Drakonia

The Erz Königreich Draakonien or High Kingdom of Drakonia (or simply Drakonia) is a vassal of the Simulami Empire, formerly known as Order Müvielle, residing in the North-Western Mountains (Drakonian Mountains) of Nieden. It consists of citizen called Drakonians.

The blood war
While many may have not noticed them, the Drakonians have roamed Rathnir since an age that now is barely remembered. Before most lifeforms, Rathnir was inhabited by Dragon gods, many Dragons and a few non-Dragon gods. It is said that all of these beings mostly lived in the north and south of Rathnir. These Dragons, Dragon gods and non-Dragon gods left Rathnir to live in other Planes of Existence. After they left they had a war, now called the Blood War. Many Dragons and gods died in the Blood War. As an act of peace, the Dragon gods and the non-Dragon gods created the Drakonians. Drakonians have either lived deep underground or as nomads that hid at day and only moved at night. A few individuals started even living in secret amongst other Rathnirians. This first started out of fear and then became a tradition.

The Age of Isolation and the end of the first three tribes
The origin of what is now called “The Age of Isolation” came after the first (and for a long time, last) Drakonian settlement on the surface was destroyed by one of the last Dragon gods that lived on Rathnir. She was the Goddess of Change, Nihildriel, who was banished by the other gods to the plane of eternal night and frozen time, Nihilheim. This was after Nihildriel declared war on the three major Drakonian tribes and destroyed all their settlements as she thought that the Drakonian tribes were unwilling to change anything. This was true, at the time, as Drakonian technology had stagnated and there were so many resources that Drakonians did not even have to move anywhere else to acquire anything they needed. Because of this, Nihildriel burned down the three tribal realms of the Draaken Khaganate under Khaness Gryndra “the Founder”, the tribal Conferdaration of Goldengemme and the Draakenblüüt state of Sanctum.

After she destroyed the settlements and was banished to Nihilheim, the Drakonians were left in shock. The people of the Draakenkhaganate that lived in northern Nieden at the time began moving south and started living underground. First to protect themselves from potential attacks and later out of tradition. They also migrated underground to more easily gather massive amounts of resources to smith the finest tools in all of Rathnir, which sometimes made their way onto the surface. The people of Goldengemme scattered, integrating themselves secretly into other races and hiding their true appearance. Lastly, the people of the Draakenblüüt state of Sanctum started living as nomads, only moving at night or trough mist. The Age of Isolation that Nihildriel caused, was the exact opposite she hoped for, she wanted the Drakonians to develop, start new realms, compete with the other races and ultimately bring change into this world. Instead, she saw how the Drakonians stagnated and did not change anything in the greater scheme of Rathnir.

Age of Endrur and Yental's Ambition
Many years passed and nothing really changed for Drakonians. The founder of the Draakenkhaganate and head of the Celestiel Dynasty died after fighting a terror from the deep, a Balrog. Her daughter, Endrur “the Radiant” took over the leadership of the Drakonians living underground. Endrur had two children. The first was Calamity, “the Wind of War”, who caused the first major change in ages for Drakonians when she replaced the former God of War after defeating him with her mastery of sorcery and taking his place as the new Goddess of War. Her second child was Yental, “the Explorer”. He got his name because he, much like the people of Goldengemme, disguised himself as being of a different race in order to study the people of Rathnir. He began to idolize its great rulers and became particularly interested about Yimmu-Audal/Theois-Essukdal. On the other hand, he sought out the Draakenblüüt nomads and travelled with them for a few years. After he had returned, he decided that Drakonians could no longer just hide underground. Even if their settlements were destroyed again, even if they had to fight for every single blade of grass, the Drakonians were going to live on the surface again. "No cost too great," this he said to himself, "to fulfill this dream." After a few years, his mother died like her mother had, defending the Drakonians from a Balrog of old, but this time vanquishing the beast forever.

The first attempt of forming a Drakonian state
After Endrur's demise, Yental became the new head of the Celestiel Dynasty. So, he and a fellow Drakonian by the name of DerPiml set out to pursue their improbable quest. To create a grand kingdom, they wandered to the mountains of Tatonia and took over a small abandoned house as their base of operations. Shortly after, they were joined by the lone nomad Fleks. However, not before long, the house was raided.

