Cornia

Cornia is a state in the World of Werbia, located next to Mawbol upon the continent of Messer. It is many times considered as a "Second Mawbol" due to both being very similar in culture and are allies, though Cornia does have some unique characteristics of it's own. The country is most known for it's coastal cities such as the capital Pallia and their beaches, though other famous things include the native traditions and Southern Cornia in general, as the natives were less oppressed than the natives of Mawbol or the rest of Messer, allowing them to prosper and recover from the genocides carried out by Neuver and the early settlers.
==Etymology==
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==History==
===Native History and Early Discoveries (before 1542)===
For most of Cornia's pre-history, it was rather empty, sometimes being inhabited in the south by tribes from Mawbol, such as the Klumerts in the 10000's BCE. This would change in the 5000's BCE, when the Klumerts and Borts would migrate north into mainly Cornia. But by around 3000 BCE, they would once more be gone, seemingly having died out or left. The Sloms and Silvians would pop up around the southern regions in the 2900's BCE, with a possible Borgoldian conquest in the 2000's. After the Borgoldian collapse, the Cavmordians and Gagfidians would settle in Cornia, leaving by the 1500's BCE. For the next two millennia Cornia would remain mostly uninhabited, with only a few tribes passing through the region occasionally, such as the Kjumen in the 1000's BCE and the Romians in the 300's BCE.
The Sumert Empire would take over parts of southern Cornia at the height of it's power in the 500's CE, but left soon after as it began to decline and collapse. Soon after, the Agmardans settled in Cornia, forming multiple minor kingdoms over the roughly thousand years of isolation from the rest of Messer and Werbia. In 897 CE, Nalgamar, a local chief of one of the tribes would conquer much of northern Cornia, declaring himself King of Albamin. While not much is known about his rule in detail, we do know he fought multiple wars afterwards against other chieftains, creating a state half the size of the Sumert Empire. His state would collapse in the 930's after his death, but would leave behind multiple books and a clear detailed native alphabet, one of the only excluding the Sumerts and other minor tribes all over Messer. From the state's collapse onwards, Cornia would mostly remain weak and divided for the rest of it's native history, with the weakened tribes being quickly subjugated by the Neuverians in the 16th century.
The first clear signs of Messer being discovered by a foreign people can be found on the coasts of Marannia and Neuster, where multiple ships dating to around the 10th to 12th century have been found, most seemingly coming from the continent of Jupitorma. These ships are filled with many goods which at the time would have been considered as luxurious by the natives, with primitive maps and sailing tools also brought along, clearly indicating that these sites were most likely not made by ships sailing offcourse, but were in reality going to Messer to sell their goods in exchange for local good, proving the existence of a clear trade network between the two continents lasting multiple centuries. The next discoveries of Messer come two centuries later from Somorcos, with multiple shipwrecks found on the coast of Yellowia and the Rakul's dating roughly the 14th century, with most of the goods and weapons onboard being of Listrian origin, suggesting possible trade and diplomatic ties between the regions, with a few burrials of Listrian troops even found more inland. There is also some minor evidence of a few other Somorcan kingdoms sending trade expeditions to the coasts of Mawbol, with some suspecting this to be a part of a bigger trend of Somorcan exploration during the 13th to 16th centuries. Other proof for this can be found in the writings of the time, as many Somorcan texts claim that there exists a land west of them called Brinia, which many historians presume to be Messer, though others simply claim it to be Akail or other small islands in the Astrat Sea. A few shipwrecks of Bornian, Atelian or Neuverian origin have also been found on the shores of Ikrayi, most of them dating to the 15th and early 16th century. Most of these ships are filled with valueables, suggesting these ships to mostly likely be failed merchant missions to Akail or Somorcos, though historians for now remain divided on the matter due to the scarce amount of information found to prove these hypotheses.
The first successful spotting of the Messerian landmass by a Bornian, Atelian or Neuverian ship would take place on August 7th, 1489, when a merchant fleet heading to Akail under the leadership of Sir Henry Attenborough passed by the western coast of Cornia. Attenborough would assume the spotted land to simply be a small island to the west of the major trade routes which had simply not been noticed in the past, deciding to ignore it and continue his journey to Akail. Soon after, Attenborough would organise another expedition to establish trade relations with the many seperate kingdoms located on the Somorcos archipelago, once more spotting the Cornian coast on September 3rd and spotting it two more times on the 8th and 12th, though he also ignored it this time and simply kept on going. While returning from his trade expedition, he would decide to finally sail closer to the coast, following and documenting all that he saw for the next month before finally returning to Neuver and delivering these news to the king of Neuver, though he didn't seem to show too much care for the new found and uncolonized land. Just a month after Attenborough's discovery, a Atelian merchant ship on it's way to Akail would pass by Cornia and Ikrayi, with it's captain, Charles Mijaun, deciding to sail closer to the coast and attempt a possible docking, doing so near the current site of the city of Partland, going to explore a bit of interior and thus also becoming the first foreigner to step on the continent. After spending a month of the continet, Charles and his crew would leave for Akail, returning to the continent on their way back to Atelia, though this time their king wouldn't be informed of the discovery.
A few years later, a Bornian explorer by the name of Karl Echfrugt would hear of Attenborough's discoveries, informing King Frederik I of Bornia and securing funding for his own expedition to the continent, setting sail on February 20th, 1497 with eleven ships and supplies to last them five years. After two months of being out at sea, the crew would finally spot the coasts of Messer on May 3rd, quickly finding the nearest bay to dock in and beginning to unload their supplies, as Karl had plans of staying on the continent and exploring it's interior and trying to find any native civilization to trade with. He would the lead first expedition down south to explore the coast, making his way down to about near modern Eltonvill, where he would come across the Krufan people, trading some of the expedition's silver and jewels for their furs and other valueables. Afterwards, the expedition would continue a bit more down south, finding the warrior tribe of the Asmordi, who surprised attacked him and killed two of the expedition's members, forcing the rest to turn back north and return to their base at Echfrugt Bay. After recovering for two two weeks, Karl would begin planning their next expedition, which would this time take them north to explore the lands of Cornia and the tribes living there. The expedition set off on July 12th, with Karl and 50 of his crew marching up the Ikrayian and Cornian coast for over two months, encountering the Asmori and Gornian tribes in the process, though both weren't friendly towards the foreingers, the Asmori even enganging in multiple battles with the crew. At the end of the two month journey, Karl would come upon Pallia Bay and the Pallia River, deciding to go a bit inland to try and find where the river came from, though he would fail at this, instead meeting the Kobolt people and managing to trade all his remaining valueables for their ones, which even included gold and bronze. Afterwards, the expedition would return to the coast and continue their journey west, even making it to Bardalia before being forced to turn back by a sudden forest fire in the area they were passing through. It would take the expedition another three months to return to their camp, during which time they would also meet with the Haxqalqul and Olmird tribes, though this time they wouldn't partake in any trade with them. Once they had returned to their base of operations, Karl would begin planning out another expedition to explore the interior of Ikrayi, though the crew were beginning to run low on supplies due to the dangerous and bloody events of the two previous expeditions, forcing Karl to consider abandoning the idea, in the end deciding against it. Karl and 34 of the crew would leave to explore the interior of Ikrayi, most likely establishing contact with multiple new tribes, though none of this can be confirmed, as during the journey something disasterous happened, which probably caused the death of Karl and most of the crew, leaving the remainder of the crew who stayed in the base to wait for a whole seven months before simply giving up and setting sail for Bornia, returning to the country on August 19th, 1498 and informing the king on their expedition. Thus had ended the first major exploration of the Messerian interior, though it definitely wasn't the last one.
