of Grandia.

Geography
The city of Grandia is located in a spruce forest biome bordering the Atsyllean Sea in the Alteniquia continent. The nation has both a spruce and a mega spruce biome in its borders.

Culture
There is a culture phenomenon amongst the Grandians involving a praising of wealth as a result of the former ultra-capitalist nation of Azuria Grandia was located in and the travelling merchants that settled Grandia.

The Grandians are a very maritime based culture, having one of the best sailors in all of Rathnir. Because of the maritime culture and that most Grandian citys are located near the sea the main cousin of Grandia are fish.

The Grandians see freedom as a very important thing this is of the travelling merchant influence. Because of this the archduchy of Grandia has full freedom of religion not even having a state one, freedom of speech, thought, expression. The Grandians are a very tolerant people accepting all races, all beliefs.

Vexillology
The flag of Grandia is primarily made up of a navy blue representing the nearby Atsyllean Sea and sailor culture of the region crossed in white representing peace at last. There is a shield with a golden frog on it as frogs are the national animal and represent wealth. The crown above the shield represents the monarchy of Grandia. The two leaves represent the land of Grandia.