Kingdom of Edierne

The Kingdom of Edierne is a sovereign state within the Westerlands, ruled by King Hadrian Vyachlaw, his coat of arms, three charging bulls, black on a golden field.
The country extends inland from the Gulf of Gabal in the west to the Aral Highlands to the East. It is separated from Dolrath to the North by a small borderland, and to the south, The Raven, a vast barren land of sodden marshes and swamps, separate the kingdom from the Principality of Attalan. It is centred around the Tyan River and its many tributaries, where the rules of Edierne can assert their dominance from their seat at Oswietzim.
==Economy==
Edierne’s main exports are fish, madder root, vodka, and salt. They benefit greatly from their firm position in the Gulf of Gabal, from where they can trade with merchants of the Skahazadans and Chorene and most of Edierne's settlements are situated along the coast.
==Administrative Divisions==
The Kingdom of Edierne is divided into three voivodeships, each ruled by a voivode:
*Verden, ruled by Hadrian Vyachlaw from the City of Oswietzim
*Novychin, ruled by Neda Nenadov from the town of Novychin
*Orovoy, ruled by Antonia Radoslav from the town of Orovoy
==History==
Edierne was not founded until after the Western War. Modern Edierne encompasses parts of the early Kingdoms of Vaskaja, to the north, and Tyania, to the south, that fell to Golden Horde invasions in the 14th century.
===Early History===
The lands around the Bay of Crabs is first mentioned in 1034, when Stefan Aljevic, a vassal of the Kingdom of Vaskaja, led a rebellion to renounce Vaskaja rule. He took Oswietzim while the Vaskajans were switching thrones.
Vaskaja retaliated by sending in troops from the city of Mireem and capturing Stefan, who was taken prisoner to Nazgorod. He managed to escape, was allowed passage through the lands of Magiore, and began a guerrilla resistance from the bogs and marshlands, where he defeated several Vaskajan expeditions, liberating most of the west coast. A rebellion in Nazgorod in 1038 worked in Stefan’s favour by diverting attention from his lands, allowing him to expand his rule East and even take Mireem.
In 1042, yet another attack of several Vaskajan vassals, led by Lutovid of Sobina, was defeated. Stefan overthrew Lutovid and placed the region entirely under his control to form the Duchy of Tyania.
Stefan most likely died in 1043 and his son Mikhail eventually secured his rule by 1046 and proved to be an apt diplomat, fostering good relations with Vaskaja. He also entered diplomatic relations with the northern powers by marrying one of his sons, Bodin, to the daughter of a Corvian lord. Around 1077, Mikhail acquired the title of King, and when he died in 1081, he was succeeded by his son Bodin.
Soon after, Corveaux attacked Northern Vaskaja, capturing Mireem and Orovoy. Bodin was expected to aid Vaskaja, instead he remained idle, possibly as part of a pre-conceived plan with Corveaux. He only watched as the Vaskajans got utterly defeated. It was first in 1085 the Vaskajans got the upper hand in their wars with the Corvians, recapturing the cities and in 1090, they punished Bodin for his impudence. He was captured and brought to Nazgorod where he died in 1101 and with that, Sobina and surrounding lands was ceded from Tyania vassalage and came under Vaskajan rule.
===End of the Aljevic Dynasty===
With Bodin gone, his Corvian wife, Joaquina, feared that Bodin’s nephew, Bronislaw, would seize power before her young children could take the throne. She ordered the arrest of Bronislaw and his family. Bronislaw was captured, but his 6 brothers and many children found asylum in Mireem. In her haste to claim the throne, she had planted deep seeds of hatred among the extended family.
Seeing a weak Tyania, the Vaskajans began to meddle, sending General Kotzopar, one of Bronislaw’s exiled brothers to capture the throne. Kotzopar managed to defeat Joaquina with assistance from Vulkan of Arsa. However, there was a falling out between Kotzopar and Vulkan, who drove out Kotzopar, and the throne was given to Vladimir, yet another brother of Bronislaw and a Vaskajan vassal. Joaquina had not yet given up. After Vladimir died, she had Bronislaw, who was still imprisoned, castrated and blinded in case he were to gain the throne, thereby ensuring it for her son George.
After gaining support from Vulkan of Arsa’s nephew, George returned to Tyania, but he barely got to his throne before being captured by Vaskaja. He died in captivity and after his successor Nadja died in 1146, Nadja's son Radoslav only bore the title Prince. Tyania had been reduced from Kingdom to a principality of Vaskaja, where it would remain until Vaskaja's fall in the 14th century.
===Age of the Golden Horde===
During the Revolt of the Brother Princes, the Vaskajan brothers Oros and Dezsa undertook an offensive against King Manuel of Vaskaja while he was south of the Wrynova and cut off his return by attacking Tyania. Prince Radoslav of Tyania was pushed from Novychin, and retained only the coastal area around Oswietzim, with the brothers holding much of inland Tyania.
Throughout the 12th and 13th century, during the height of the Golden Horde, the history and politics of the region has been lost to time. In 1356, Lower Tyania was held by the widow of Oros II, Jelena, who at the time was in Château in Corveaux, as part of the court. The other half of Tyania, Upper Tyania, was held by Durras Iljic until his murder in 1362, when he was killed by the sons of a neighbouring baron.
Under Oros the Weak, the Kingdom of Vaskaja fell to the brutality of the Golden Horde, and one by one, so did the Tyanian lords, who failed to withstand their rapid expansion. Between 1360 and 1362, the Horde totally conquered Tyania.
===Vichin Annexation of the Westerlands===
The region was reunified in 1422, during the Golden War, when the Golden Horde was finally defeated by the Kingdom of Vichin, ending two centuries of domination in the region. The west was annexed as Vichin protectorates and divided into duchies with no regard for previous borders or local cultural and ethnic divisions.
The lands of Tyania became split and incorporated into three different duchies with much of the Vaskajan lands, enraging the locals whose ancestors had fought the Vaskajans for generations and died for their freedom. Lord Dechansk of Tyania abdicated and King Florence II arranged for Balshaw’s uncle, Stefan Laszarev to marry Lady Elierena Harwick and gave him the lands of the Coast, to rule from the city of Sobina.
===The Western War===
In 1428, The Western War broke out between Corveaux and Vichin due to the Corvians supporting anti-religious revolts in the Westerlands. The widowed Lady Elierena declared she would remain loyal to Vichin, to the ire of her vassal lords Hadrian Vyachlaw and his childhood friend Jurij Nenadov. The two lords each went home to their respective seats of Oswietzim and Novychin. The lords were soon attacked by the Vichin lord, Duke John Cleight of Stokengrad, with whom they fought a long war of attrition and skirmishes. King Louis of Corveaux came to the city of Sobina, and stormed and razed the city, when Elierena Harwick refused to surrender her lands, allowing the rebel lords to continue persuing liberation.
During the Siege of Oswietzim, Nenadov died in the onslaught, but the Vichin had failed to break Novychin, and Hadrian eventually managed to send the weakened Vichin forces fleeing with the help from Corvian relief forces, whereafter he was recognized by Corveaux as King of Edierne. The kingdom's name likely originated from Corvian attempts to pronounce Hadrian's name.
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