Eldarak

Eldarak, or the Union of Eldarak, is a nation thats located in the realm of Abexilas, located in the northwest of the continent of Cathramis of the East. Home to multicultural towns and an interesting backstory, the nation consists of a diarchy with a fuedal system. With an interesting culture that has been essentially infused from the tree dwellers and the busy merchants.
== History ==
=== Early history ===
They say that the First One, populated the island and ruled with fairness, however when he passed away there was a struggle for power in the island and the whole island split into independent tribes. This event is known as the Eldorathi Fragment. What we do know is that from the very start these places were immediately settled on by tribes, many many tribes and they almost immediately went to war.
The tribes did not have an idea of what today's warfare would be, so they usually used sharp sticks and stones to fight each other from their camps and their population was not evenly dense. In some parts there would be nobody while in some parts almost the entire population would be residing in. Once he passed there was power struggles which caused the split, in which the core people of the island followed Huraze, the First One's son. At this point wealthy traders started residing on the Northern tip of the Arkan peninsula, they were not under a same banner but the peninsula was very important for them as trading ports. Meanwhile, back in the island the Elder-tree province started reconquest forcefully, however there was a threat from the south.
=== Southern crusades ===
The chain of conquests known as the Southern Crusades, from 2 VE to 5 VE were conquests led by Sorovathan Trahovl, also known as the Tyrant, for an attempt to conquer the island. He was a radical who formed a movement against the people of the island and gained support. These attacks were not only for inheriting the throne from Huraze, but to also apply his vision of culture and life in a way that they would be living in a barren land. This is why he has been given the name of The Tyrant. 
Sorovathan was the one to first draw a rough surveillance report of the island, which he used to his advantage. He worked with the tribes in the north to encircle the Eldertree province. This did not work because the province was a strategic "Mega-Forest" and it would be hard to get around there. We don't have much more information after these events, so they might have stopped for a while or had peace. 
Regardless, the Elder-Tree province began expanding to the point that no tribe on the island was left except for Sorovathan's tyrannous tribe. The next thing that happened was a very hard siege on Sorovathan's capital, Trah, which was very costly in terms of losses. The way this "siege" worked was to cut off strategic trading ports and to take control of the farmlands to starve the city of Trah to death. The siege lasted a bloody year with many attempts to take on the siege. 
Sorovathan was executed on the winter of 5 VE, ending the Southern Crusades period.
== Affair of the coastal lords ==
Around the same time a huge ship came from people from other lands, we're not sure from where but thanks to found materials on the wrecks of the ship we have narrowed it down to the continents of Kejafros and Tanragh. Regardless, the ship was sailing in Huraze's Channel (a landmark, the body of water east of the land), and we know a really bad storm happened so they were looking for somewhere to stay in for the night but they were too late. The entire ship got destroyed into pieces at the coasts of the Arkan Peninsula, whose destruction site can still be visited to this day. When they crashed, some of them died, got injured, or seasick. The leadership could not agree on a single thing and all of the lower people were not fond of their leaders. So some of them decided to desert and settle elsewhere; they later had no trace left of themselves due to mysterious circumstances, possibly because of the bloody tribes that lived there. 
What was left of the people of the ship started a small town in the coast of the peninsula. They then attempted to use the resources they produced to build another optimal ship to get back to where they came from. However this would not be so easy. The tribes began pillaging the town and the town, whose name was Nova Solis, did not let this slide. They had the upper hand in terms of technology, so they used this advantage, after some time of conflict, the tribes accepted subjugation and lived together to make a new house and new culture, known as the Arkan House, and the Arkan culture. 
The town of Nova Solis expanded significantly but there was another port to the west of them known as Selb, who were also tribes at first but because of the Enlightener, (whose real name we don't know) managed to unite and focus on maritime trading. At this point the people of Nova Solis didn't want to risk to get back to their homeland so they just stayed there and accepted their new home. Selb and Nova Solis had many conflicts, the main reason they were fighting each other was because of the trade routes of the seas and waters around them, particularly with the Commonwealth of Akari involving spices, silk and gold. 
The first war began after a perhaps staged incident at Huraze's Channel by the people of Selb, whom attacked Arkan trading convoys. Arkan declared war, and they remember this war as War of the First Worm, at the western peninsula. The people of Selb fought harshly and managed to even siege Nova Solis at one point. But thanks to genius military general work of Swifty, they won the siege against the people of Selb. It was a costly siege, and now that Selb has lost it they had to give up, and thus Nova Solis annexed the town of Selb, and formed The Arkan Imperium under the leadership of Swifty when the governor died suddenly of a sickness and had no heir.
== The Skirmishes between Arkan and the Eldorathis: First Contact ==
Eldorath was nourishing from prosperity and peace during the leadership of Huraze. However his unnamed son was stubborn, power hungry and arrogant. He decided to poison his father during the time of lunch. After the death, the son inherited the throne and saw Arkan's expansion to the north as a direct challenge to his power.
Swifty also saw the unification of Eldorath as a challenge and it concerned him deeply. He wanted to focus on his series of tribal subjugations and wanted Eldorath to become neutral or his ally. Luckily during the time of Huraze they did talk about such alliance, but it was cut short. The son now voided all past agreements between the 2 nations. The son was nicknamed The Arrogant by the Arkanis. The Arrogant then proceeded to pay the Sea Peoples, a pillaging chain of tribes under an alliance to destroy everything in their way with their horse cavalry and warships. The Arkanis proceeded to describe the Sea Peoples:
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