Galitz

Overview
Galitz is a city located within the Holy Gertonian Empire, in the northern regions of the Nieden continent. The city was recently rebuilt and repopulated by Valendaesu, the city’s current leader and member of the Gertonian Imperial Council. It was originally founded by HaveNoFearr in March 2021.

Revival
Although much of Galitz’s history has been lost, it is known that the city was the former capital of Escania, a kingdom who’s former territories now belong to the Free Escharian State and the Holy Gertonian Empire.

On December 20, 2021, Valendaesu became leader of Galitz after FaBiolUs08, the leader of nearby Nikephoros, inherited the city after HaveNoFearr stepped down as leader. Around two months after inheriting the city, he gave it to Valendaesu. Over the next few days, Valendaesu worked to repopulate the city, bringing the population to 12 people. The citizens helped the effort in rebuilding the city, thus bringing back its lost beauty.

Conflict
Nearly a week passed since the complete revival of the city, and all seemed to be going well. On December 26th, Valendaesu was alerted by a citizen that there was a small town being built right outside of their gates. The town being built was Thanutabad, which was considered a squatter town at this point in time. The Escharian Empire, the nation Galitz was owned by at the time, ordered the people of Thanutabad to integrate into the Empire, or they would go to war. FaBiolUs08 made many attempts to peacefully integrate into Escharia, even signing a treaty making it official, but Thanutabad’s citizens did not cooperate as expected. Over the next couple of days, Thanutabad’s citizens would retaliate by destroying part of Galitz’s wall and killing one of the citizens. After a few days of constant griefs FaBiolUs08 had no choice but to respond by announcing that war would begin soon. Valendaesu had numerous talks with Thanutabad’s leader, TheManAndPlan47, to try and ease the conflict and to find an outcome that would please both sides. After many of these talks, the conflict would end and Thanutabad would be peacefully integrated into Escharia. To this day, Valendaesu and TheMan remain on very good terms. This event would come to be known as the Galitz-Thanutabad Escharian Crisis.

The Schism
After the Galitz-Thanutabad Escharian Crisis, The Empire of Escharia found itself at war with the Holy Gertonian Empire and many of its allies. Escharia wanted to annex the land splitting their continent in two, Tymarat. Seeing that Tymarat was an ally of Gertonia, the Empire came to their aid, and the Escharians surrendered. The result of the Escharian’s defeat was the Treaty of Jharana, which stated that Escharia could annex southern Tymarat in return for northern land that wasn’t being used. Unbeknownst to Emperor Valerian (Escharia) and Kaiser Jeremy (Gertonia), both Galitz and Thanutabad were in the areas of land sold. The people of these towns were outraged by this, and there was an immediate outcry for independence. Valendaesu consulted the Galitzian city council, who held a vote for independence. The vote was in favor of independence, 4 - 2. Later that same day, Valendaesu announced Galitz’s independence, and later did TheMan for Thanutabad. While both towns were preparing for the possibility of war, Kaiser Jeremy contacted Valendaesu. After hours of talking, they both cleared up the miscommunication and misinformation. They agreed on an outcome that the people of Galitz and Thanutabad were happy with, and on January 11th, both cities were fully integrated into the Holy Gertonian Empire.

The Anonymous Papers (Event)
In the early hours of February 12, the people of Galitz found papers at the foot of their front doors. It seemed to be a local newspaper, but nobody knew who wrote it. They talked amongst themselves trying to figure it out, when Valendaesu noticed the commotion. Val was informed of the situation, and confirmed that they weren’t the one who wrote it. What the paper seemed to contain was false information that could possibly cause unease within Gertonia. For now, the anonymous author hasn’t been identified and the papers are still being delivered throughout the city.

The Signal (Event)
Only ten days after the newspapers began appearing in Galitz, a radio signal began broadcasting a national emergency alert depicting a war between major empires and many of Gertonia’s allies. However, no such war was declared by any nation leader, and no conflicts exists or existed between Gertonia and these major empires. Many attempted to find the source of the signal, but all were met with no success.