Leodon

Leodon, officially the Duchy of Leodon, is one of the four counties within the Kingdom Galadonn. Leodon lies in the middle of Aldovir and shares internal borders with Carn in the east and Adavia in the south. It stretches from the Sea of Slaves in its west to the Astyllean Sea in the east. To the north it borders Sironia and to the South-West Lirgal. Leodon contains towns with various cultural influences such as Ryllean, Carnian or Sironian. It offers activity, culture, jobs and beautiful architecture and is the backbone of Galadonn. It is united under common goal of being a strong core-province of Galadonn.

Pre-Leodon
Before Leodon became its own political entity, it was the western part of the Caeronate of Carn. Under the Caeronate of Carn the foundations of most of Leodons towns were set, such as in Hartend (former Bentonia), Guslandia (former Synei), Winzeck (New Pudding), Licritia, Evansyllo, Purto_Marva (Morvanne).icrit

The Collapse of Carn
In a time of inactivity and general instabilty the leadership of Carn was banned permantly. This lead to the inital collapse of the Caeronate of Carn, which than would be annexed by the Pirate Empire of Tortuga. The Tortugan Leader at that time, Ulifer decided that he had no use with the inactive and abondend carnian lands and therefore decided to partion Carn into 5 parts and distribute them to the major powers of that region.

Galadonnian Expansion into Leodon
Through diplomacy and by financial means the Kingdom of Galadonn could acquire 3 of the 5 parts of Carns, while the other 2 were give to Adashira and later on to Sirnoia-Carn. Nowadays Leodon is mainly made up of the western part of Carn Galadonn acquired. Here settlers from Lagos, the only town Galadonn had until expansion into Carn, migrated and took over the mostly abandoned and often very run down towns.

The Beginning of Leodon
While the setteling into the eastern parts of Galadonnian-Carn was rather unsuccessful in the west Leodon swiftly became Galadonni even though being not connected to the rest of Galadonn. In the beginning the Leodon was rather densely populated with most of Galadonnis still residing in the capital Lagos.

The first time that Leodon would become its own political entity was when Galadonn after its Carnian expansion was reorganized into different Counties. The first name Leodon was known as was "Yellow County", but this was swiftly changed to Leodon/Leodonn in a royal decree by the King Cassius.

The first Count of Leodon would become Licrovan Ven Ishtara  who would hold on to power for multiple decades. During his Countship Leodon was rather unorganized as he let his town owners do what ever they want. While this Unorganisation was not much of a problem in the beginning it would later cause a stagnation and slow decline of Leodon, as Galadonn moved past one unitary state. With further expansions into Adavia, Volstronn, North-Carn and Vanakunir Galadonn underwent a transition in to a more decentralized Nation with the different County governments becoming more and more relevant.

The Golden Hartenese Age
With the reconstruction of Lagos Galadonn faced a severe housing crisis and therefore large portions of citizens moved to the various towns in Leodon. One town in particular would see a lot of new citizens: The town of Hartend. After the population growth it became clear that the town leadership would need to be reorganize as the old Earl Ferol Ven Ishtara was too inactive to properly govern the town. Therefore a new Duel-Earlship was established with Pablo Tippennsburg as Earl and Ferols grandson Ernst Ven Ishtara as Vice-Earl.

Pablo would focus on construction of the inner town of Hartend, thereby providing a lot of new housing while Ernst would recruit heavily to the town. This combination worked out extremely well for Hartend and soon an active community would develop around the town of Hartend. At its height the town of Hartend itself could population-wise overbid entire Provinces of Aldovir and would quickly earn the reputation for being the most active town in all of Aldovir.

The downfall of Hartend began when the 2nd Great Alteniquian War broke out just east of Hartend. Many citizens were panicked about the town of Hartend being attacked, as it has little defenses and was a big desire of Carn. Furthermore many people were concerned that one of the Earls could potentially switch sides and join the opposing “World Coalition” consisting of Viesten, Carn, Sirradra, Charm, Escharia, Ryzan and Hollowshire. Therefore many people from the town of Hartend evacuated in a hurry mostly to the Isle of Aradusu in the Phagosian Sea.

