Levigarians

The Levigarians are a race of warlike bipedal turtles. They are mostly known for their war against the Domecaps and accepting the refugee Bredaricot people into their lands everytime the Domecaps return to invade their lands.
== History ==
Sometime in the history of the Levigarians, they went to war against a race of dinosaur/horse hybrids. The conflict eventually led to the Levigarians occupying the hybrids island and setting fire to a tree of religious significance to them. 
From the fire of the tree came people who would later become the Domecaps, possibly the result of cult summonings by the hybrids. The Domecaps successfully repelled the Levigarians and enslaved the hybrids, using them as mounts and beasts of eburden. 
The Domecaps launched their invasion of the Bredaricot Kingdom, which would have been successful if it wasn't for the counterattack from the Levigarians. After the events of this campaign, the Domecaps were forced from the Levigarian Kingdom, but kept their hold on the Bredaricot kingdom.
=== The Invasion Era ===
The Levigarians sent their knights to find where the mysterious Domecaps came from. On their journey, they entered castles and defeated foes they only thought existed in their darkests myths and legends, while rescuing Bredaricot people who said something about an invasion.
However, just before the Levigarians could snuff out the Domecaps, the Levigarian prince emerged from the political landscape and forbids the destruction of the Domecap leadership. This put him at odds with his father, who orders his forces back home. 
The prince personally leads a small force to kidnap the Domecap queen. The prince and his forces then continued to proceed through the Kingdom, fighting off Bredaricot traitors and Domecaps alike.
The Levigarian Monarch and his second son found a life for themselves on an island off the coast of the Levigarian Kingdom. His son would take up the mantle of King as he made the kingdom rich from the islands resources. The second son would build up a great hoard of riches during this time, before the first son, the leader of the newly formed Chelydran Knights, came in and took the hoard for himself and killed his younger brother. The king, alongside his nephew, went out to secure the hoard, the Domecap queen, and defeated his rebellious son, who was exiled.
The king and his nephew spent some time together. However, Domecap forces kidnapped the nephew, but were interrupted by invaders from beyond: the Construct Knights. 
They attempted to take over territory from the Levigarian Kingdom, but were defeated by the King who wounded Frans, with the help of some new friends, the Hybrids who had rebelled against their slave masters in exchange for refuge in the Levigarian kingdom. The hybrids were placed under the stewardship of the nephew. 
The hybrids were used by the nephew to build him an opulent mansion. The nephew was prejudiced against his Hybrids however, and treated them horribly. While constructing the deadly mansion (due to the number of deaths during construction), the hybrids conspired against the nephew. Two groups emerged, hybrids that wanted violent revolt, and the hybrids that wanted to summon demons to aid their cause. The small revolt resulted in confronting the nephew, who had captured the old and weak hybrids in the dungeon. The revolt was successful, and the Hybrids expanded the mansion massively into a stronghold. The hybrids began impersonating the nephew by sending letters to nobility in the Levigarian court. This garnered him the nickname Plume, as his “letters” were especially eloquent. 
Unaware of the events concerning his nephew, the King decided to take a vacation to the now glamorous Hybrid lands, now that peace was brokered with the Domecaps in return for their queen, where they could rest after the chaos of wartime. However, the exiled son was waiting for them, and kidnapped the king. This time, the exiled son demanded he be legitimized by his father and recognized next in line to the throne by the nephew. The hybrids leader, under the guise of the Plume accepted defeat, citing “great love for the king and surrendered his title and went on vacation”.
The now legitimized prince, began working with his father the king to rule the Levigarian kingdom now in turmoil. In the Kingdom, a mysterious sickness was gripping the capital and required mass medical aid to help cure the sickened population. The kingdom turned to the nephew who had become legendary for his reclusiveness and medical brilliance. Those who were suffering from the sickness were cured by using the medical knowledge that the hybrids used. The “nephew” sent a physician to help the capital, sensing a unique opportunity, the plume accused the Domecaps for causing the sickness, claiming to recognize the plague from the Hybrids lands. 
Heeding the call of war and desperate to gain public support, the son invaded the hybrid island, claiming the land was full of jewelry in order to raise enough money for the war. The campaign was successful at first, the son split the land into the Blight and Diamond Realms. This was not to last, armed with thunder in jars, the Domecaps freed the kingdom from the son and his forces. As fate would have it, the son is kept for a ransom. 
Meanwhile, the King learns of the kidnap, and demands taxes of his subjects to create a Hoard as ransom. The hybrid region, now powerful but gradually losing credibility that the Plume is still leading the region, is in trouble as the King orders the nephew to his side, sending back the hybrid physician to the deadly mansion to bring him back. 