Following Karl Echfrugt's voyage, multiple other Neuverian, Atelian, Bornian and even Sundir explorers would set sail to the new mysterious continent in order to explore it further and gain wealth and fame for themselves. The first of these men to set sail to the continent following Karl was Sir George Woodings, who arrived to the continent in late 1499, stayiing there until August 1500 and organising a expedition down to the Rakul's, during which he met and traded with a few of the coastal tribes living there. Just two months after George's departure, Jeaun Foscau would land in north Yellowia, being the first to venture this far down south the Messerian coast. He would spend a month exploring the Yellowian coast and discovering even more tribes, such as the Roxaut, though this meeting wouldn't end as well as most of the previous meetings between the explorers and local tribes, as Jeaun decided to attack and raid the Roxaut villages, capturing and eslaving many of their people along with stealing all of their valueables. Following the end of Jeaun's expedition, it would take a whole three years for another man, the rich and famous Sundir explorer Agrostos Kresta to lead his fleet of 12 ships to the mysterious continent in search of new lands and wealth to bring back to his country. His voyage would last until 1507, with him exploring the entire northern coast of Messer and meeting many new tribes, including the Arkosti, Mergamenteai and the Hjoszcovam, which he would even assist in fighting against other tribes, gaining him more wealth and good relations with the natives, making his later expeditions in 1506 and 1507 far easier. During his last expedition in March 1507, Agrostos would explore the inland regions of modern Bardalia, following the many rivers of the land to end up in Oshmia, the capital city of the native Masustus Federation. He would stay from two months, during which some of his troops would spread influenza to the locals, causing a massive outbreak in the city and leading to the collapse of federation, which Agrostos would exploit to gain more wealth by giving the natives false assistance in exchange for gold and other valueables, leaving once the situation got completely uncontrollable. His fleet would set sail back to Sundir on October 13th, 1507 and sail east down the Bardalian and Cornian coast before beginning to make his way north. During the journey, the fleet would run into another exploratory fleet going to the continent under the leadership of Sir James Cornwall, with Agrostos deciding to attack James' fleet, sinking it and forcing James to force a ransom to be let free following the battle. After returning to Sundir, Agrostos would become insanely famous and even more wealthy, causing a wave of Sundir explorers to go to Messer to explore the continent in search of the riches which Agrostos found on his journey, though most of these voyages would end in disaster and lead to a massive economic recession in Sundir.
In 1514, Akail explorer Human Dorfed would organize a voyage to the southern coast of Messer, exploring everything from roughly Yellow City to the border of modern-day Jameston, also stepping foot on the land on a few seperate occassions and meeting the Yakramok tribe. A year later, he would return to the southern Messerian coast, exploring the rest of it and discovering many more tribes both on the coast and in the interior, even documenting one of his encounters with the Paqi tribes of eastern Neuster. Following him, the next explorer to make his way to the southern half of Messer would be Friedrich Hutsieg, who explored all of the southern coast and documented everything he ecountered in extreme detail, including even specific bays and hills he saw from the coast, as well as many other tribes such as the Koqilli, Gressa, Mifan and others. His voyage would inspire two more Bornian expeditions to the region, one sent by the Bornian Royal Trade Company, which hoped to establish trade links with the richest of the native tribes, though these plans would never become reality, leading to the Bornian monarchy and private companies mostly giving up on the region and leaving it to private explorers and their rivals. In 1519 a expedition to explore the southern coast of Messer even further would be organised by Sir James Stone, who would survey the entire southern coast up to Neuster, documenting all the tribes he met on his journey, including the Fotashane Federation, which in later years would become a major trade partner in the region before being annexed by Neuver in 1567. James Stone is also credited by many for having founded the city of Jamesville in modern day Jameston, which supposedly had a peak population of eight thousand existed from 1520 until 1534. It is also claimed that modern Jamestown, the capital of Jameston, was founded upon the ruins of Jamesville, though this fact for now remains disputed. Following James Stone's expeditions in southern Messer, only the east of Messer remained mostly unexplored, with the next two decades being filled with smaller voyages by Neuverian and Bornian explorers in eastern Messer, which would make contact with the few native tribes living there and even establish a few coastal port towns, though most of these would be abandoned by the 1550's. With this, the period of exploration would mostly come to an end as foreign countries began more serious attempt to colonize the region, beginning the era of colonization.
===Colonization and The Glorious War (1542-1620)===
As the Lihao expeditions were taking place, Neuver was planning their own expedition to the north of the continent, with these plans centering around Echfrugt Bay and the surrounding area as the starting grounds of this colonisation attempt. By 1541, all of the necessary ships, willing colonists and other resources required for the expedition has been gathered, with Sir Elton Pallia being made captain of the 25 ship large fleet. They would set out in late 1541, quickly sailing southwards towards the continent and arriving in the middle of 1542. By mistake the fleet had undershot their destination and hadn't sailed into Echfrugt Bay, instead finding themselves in a seemingly unnamed yet major bay in the northwest of the continent, naming it Pallia Bay after their captain and beginning surveying the local area. Soon enough they would stumble upon the Kobolt and Herm tribes, attempting to establish relations with them but failing, leading to a minor skirmish, which the colonisers won. Following this, the small town and port of Pallia would begin construction, with it taking until 1545 to be finished, by which time the colonists had already fought a major war with their bordering tribes, which they had already had bad relations with from the previous incident. The war would only be the first in a series of devestating colonial wars between Neuver and the Kobolt and Herm, which would end by the 1560's with 90% of both tribes' populations dead. These wars would also lead to the rapid seizure of land by Neuver in the north of Messer, reinorcing their claim they had made to it 1540 and creating many new towns and future cities such as Eltonvill, Neuvertia, Bodvo, Eltor, Vizma and others.
During this period, the General-Governorships would be establish to divide the massive continent into smaller, more easily managable divisions, the first one being the General-Governorship of Pallia, which for around a decade also served as the de facto government of the entire continent, superior to other governorships. The first two General-Governors, George Farmour and Sir William Sturdyman would immediately make attempts to give Pallia more independence from Neuver, in the end resulting in the unification of Pallia and Kingstown into the General-Governorship of Cornia. After Neuver decided to fire Sturdyman in 1558, a local militia rose up and took over the ships that were housing the general and diplomats sent to enforce the firing of Sturdyman, burning and sinking the ships along with most of the army, general and diplomats, while the rest of the troops that got off the ships in time would quickly burn parts of Pallia before resorting to trying to and holding onto the docks by barricading themselves off from the rest of the city. A day after the incident, Sturdyman would endorse the local militias that had formed after the incident caused by the first one, effectively putting all of Cornia in a state of rebellion against Neuver. After a failed Neuverian rescue attempt to save the stranded troops and a Cornian push into Ikrayi, the Neuverian king would agree to restore Sturydman to the position of General-Governor, but would just three years later decide to completely abolish the independent General-Governorships, forming the Colonial Administration in it's place.
