Bisezonne

Introduction

In the shady meadows southbound to the fortified walls of Areska, touching the salty shores of the Sea of Hyun, lived a tribe belonging to the race of men that spoke a distinct dialect of the Sevan tongue. They had been a part of the migration in antiquity that uprooted the native inhabitants of the region. During which most of the migrators continued their trek eastward, those who did would go on to pursue and found the feudal state of Fornois; but a few remained, separated from their brethren. For many years they inhabited their land in complete obscurity, establishing a tiny backwater community known to them as 'Bisezonne'... However, following the death of Yeetus Christ IV, a significant amount of Fornoians that were emigrating from their subjugated county, desiring a new place to call home, encountered the residents of Bisezonne and their unpretentious village. The primitive, although tenacious Bisezonnians were to the consternation of their non-tribal, strange-speaking relatives; but the Fornoians were able to impress them with the prowess of their technological knowledge and it's potential. The two Sevan peoples were more akin and open to one another than some living within the same city-state, and this was only triumphed by their eagerness to work in collective cooperation. Thus began an near-flawless integration and mixing of modern civilized Fornois ideals into the tough survivalist culture of the once tribal Bisezonnians. Less than two decades succeeding the annexation of Fornois, the city of Bisezonne has rapidly progressed into a growing society with currently three different flourishing districts and with an expanding population of 22 citizens.

Synopsis

Bisezonne, officially the Duchy of Bisezonne (Bisezonnian: Dukoté de Bisezonne), is a Syltörian country which was founded very recently on 4/07/21 by players new to the server, with the city itself being positioned predominantly on a promontory which projects outward into a northwestern bay area on the Sea of Hyun. It's notable neighbors would be the Bardonian Vassal State of Andorn to it's north, the nation of Savrasia to it's east, and the Aurlûnor Velande bordering it's south.

Further History

The Sevan migration that had colonized the area and would eventually branch out into two distinct groups, developed into both the Fornoian culture and the early tribal Proto-Bisezonnians that are known to be the classical descendants of modern Bisezonnians and their greatest contributors of language and traditions. It is not exactly known to where this ancient migration originated from and accounts are limited to the dubious scholars of old Fornois, of whom suggested they may have come from the Kingdom of Reyllea in central Rathnir; but such a hypothesis has remained unproven. The Proto-Bisezonnians rose to prominence sometime around the same occurrence of the Elven-Human Conflicts, also in Syltör, and while King Maxion of Almador was fighting the Battle of Yushen - the first Sevan pioneers would begin settling their region on the Sea of Hyun. Congregating into sedentary settlements, they grazed their open land with freedom of any molestation or interference from local powers and the few that did try to impose control upon them would learn at their own bewilderment the swiftness of the tribal people's ability to hide themselves into the many wooded areas surrounding their environment and to leave no trace of their homes as if they had never been there. An nation of antiquity that may have left a lasting mark on the Proto-Bisezonnians could have been the Duchy of Belka as they had considerable territory in the region and maybe even impacted the Proto-Bisezonnians to an certain extent through cultural diffusion. The Proto-Bisezonnians were mostly animistic in their religious beliefs, and worshipped no god - completely dissimilar to the Bitheist worshippers in Fornois.

There were a large deal of Proto-Bisezonnian towns and villages, Vanitas, Coibia, Fernezia, etc; but it was in fact much later on did the actual place of Bisezonne become inhabited by the peoples that succeeded it's name. There is no specific date of it's founding, but Bisezonne as an legitimate settlement is speculated to have been established just before the erection of the Second Republic in Bardonia, it's name perhaps being an ancient corruption of 'Bisao-Zioni' meaning 'Farer's Haven'. Suggesting at the village's purpose to being a trading post to where foreign travelers and merchants could commerce goods with the Proto-Bisezonnians, such would mean that the isolationist nature that they had held bound in their culture for so long were beginning to be loosened by a willingness to introduce outside influences. Hence the founding of Bisezonne is often used as a point to determine the start of the rapid change in their civilization and it's complete transformation.

The world of the Proto-Bisezonnians would slowly but evidently be altered with the bringing of Fornoian migrants who would act as a catalyst to the already intensifying metamorphosis that was occurring in their society. Although coming in relatively small numbers in the beginning of their immigration, these serf pilgrims stemming from the lush-green hills of Montbégny made tremondous cultural impacts on the Proto-Bisezonnian communities that welcomed them with a deep trustful fondness. Fornoians often had a plethora of reasons to how they ended up within foreign nations, most of them being peasant escapees from their feudal lords who might have impeded on their rights - others may have been exiles who could have been considered belligerents of the Bitheisian church or perhaps radical reformists toward the feudalist government. But in the eyes of the Proto-Bisezonnians, they were accepted as invaluable members of their society who vastly improved their way of living. By integrating foreign Fornoians the Proto-Bisezonnians became introduced to advanced metallurgy, new ways of irrigation, written language, Secularist ideals, government, architecture, mathematics and the basic sciences. Such speedy developments in this mixed civilization gave way to increasingly burgeoning populations, eventually every settlement would grow so large that they would form the practice of abandoning their original home in the place of bigger towns to accommodate their vast populaces. It is to the likelihood of Bisezonne already whilst having abundance of foreigner residents at that time, due to it's locality of being a place of trade, did it eventually become the great site of exodus for all in the region. Accordingly by the time that the largest wave of Fornoian immigrants fleeing from the imperial authority of the Sun Dragon Empire did reach the gates of Bisezonne, it was already a bustling melting-pot of culture that seemed to have no end to it's perpetual growth.

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