The Hybrids then hatch a daring plan to go rescue the prince themselves to avoid having their secret discovered. They go, using the regions forces, citing “zeal and courage beyond measure” to save the prince.
The king, terrified at the idea of losing his descendants launches a massive-scale attack on the islands, with members of his court being used for the first time since he is too old to go by himself. The Hybrids then stage a fake death for the Plume, along with countless texts where he professes his love for his adopted people. 
When the news reached the king, he turns to supernatural methods to save his now sole heir. More specifically, he wanted the Royal fungus, rumored to create identical clones of the person who eats it if the original dies. He had the royal depository captured, and using it as a lure for the Domecap army, had it set ablaze, eliminating most of the remaining armed forces. 
With the depository gone, civil war erupts among the Domecaps, at the same time the old king dies, resulting in anarchy all over Levigaria, the prince’s status remains unknown. 
The hybrids living on the Plumes estate are left mostly alone with the kingdom in chaos.
The Plume ventured to Hatchetport to find help amongst groups of dissidents. With the help of several partners, an alliance of splinter groups of Levigarians, Domecaps, Bredaricots and even Hybrids form the Inside.
The Inside’s role is to keep the lands in its fractured state, to avoid one kingdom rising over the others. Essentially a shadow government, the Insides objectives are largely met as no noble Domecap house has managed to create royal fungus.  
The Insides plans do not run smoothly, as in fact, the Loyalists a group dedicated to returning the missing prince to the throne, emerges (despite no proof of his whereabouts or even if the prince is still alive). 
Ensues a massive secret war between the Loyalists, the Inside, and the Domecap noble houses each trying to strengthen its sway in Levigaria. This period is known as the Festival. 
The Festival was an arms race as the Loyalists fought on two sides trying to prevent the Domecap royal houses from producing royal fungus and sabotage from the inside. 
The Domecap royal houses for their part try to collect artifacts of their former queen to create the fungus, while fighting off the two other factions. 
== The moon ==
A massively powerful demon, summoned by all the small covens and cults, as well as the general bloodshed in Levigaria. The demon convinces the noble houses and the Loyalists that the moon is gone (thanks to giant lense), and that flooding is imminent if the moon isn't restored. The two factions decided to create a new moon by sending large quantities of earth into the sky to create a new moon. The Inside, see this unification under the demon as completely contrary to their ideology, and begin a massive campaign to grief the Dalmer Empire, whose presence was slowly appearing in Levigaria following the events of the Fluxus Island. Their plan is a success as the Dalmer consistently destroys anything the Demons servants push into the atmosphere. 
Out of options the Demon makes his servants create a moon using the continent as a landmass, figuring it would be too large for the Dalmer to destroy all at once. The inside, desperate to make the attempt fail actively sabotage and perform terror attacks in the capital city. 
The demon’s servants somehow succeed in lifting off a landmass the size of the real moon, creating a massive crater where the landmass used to lie that would become known as the Basin Sea. 
On the moon, the Inside, Loyalists and Domecap noble houses cease to exist as organisations. The Demon rules as King over the new moon. 
The Inside members still on Welt are eventually successful in their goals, as the Dalmer eventually shatter the new moon using AF weapons, killing the moon king and creating the shattered lands, they disband shortly after the creation of the shattered lands. 
As the shattered lands still float above the basin sea, there is a long period of peace as the Levigarians, Bredaricots and Domecaps still on Welt reestablish their respective kingdoms on the large islands in the basin sea. The Hybrids seemingly stayed in the shattered lands and never returned to Welt. 
With the Moon Stars, the source of the moon king's’ magic now located in Levigaria, tensions and old hatreds quickly return. The Moon Stars are used as a source of magic and currency in the three kingdoms.
The first offense comes when the Domecaps mating season comes and a new mating spore becomes widespread through trade wares. Allergic reactions to the spore are widespread in the three kingdoms among the non Domecap populations. 
With tensions flaring, the Bredaricots employ the services of bandits and monster mercenaries living in the forests to secure their border with the Domecaps. The Levigarians, as part of the public health issue, pay the Domecaps handsome sums of money to ensure the eastern kingdom of Domecaps remains watertight. 
The Bredaricot diarchy eventually opens the border when the allergy situation returns to acceptable levels, and establishes tourism with the Domecap kingdom.
A large meteor where Hybrids were living crashes south of the Bredaricot border, the Diarchy keeps it quiet, employing the Hybrids as boogeymen to scare the Domecaps. 
Meanwhile, the Levigarians attempt to freezing over the Domecap kingdom to thin their numbers, this fails but they are never discovered. 
