Tsaeloma



The Kingdom of Tsaeloma (Traveler's Tongue: Kingdom of Shaloma) located in the north-eastern side of Cymru. It stretches from Adytum all the way to the Valroni swamp.

It is now a province inside of the IAU (Imperial Archonial Union)

Pre-Shaloma
Right when the VIR (Valderach Imperial Republic) fell apart, and the remaining supporters of the republic where persecuted. On an attempt of hiding from war and murder. Some citizens of the VIR refused leaving their homeland in Cymru, and decided they would hide underground until returning to the surface was safe enough.

But as time passed by, and old generations died of old age. The tales of war started a fear of the surface among young Shalomakiis. And thus, as leaders started to come and go, none of them wished to return to what once was home; for now they had a safer place to sleep in.

Pre-Archonial Shaloma
Shaloma became a nation the 16th of February of 2020, (the city state of Aund ron de Sloog existed for way before that) as the Republic of Shaloma. The young nation was composed of 10+ citizens at the time, its highest numbers reaching 30+.

Annexation of Shaloma
On Febuary of 2021, Shaloma and Viodoxa made contact for the first time. Valen McSpiegel contacted King Richard Amphed to have a meeting in the city of De Sloog. The King thought of the meeting as a simple one on one conversation. But to his surprise, Archon Loic dem Spheniscidae and Valen brought 12 troops to the meeting, intimidating the king and the citizens of the capital.

On the other hand, the right hand man, and the Archon where quite surprised to see the city, and the clear sight of Shaloman culture. Heads. Valen McSpiegel had told King Richard a while after the encounter "We thought you where head hunters because of all the heads, we were actually scared.".

The meeting ended in an agreement from the king and the provisional council of Shaloma to join the government and the Archonate of Viodoxa. Even though they agreed, Shaloma was purposely intimidated and that the Shalomans would not take lightly. This created a little rivalry between Shaloma and Adytum.

The Shaloman-Adytum rivalry started when Shaomakiis killed all the chickens of the neighboring province. Not only that but shalomakiis stole various objects of Valentum. The De Sloog government agreed to build a massive wall to protect itself from the people of Valentum.

First Purple Insurrection
The first purple insurrection was lead by Loic and the province of Shaloma. After Adytum tried to annex the whole province of shaloma. Without the king's approval, by imperial decree.

King Richard Amphed asked Tortuga for help in a revolution, in exchange of the Shaloman kingdom becoming a Tortugan province. The situation escalated into a full civil war, with the Kingdom of Shaloma joining the TVA led by Loic and Tortuga.

(More information about the conflict in "Viodoxa")

End of the first Kingdom
After the first purple insurrection, the provinces of the old Viodoxan Archonate where free once again. The Shaloman people however where seen as traitors, and diplomatic efforts where not getting through the other old provinces. The kingdom was left alone for some time, untill the TVA and the old provinces agreed to unite under the second Archonate of Viodoxa.

In this new Archonate, the kingdom saw its new golden age under the new royal family the Spheniscidaes. The city of Blakwater became one of the most populars in the archonate and started to regain that old life to it. But it all ended when the reformist society civil war happened, and multiple grieffings occurred at blackwater and De Sloog at the same time. These left the city in ruins until the J horde (minority ethnicity at the time)took over, and the Kingdom of Shaloma was lost to this new rising power.

The Second Shaloman Kingdom: Rise from the Ashes
During the Arduous Campaign that led to the second battle of Viodoxa City (Second Siege of Viodoxa City) Shaloma under the leadership of its new King Oliver Lluvia Dem Spheniscidae declared independence and rose up against the The Third Archonate and broke free from Adytish (Adytum) rule. After the end of the war and the liberation of Cyrmu a new Generation of Shalomans began to repopulate the province

Loicism and Cyrmuists: Challenges of a new Kingdom
Under the rule of Oliver the New Shaloma solidified its borders by Allying with the other sovereignties on the continent. Hávi Asagrim and Flavius Justinianus supported Lord Oliver as he proposed to declare war on the also newly liberated The J Horde who broke away from the Archonate way before Shaloma. Shaloma seeing a rightful claim to its lands and justified by the Imperial Archonal Union, the kingdom was prepared to fight J-Horde for their land. However new ideologies of Viodoxa would lead to a change in plans. In the latter half of the Age of Isolation (See here: Chronicles of Rathnir) a new rising ideology of Loicism ( Def: Locism is a term used in Shaloma to describe those who sided with Loic after the civil war. They favored total unification of Cyrmu. "Cyrmuists" was a slang term developed to describe those who were "anti-locists") was rapidly populating throughout the continent. It was the idea that Cyrmu had the right to be unified under Viodoxan rule. The folding pressures of Loicism folded Shaloma into the Union Willingfully. The Conflict with J-Horde was put on hold.

Era of Reconstruction
With the now Province of Shaloma brought under the control of Archon Cube and Regent Archon hiiro the province began its repopulation and its reconstruction. While not directly effected by the war the land had been abandoned for some time and needed renovation. In the East J-Horde had been undealt with and allowed to fester. With the help of Hiiro, Oliver managed to integrate J-Horde by threat of war. after 5 days of long conversations the Wordesh Settlement was put into effect with terms that were favorable and un-favorable to both sides. Tensions surrounding this settlement would only bring Shaloma closer to war.