Over the next four decades, Pallia and other major cities would continue to grow. In 1573, the seat of the Governor of New Neuver would be moved to Pallia by Mont Pallwood. Also during this period a new problem rose, that being multiple underground trails for freed slaves and many misions to free native slaves. By the 1580's this would become such a major issue for slaveowners, that they would petition the New Neuver administration to do something about it, as by now 18 thousand slaves had been freed. The New Neuver would finally decide to act in 1584, passing an act making slave freeing without the slaveowners agreement punishable by death and beginning a mass execution campaign of freed slaves and people involved in their freeing through military force, which would be met with strong resistance, almost resulting in a second Cornian revolt, but it's leaders would be arrested and executed two days before the revolt was supposed to begin. By 1588 though, most of Cornia had turned against New Neuver, as by now 12 thousand had been executed. Multiple uprisings would take place during the year, at one point almost actually threatening to overthrow the colonial administration. By 1589, New Neuver was forced to give up, repealling the act and pardoning all of the not yet executed freed slaves, abolitionists and rebels and even pay out a bit of compensation, ending the violence by May 1589.
The next major uprising would take place a decade later, known as the October Rising. After the New Neuver government passed multiple laws in 1600 limiting laws on trade and land ownership, many middle class people over all of Messer would quickly get unhappy and annoyed at the colonial administration. This would finally reach the boiling point in 1601, resulting in the Mawbol Independence War. Meanwhile in Cornia, many were also strongly annoyed, but had not considered secession up to this point. Seeing the seemingly quick and imminent collapse of Mawbol, Cornians decided that it was best to simply remain quiet and not follow the path of Mawbol, but when suddenly the Mawbol troops began having success in September of 1601, many Cornians suddenly began to believe independence may be possible. By October, multiple militias had begun forming, with the powderkeg finally blowing on October 9th, when a Cornian militia stormed an armory in Pallia, capturing all Neuverian troops inside and taking over the armory. Over the next two days, north Pallia, including the port would be secured by the militias in the city, while Neuverian forces managed to consolidate in the south before any major moves could be made by the Cornians. Over the following weeks, other parts of the Cornia would follow, also rebelling and attempting to drive out Neuverian troops. But by November, a new Neuverian army would arrive to New Neuver with the goal of reestablishing control in Cornia, quickly taking control of Pallia and other major cities, but failing to push any further due to the rebels adopting guerilla tactics and receiving support from Mawbol. As the fighting dragged on into December, the colonial administration would begin to get impatient, as it quickly needed troops on the Mawbol front, ordering that an all out extermination campaign of the guerilla militias begin. By the middle of December, almost all of the militias had been wiped out due to the extermination campaign, with the rest barely around 100 men in size. On December 21st, the last militia, by now only 26 men, under the leadership of Sir Edgar Cohen, a famous general in the Neuverian army before the uprising, would surrender, ending the October Rising and restoring order to Cornia.
Following the failure of the October Rising, Cornia would remain at peace until 1609, when the new governor of New Neuver, Sir Henryson Scothman would decide to limit the power of the middle class even more, trying to stamp out any chance of rebellion. Instead, a 30 thousand strong army of Cornians rose up, securing most of northern Cornia by August of 1609, a month after the revolt started. Henryson only saw a chance for glory in this, personally commanding a massive army to face the Cornians at Paller Bridge, in which his army would be terribly defeated and he was captured. The Neuverian king, hearing of this, would finally give up on the idea of strongly holding New Neuver, disbanding the Colonial Administration and recreating the General-Governorships. Henryson would be made the General-Governor of Cornia, but be forced to resign just 3 months later by a large mob after he tried to take away all land owned by the lower and middle classes. After the passage of the Colonial Free Trade and Land Ownership Act in 1613, which limited the powers of the government and Neuver to intervene in trade between the governorships and to strip people of their land, Cornia became de-facto independent from Neuver, even having it's own army from 1615.
In 1616, the new king of Neuver, Henry II Flenden would order a 15 thousand strong Neuverian army to Cornia with an unknown purpose. As the ships carrying the man started nearing Pallia in early 1617, the Cornian navy, numbering around 4 ships, would sail out to meet the 34 Neuverian ships, suddenly attacking them. While the sea battle itself wouldn't last long, it would give time for Pallia to prepare it's defenses. The Battle of Pallia would go on for around two weeks, until finally the Neuverian troops took over the city, but it had cost them many men and by now the rest of Cornia has rose up and gathered more troops, surrounding Pallia. With Pallia under siege, Neuver would send two more armies to Cornia to beat the rebellion, these arriving in March. The Cornians were driven away from Pallia and started to lose ground, but, after much negotiation between Cornian and Mawbol diplomats in Mawbol, a deal had been reached and Mawbol troops and supplies crossed the Cornian-Mawbol Border, helping to stop the Neuverian advance by late April. Slowly the Neuverians would be pushed back more and more, but everytime they would reconsolidate after new troops arrived, forcing Mawbol to send more troops to help. As the war dragged on, Mawbol got less happy about helping Cornian for almost nothing, in early 1618 forcing Cornia to make Sir Starnfield Statter, cousin of the Mawbol king, the king of Cornia. By 1619, the Neuverian forces would be finally driven back to only a few cities on the coast, of which only Pallia remained by May 1619. Neuver would try to retake some land by sending two new armies, but would fail disasterously, specifically at the Battle of Corniavill, where almost an entire 35 thousand strong Neuverian army was destroyed, with only 3 thousand of the troops surviving the battle. As the months dragged in, Pallia would begin to starve along with the Neuverian troops inside it, finally leading to their defenses breaking on November 24th, with street fighting continuing until December 2nd, when the last Neuverian troops along with their general, Jeremy William Harrison were captured. Neuver would send one last army of 10 thousand to try and retake Pallia in late December, but it would fail, forcing Neuver to finally give up and sue for peace of January 8th, 1620. The Treaty of Pallia, signed a month later, would officially recognise the territories of the General-Governorship of Cornia as an independent kingdom known as Cornia.
===A Turbulent Era (1620-1775)===
By 1627, it started looking like Cornia was being turned into a unimportant puppet of Mawbol, while Starnfield hadn't actually been in the country since 1622. Many people started criticizing the government, something the parliament set up by Starnfield could not accept. On March 18th, the parliament, fearing protests, would order around 10 thousand troops into Pallia. Ironically, this would cause the people to protest and try to drive out the troops, with the troops mutiple times threatening to shoot. As the situation got more heated, a single troop would shoot at the crowd, with the crowd answering by directly attacking the troops, resulting in a clash. Two days following the first clash, a crowd in Mernia would protest, and after being fired upon troops would raid the armory of the city, stealing it's guns and using them against the troops. During the following 2 weeks, similar clashes would take place in Eltonia, Olmeria, Eltor, Neuverim, Donvor, Bodvo, Neuvertia and Bardia. Starnfield would soon be informed of these events, returning to Cornia by late April. But while Starnfield was on his way to Pallia, the previously small scale clashes would turn larger and larger, until on April 12th, parts of Eltonia would be stabely secured by the protestors, forcing the army out by April 15th. Mernia, Bodvo, Eltor, Port Mest and Leyme would soon also fall to the rebels, followed by more and more people joining the revolt and pushing inland, quickly securing the Pallia River and all the cities on it. As the situation quickly became worse the Starnfield parliament, much of the army began defecting to the rebels side, leaving only a few cities remaining under monarchist sides, most in the south. Mawbol would plan to intervene, but would drop the idea after seeing how quickly the monarchist cause collapsed. After arriving to Pallia on April 24th, Starnfield would disband the parliament, ordering the troops loyal to him in Pallia to create defenses, but the rebels would attack before construction could begin and break through the monarchist troops, with the port and royal palace falling by April 27th, with Starnfield being captured. By the second week of May, almost all monarchist forces had defected or surrendered, forcing Starnfield to officially abdicate on May 13th. Soon after, the leaders of all provinces would come to Pallia and agree on the formation of the First Republic, electing Sir Alexander Jeremy as President. 