With tons of coins in the Bredaricot Kingdom, the diarchy uses this wealth to buy more troops.
With the wealth obtained being the focus of trade from the Levigarians and the Domecaps, the Bredaricots establish and invest in countless companies and industries. Jealous of the success of the Bredaricots, the Levigarians start their own company with the money to fund the border with the Domecaps. With this new focus on industry and manufacturing, the Levigarians make lots of money, but not as much as the Bredaricots.
With plenty of money, the Bredaricots spend recklessly, several racing and gaming companies appear almost overnight. Days are spent playing sports with friends, partying, and racing.
But, since the History of Levigaria is without doubt the story of the constant warfare between the Levigarians and the Domecaps, wars and conflicts would oppose the two races yet again. 
The first Levigarian/Domecap skirmish since the shattering happened after the Domecaps had banded their noble houses together under a single queen and taken control of most of the Bredaricots lands. The basic premise is that the Levigarians frequently attempt to claim the lands the Bredaricots lost by capturing the Domecaps queens in the hope that they will kill each other in civil wars.
According to testimonies from the refugees, the Domecaps invaded the Bredaricot Kingdom because their queen was dying. The Domecaps first started their invasion by destroying the Bredaricot Capital city of Breda Town and capturing many Bredaricots. These Bredaricots were taken to Roughwood Forest, where their souls were drained by the forest's genetically-altered trees. The soul essence was then collected at the Royal Factory, where Dr. Roghli gave the mixture to bio-engineered candidates from the noble houses. 
The mixture, made from sacrificed souls, artifacts belonging to the old queen, and parts of the queen herself was elaborated in order to continue her line and keep the Domecaps a homogeneous nation under a single queen. 
The Levigarians at first thought the refugee Bredaricots were spies and initially turned them away at the border, but soon realized the threat was real and let them in, in exchange for obedience and military service. 
The first officially recorded combat seen between the unified domecap kingdom (UDK) was when the Levigarian sent a vanguard to infiltrate the Domecap capitals sewer system where they were mercilessly dispatched by champions of the noble house in power. This is all the more impressive when taking into account that the Levigarians had sent Chelydra Knights in the assault. The element of surprise being lost, the Levigarians had to retreat and fight the Domecaps on their turf, with each side pushing and repelling the other. 
The Levigarians continued their siege of the Domecaps by trying to paralyse their industries such as bottling and cement factories. These attacks had the desired effect until the Levigarians supply lines were compromised due to negligence. The Levigarian supply lines were used mostly to bring bombs to the battle lines, but after an infamous incident where a soldier let a match detonate the supply outpost the Levigarians advance slowed to a crawl.
One fateful day, the Domecap castle was invaded by the Levigarians, using powerful dark magic. Their magic was used to capture the new queen. The new queens noble house hears of the queen's plight, and set out on a quest to topple the Levigarians and save the once-peaceful kingdom from anarchy. This plan failed, as the Levigarians killed the queen when the kidnapping failed to cease the violence in Domecap lands. When the queen died the Levigarians attempted to return the refugees to their lands, however the anarchy caused by infighting between the noble houses forced the Levigarians back to the fray.
The Levigarian king sent seven members of his family, including some of his own children to the Domecap country in order to preserve some form of peace, by placing Levigarian nobility at the head of each region. The Levigarian regions were imagined as a buffer in between Domecap territory and the Levigarian lands, and the Levigarian nobles seized the respective royal magic wands from the seven deposed ruling nobles, using them to legitimize the Levigarian domination. Domecap noble houses vow to go and stop the Levigarians, and return the nobles to their thrones. At the end of each takeover, the noble houses fought one another for who would reclaim the region’s throne, and after the struggle was over, retrieved the wand from Levigarian noble to return the noble to his throne. Finally the country was once again unified under a single queen. While the Domecap nobility squabble over how to divide the country amongst their houses, the Levigarian king came seeking vengeance for his dead family. Kidnapping the new queen, the Levigarian king took her to his lair, a mysterious place known as the Dark Lands. 
Apparently, this union was romantic rather than vengeful, as the first Emperor of Levigaria was born of this kidnapping. This however is the word of Bredaricot conscripts who found the babe and declared it Emperor of the three kingdoms.
With this union, the three kingdoms were unified under one emperor, who, lacking parents, grew into a peculiar character. 
This unified kingdom was later hidden underneath a cloud, and strong storms prevented anyone from entering it. Some spoke of the will of the gods keeping the forbidden lands locked away. Some spoke of Bird worshipers still living in the sky, biding their time before they returned to the surface.
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