Tortuga

The Pirate Dominion of Tortuga, commonly known as Tortuga, is a country founded by TheSexyCanadian and the founding pirates, JJCoolJ, BriSki, SaltySandi, _pant, and Koifish_boy. They traveled far and washed ashore the island that would soon be settled and known to Rathnir as "Tortuga Isle". However they soon found out that the land was occupied by The Akratian Empire. They tried negotiating independence from the Empire, but after coexistence was denied, they were forced to integrate into Akratia. Once Akratia had fallen, Tortuga was seen by the homeless and weary Akratians as a successor to their empire, and many towns once held by Akratia were annexed into Tortuga. Later on, The Grand Union of Sorligste joined Tortuga when they were under threat of annexation. Tortuga has been one of the strongest military power ever since.

Location
Tortuga is located on the south western peninsula in the continent of Sparwood and on the entirety of the Sorligste continent.

The Akratian Civil War
The Akratian Civil War was an internal conflict in the empire. Akratia was bordering up against Leythe. As Akratia wanted to expand into Leythe-ian territory, tensions began to rise. And both sides got ready for war. And on the 20 March, that's exactly what would happen. The Empire suffered a defeat, and many lost valuable stuff to Leythe-ian militia. This would be the starting point for internal conflict in Akratia. As people were losing fate in the Emperor, Neoz.

TheSexyCandian, now an oligarch. Was trying to help Neoz, but with no success. So he joined a rebel group, known as the United Federation. The situation in Akratia soon got out of hand, and it was on the blink of collapse.

Neoz started to give independence to the people who wished it. And so the Free States of Tortuga came to be.

Entropy Crusade
Soon after gaining independence, many Tortugans began to worship RumKnight and by consequence Entropy. This first started when RumKnight converted Sexy, Lub, Minty and a couple of other Tortugans and Viodoxans into his cult. During this conversion they were betrayed and attacked by Sxowry and TylerLikesAnime who were then fought off by Rumknight. A temple to entropy was then built by Lub in order for the Tortugans to have a place of worship on their island. Quickly, the rumors of this cult of Entropy began to spread and caught the eyes of Athaz the Traveler. Athaz visited the island in order to persuade Sexy to end his worship, but to no avail. A few days later, a crusade was waged against the island of Tortuga in order to cleanse the evil cult and any worship of entropy from the island. Many forces of the world (bardonians, aurorans, etc..) joined together in order to fight the pirates. In addition to their many allies the Tortugans even got the help of the Soleannan Spirits to fight off the invaders. The war ended in a loss for Tortuga and the Entropy temple was forcefully converted to an Athaz Temple.

First Expension
While Tortuga thrived, the neighbouring nation of Akratia was in a dire state. Filled with rebellions and threats of destructions from nations all over the world, Akratia disolved. Tortuga, having good relations with many akratians took half of the now dead nation's land. This led to Tortuga changing it's name to The Free States of Tortuga. A first flag was finally made to celebrate the event.

War against the world
Later on in it's life, Tortuga associated itself with a group named Ulfaeng. During this time, the great warriors of Ulfaeng joined Tortuga as citizens forming a great mutual beneficial alliance between Tortuga and Ulfaeng. Due to this, when Loic (one of the past archon of Viodoxa) came back to claim the throne of Viodoxa that was currently held by Valen Tortuga decided to supported his claim. The return of Loic was not one that alot of people supported, due to this Tortuga found itself at war against almost the entire world (The map shown here is not complete, Theois-Essukdal, The Grand Union of Sorligste, Leythe and a couple more nations can be added).

Second Expansion
On July 14th 2021, Tortuga absorbed The Grand union of Sorlgiste into its empire, effectively doubling its geographical size. Later, at the beginning of August, a new national flag design was announced to reflect this change.



The Third Coalition War
The Pirate Empire of Tortuga took part of The Third Coalition War that took place against Bardonia and the allium. More information can be found here: Third Rathnir Coalition

Uniting Sorligste
On September 9th 2021, The Pirate Empire of Tortuga bought the land formelly known as Osteria from The Magisterium. Later that day The Pirate Empire of Tortuga united with the Admirality of Greenland in order to truly unite Sorligste under one banner (Greenland, owned by Swiggan).

Dissolving Sorligste
Soon after The Pirate Empire of Tortuga united Sorligste under a single Banner, Sexy decided, to give freedom to those, who want freedom. And like that, Atopolis and Norvos left and Frostmarch and Pyylandia became vassal States of Tortuga and Tortuga renamed itself to The Pirate Dominion of Tortuga.

