Theocracy of Ardagia

Ardagia was a theocratic state in Sparwood. Founded in spring of 2021, it was formed from Hostina and a collection of people from an independent territory. The Acolytes of Hostina is the name for the religion composed of a pantheon of thirteen gods, each devoted to a certain food group (with exceptions).

Location
Ardagia was made up of a large peninsula in Sparwood. It once had a large border with Litowen, a former city-state in the region. Ardagia's peninsula is accessible through the Astyllean Sea.

Early History
Ardagia used to be a nation called Windrop. Since its founding, Windrop has been fraught with conflict. Its first conflict was with a settlement called Litowen, a small city-state of about 20, sitting south of the capital. After a cease-fire was declared, Litowen and Windrop were united in a commonwealth, which would later lead to some strife.

Shortly after, the Battle of Riverwall began. Windrop citizens had gotten into conflict with members of the House of Ellas, an ally of Litowen.

Ties degraded between the two city-states until full scale war broke out. On May 23rd, 2021, Windrop called it's allies together to defeat Litowen in a battle. The City-State was absorbed into Windrop, & renamed Vilnea.

First Great Defeat
Over the next two months, Windrop began collecting Money & Followers. With it's newfound power came paranoia however, as Windrop was used to near constant onslaught. Following a perceived threat by The Magisterium on it's borders, Windrop lashed out with a Border Skirmish.

Underestimating the response though, the Capital of Riverwall was quickly invaded & raided. In order to make sure his people could keep their holy land, Banana willingly signed a deal with The Magisterium on July 17, 2021, and Windrop was converted into a Province of the nation.

Reclaiming of towns
First town to be reclaimed was Biecol. Valiant came their and together with monke claimed it. A person from Azuria (CreativeFlag)came just to help build the main entrance but later became one of the well known bishops of Thenore..

Other towns were claimed such as Dzayatonn (now Kirchetia), Norttonn and Krastonn.

Iron Frog of Biecol
a long time ago a King of Litowen was relaxing in his town of Vilnea. He went for a walk and in one of the lakes found a creature that was half man and half frog. The king was startled but listens the creature out. The creature offers him either 1 week of diamonds, 1 month of gold or Iron forever. After short thinking, the man decides to go for iron forever.

The frog creature was never seen again neither the King is known today. You can still find iron in the area of Biecol today.

Seidora
Seidora is a town north of Hostina and was claimed by Squad (aka Atreus). He was given full autonomousy, but to the dissapointment of the entire goverment he misused his power and treated his town like it was a nation and tried to attack a squatter outside of the borders after ignoring the requests of the Prophets multiple times.

He then left and joined Astyllea and left a big dent in the nation of Ardagia.

Peace with Seidora
Peace was made on the 26th of March 2022. This was due to both sides giving eachother citizenships. Both sides were able to see that nobody wanted war from past chats. An apology letter was sent by AtreusX to Valiant

Norttonn Crisis
On the 20.04.22 Seidora declared war on Ardagia with the reason that Valiant was "plotting" against Seidora. No proof was ever sent of the plotting but the war would continue. Ardagia got together its forces and started building its defences in the capital of Hostina rebuilding the church of Hostina and more.

This was all done while Cerys Byrne was trying with all her might and amazing speeches to create peace between the two nations in the peninsula. At first AtreusX wasnt willing to cooperate but in the end the conflict was resolved peacefully and Seidora recieved a small piece of land from Ardagia for 100k.

War of Southern Krastonn
On 19.05.22 a group of people illegally settled on southern Krastonn and proclaimed their city of Narvick. The Prophets took notice of this and tried to communicate with them. All attempts of communication have failed and both sides started preapering for war. While the squatter nation struggled to find allies, Ardagia got into a coaliton with Azuria and a few volunteers lent their support. Seeing this the squatters quickly disbanded the nation have surrendered. They vouched to come back in the future and take their revenge on Ardagia. Slow decline and eventual fall of Ardagia

Fall of Ardagia and the Fracturing of the Peninsula
After Dyazatonn was reformed to be Kirchetia under Valiant, he invited two people to be town advisors, Hizen and Squid. Kirchetia started to develop rapidly under the new advisors. After Valiant expressed dissatisfaction in Ardagia, he wanted to leave the government and the peninsula. After Hizen and Squid were informed of this they came up with an idea. Fearing inactivity of the government, they organized a coup that would put them in charge as diarchs. Valiant was informed by this and after initially supporting the coup decided to inform the Council Members and CreativeFlag begun talks with Hizen and Squid, the negotiations broke down shortly after and Kirchetia declared themselves and independent state and formally declared war on Ardagia.

The first armed conflict was on the horizon and both sides tried their best to avoid escalation of the war but to no avail. Eventually diplomatic relations were cut and both sides started massing troops and the Battle of Hostina begun. initially defending the first wave of attack from Kirchetia, Hostinian defences couldn't hold on for much further and the second wave successfully breached the holy city. Hostina saw massive destruction in the war.

Ardagian Government discussed the possibility of a second battle but they had finally agreed on a planned collapse of the country with permission from city barons. And then Ardagia collapsed. CreativeFlag took the charge of newly established Commune of Norttonn along with the Priestness of Maithe, Vivian. L4zy, Urchin and Naoki established the Triumvirate of Eastern Loyalists containing the towns of Krastonn, Voxelia and Moledurr. Valiant himself took the charge of the Ardagian Racing Company (A.R.C) containing the towns of Biecol and Hostina. each new nation went under the protection of stronger nations, Norttonn and Eastern Loyalists getting under the protection of Grand Castell and ARC declaring themselves for Azuria.