Shortly after the begin of the war the Vice-Earl Ernst Ven Ishtara got involved in the Coup of the Viestenese towns of Kalsirol and Rodheros. While the coup was a success in Rodheros, it failed horribly in Kalsirol and Ernst Ven Ishtara had to retreat after he had been severely injured. It took him a long time to recover from the injuries (tldr: he was banned for 3 months, than lowered to 1 month for couping Kalasirol on an alt account) and at the same time the other Earl Pablo became very occupied with helping in the war efforts and eventually decided to leave Hartend and sell it to Bongo, who would than transfer Hartend back to Ernst after Ernst had healed from his injuries (got unbanned). In an exchange Hartend Ernst would give Bongo the town of Aufei.

But when Ernst returned after this troubling time Hartend was just a shadow of its former self and the Golden Hartenese Age was over.

Post-War Great Depression
Although Galadonn and therefore Leodon emerged victorious from the 2nd Great Alteniquian War in the aftermath of the war Leodon, the core of Galadonn fell into a deep, never seen before depression. King Cassius of Galadonn had to deal more with the Empire of Yimmu-Audal, which Galadonn was a part of and therefore could not handle Galadonn. The second in command and hero of the 2nd Great Alteniquian War, souflood was banned shortly after the war ended. Many old Galadonnis left Galadonn and a new government system was introduced to handle the difficult situation in Galadonn. This new government though worked out poorly and the government became very inactive while active and far more productive politicians were demoted in their abilities. The King furthermore blocked Carn and Volstronn from acquiring more autonomy and began a purge of many active and by the community well liked citizens, making the situation even worse. Even the biggest supporters of Cass and Galadonn now began to loose hope.

The Return of the Savior
As Galadonn was at its lowest it has ever been a light at the end of the tunnel appeared with the former second in command, head of military and hero of the 2nd Great Alteniquian War, soulfood being unbanned after several appeal attempts. As Cass himself had lost interest in continuing his over one year going reign as King of Galadonn it was decided in a government meeting organized by soulfood that Galadonn would immediately start leaving the Empire of Yimmu-Audal, Cass would retire as Emperor of Yimmu-Audal and King of Galadonn and Soulfood would be made the new King of Galadonn.

In the beginning many feared that soulfood would make Galadonn into a heavy pvp-based nation and that old patterns of Galadonn early toxicity could come back, but with the situation in Galadonn already being horrible for many this was seen as the last hope.

On the first day as King Soulfood had a little incident where he was part of a Scam done by Galadonnis, which angered and confirmed the worries of many that toxicity would return. Although this ruff start Soulfood would turn out to become a very well liked King.

Soulfood understood the fact that Galadonn had developed beyond a unitary state and the need for more autonomy for the different counties. Now every County was allowed to have their own Discord, Carn was allowed to acquire a higher title than County and later on the capital was changed to Lestria. This satisfied the huge majority of citizens as they now didn’t had to live anymore under the iron first of Cass. Soulfood was not a big role player, worlbuilder or lore writer himself but he gave everyone the freedom to work on those aspects and even encouraged this. He reformed the government but this time far more effective and less strict than before. He also unexiled hard working citizens which would contribute in the rise of activity and economic power. Soulfood acquired large amounts of money and gear and build up strong diplomatic ties to major countries and merc groups and therefore secured the defense of now independent again Galadonn.

Chief Thomas (Title "Hero" awarded on 12-24-2023)
Expert curator, Leader of a black market, High Counciller and Founder of the Noble House of Chief, his name was Thomas. Born in a city that was soon destroyed, escaped without a family, survived the world of Rathnir, Thomas passed from city to city as a merchant. he made money with what he could, was chased by the old tribe until he found Galadonn. There in Galadonn, he became "The Curator". The best doctor in the Kingdom.

The foundation of the noble Chief House occurred many years earlier, when in the Kingdom of Krobun, Thomas and his friend Menalitus made a blood pact, starting the lineage.