For the next decade, everything would be peaceful. Waves of people were sent out to build and settle the south, while the north continued growing, with Pallia breaching 150 thousand people in 1633. In 1634, the killing and enslaving of natives would be banned, leading to a minor revolt of slave owners, though it was crushed easily. Cities such as Henvia, Lemonza, Bectord, Bainod and Waryvill would pop up during this period due to the southwards migrations, becoming major agricultural hubs due to the territory being mainly slightly forested plains. With this expansion, the natives would begin to get more and more displaced, leading to the 1638 Vitgat incident, in which a group of natives armed with riflesBy now natives had been introduced to firearms due to the peace established by the 1634 ban on the killing and enslaving of natives, allowing natives to peacefully trade with the settlers for goods, such as guns. stormed into Vitgat, capturing the local garrison and looting the armory before leaving the city. Many other such incident's would take place over the 1640's as settlement only increased in size, making the natives more and more of a minority and thus more desperate to gain more rights and not lose their identity. In 1644 this would reach it's peak when a 2 thousand strong native force would raid Vitgat, Bectord, Shidal, Lemonza, Valdon and all the way up to Nasalt, before being crushed and captured by Cornian troops sent from Pallia itself. Following this, the government would consider revoking the ban on native killing and enslaving and possibly going even further to mandate the killing of natives, but in the end backed down, deciding to instead simply maintain a constant military presence in Southern Cornia to limit the ability to which the natives could carry out their attacks. By the end of the 1640's, native raids had mostly ended, with the last recorded raid taking place in 1651, when 55 natives attacked Hagson, but were quickly repelled by Cornian troops stationed in the city. 
By the 1680's, most of southern Cornia had been settled, with the natives having retreated into the mountains, though the peace had been kept since the 1650's. In 1682, 6 thousand natives would all move to Mt. Basamir close to Mansia, building a new town called Missim. The Cornians would think much of this for a while, until one night they suddenly found multiple Bardalians bringing guns up the mountain to Missim. They quickly attacked and captured the Bardalians, bringing them to Mansia and interrogating them. This would reveal the truth about the settlement - it was established with economic and military aid from Bardalia with the single goal of undermining Cornia. The Cornians, annoyed by this, would execute the Bardalians and the next day 3 thousand of them marched up the mountain with guns and cannons, firing on the settlement from below and then charging in, killing 784 Cornians and 1259 natives. The next day, a more minor clash would take place on the mountain between 23 Cornians and 17 natives, resulting in the Cornians being driven away. The situation would continue to escalate until June 12th, when 15 Cornians brought all cannons from the city armory, numbering 17 up to the peak of the local mountain range, firing upon Missim from above. A good bit of the settlement would be destroyed, killing 2 thousand natives. Meanwhile a small native scouting party had made its way up to the peak, suddenly attacking the Cornians from behind and throwing them with the cannons down the mountain range, killing them all and destroying the cannons. More people from Mansia would soon after charge up the mountain with whatever they could find, attacking what remained of Missim. The fight would last around 4 hours, ending with the death of 1854 Cornians and 2392 natives, with the rest being captured and brough down to Mansia, where they were executed. 
After the president at the time, George Jenner learned of this, he publicly called out Bardalia about this, telling it to immediately stop supporting any native rebellions in Cornia or be invaded. The Bardalian president would controversially respond, saying "By god you stupid Cornian fools. You think you can beat us? Come and take one town, then we can talk. Take two, maybe we would want to talk. Go to hell". On July 15th, a 2 thousand strong army would march into Bardalia, taking over the towns of Lesam, Mintvar and Kosper. For the next week, multiple raids into Bardalia would take place, with Bardalian counterraids taking place. On July 27th, a group of Bardalians would cross the border during night, making their way to Mansia by the 29th. They would lay burning torches down on the ground and throw a bunch of mud and dead animals into the city well, also breaking into homes and killing sleeping families. The city would catch fire in mere minutes, with most of it burning down. The Bardalians wouldn't make it out either, as an angry resident would throw them into the city well, where they drowned. Most of the residents would make it out in time, with only around 4 thousand dying, but the president wouldn't take it lightly, formally declaring war or Bardalia. Multiple Cornian armies would cross the border, taking control of cities such as Manvar, Tuskitukt and Badform and fighting multiple Bardalian armies. By late August, around 22 thousand Cornians and 37 thousand Bardalians had died, with both sides exhausted. Finally on August 26th both sides would agree to a truce, with Jenner saying "They said we would take two towns. We took multiple cities. We showed that cabbage head that we can fight if we need to. He has payed dearly for his little attempt at a native revolt. He was the fool all along, but we knew that from the start." The war would officially end on September 9th with the Treaty of Migad, in which Bardalia would agree to pay war reperations to Cornia and allow Cornian troops to remain in the occupied territories until 1695. Bardalia would also have to aid in the reconstruction of Mansia with 5 thousand workers and even more money, with many of the workers settling in Mansia and becoming the largest minority, as most of the natives had left far north after the incidents that had taken place. 
On July 3rd, 1708, at around 3:50 AM in Pallia, two ships docked in port suddenly sank, followed by an explosion from the armory, after gunpowder was believed to have been set aflame. Quickly, a confusing fight breaks out, with a section of the city in flames from the explosion. Men are pierced with swords, shot by rifles, and other gruesome scenes occur. Thousands die by the morning. As the sun rises, the true scene is revealed. Streets filled with bloody bodies, screaming men with pitchforks, rocks, doors, or anything else running towards well-armed, Neuverian troops, shooting them down one after another, while the port stands full with Neuverian ships, preparing for further battle.So... original by me.... but Freecoder for some reason decided to make it more dramatic... The fighting would continue for multiple more hours, painting the city a bright crimson red, the color of blood. Cornian blood spilt by Neuverian guns. By noon, the Neuverians were firmly in control of a red, burning Pallia. Just two hours later, news came in that Eltonia has fallen aswell and another gruesome, bloody fight is taking place in Simat. The Cornian government had managed to escape Pallia just as the fighting began and move to Savel, but they wouldn't remain their long, as Neuverian troops landed in the city by July 6th, beginning a two month long battle that turned the northwest of the city to ruin. But while the Neuverians slowly secured the coast, more and more Cornian troops would begin arriving from the south and the yet unconquered cities on the coast. Quickly these armies would prevent further Neuverian expansion, famously pushing the invaders out of Mernia with a bloody night charge that resulted in thousands of deaths. Neuver would not be satisfied with such little gains, sending another army to attack Bardia, but it would be apprehended by 6 Cornian ships that would fight till the end, taking down 13 Neuverian ships with them and forcing the remaining 5 ships to turn back north and soon sail to Pallia as support. Wherever Neuver tried to make a move, it would be always prevented by the bravery of Cornian troops, leading to massive casulties for Neuver, reaching a peak of 76 thousand by December 1708. On December 14th Cornian troops woudld march into Pallia, waving thousands of flags as the people cheered them on in the ruins of the city. Just a week later, on December 23rd, the last Neuverian troops in Eltonia would evacuate as they heard of approaching Cornian troops, but their ships were blown off course, leading to them crashing back into the coast close to the small town of Elsam, deciding to burn it down. By the 25th, Cornian troops arrived, surrounding the city and forcing the Neuverian garrison to surrender. While a formal peace wouldn't be signed until March 11th, 1710, the war practically ended after the battle. It would take Cornia atleast around 20 years to rebuild after the war, with Pallia only returning to it's pre-war status by 1740. The war would forever be immortalised a grand fight for freedom and justice in the minds of Cornians, with this sentiment only being cemented more in 1822 when December 14th would be named the "Second Independence Day" and a national holiday.