Shortly after the integration Rican was named as the Capital of the province. Moving it from De Sloog Oliver built up a newly urbanized and modernized city. In the south the ascension of the Silvish Industrial Revolution had brought on a new age to Shaloma. Keen people such as Hávi Asagrim had helped with the exportation of the revolution to Shaloma and the revolution of Shaloma into a modern and Urbanized state leading the pack with Tovarisha and Silvay.

Shaloman-JHorde Conflict
With Industry and production now prevalent in Shaloma the Province was ready to tackle the J-Horde Problem. J-Horde had constantly defied the aforementioned Wordesh Settlement and soon declared full independence from Shaloma. Hostilities immediately broke out as a mass exodus from J-Horde began with notable people such as Cassiath Bakura, weddell and CorvusKuba joining the Shaloman Cause. Small skirmishes began and soon a full campaign drawn up by the likes of Hiiro was used to insinuate the Siege of BabaJ.

Newer Technology allowed for union forces to overwhelm to the breaches of BabaJ. Once BabaJ had been Captured and retruned to rightful rule under the name of Wordesh the conflict ended after the Enemy Leader pug seceded Red Waters of J and Occupied De Sloog lands to Alihas dem Spheniscidae after a payment of 30k was made by Cassiath Bakura. With this an agreement was reached and J-Horde was Expelled. Shaloma was now fully united and modernized ushering in a new era.

After the battle Oliver Proclaimed "We've won. Wordesh has had the ever living J beaten out of them. The reaper is coming for the J-Horde and he will not be stopping" this line would Define his career as Lord. On a larger scale the consequences of this war would be felt. Many pitfalls would forcefully push the Union on a path of reforms and an Anti-Squatter Policy would be adopted by now Regent Archon Havi. Shaloma would be prominent in the new Era.

Shaloman conflicts
Shaloma has been inside many conflicts, most of them where mostly unknown and short-lived


 * Dormirsia - Shaloma war
 * Blackwater - Sloog conflict
 * Emerald conflict (Valentum siege)
 * Entropy battle
 * Shaloma + TVA - IAV (also known as First Purple insurrection)
 * 3rd Coalition War (Under Viodoxa)
 * 2nd Kingdom of Shaloma - J horde (Feb. 27th-March 26th)

Culture
Shaloma's culture is referred to as Shalomakii (Travelers tongue: Children of Shaloma) it has two subcultures. The Slaekii (Travelers tongue: Children of Sloog) and Hantseakii (Travelers tongue: Children of Hanzeizh). Slaekii are the native people of the zone, related to tee old VIR and the Valdreacher people.

On the other hand, Hantseakii are the creole mixture of Hanzeian and Slaekii ethnicities. The creole culture ended up being the most prominent and most advanced in the area, turning Slaekii into a minority ethnic group.

Customs
Shalomans have very unique customs. The most famous one is the well known Shaloman Spar

Food
Shaloman food is rich on proteins, specially on protein D and B. It usually very spicy, since the only available spices in the underground where paprika, and salt. Other spices where usually very rare, and considered exotic. Most crops in Shaloma grow massive ammounts in the summer time, so the summer is the perfect time to have big feasts.

Usual ingredients:
The most common ingredients in Shaloma are: Red and Brown mushrooms, Beans, Peas, glow berries, glow berry leaf, salt, potato, tomato

Unusual ingredients:
Lamb (Meat in general)

Prohibited food:
Any type of pig related dishes.

Yellow heart soup
Ingredients: Red and brown mushrooms, dandelions, water, glow berry sauce, paprika, salt, lamb (very rarely)

Dandelion tea
Dandelion tea is a very sour tea made in de sloog caverns. It is said to have roots on the old VIR, which took the recipee from the Bardonian republic.

Ingredients: ''Dandelions, boiling water. (Sometimes, shaloman kids add slaeg ant honey to make the tea easier to drink.)''

For more info on dandelion tea check "dandelion tea"

Glow berry tea
Glow berry tea is a very sweet tea that's often eaten alongside paprika. It has a thick texture, almost honey-like. Some say that the glow berry tea makes children grow up to have better eyesight, but it has never been properly studied.

Ingredients: Glow berry leafs and vines, Glow berry juice, paprika.""

Language
''Shaloma's spoken languages has evolved from VIR cymru dialect. Its sound is characteristic from its neighbour viodoxa's dialect because of how slaekii people where alone underground isolated.''

Slaetsoneg
The native language of the region. It ended up becoming a minority dialect, in modern times, you can only hear it in De Sloog and its sorroundings.

Dursvardtsoneg
Once the hanzeizh immigration hit northern cymru, due to the proximity and anexation of Shaloma into the Viodoxan empire, aprocess of cultural assimilation happened in the region. The Slaekii culture mixed and the language became a mix between Hanzeizh and Slaetsoneg. This is now the prominent language of the region.