League of Vircon

The League of Vircon, previously known as the Coalition of the Bay of Peace, or as the League of the Bay of Peace, was a league of states cooperating and defending each other, most of them were part of the region known as the Drakeslands, in Eldham. It was foundedon on the 30th of July 2021 and dissolved on 5th of January 2022.

Origin
The League of Vircon was founded on the 30th of July 2021, as the Coalition of the Bay of Peace, by representatives of Puerto Amarillo, Nidaros, Smegslands, and New Haven, notably Lhytt Poliorcetes and Hulmeswar, right after the last autarch, Tiffany Canalopin, dissolved the Drakaen Concordat.

The Coalition immediately had to face a war. Except Nidaros, all of its members fought against Jorvick and Mugen, after the nidarosean attempts to reach peace failed. The Coalition lost. The defeat had no consequence on Smegsville, Nidaros, and Puerto Amarillo, but caused New Haven to be annexed by Mugen.

In the short time between the end of the war and the complete annexation of New Haven, the first rules of the coalition were written by Soronaca Trichechi. The rules stated that the role of the Coalition was to guarantee the independence of each member state. After a proposal from Roland Sien, the name changed from "coalition" to "League of the Bay of Peace".

The Smegslands eventually left the Coalition too, peacefully becoming a vassal of Barbossa.

Towards the League of Vircon - The Formalisation
After that came a quite peaceful period for the League as a whole. Amarillo and Nidaros may have had problems, but the League as a whole didn't.

When Northwich gained independance from Nidaros, it instantly joined the League. Then the League intervened in a conflict for the first time since the war against Jorvick during the Northwich-Tamarin war, which was a complete victory.

The League also began to gain allies, such as Jorvick, its former enemy.

Delta Sien wrote the new constitution of the League, which would make it become the League of Vircon, with the help of Soronaca, at the time president of Amarillo, and Vix, king of Nujh (at the time still called Northwich). When the constitution was finished, a meeting was organised at Puerto Amarillo to sign it. During this meeting, Tiffany Canalopin was almost assassinated. Except that, it went well : the League of Vircon was born.

The beginning of the League of Vircon
The League quickly attracted new members, like Neo Drakaes, and new allies, like Avaria and Yuvaria, its former vassal

The member states started collaborating further, as when they all declared BestGoalie, a traitor to Nujh, enemy of their states, or when workers from Amarillo helped build the Stadium of Nidaros.

Meanwhile, tensions between Amarillo and Andliria rose, to the point that the League's leadership was worried about a possible war. Eventually, Soronaca negociated with Andliria's emperor, CrazyMinecrafter and, after realising that almost all of the tensions were due to misunderstandings, proposed a non-aggression pact not only with Amarillo, but with the whole League, to Andliria, which they accepted.

As Soronaca found his settlement, a new momentum was given to the League's hunt of BestGoalie. Lhytt Poliorcetes and Soronaca, later joined by Delta Sien and Tiffany Canalopin, followed his trail to Arador, as they learnt someone hired him to kill the mayor, Panorh. Sadly, he didn't show up at Arador like he was supposed to. BestGoalie had escaped the League once again.

Kibris
Several countries of the League participated in the first battle of Kibris, which ended in stalemate.

The Nido Games then happened, and because of that, the League wasn't able to launch another big attack on Kibris, but it still prepared for it. Several small skirmishes took place, the biggest one finishing with Vix and Angel Stoyanov, leader of Jorvick, being hurt. During these preparation times, the League improved a lot its diplomatic relations with Catania and Uraka, due to Mr Ananas also causing trouble in their territory. When Amarillo attacked Kibris a second time, the whole League and Uraka were also present. Kibris was beaten, and when Ananas finally accepted surrender, Soronaca took his place as governor, only to oversee the fort's destruction.