Following the war with Neuver, Cornia would slowly rebuild and continue growing over the 1700's, with not too much happening. During the Mawbol-Bardalian War in 1729, Cornia would allow volunteers to fight for Mawbol and sent supplies to the troops, but refused to take any more direct action, which resulted in some protests, with a rather major protest breaking out in Mansia, with one man even threatening to shoot at police unless Cornia immediately declared war on Bardalia, but nothing came of these protests and Cornia remained uninvolved. On September 9th, 1733, a group of people from Korno marched to a nearby native settlement and attacked it, burning it down to the ground. They had done this on the basis of the natives being Bardalian supported, claiming Bardalia was planning to invade Cornia once more and wanted to destabilise it before. Two days later, 37 natives would organise a raid on Korno as revenge, killing 17 people and burning down multiple buildings. This pattern of attacks by both sides as revenge for the other's attack would continue on for multiple months until the Cornian army stepped in, forcing both sides to stop fighting. After a investigation by police forces and the army, no link between the natives and Bardalia would be found, confirming suspicions that the Kornoians had been lying and needed an excuse to attack the natives, who they hated. The Kornoian men and major native fighters involved in the raids would be arrested, while the rest of natives would be compensated for their losses of homes and people.
By the late 1750's, the government would grow more elitist and corrupt, with much of the country neglected and elections becoming contests between the rich to see who could buy the most votes. In 1760, Sir Jack Duncan, a major rich landowner would win the election, imediatelly replacing the entire cabinet with loyalists and rich landowners. He would then make slavery legal again and stripping natives of any rights, ordering the demolishment of any native villages and the enslaving of their inhabitants, beginning the two decade long War Against Natives as it has been named, with the natives mainly using guerilla tactics against the Cornian troops, most of whom didn't even want to participate in native killings. After the presidential term was extended to 10 and then 15 years in 1765 and 1768, more and more people would begin to question the republic, with major protests breaking out all over the country, some of the largest being in Pallia in 1767, Eltonia in 1770 and Bardia in 1771. The government would respond to these protests by sending in troops to crush them, resulting in over 3 thousand deaths by 1775. As Sir Jack Duncan's term quickly began coming to an end, he would try extending the presidential term one last time, changing it to 20 years in June of 1775. This would be met with more protests, with a major one beginning in Savel on June 25th. Jack would once more send in the troops to gun them down, but after the troops arrived, they would suddenly join the protests, marching to the mayor's house and forcing him to resign and flee to Dabok. Soon after this, troops sent to stop protests in other cities would also rebel, with most of the army having rebelled by early July. On July 6th, the troops in Pallia, some of the last loyal to the president, would also finally switch sides, marching to the presidential palace and breaking inside in a violent clash with the palace guards, capturing the president. He would plead for them to let him go and end the revolt, but the general simply responded "Disgusting." to everything he said and ordered the guards to throw him out of a window, this becoming known as the Pallia Defenestration. Over the following weeks, anyone that had been loyal to Jack would be arrested by police and army units, with a few cities having to be forcefully taken.
After the death of Jack and following military takeover, a rift would develop between the pro-republicans and pro-militarists, leading to violent clashes in the streets, with the army soon aswell divided among the same lines. Most of the northern, coastal cities would turn into massive battlegrounds, while the south was mostly in militarist hands, due to the slightly negative stance on natives the militarists held and their general conservatism compared to the republicans. By August multiple cities, such as Eltor and Mernia has become republican strongholds, holding off thousands of militarist armies. As fighting continued, other nations would start to get involved, with Mawbol and Bardalia sending help to the militarists, while Sundir and Neuver sent help to the republicans, Neuver mainly to spite Mawbol. The militarists would continue having the upper hand for a long while, until October 2nd, when during the night around 15 thousand republican residents of Pallia stormed the armory and took control of the port, managing to confuse and kill or capture much of the local army, taking over Pallia and defenestrating the militarist leaders. Without any leadership, the militarists would begin to infight, losing most of their foreign support, even Mawbol. By November, most of the militarist forces had exhausted themselves fighting eachother, being mopped up by the new pro-republican state army. On November 17th, the Second Republic would officially be proclaimed and many hoped for a return to the stability and prosperity before the civil war.
===A New Century (1775-1921)===
In 1786, the first factories would appear in Pallia and Eltonia, beginning the industrialisation of Cornia. This process would take a while, with Pallia reaching 50 factories only by 1819, with the industrial district being very small. But this process would allow the Cornian economy to grow and diversify, as before it had been mostly based on farming and small merchant trading, which wasn't too profitable of an economic model, as most of the produce farmed was immediately sold at cheap prices on the domestic market to feed the population, while snall scale trading simply couldn't bring in too much profit. The industrialisation also encouraged more people to move to the large cities, allowing Pallia to break the 500 thousand mark in 1822, with Eltonia, Bardia and Savel reaching 200 thousand by 1830. This period would also see the introduction of early train models from Sundir and Neuver, with the first railway being built in 1824, connecting Pallia to Simat. Just two years later, two more railways would be built, connecting Pallia to Eltonia and Savel to Dabok. Multiple more railways would pop up in the next few years and it seemed like trains were the thing to bring Cornia to fame. All of that would be challenged after the events of March 8th, 1832.
On the morning of March 8th, 1832, a train left Besard for Colonia, facing no troubles for the first hour of the trip. Suddenly at around 11:25 AM, the train hit a bump, jumping up and back down, hitting another bump and going up again, this repeating for around 2 minutes, while everyone onboard slowly got more sick from the jumping, including the crew, leading to some of them passing out. The train would finally stop bumping after a while, quickly nearing a turn. With the crew passed out, the train kept driving straight and managed to pull away a piece of track along with it due to how terribly the track had been put together. The train drove along the side of a small cliff, slowing down and flipping over, gliding for a bit more, just long enough to end up sideways in a pond. After multiple hours, someone would finally wake up among the passengers, smashing open a window and getting out. Having absolutely no idea what to do, he would simply walk to Colonia over two following days, arriving there on March 10th, informing the local police of what had happened. Once the police arrived to the pond, multiple other people were found walking around starving, as almost no one had brought along any food. After an inspection, 8 of the 12 crew members would be found to have died from severe injuries, along with 27 passengers, bringing the total death count to 35 people. Everyone still alive outside or inside the train that was known of would be rescued and brought to Colonia, with the news of the train crash quickly spreading to the entire country. This would break the optimism of the last few years, making many question the railway system and trains in use, forcing the Cornian government to rework multiple lines, but this still wouldn't prevent future crashes, leading to half a century of yearly crashes and general drop of public support for trains.