Having concluded the agreements between the black markets and concluded his career as a doctor, Thomas decided to start a family. The last years of his life were spent in Galadonnia Castle, capital of Leodon, where he mentored his nephews. The last moments of his life were with some members of his family next to him, namely Chief Jack Forme Ven Ishtara and Chief Ernst Ven Ishtara, where he told them some things, still unknown today. The body was buried in the highest tower of Galadonnia Castle, which became "The Mausoleum of the Chiefs". Here, to this day, Chief Thomas rests in peace. This is the story of the 1st Hero of Leodon.

2° | The Countship of Ernst - Establishement of Leodon as County
Shortly before Soulfood became the new King, Ernst Ven Ishtara was appointed as new Count of Leodon and succeeded the half a year reign of Licrovan. With the Great Depression ending and more autonomy arising for the states trough the ongoing transition of power to soulfood, Ernst started to establish Leodon as a proper state for the first time in its history. Before Leodon only really existed on the paper but in reality was total anarchy. Therefore Ernst enacted many reforms and handled many issues which had never even been touched before.


 * Securing of the County borders: With a not functioning government before many parts of leodon were falsely claimed by other nations and counties and Ernst made sure to reclaim them or to at least certify the borders.
 * Enforcing of the Cornflower Accords: In the peace negotiations of the 2nd Great Alteniquian War, the town of Licrtitia was promised to be transferred to Leodon, but instead the town was deleted and the neighboring carnian town of Lantstein heavily overclaimed into Licritia, making it impossible to create a new Licritia. Ernst negotiated with Carn to remove the illegally claimed chunks and therefore Licrtitia could be refounded by Ernst.
 * Creating the County Discord Server for Leodon
 * Annexing the neighboring county of Halidon into Leodon, thereby establishing Leodon as the core County of Galadonn
 * Joined planning in construction efforts around Leodon
 * Assigning Earls for Galadonnia, Licritia, Iercresse
 * Founding the Great Church of Galadonnia
 * Regaining control over the town of Ythashrek
 * Starting negotiations over the the stolen town of Estonia (failed)
 * creating a comman
 * Annexing Vulpex Citadel
 * Renaming to Gusdom of Leodon With Ernst becoming old he decided that it was time to retire as Count and he appointed Cracker, Earl of Licritia as 3rd Count of Leodon.

3° | The Countship of Cracker - A transition
The term of Cracker as Count was quite short. Under his rule a process of modernization started and many towns were assigned with new leaders, while the remaining old town leaders started to leave. (Hartend, Guslandia, Ythashrek, Evansyllo).

When Cracker retired as Count suddenly, he lead the King Soulfood choose a successor: Chief Jack Forme Ven Ishtara.

4° | Duke Jack of Leodon - The new Generation
Chief Jack Forme Ven Ishtara, son of the 2nd Count of Leodon, Chief Ernst Ven Ishtara marked a new age for Leodon. With only being 19 years old when becoming Count, Jack would be the youngest Count of Leodon. While the former Counts were all old Galadonnis, which had been around since the foundation of the Kingdom, Jack was born just shortly after the 2nd Great Alteniquian War. With the transition of power to him came a wave of newly assigned Earls for almost all towns and a massive recruiting campaign to increase activity.

In an effort to renew the County of Leodon Jack reformed it into the Duchy of Leodon and was declared Duke of Leodon. With this government system the internal hierarchy was also reformed. In fact, Jack has established a new role, The Master. He started the "Return to Nature" operations by some members of the kingdom. During his Duchy, thanks to the help of numerous members and the king, Galadonnia was almost completely finished.

He incredibly strengthened the ties between citizens and mayors within the cities and furthermore, he kept the cities under control by appointing capable Earls. Jack Forme wanted a united Leodon, so in addition to strengthening bonds between people and creating an active community he has decided to establish a treasury of the duchy, to be used in case of need.

Jack Forme was the first person to award the title "Hero" to a citizen of Leodon. it's so called "Hero's Day" (24/12/2023), a day where the title of "Hero" is assigned to a person who contributed to the development, culture and evolution of the Duchy of Leodon.