Briawicke

The Kingdom of Briawicke was a warlike nation straddling the Spurnian River from the 1st to 4th Centuries.
== History ==
Briawicke was formed from dissenters. When Ocary began to shun its council government and transitioned to a monarchy, the people of Barkville resisted and complained. Not of the monarchy, but of the popular vote that elected a nobleman from Tern. and shunned Barkville.
The result was secession. Barkville formed its own monarchy, with King Samuel Waltham at its head. The town could not subsist on its own, and looked east to the rich, fertile banks of the Spurnian River. The Republic of Eltermere held these lands, but was militarily weak, and the republican government was disliked by King Samuel. This led to war just four months after the secession of Barkville. The Eltermerian War lasted three months, and saw a complete victory for Briawicke.
From here, Briawicke focused on peaceful expansion. The banks of the Spurnian were settled further north and south. Briawickian diplomats assisted in the formation of the Confederation of Sparhiel in 73, and this led to a long and fruitful alliance with the burgeoning confederation.
This alliance was tested in 123, with King Jormund Edricksen deciding the time was ripe to strike down Ocary. The War for Monsforde lasted only two years and resulted in the conquest of Monsforde, Longemonte, and Hastle Town. Ocary was pushed east, and so Briawicke flourished further.
In 168, Briawicke struck south and annexed the town of Helham, extending its influence as far south as the confluence of the East and West Spurnian Rivers. It entered into trade relations with the Kingdom of Alcantair-Albarossa, creating a stranglehold on trade as far upstream as Alcantair-Albarossa and as far downstream as Spurtown.
Unfortunately for the expansionist Kings of Briawicke, this trade alliance meant that conquest was now essentially ruled out if it was to remain a member. Instead expansion for the rest of Briawicke's existence was limited to settlement on the frontiers east of the Spurnian, and even this was fraught with danger as the Gotar threatened from the northeast.
By the dawn of the 3rd Century, Briawicke had been essentially pacified. Expansionism was regarded as below them, and instead the nation strove to improve itself internally instead of obtaining more land. It was diplomatically at loggerheads with the Kingdom of Yaradale, which was waging war in the same way Briawicke had been only a hundred years before.
In 320, Briawicke was one of a dozen nations invited to attend the Spurnese Council in 320. After seven years of negotiations, the council resolved itself in the formation of the Confederation of the Spur. Briawicke became the Briawickian Domain of the Spur, and the King of Briawicke remained as a hereditary governor.
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