As roughly two centuries had passed since 1634, when a few minor rights were given to natives, it started to seem more and more like Cornia was progressing backwards and becoming more like Mawbol in it's native policy. This would lead to multiple minor native rights groups forming and trying to pressure the government into giving natives equal status to the rest of the population. The government was very hesisant and unwilling to do this, fearing it may spark outrage in the majority of the population and possibly lead to protests or even a revolt, though it is possible the government members themselves had a negative view of the natives and were simply making up excuses. Whatever the case, the natives continued getting more and more displeased, with multiple of the native groups beginning to arm themselves in secret. This would all lead to the planning of a revolt by multiple native groups, deciding to launch their revolt in late 1838 around Waryvill and Waryday. On the night of November 19th, 1838, around 300 natives armed with guns would sneak into Waryvill under the cover of the night, almost reaching the armory and garrison building before a resident still awake noticed them. He would begin trying to alarm and wake up the town, with Cornian troops quickly rushing out of the garrison and attacking the native troops. After a short fight, the Cornian general would fall dead from a native gun shot, with the entire Cornian army deserting in panic and running away. The garrison and armory would be quickly taken over, looted for any weapons and ammunitions and lit on fire. Then the train station would be taken over after a fierce fight with the nights guard, with the trains being dragged into the fields next to the city and the track being dismantled. Meanwhile, the revolt in Waryday would have far less success, being crushed by the local garisson in around twenty minutes. On November 21st, troops would arrive to Waryvill by train, though being forced to stop a few kilometers away from the actual city due to the dismantling of the track. After a three hour siege and following break in, the city would be retaken by Cornian forces, with around 4 thousand natives and 3.2 thousand Cornian troops would die, with 1087 civilians dying aswell from accidental shots or buildings collapsing. A few native troops did manage to escape during the fighting, running far north, reaching a mountain range by December and establishing a new town there, later to become the city of Tonsi. Following the native revolt, the Cornian government would finally be forced to give natives more rights, passing a law on December 17th that made natives and settlers equals with the same rights and liberties. This would finally end the native protests for now, but annoy more conservative elements of the Cornian population, though most issues and anger would blow over by the 1850's.
On January 25th, 1854, at roughly 2:20 PM, a train left Savind for Noimeria. The problems began immediately, as the train barely got across the small rail bridge built over Savind River, getting stuck reportedly atleast 8 times in parts of the bridge, the bridge having been built in the 1830's for older, smaller trains. After finally getting across by 3:10 PM, the train would continue on it's way, almost sliding off the track three times in just 15 minutes due to the track being frozen and slippery. It would finally get better for a bit, but by 3:40 PM, another bridge had been reached, leading over the Noimeria River, with another crossing back coming just a bit later. As the train began crossing the bridge, the track began falling out of place, forcing the crew to constantly realign it so the train wouldn't fall down. Just as it seemed like they had gotten over and everything was ok, the bridge suddenly collapsed, with three crew members falling into the river and drowning, followed by a train carriage that detatched from the train and fell down into river, with everyone on board either drowning or dying of starvation in the coming days. The rest of the train would continue on for around five minutes, until the track completly fell apart and forced the crew to fix it and get the train carefully all the way to the other bridge. This bridge would also break while being crossed, with another carriage detatching and falling off, though this time all the passengers were saved. This immediately lead to the next problem, as the train became overcrowded due to the passengers from the fallen carriage being relocated to the other carriages. It would just take another 10 minutes for something to go wrong again, as two carriages detatched out of nowhere, driving away with multiple pieces of track, with one of the carriages crashing into multiple rocks before stopping, killing 17 passengers, while the other carriage and passengers were never found. At this point the train would begin shaking uncontrollably while driving, resulting in multiple passengers and one crew member passing out. Then suddenly the engine would begin heating up out of nowhere, exploding right as the train went over a small hill. Almost all of the passengers and crew onboard would die, the rest sustaining major injuries. The few survivors would make it to Noimeria on foot 3 hours later, reporting all that had happened. Of the starting 108 passeners, only around 19 would survive, with the fate of the passengers on the detatched carriages remaining unknown. This would be the worst train crash ever in Cornian history, resulting in mass public grief, with 150 thousand people gathering in Noimeria, 120 thousand gathering in Savind and over 400 thousand people gathering in Pallia to pay respects to the lost and protest against the government's ignorance towards the declining state of the railways, forcing the government to finally rework them, though a few railways would remain in a poor state of quality and continue causing crashes up into the 1880's.
In 1873, Cornian author Henry Filmore Whale published "A Man From Neuver", with it quickly becoming a hit all over Werbia and the most sold book of the 19th and early 20th century. The story is centered around a merchant living in Neuver, who one day manages to get an audience with the king. He requests to be made a part of the coming trading fleet that will be sent to Akail, and the king accepts under one condition: he will sweep the floors of the main ship. Thus begin the adventures of Sordermord Treewoodsworth, as he watched everything interesting happen around him while he sweeps the decks of the ship for days on end, hearing every conversation the captain has with his crew. By the end of the book, Sordermord returns to Neuver as one of the 8 survivors from the fleet, as the rest of the ships and their crew were sunk after a misunderstanding with some natives on an undiscovered island. Soon after his return, Sordermord is made a criminal for failing at his mission, escaping to Bornia before commiting suicide. The book is mainly meant to be a very dark parody of Neuver in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. After being published, the book quickly reached national fame before being republished in other countries, by 1874 having became the greatest hit of the 1870's in Messer and reaching world-wide fame. The book would kickstart a roughly 40 year period of great literary works, known as the Messer Literary Golden Age, featuring multiple great Cornian, Mawbol, Neusterian and Bardalian authors, though other countries such as Neuver and Akail also expierenced smaller literary golden ages.
During the 1884 Mawbol military coup and following internal conflict, Cornia officially condemned the Mawbol army's actions, sending help to the protestors. This would annoy the military government, which sent a brigade of 3 thousand to raid Mawbolitan and Mendal. The brigade would split up and attack both cities during the night of March 11th. Mendal was taken with ease, the residents being all moved into the mayor's palace while half of the city was set on fire, with 100 residents being shot for attempting to escape. In Mawbolitan the situation was different, as Mawbol troops failed to get too far into the town, being driven out of the town by the residents, who threw rocks, sticks, vegetables, chairs, doors and anything else they could find towards the troops. Two days later, the mayor of Mawbolitan would rename the city to BetrmabolMeaning "Better Mawbol". It's name was changed back to Mawbolitan in 1924., publically insulting the Mawbol military leadership the day after the renaming of the city, calling them "orcs with the strength of a lion and the intelligence of a snail". Two weeks later, another smaller raid would be carried out on Milwill, managing to burn down 8 houses and the city library before being driven off by the residents of Milwill. After the restoration of democracy to Mawbol in 1887, the new government would send Cornia a 3 meter tall gold statue of Sir Goodwin Chandler, the then president of Cornia as a thanks for Cornia's support against the military regime. This is by many viewed as the point were the Cornian-Mawbol relationship turned from a slightly negative one into a positive one, soon being cemented in 1890 by the signing of a military and political allience.