The second Dissolvation
Months have past until Sexy messaged all the captains and asked if they want indepence. This was an Action he did because he planned to retire and be more inactive. A few regions accepted the deal like Borhammar, Loria, Nair, Lorent and Soumere (which united with Lorent to one state). After Pirate Lord Sexy retired, his first daughter Salty Sandi took on the title of Pirate Queen. Soon after, she also retired and made Ulifer the new Pirate Lord.

Rebuilding of Tortuga
After the leave of Pirate Lord Sexy, Tortuga's population took a dip with many of the regions leaving to become their own nations. Ulifer was left with a big and important task of keeping Tortuga alive, a job which he did wonderfully.

With Ulifer as the Pirate Lord, population started to climb back up and new region started to join Tortuga. Indeed, Tortuga went to war with akratia and claimed all of their land due to the akratians constant barrating of Tortuga and it's people. In addition to this, Floria decided to join Tortuga in order to escape the dangers of the Viodoxan Civil war.

Government
The Pirate Lord, takes all the decisions for the country. However a council was put in place for each region to vote in a council man, to help guide the Pirate Lord in the right direction. The country in it self is a loose federation that doesn't seek peace, but also tries to stay out of war. That means the nation is known to make many alliances with other countries but also get in conflicts.

Leaders of Tortuga:

 * Father of Piracy Sexy
 * Pirate Queen Salty Sandi
 * Pirate Lord Ulifer

Notable Pirates:

 * Father of Piracy Sexy
 * Pirate Queen Salty Sandi
 * Pirate Lord Ulifer
 * Lub (The first First Mate of Sexy)
 * TylerVR (vanquisher of Tortilla)
 * Lin (Commodore and Princess of Tortuga)
 * Talon Kaine (One of the first Tortugans)
 * Galov (First Mate of Tortuga)
 * Icey (First Mate of Tortuga)

Towns
Tortuga Isle - The Capital

Auszan - Pirate Port Town

Silver Dragon - Military Fort

Serpent's Peak - Religious Haven

Akratia - Defensive Stronghold

Inasta - Port Town on the Talor Peninsula

Tinkari - Farming town

Sake Den - Asian themed port town

Nonami - Peaceful port town

Valanapon - Small port town

Leviathan - Jewel of Kakaros

Allies
Military Pacts:


 * Aldovir (SSP)
 * Aatyeli (SSP)
 * Empire of Uldarash (SSP)
 * The Pirate State of Barbossa

Defensive Pacts:

Vassals:
 * Friholm
 * Greenland
 * Goondium
 * Borhammar
 * Simulami
 * Valanapon
 * Khand
 * Golden Union of Akratia
 * Banshee's Wail (The Dread Fleet)

Folklore
Being a pirate nation, Tortuga is a place where many cultures converge together to form many folktales and folklore. Here are some of them: Tortuga Isle is said to have been built on top of the corpse of a giant Leviathan, specifically a giant turtle. Hence the name of the iconic island. A giant skull can be seen on the south side of the island. In addition, a town called Leviathan (in the region of Kakaros) is said to also have been built next to the lair of another of those mysterious and rare creatures.

Fauna and flora
The Tortugan Bearded-Penguin  These little penguins waddle around the coasts and docks of Tortuga Isle. They have no fear of humans and feel a strong connection to bearded people. They especially love having their beards combed and somehow can drink beer without dying.

(credit to Talon Kaine)

The Kokokrem. A small purple gremlin thing that lives within coconuts.

(credit to Talon Kaine)

The Kokokral are just Kokokrem that have a dominant normally recessive gene that makes their skin red and lets them breathe deep underwater. More importantly, they can live in almost anything, they just slowly grow into bigger things. From coconuts, barrels, houses and maybe even whole ships. Luckily, most dont live for long, and due to their red skin rarely ever spread their seed. On very rare occasions, they can inhabit and grow into whole ships. The largest one ever recorded was 543m long and was found hibernating in a mountain island. The explorers were to scared to leave the thing alive and rigged the island with explosive, destroying it and the Kokokral.

(credit to Talon Kaine)

The Kelp Lurker is a underwater beast that hides in the kelp, waiting for people to swim over. It then grabs their legs and drags them into their den. Most commonly found in Kelp Forests, natural or man-made. (edited)

(credit to Talon Kaine)