The Visit
After that, Yental left on a pilgrimage to an old underground Dygrathy temple in the depths of Uldarash to collect his thoughts and search a new place to found a kingdom. When he arrived at the temple and sat down to meditate, something happened. In front of him his great grandmother the goddess Astralil, his sister the goddess Calamity, the slaughterer Nihildriel and most importantly half of the Ouroboros, Cytlabor himself manifested inside the massive cavern. They all began to speak to him.

Nihildriel spoke first: “''After ages, finally a Draaken is willing to bring change yet again, when I destroyed the Draakenkhaganate my intention wasn’t to stop Draaken from ever settling the surface again. I praise you child for finally trying to end this age of Draakenkind.''”

Astralil spoke second: "Child, I know you are devastated that your first attempt of founding a Kingdom was brought down so swiftly. But despair not, as we have watched since your first intentions of founding a realm of your own started showing.”

The third to speak, Cytlabor raised his voice, making the very air shake: "''Draaken, your people, much like the plane you inhabit, were made to stop a war. However, that doesn’t mean much anymore, as a war happened regardless, even with the three inner planes and Nihildriel waged war against you. I have witnessed the Draaken suffer for too long now.  While you aren’t of my siblings and my making, you still are of our blood.  And as such, we want to guide the Draaken to a place that holds significance too all those who fought in the Blood War. We, the Ouroboros, oversaw the peace made by all of the Blood War's participants. It was signed in the far north in a mountain range. At that very place, the first Draaken were created. While some were made in other corners of Rathnir after the war, the original Great Wyrms, including your grandmother, were created there. As such, I shall guide you, their child. The mystical energies still flow through the surrounding land and so I wish you the best of luck in changing your people’s fate''.”

At the end Calamity was the fourth to speak: “''I must warn you though, brother, the surrounding lands are inhabited by the humans of Solaris, the Niedene, and they may be hostile towards you as most of them have forgotten us. As such, I wish the best of luck towards you and I hope that your future conquests may be as grand as mine!''”

With these words the gods left again through a portal.

The first hour of Drakonia
Yental stayed in the temple for another day, thinking to himself and he remembered what he had sworn: “no cost to great." Drakonians were going to live on the surface in an organized state no matter what. After thinking for some time he decided that, with the blessings of so many gods, he could not fail with his plan. And so, with newfound determination, he searched and informed DerPiml of these mountains in the north and they both started heading towards it. Then, on the first days of April 2021, or the First Hour of Drakonia, Yental arrived there and send many messenger pigeons to all of the scattered Drakonians he could contact. And thus, the High Kingdom of Drakonia, was founded inside of the new Drakonian holy land, where the Blood War was fought and had ended.

The second hour of Drakonia
When the tales of Eldham first came Yental and the other Drakonians instantly decided to establish colonies there. On the other side, Yental started drafting a true constitution to gives his claim to power over Drakonia more legitimacy, trying to strengthen and reform Dygrathos. Finally, with DerPiml stepping down as the Steward of Drakonia and Gol04lom becoming the new Steward, Yental knew they were past the old Drakonian system. Knowing this, he had to announce the Second Hour of Drakonia, as the times where changing.

In the Second Hour, Drakonia's population quickly grew in size. The southern town of Wyvernia and the northern town of Fürstenhafen began construction. Drakonia's overlord, Müvielle, unified with Floramia into Simulami. Drakonia was still growing in size when the First Coalition War against Bardonia happened. But, before the Coalition War, Yental stumbled into a place where no one should ever enter. When he came back from this place, weeks after the war's end, he had changed in some ways. Shortly afterwards, his friend Zeno, one of the leaders of Simulami, started a coup to become the sole ruler of Simulami and to stop the nation from separating into its pre-unification status. In what some would call a moment of insanity, Yental teared down and shattered the clock hanging from the shrine in his house and proclaimed the Third Hour of Drakonia, with this massive change coming to the Simulami Empire and thus Drakonia justifying this.

Form of government
Drakonia is an absolute monarchy with the rulers High Wyrm King in absolute and Steward in almost full-power. They are a part of the Crownland Müvielle and a vassal to the Simulami Empire.

Religion and culture in Drakonia
Drakonians (or Draaken/Draakenblüüt in Drakonian,) are a race of draconic people (most commonly referred to as "half dragons" or "Dragonborn") scattered around Rathnir and Eldham. They are most commonly found in the High Kingdom of Drakonia in Nieden and their colony in Eldham, Nova Draakhagan.

Drakonians follow their own religion called Dygrathos.