At around 7:25 PM on September 14th, 1894, two ships from Akail entered Port Pallia, carrying thousands of bottles filled with wine. Just around the same a small group of thieves had come to the port, expecting the two ships to dock. Once they docked, the robbers quickly rushed onto one of the ships, fighting off the sailors on board and killing the captain, taking over the ship and quickly attempting to leave port. The second ship followed them, with the two decks quickly meeting and allowing the sailors of the unoccupied ship to board the thief controlled ship, attempting to throw them off board. One of the thieves rushed down into the storage room, breaking all the wine bottles and setting the room on fire before stabbing himself to death with one of the glass shards. The new captain of the ship would then steer it towards the coast, ramming straight into the coast guard's building. This would quickly set the entire port alight, even burning down a few other docked ships. All together, 17 buildings burned down, 6 ships were sunk, 120 thousand Ingeldon worth of goods were lost and 26 people died in the incident, with the port being closed for the next 3 years as all the burnt down buildings were rebuilt.
On February 24th, 1901, two bodies were found tied up on the railway track near Tonsi. The victims were identified as having been popular native politicians in the city, probably having been killed by a Cornian resident of the city due to the upcoming mayoral elections. These suspiciousns would be challenged just a day later, when police found another body on the track, this time of a white resident of Tonsi. After a quick investigation lasting 3 days, the suspect was found to be 47 year old man Jeremy Barner, who had multiple ties to a white terrorist group operating in Cornania and Biadolma and had previously already been suspected of multiple murders against pro-Mawbol and pro-native rights citizens. He refused to admit being involved in or murdering the victims, escaping the local jail on March 1st, being found tied on the same train track along with one native woman and one Cornian man. His body was found to contain traces of poison, leading to police assuming he had murdered the other victims, tied them and himself to the track and then committed suicide. But even after his death, the murders would continue, finally leading police to suspect the actual ones behind them to be a group of criminals in Tonsi who had for years carried out minor robberies on native people and native stores all over Cornia. But even this answer would become challenged after native people in other cities would also begin to be murdered by seemingly different people, forcing an even larger investigation. On May 13th, the lead investigator would be found dead in his home, followed by a bomb blowing up a bridge in Bardia on May 15th. On May 18th, the local garrison in Cidarm would "declare war against the natives", attempting to kill every native they could find. Soon, many of the garrisons in the south would be in open revolt against Cornia, forcing 6 divisions to be sent to suppress the rebellion. The revolt would end after the Battle of Shidal on June 11th, when the largest rebelling force of 7 thousand troops defending Shidal would be defeated by Cornian forces, taking the leaders of the revolt. Finally the answer to the events of the past few months would be found after lengthy interrogations of the rebel leaders. Sometime around late 1900, multiple xenophobic army generals had started planning a rebellion in the south to establish a new, white-ruled state. By the February of 1901, more people had found about the plan and joined in, with the first murders taking place in Tonsi against the wishes of the planned revolts leaders. As they would try to stop the members of the plan from going any further, they would soon be faced with the reality that it was too late to stop anything, being forced to begin the revolt by May without being properly prepared for it, resulting in it's failure. The revolt would leave a scar on Cornia for around 2 decades, when it would be healed by the unity of fighting in the Great Astrat War.
As war began looming in 1918, Cornia would began to rearm itself and modernize it's army, being able to sense that a war was inevitably going to happen soon and it would need to protect itself and also help Mawbol. When the Vilandian-Mizandia War started in 1919, Cornia decided to support Mizandia due it's ally, Mawbol, also supporting Mizandia against Viland. While not getting involved too directly, Cornia carefully watched the events that occured from 1919-1921, planning side with Mawbol and the Anti-Viland Coalition against Viland in case of a war, which seemed more likely with every day, forcing the country to quickly begin recruiting more troops and even faster attempt to modernise it's army and navy, managing to finish a rushed modernisation just a few months before the war started, though the army would only come in use at the end of the war. After conflict reignited between Mizandia and Viland in March 1921, and Mawbol declared war on Viland on March 11th, Cornia soon followed, declaring war on Viland on March 16th, Bornia on March 17th and Bardalia on March 19th, officially entering the war.
===The Time of Chaos (1921 -????)===
After some planning, Mawbol and Cornia would begin the invasion of Bardalia, with Cornia being tasked to take the main northern population centers of the country while Mawbol secured the south. On March 29th, the armies of both nations crossed their respective borders with Bardalia, seizing borders towns, setting them alight and destroying or using any Bardalian supplies they found. On April 3rd, Cornian forces would seize Mintvar, hijacking multiple trains and speeding up the advance greatly, reaching Halsha the next day, stopping any ships from entering the port, which had been the second largest receiver of Bornian war materials, however many had managed to come in during this time, cutting off Bardalia from most of it's needed supplies for the war. The Bardalian army, desperate, would ambush a part of the Cornian forces outside of the city, killing or capturing them and starting a three day long battle on April 8th, stopping the Cornian advance in it's tracks. Following the battle, a two week long stalemate would ensue, with no side able to push against the other, until finally Cornian troops broke the enemy lines on April 18th, quickly spreading out and taking multiple surrounding towns and cities, reaching Baerdolia by the early hours of April 25th and setting siege to the city. Bardalia, scared by the swift Cornian advance, would surrender on April 27th, but contingents of the Bardalian army would refuse this surrendering, forming the NDAB (National Defense Army of Bardalia) and continuing resistance against the invaders, pushing back Mawbol in the south. Both countries, obviously scared of losing their chance for a easy victory, would organise a second invasion of Bardalia in late May, which involved around 65 thousand Cornian troops. The following fighting would result in the destruction and burning of many south Bardalian farms and towns, with looting becoming normal among the soldiers, though the army officers would try to stop or at least limit it. After roughly a half of a month of warfare, the last NDAB troops and their leadership would surrender, followed by a second, officially recognised surrender of Bardalia to the Anti-Viland Coalition on June 16th.
For almost the rest of the year, Cornia wouldn't participate in any major attacks or plans, mostly dealing with a few small Seirmordian raiding parties that reached up enough north to attack Cornian merchant ships, though the Cornian navy would manage to defend most of these ships, driving the Seirmordians away almost in every single engagement. By the start of September, Akail would begin to heavily struggle with Seirmordian raids, sending out a large fleet to take down the warships, which ended in a sea battle on October 3rd, with both sides forced to retreat due to high losses and low fuel, ending raids in the Astrat Sea entirely for a few weeks. That would change on October 19th, when a combined fleet of Bornian and Seirmordian warships began raiding attacks on Cornian merchant shipping in and around the coast, with the Cornian navy not being able to alone stop the attacks. This and other reasons would convince Cornia to lend it's navy of 65 different warships to a planned combined navy of Mawbol, Akail and Cornian warships that would attempt to end the merchant raiding that their enemies conducted. The Astrat Navy would officially form on November 6th, setting out to sea on November 13th, hunting for Seirmordian ships until early December, though only eight warships would be sunk during the entire run time of the navy due to a change in Seirmordian strategy, forcing the fleet back to port due to fuel issues. This would allow Seirmor to raid merchant shipping unchallenged for around 2 weeks, managing to slightly disrupt Cornian trade as well and lightly hurting the economy, though most people wouldn't yet expierence the effects of this. In late December, Mawbol and Akail would begin talks on attempting the Astrat Navy strategy once more, inviting Cornia to also again join in, with the government agreeing to the plan on December 19th, with the navy setting sail the following morning. After roughly a week of hunting, the navy would finally run into a Seirmordian fleet, surprise attacking it and sinking 13 warships on top of capturing the admiral of the Seirmordian navy. This would finally force Seirmor into a defensive position, leaving Bornia as the only true possible threat on sea, with any attacks from it seeming less likely by the day. Cornia would once more enter a period of silence in the war, not taking any key actions until the later part of the conflict as a supporting force in naval invasions against the allies of Viland.
