Rossoryevsk

Rossoryevsk is one of the seven Stranyas of Ghorny and was once an independent nation in and of itself.
== History ==
Rossoryevsk formed in 544 when the Czar of Levetsk died and split his kingdom. At the time Rossoryevsk only contained the region around Krasnolovsk - the Rossorsk region. Over time it ate into the neighbouring kingdom of Tvemovsk, and in 577 conquered the kingdom of Ryevsk in its entirety.
After this, Rossoryevsk got involved in larger politics, joining five of the other six Stranyas on the world stage - Timapol did not yet exist.
Rossoryevsk allied itself with Guvyurt and Korokhovo made an enemy of the then-small kingdom of Kharkasy. In 601 war broke out, and the Twelve Years' War raged across the Ghornish region for over a decade.
By the end of the war Rossoryevsk, and every other kingdom that had taken part, was exhausted and beaten. The priesthood of the Varslavic Pantheon that had its headquarters in Krasnolovsk offered solace in the times of peace afterwards, and preached peace to such a degree that Rossoryevsk joined a priesthood-sponsored non-aggression pact with the new state of Timapol, and the power of this pact increased until all seven Stranyas were part of it.
Once at this point, the priests' strangehold over the pact crept ever greater until the Czars were Czars in name alone. By 658 Rossoryevsk was no longer independent, and though the priests were still required to pay lip-service to the Czars it was merely a formality.
The priests grew to demand more and more of the Czars, though the Czar of Rossoryevsk profited instead of losing due to the priesthood bringing the other Stranyas' wealth back to his own state. However, the Rossoryev Czar of the time, Trukhin, was sympathetic to the other Czars and began to secretly meet with them and align against the priesthood.
By 677 Trukhin had the Czars' full support, and issued the Medolsk Ultimatum the next year. The Ultimatum was very blunt, demanding the priesthood remove themselves from power or Trukhin's recently-hired mercenary band, the Varslavic First Spears, would lock the High Temple's doors and burn the priests alive with their riches.
Understandably, the priests complied and, since then, Rossoryevsk has been the capital of an oligarchic republic. The Czars recognised that they had conflicting interests and that these would not necessarily reflect the concerns of the general populace, so they made themselves subject to a council of seven elected noblemen from the Stranyas. Decades later two military officials were added to this council for defence purposes.
Since then Rossoryevsk has been a relatively peaceful place, only baring its fangs during the Hylbinic War of 703, during which the Czar had a spat with the independent ruler of the kingdom of Halubinya.
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