Featherian Federation



The Featherian Kingdom, or simply Featheria, is a nation situated in the south-eastern corner of Sorligste.

Founding
On the 14th of October 2021 the Frostmarch Government decided to divide its territory into three own governing Jarldoms that together would form the Jarldom of Frostmarch. These three Jarldoms were the Jarldom of Erthvald with the player Frug as the Jarl and Erthvald as the capital of the region and of the whole nation, the Jarldom of Vesturperla with the player Host as the Jarl of the region and as the Grand Jarl of Frostmarch and the Jarldom of Sutherlind with its capital being in the Fortress City of Novishk and the player Temsyod as Jarl.

Rise of Sutherlind
After Temsyod became the Jarl the population of Sutherlind quickly began to increase with some cities like Gooseburgh and Goosebay

even deciding to leave the Jarldom of Ert

hvald and join Sutherlind. The Government of Frostmarch implemented the system of Thanedoms wich meant that one Jarldom was made up of smaller regions that would almost govern themself completely by there own. The Sutherlind cities of Gooseburgh, Goosebay, Fethonia, Jrunmoor, St.istvanvar and Novishk all got ther own thanedom. But the old thanedom borders were flawed with some thanedom being left uninhabited and ungoverned. But still with all the new people joining the balance of power in Frostmarch was shifting to the south.

Medellind Slaughter
Just a few days after Sutherlind was born a nearby squatter claim called Medellind declared war on Gooseburgh for no reason and without consulting them which led to the war being canceled. A few Gooseburgh soldiers quickly went to the squatter claim and started fighting them. The Gooseburgh soldiers won that fight and went back to there town to gather ressources and to meet up with more soldiers. During that time a citizen of Medellind started griefing Gooseburgh with obsidian structures. Upon seeing this the Gooseburgh soldiers went out again to the claim of Medellind and started to attack the city. The soldiers caught the Medellind citizens of guard and instantly started to fight them. They quickly retreated behind their walls and a siege of Medellind began. During that time more reinforcements of Sutherlind arrived including the Jarl Temsyod himself. After hours of besieging the city the Sutherlind soldier finally managed to get trough the walls and started to push the Medellind squatters back. The Medellind people had nowhere else to go and were getting slaughtered by the force of Sutherlind. On the 24th of October 2021 the war was won by the Sutherlinders. The Victory united the poeple of Sutherlind and the Jarl Temsyod would later state that his Jarldom would no longer need the military support of the northern Jarldoms once again reinsureing that Sutherlind should not be underestimated.

Election
After the Medellind war the Grand Jarl Host resigned from his position meaning that it was now open for Temsyod or Frug to become that next Grand Jarl of Frostmarch.The only problem was that after Host resigned he didnt said who should become the next Grand Jarl meaning that with no other option it was decided that there would be an elecion between the two Jarls. At the beginning it looked like Temsyod might win since his Jarldom had far more citizens and even thanedoms outside his Jarldom were voting for him but then the Grand Federation of Sorligste joined Frostmarch out of fear of being invaded which led to a lot new citizens that in the end mostly voted for Frug. On 21st of November 2021 the results were published, Frug won by only one vote.

With the failed election the Sutherlind people began focussing on only there own Jarldom. Temsyod ordered the construction of speed roads to insure a faster travel troughout the Jarldom. Gooseburgh also began working on an ice highway connecting several cities in Frostmarch through an underground network of ice roads. Several cities like Gooeburgh, Goosebay, St.istvanvar, Vault_Tech, Fethonia and later Vindicales founded the Featherian League which was a City Alliance that would make cities aid eachother in case of war.

Decline and depression
The population of Sutherlind was slowly growing and everything seemed fine until the Jarls decided to make a thane reform. The Grand Jarl Frug urged Temsyod to either combine some thanedoms into one or give up a few thanedom. On the 1st of January 2022 Temsyod not wanting to give up multiple cities decided to combine half of all thanedoms into one. In the end Suhterlind went from 8 thanedoms to 4. Because of this reform a lot of thanes were upset and left frostmarch espesially members of the Featherian League. Out of the 4 leftover thanes 2 left meaning that sutherlind was now a deep crises.

After the thanes left Sutherlind was let inactive as some mayors that left wouldn't even give up their ownership which meant that these towns couldn't recruit anymore. But soon Temsyod was needed elsewere.

While Sutherlind was suffering it didn't look to good for Frostmarch either. The current Grand Jarl Frug failed to reform the country rhus it was getting more and more unstable. Frostmarch was also no longer a vassal of Tortuga meaning that reforms were now more necesarry than ever but still nothing came from the Grand Jarl Frug. On 5th of March 2022 Frug decided to resign from his office. Temsyod who was the heir to the throne became the next Grand Jarl. He left the Player The_General in charge of Sutherlind but he was really inactive and in the end didn't got the respect of what people were still living in the quiet Jarldom.

Reforms
Upon hearing that the Grand Jarl Frug was gone the Thanes that left a few months ago returned and gladly took back their position within the Jarldom. The thanes quickly began rebuilding their thanedoms. Espesially the 2 thanedoms of Goose Coast and Eaglesdom were quickly growing.

The Grand Jarl Temsyod tried all he could to reform the country but with little success. Seeing how Frostmarch was falling apart and how Lorent became a bigger and bigger threat Temsyod saw no other way than rejoining Tortuga. On the 29th of april 2022 all of the Frostmarch Jarldoms became Captaincies in the Pirate Dominion of Tortuga with Sutherlind even loosing some territory. Temsyod would now return to his job governning Sutherlind but the aging captain felt sick and on the 14th of May 2022 died in Novishk leaving no clear heir to Sutherlind.

It took a while until the thanes found out about his death but when they did nobody was sure what to do and for a moment it seemed like Sutherlind was under the threat of being annexed by the former Jarldoms of Erthvald and Vesturperla now the Captaincy of North Frostmarch. A day before that Annexation would be put in place the Thane of Goose Coast Moertler reached out to the Pirate Lord Ulifer and next day on the 17th of May 2022 Moertler became the new captain.

Governmental reform
After Moetler became Captain he was then tasked with getting Sutherlind back on track. He and his right Hand man Wacky_Goose implemented Ministries that would have different jobs to do in order to share power and spilt up the workload. These Ministers were:

Sutherlind was then renamed to Sanctus Anser Servitus meaning Holy Goose Vassalage as a reference to its Goose related history and later toFeatherian Federation. The Capital was also moved to its oldest city which was Gooseburgh. The Featherian Federation also got rid of the Thanedom system to give the people of cities the freedom to found new towns without needing the permission of their local Thane. New cities like Lunalia, Sollenburgh, Edenville or Frost Hollow where founded and the population began to grow quickly.

Diplomacy
Due to the work of the Featherian Diplomat Ivan the FF was able to get in touch with other Captaincies such as Serenus helping them with Squatters or North Frostmarch helping eachother with infrastructure. Serenus and the FF also signed the Treaty of Grumulum which stated that there would be peace between the two captaincies. There were also talks about a possible Union between Serenus, the FF and North Frostmarch but it is not stated yet if that will be put in place.