House Eaglemore

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Category:Bardonia
Category:Rathnir
House Eaglemore is a noble house in Bardonia. This family originates from Virothen, a town in present day Annunor. The Eaglemores rule over Annunor as the Lord Paramounts 
Anyone from this house can trace their ancestry back to Aetho and to the Aethian Tribes who migrated into the Annunor area after the Pirate Lord known as Lhar Kanmen took over the Kingdom of Annunor.
== Orgins ==
House Eaglemore can trace their ancestry back to the Aethian Tribes. They had been led by their god, Aetho. Aetho led them to an area by a river which they named the Annunor river. They settled 3 towns, Virothen, Riverrine, and Anfang. The Aethians were organized and eventually, the pirates of New Farnau would become vassels of the Aethians. 
All 3 towns would grow, however, Virothen would grow the most. They were the center of the 3 Aethian towns. Virothen was the Aethians Trade Hub and many merchants would live there with their families which would grow the population. In 174 TE, Aetho would lay his eyes on a merchant's daugther. He went into human form to and married the daugther. In 175 TE, the daugther would give birth to a health blacked haired brown eyed baby who they named Cyrus. The daugther died during child birth. Aetho left Cyrus to the care of 2 Middle aged people. When these people asked for his named he told them "Cyrus Eaglemore".
== Cyrus' childhood and rise to power ==
The first 5 years of Cyrus' life was like any other boy's life. Learning how to walk, talk, write, read, etc. Cyrus would develop a love for politics and battle. Cyrus was known to be very loud and would voice his opinion even when people did not want to hear it. His foster mother homed schooled him while his foster father taught him how to handle a sword and how to ride a horse.
Cyrus would learn how the world of politics worked. From young, Cyrus wanted to rise the ranks of power in Virothen and hoped to rule Virothen some day. He started working with the people of Virothen at age 8 and helped out where he could. The people would eventually take a likely to him. During this time, Cyrus would meet a young girl named Lily. Lily was around Cyrus' age. Lily was born to 2 farmers. 
When he was 13, the people of Virothen saw that they needed a leader. Someone who the people liked. There were many people who could have taken the job but the people decided to pick Cyrus. Some people could say "How can people choose a teenager as their leader?". We find the answer to this question in an oracle written in ancient virothenian:
"Jann aglo wibe who temo per lenar wilhav" that is traduced "A great leader will be who will have time to learn"
== Reconciliation ==
We won’t talk about Cyrus' reign because he needs a separate book. We’ll just say that during his rule Cyrus was a very mild and cautious leader. It’s true, Virothen rebelled many times, but only when it was almost sure of victory.
The turning point that will change Virothen, Annunor Bay and all of Bardonia comes when Cyrus’s eldest son, Nasayu, is appointed mayor of Oda (later renamed Yuzhen). At first Yuzhen was under a strong virothenian influence so much so that the main god of the Yuzheni Folk Religion, Shi Ying, is very similar to Aetho. Nasayu had many children (Cedar, Taben, Namoto and SeaSheep). Because of this, and also because of the extreme growth of the city of Yuzhen which gained cultural independence, the descendants of Nasayu formed almost a separate branch within the family: the Yuang branch. 
The reconciliation between the Eaglemore and the Yuang branch came with the formalization of Annunor Bay Province, which was made possible by Yuzhen’s political growth. On this occasion not only Cyrus and Nasayu reconnected, but also the children who were almost unknown to each other approached. This is considered the official birth of the House of Eaglemore.
== Annunor Bay ==
As mentioned above, Virothen and Yuzhen, Eaglemores and Yuang, reconnected with the creation of Annunor Bay Province. The original plan for the province was to include the cities of Trost, Prata, Medici Manor and Lobopolis as well as Virothen and Yuzhen. However, in the first months, the province comprised only the last two cities. The initial organization of the province was very disordered:
Lord Paramount was at the head: the governor of the province and head of the Eaglemores. The first Lord Paramount is Cyrus
Immediately below Lord Paramount there was the council of the Eaglemores and the high council. In fact, despite forming two different institutions, the members were the same.
Finally there were the citizens.
== Cyrus and Nasayu's death ==
The founders of the province, 20 years after its foundation, died within a short time. This led to profound changes in the family and in Annunor Bay.
Petrus became mayor of Virothen and soon made it the most prosperous city of Bardonia, while Cedar became mayor of Yuzhen. Nasayu’s successor as Lord Paramount was later chosen: Petrus.
== The Cold War between Petrus and Cedar ==
The Cold War between Cedar and Petrus would last till Cedar's death in 1091 and would continue on the the next generations of Eaglemores. It all started when during Nasayu I's reign, Cedar had proposed a line of succession that would prevent agruements about who would be the next Lord Paramount. He suggested that the line of succession should follow the law that the eldest living child of the Lord Paramount should inheirt the throne and that there kids take preference over their siblings. 
Petrus would jump on Cedar and start aguring and accussing him of trying to cut his side of the family out of the line of succession. Cedar agrued that someone had to come first and it should be the eldest son of the Lord Paramount. Petrus called Cedar power hungry which Cedar responded with "If I am power hungry than what are you? You're no better than me. If anything, you're worse." After the agurement, Cedar would storm out of the Castle of Virothen and ride of to Sylverstorock Palace. 
The Cold war would reach it's climax in 1069 when Nasayu I died and instead of naming his son Cedar heir, he named Petrus. Cedar was inragged at the news and rode to Virothen Castle to challenge the claim of Petrus. After serval days of agureing, Cedar was able to make a break through and got Petrus to resign from office. 3 Days later in the Summer of 1069 ACA, Cedar ascended to the throne as Cedar I Eaglemore. To end the cold war, Cedar would make Petrus the Hand of the Paramount in 1070, a government postion that Cedar had added during the Annunorian Government Reformation of 1070. 