After Kibris
Between the two battles, Catanian people discovered that the sea level was suddenly rising in the Drakaen Sea. Tio, from Catania, and Soronaca, quickly joined by Salazer Van Den Green, launched the contruction of dams all around the Drakaen Sea, to prevent the water to rise more into other oceans. The dams were supposed to be a temporary solution to the problem, but since no better answer was found, the dams can still be seen to this day.

The situation being finally normal again, the League could focus on expanding, and on cooperation between members. Lifecoach's road project, started after the non-aggression pact with Andliria, could continue, and the League accepted several new members, including Andliria.

Delta also stepped down from her role as Secretary General, and a vote was organised to choose the new Secretary General, and the new Secretaries. Soronaca Trichechi was elected Secretary General, and Green, Tiffany Canalopin, Delta Sien, Ocelton Fairfax, and FortyTwo were appointed secretaries.

The Lafros-Merconis conflict
While the League was negociating with the nation of Merconis to join it, the city-state of Lafros, illegally established on Andlirian land, declared war on it. The League, already willing to incoporate Merconis, instantly aided Merconis. The whole League declared war on Lafros, and several of its allies did to, such as Catania, Yuvaria, and, even though it wasn't made official, Uraka. Even nations that weren't officially allied with the League or Merconis joined, like Hvirtland or The Pale.

Seeing that they would be completely overwhelmed, the people from Lafros asked for peace. They agreed to the ultimatum sent by the League : they had to pay reparations, and to join Andliria.

Big changes
The League finally found out why the sea was rising, and began to prepare a war against kelp to solve the issue, with the hope that every Eldham nation would join the effort. Sadly, Vircon couldn't find a moment to do it because of more pressing matters.

In the war between Merconis and the Zamotz Union, The League of Vircon tried to reach peace, and wanted to support its member Merconis, but finally decided to stay neutral because most of the committee didn't approve Merconis' attitude and lack of communication. The League still allowed volunteers to help Merconis and USSE, and a lot of them came.

On the 12th of November, the League lost simultaneously six members. Viixy, one of Valreach's kings, plotted against Uraka. Though Vircon had no idea about what was going on, Uraka accused them and three out of four Uraki vassals in the League left : Catania, Kaaniyu, and Paviledo. Two other countries left, Katolis and Taernsbia, because they didn't see anymore the benefits of staying in the League. Finally, New Yoake sold its land to Skjoldrbrodir. Uraka admitted that they were wrong when accusing Vircon, but the harm was already done...

The League of Vircon launched a period of reforms, and some people in it, including the Secretary General Soronaca Trichechi, still waited for the appropriate time to launch the kelp war. Catania joined the League back.

On the 21st of November, a vote was organised and new secretaries and a new secretary general were appointed. Salazar Van Den Green became the Secretary General.

A week later, as a consequence of the Surif Conflict, Merconis had to leave the League.

The kelp war
The period that followed was extremely calm, until High King Vin of Valreach discovered that in Catania, near Sora, water rose a lot more than expected. The previous secretary general, appointed as general commander in advance for the kelp war, Soronaca, asked the committee to declare it as soon as possible, since it became a true emergency. The League did so, and Soronaca declared war on kelp on the third of december.

Organisation
The League was composed of member state. Each member state leader, and also sometimes foreign affairs minister or second in command had a seat at the Virconian committee : the leadership of the league. When the League had to take important decisions, like intervening in a conflict or accepting a new member, the committee held a vote. Each nation had one vote, and the secretary general had one too.

The secretary general was not a leader, since all the major decisions needed to be voted on. He was just the highest representative of the League as a whole. The regular secretaries could also represent the whole League during negociations.

In times of war, the committee appointed a General Commander, whose role was to lead the League's forces into battle.

The allies were supposed to help the League during a defensive conflict, and the League was supposed to help them in an defensive conflict, but they did not have a seat at the committee, and they did not often participate in further collaboration, even though they could have if they wanted.

Name
The League's name originated from the strait of Vircon, which separates Valreach from Amarillo.