Vallavegas

Vallavegas is a Helian city lying on the Arahagh Plain. It is currently the capital of Omeland.
== History ==
Vallavegas was founded by mediaeval Spanish settlers from the Flentia Fleet in the 7th Century BCE. It rose to prominence as the centre of one of the early kingdoms of the area, later passing into the hands of Briawicke in the late 2nd Century.
By the 4th Century, Vallavegas had become part of the Spur. Always lying on the edge of this merchant republic, the city found itself neglected and, like other Helian cities in the area, formed part of a cultural minority blamed for essentially everything that went wrong in the Spur.
Shortly before the Great Gap, the Vardanid Empire declared war on the Spur in what would later become known as the Spurnian Subjugation; Vallavegas was quickly overrun during the war and, after the Gap, emerged as the capital city of the new Helian nation of Omeland.
From here Vallavegas grew poorer. No longer part of a burgeoning trade state and taxed dry by new Vardanid overlords, the state of Omeland had virtually no income at all. It was only once Omeland broke free of the Vardanids in the 7th Century that Omeland became rich again as a result of agricultural advancements and tariffs along its stretch of the Spurnian River. 
Vallavegas was showered in gold by King Enrique IV, and to this day is forced to maintain a large, well-vetted city guard - both to prevent civilians from stealing the gilding from the many civic buildings, and to ensure the guards did not steal them themselves.
Category:Settlements
Category:Briawicke
Category:The Spur
Category:Omeland