== Rise of the Republic ==
In 1069 ACA, Cedar was able to claim power and ascend the throne. A Few months later, the Kingdom of Bardonia had collasped and had joined the Republic of Bardonia due to beliving that the Republic was stronger and that the Kingdom would get death warred. After the "merge", Cedar, with the help of the Eaglemores started to somewhat seperate Annunor from the Republic treating Annunor as if it was it's own Kingdom. Cedar was able to keep Annunor stable and keep it standing as the last Monarchist Province in Bardonia that supported the old regime. Before Cedar's death in 1091, he was able to get Annunor to leave the Republic and and join the 7th Empire of Bardonia.
== The Dark Age ==
After Cedar I's death, Annunor's moral and activity would start to decline under the rule of his son Georg I. Georg was a more kinder and easy going person than his father Cedar. People hoped that he'd be the inbetween between the Sternness and Hard Headness of Cedar I and the Calm and Peacefulness of Nasayu I. He would be able to reach those standards. Georg would let Annunor Bay fall into ruin doing nothing to help it and when people like his brother Cedar Jr confronted him about this, he blamed it on his father Cedar I saying that he left him a dysfunctional province when Cedar really left Georg a thriving province that was ready to reach new heights. 
Georg did nothing till Cedar Jr and Kegor decided to replace him with his cousin Petrus II. This would force Georg to come to the negotiation table which saw Georg turn Annunor into a diarchy with Petrus II as the Second Lord Paramount, however, Georg really did none of the work and just sat their doing nothing while Petrus did all of the work. Petrus would turn Annunor into a Kingdom even though they were in a bigger nation and it could be seen as an Ego boost by some people. He also rewrote the contitution turning Annunor into a democracy which saw elections for the King role every 8 Years. Cedar Jr disagreed with the new found Demorcracy in Annunor and agrued with Petrus to change the contitution which he did. 
In 1098, Annunor would fight a war against Solanum which would result in a stalemate and Annunor would also lose many prominent generals such as Cedar Jr. Later, Solanum would claim and take over the Whitecliffs of Slythor. Land that been held by Annunor and the Eaglemores since the reign of Cyrus I. Cedar Jr tried to push for a campaign that would retake their rightful land which Petrus said no to as he feared losing to Solanum and losing the self-proclaimed title as the person who defeated Solanum when Annunor didn't even win the war and the only battle that they won, the Battle of Virothen Heights, the Army of Annunor was lead by Emperor.Cheese, not Petrus II.
After that, Annunor fell dormant again. When questioned about this and about him not doing anything to help revive it, Petrus II said that is was because of the news that a comet. He also said he was planning for the new world which people like Cedar Jr pointed out that it doesn't take long to ready a nation for a place they haven't even set foot on. A Young Cedar the Brave, son of Cedar Jr would get annoyed at the sight of Annunor dying and Petrus Ii and Georg I doing nothing to help.
In Yuzhen, Cedar the Brave would raise his standard, a Red Eagle on Gold and we call his banners to war to dethrone Petrus and Georg.
== The Battle of Novus ==
The Battle of Novus was the first and only battle in Cedar the Brave's campaign to dethrone Petrus and Georg. Cedar the Brave would call on Enthu Lyon, King of Lenroia and Shanks Aelarion, King of Evermore to help him in his campaign. Enthu would back out of helping Cedar. Shanks would bring his soilders however, now all of them where there and were only a few hours away from Yuzhen. Cedar wanted to wait but he hear remours that the ships carring the extra soilders had been lost at see along with news that Petrus II was not leading the army as he wasnt there and it was his Uncle the Weak Georg I leading the Amry. Cedar had no choice but to push the enemy army.
The Battle of Novus goes like this:
Cedar the Brave marched on Novus with with 6k Cedarists Soilders and was met at the roads that led to Virothen by Petrus and Georg's army that had around 20k Soilders. Georg ordered the charge which pushed Cedar's army back. Cedar would call for an organized retreat and would retreat back to Yuzhen. The Petrusians army would celebreate beliving that they had won the battle and had crushed Cedar. This is what Cedar wanted them to think. He wanted them to think that the battle was over and that he had won. He wanted to catch them off guard. 
The extra soilders that were remoured to have had their ships destoryed at sea had arrived in Yuzhen when Cedar had reached. His numbers had just doubled. Now he had around 11k soilders. He marched them towards Virothen. He wasn't sure where the enemy army was so he rode into Virothen by himself, found the enemy Army, and taunted them by riding around them 3 times, killing a few of their soilders and he started riding back towards his army. A few thousand soilders fromt he enemy army gave chase and as soon as they reached the outskirts of Virothen, they saw Cedar charging at them with his army right behind him. Cedar's army ran right through those few thousands like it was nothing. Only a few soilders were able to make it back to the main contingent of the Petrusian army and told them "There Back". Georg scrambled to get their soilders ready but it was to late. Cedar and his army was already on them. 
Out of the 20k soilders that fought during the battle on the Petrusian side, 19 000 of them died and the others had fled the battle never to be seen again. The streets of Virothen ran red with the blood of Petrusians Soilders. News travelled of Cedar's charge and the beat down of Georg and the Petrusians at Novus.
Cedar knew that if he continued to fight this war, it would have dragged on for way to long and that it would take months for reinforments from Evermore to come to Cedar the Brave decided to make peace with Petrus. This Battle and War was a huge Victory for Cedar the Brave and the Cedarists and a huge hit to morale for Virothen, Petrus II and Georg I.
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