Lovvres

Lovvres, officially the United Archduchy of Lovvres, was an archduchy located in the southeast of Kejafros within the Empire of Ischanor. It is usually referred to as simply "Lovvia", and consists of the Herlundine Confederation, Tribe of Lachawaka, the city of Apringen and the Duchy of Kalkenstein. The Archduchy was a constitutional monarchy with the royal family being House Graber from Kalkenstein. The first iteration of Lovvres was founded around 30 AIAF (270 TE, or -50 VE) by the Herlundy, the Lachawakans, and Kalkenstein.
in the spring of 40 VE Lovvres was inducted into the United Kingdom of Marisvalor and Lovvia, which was renamed to the Kingdom of Blómach. It remains a part of this union to this day.
== Etymology ==
Lovvres means "small land" in Imperial Ischanic, from lovviau "small" and vres "land, country". The vres suffix is a cognate of the -fros suffix in the name of the continent of Kejafros. The Baszku call the region Anqedafa, meaning "land [of the] swamp". 
== Subrealms ==
=== Kalkenstein ===
Kalkenstein is the realm which currently holds the royal house of Lovvia and thus its archduke. Kalkenstein is located in the northeast of Lovvia, neighboring Lachawaka and the Herlundy. It was the realm that pushed through the Lovvian Reformation Accords, and it was the realm who made Lovvia into an archduchy. Kalkenstein was founded by the Thondean Empire and later conquered by the splinter kingdom of Onquior.
=== Tribe of Lachawaka ===
Lachawaka is a hunter-gatherer tribal group residing in the center swamps of Lovvia. Their culture is one of the most conservative of all world cultures, and both the Lachawakans and outside scholars identify them as very similar in lifestyle to the ancient Aysar peoples, from which many other Ischanori ethnic groups developed.
=== Herlundine Confederation ===
Otherwise simply known as Herlundy, this region is in the southeast of Lovvia and consists of a loose collection of landowning families. The Herlundians are distant relatives of the Baszku, who primarily inhabit Zilatra but exist in Ischanor as a small minority; their language is very distinct and thought to have originated with an ancient race of pigmen. The Herlundy has had numerous small kingdoms rule over it in centuries prior.
== History ==
=== Early migration ===
Around 5000 years BP, the Aysari slowly migrated all over the continent. They migrated into what is now Celras, slowly pushing the native pigmen more and more south until they reached modern day Lovvia. There the two new sub groups of the Aysar split: The Lachawakans and the Lowelthangians. The Lachawakans used the swamps of the region as their new home, while the pigmen and Lowelthangians settled in the hills on the east bank of the Loedra River. The pigmen stayed in the south and the Lowelthangians in the north. 
By 4000 BP, both groups had taken up potato and millet agriculture, and began experimenting with bronze tools. This era is believed to be one of the most peaceful times as there were few known battles between these tribes. The peaceful lasted for a few hundred years until the Thondean Empire arose.
=== Thondean Era ===
Thondeum was a rising empire in the north and northwest of what is now Lovvia. However, the natives had little idea that such a large and powerful empire existed in the north until it arrived in their lands and conquered them. The pigmen were the only ones to have avoided this fate by paying the empire tributes in exchange for freedom. The Lachawakans were also mostly unaffected at first, as they stayed out of the sights of Thondeum by residing in a dismal wetland. The Lowelthangians however were not so lucky, as the Thondeans started construction on a castle atop their holy limestone mountain and started extracting stone and resources from their land. After the castle was finished, they went to war with the Lowelthangians killing over 5000 in a matter of years. 
The Thondeans further attempted to secure the region by channelizing the Sek Anque swamp to allow for boat travel through it and to control flooding. While allowing for increased trade with their pigmen tributaries and the Baszku tribes further south, this process destroyed large parts of the local ecosystem in the process. This prompted Lachawakans to begin raiding Thondean trade routes and forts; their ability to live off the land and navigate the swamps made them excellent saboteurs and guerilla fighters. 
A few years before the collapse of Thondeum, the Lowelthangians went nearly extinct as a people; the ones who did survive had been integrated into Kalkenstein, which by now grew to become a city rather than just a castle. After the fall of Thondeum Kalkenstein flourished as a stone exporter using the nearby Loedra River. But with the rise of Onquior, their brief first independence would not last long.
Onquior was a successor state of the Thondeans, led by a Thondean upper class. They took over the region, and ruled it for several centuries. Anqedafa was a province part of the Baszku kingdoms that ruled over the region. 
=== Modern Era ===
The contemporary state of Lovvres was formed by a merger of three smaller political entities: Lachawaka, Kalkenstein, and the Herlundy. These smaller subrealms found themselves members of the empire of Ischanor, but around the beginning of the Voyagers' Era they banded together to gain more influence in the imperial government. The name "Lovvres" or "Lovvia" also dates to this era, and refers to the small and humble nature of this tiny country. 
Lovvia as a political entity lasted for a few decades, with bickering and power struggles between the Herlundians, who preferred a decentralized and democratic government, and the Kalkinians, who preferred an absolutist regime. Regionalism and political ideology played equal roles in this conflict. The Lachawakans, the third founding group of Lovvia, played a neutral position in this feud. Despite internal political differences, Lovvia sent a detachment to fight in the internal war between Marisvalor and Thallasia in 30 VE. 
In early 40 VE, the "Parliamentary Compromise" established a legislature, largely ending the feuding between the Herlundy and Kalkenstein (except for the part where it didn't). The city-state of Apringen, which had cultural ties to Kalkenstein, joined the federation, as did the Talgant region after the collapse of the subrealm of Lenogach. These became integrated politically into Lovvia for a short while. 
Eventually Lovvia's leadership began talks with Marisvalor to create a union. These talks lasted for years and went back to the original military alliance from 30 VE, but resulted in the formation of the Kingdom of Blómach later that same year (40 VE). Lovvia was thence dissolved and its member states joined into this new kingdom. 
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