For the few following years of the conflict, Cornia would mostly send supplies to other countries fighting against the allies of Viland, mainly Num and Oiber on Somorcos, ramping up in 1924 due to fears of Seirmor winning against Oiber and thus dooming Num to a similar fate, leaving Messer and Neuver almost alone in fighting against the pro-Viland faction in the war. Cornia would be one of the founding members of the Allied Concord, a succesor to the Anti-Viland Coalition, with Cornia sending troops and some heavy equipment to Oiber to help in a coming offensive against Seirmor, which would start in June of 1924. Cornian troops would play a mostly supporting role during the offensive, being used to mop up Seirmordian pockets that ended up behind the frontlines and as support for the larger Mawbol and Akail armies, who together with the Oiberian army lead the main advances of the offensive. Cornia would slowly send more troops to Oiber over the duration of the offensive and following silent period during the winter of 1924 and early 1925, as preparation took place for a new grand offensive to cripple Seirmor and force it to surrender. The offensive would begin in the middle of January, with Cornian troops once more playing a support role, while the Cornian government used the victories of the offensive for propaganda to unite the nation against Viland and it's allies, also having the affect of healing the scar left by the events of 1901 and reuniting the country behind it's government for a time. A few Cornian warships would also take part in the Battle of the High Seas, a massive battle in the South Astrat Sea in which the Seirmordian navy, having been sent out to delay the upcoming offensive against Seirmor, was destroyed and sank, though the Cornian ships didn't play a large part in the victory of the Concord in the battle. The war in Somorcos would end on May 9th with the surrender of Seirmor, though Cornian troops would also play a tiny role in the Liberation of Mizandia, with roughly 13 thousand Cornian troops being involved in the operation, while the rest had been sent home as victors of the war to be paraded in the streets of Pallia and other major cities of Cornia.
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At around 8:20 AM on the morning of August 8th, 1997, passengers in Mernia International City Airport were boarding a flight to Yellow City, Mawbol. By around 8:40 AM, all passengers, totalling 129, had boarded the plane. Among these passengers were three men in their early 20's, who had entered the plane with a large bag containing a bunch of random car parts. After around 5 minutes in flight, the men suddenly pulled out all the junk from the bag and made their way to the cockpit, throwing it at the pilots and killing them, taking over the plane and beginning to fly it in the direction of Bardalia while "flying like maniacs", as described by a survivor, making illogical twists and turns every few seconds, making almost everyone on the plane either pass out or get really sick, before the pilots themselves couldn't take it anymore and stopped. After sometime, the hijackers suddenly changed direction, flying closer and closer to Gadmin. They began to make daring maneuvers over the neighbourhoods of Gadmin, flying super close to the roofs of houses and almost crashing into an elementary school in the city. At some point, one of the passengers and survivor, Rick Patter had enough of this "nonsense and pure stupidity", finding the hijackers' bag still on the ground, he pulled out two of the car pieces and ran to the cockpit, throwing them at the hijackers, in an instant killing both of the pilots and leaving the third man unconsious on the floor. Right before this, the plane had started a nosedive as the next stunt to be performed by the hijackers, but with them now dead and Rick having no flight expierence, the plane crashed straight into the roof of a mansion in the rich section of Gadmin. All together 93 passengers and 7 crew members (including the pilots) onboard would die from sickness or major injuries to parts of the body, with only 4 survivors being found, leaving the owner of the mansion, 5 crew members and 32 other passengers a mystery, as their were bodies were never found, by now having been assumed dead. The crash would leave a rather major scar on the Cornian plane industry and airports, with many distrustful of airport security after this incident. It is currently regarded as the worst crash in Cornian history and 3rd worst plane crash in all of Werbia, becoming known worldwide.Freekodr made da original, i improvd on it
==Accidents==
===Train Crashes===
On September 11th, 1846 at around 11:26 AM, a train left Hegir for Lochen. It would make it's way to Ramm Valley by 12:21 PM, beginning to descend into it. Everything was going smoothly and passengers were generally relaxed, when suddenly a part of the train track slipped out of place, quickly throwing the train off and leading it to drive down a steep part of the hill leading into Ramm Valley. After hitting a bump, the train went flying, falling down around 5 meters before hitting the ground violently, killing every single of the 37 passengers and 12 crew onboard. While not the worst train crash in Cornian history by a few spots, it still lead to the closure and reconstruction of the Hegir-Lochen Line in 1852.
On June 19th, 1855 at around 4:55 PM, a sudden loud bang was heard by the residents of Laest. It had come from the east, leading most to assume it had something to do with the railway coming from Mansia. After a police unit went to the area, a train carriage was found sitting on a hill, with everyone inside having died from the glass windows on the carriage breaking. Going down into the valley right next to the train carriage, the rest of the train, or more accurately to say, what remained of it were found. The locomotive had smashed against a bunch of rocks, the front of it having a massive dent with the engine having somehow managed to fall out. All of the crew's bodies were found inside except for two crew members, but they were also assumed to be dead and hidden by the rubble. Three carriages were also found, both having dents on multiple sides and having all their windows shattered. Inside, the bodies of 31 people were found, all presumed to be dead. Out of the six train carriages that the train probably left Mansia with, two were never found, assumed to have crashed further away. Along with the train itself, multiple pieces of track had also been dragged down into the valley along with the train, being scattered all over the valley, with a person's body having even been found stuck inside one of the pieces. The total estimated death toll was around 52 people, including 11 crew members. While the exact circumstances of the crash are unknown due to no recorded survivors, it is assumed that most likely the track slipped out of position while the train was driving and sent pieces of the track, along with the train on a collision course with the nearby hills and valley full of rocks. The event would be simply another show of how the terrible the railway system truly was, but it wouldn't reach mass publicity, remaining mostly unknown to anyone outside of Manser.
On April 15th, 1862, a train was heading from Pallia to Yellow City in Mawbol. It was carrying some grains along the way. Cornia asked Mawbol for some grain shipments about a week before, and Mawbol realized they sent an extra shipment on accident, asking for it back. Not too far from the border with Mawbol and Cornia, several men in black suits revealed themselves. They fatally stabbed the train driver, and dragged his dead body next to passengers on the train. One of the other men who killed him went back to the controls of the train, and attempted to reach high speeds when a curve was coming. The train crashed on the curve at about 150 km/h (90 mph), scraping against the mountainside, which flipped the train over, causing it to plunge down the cliffs below. In total, 58/60 passengers died, along with the four men in black suits, and the stabbed train driver, bringing the count up to 63 people.Written by Freecoder
On August 2nd, 1889, a train was heading from Mernia to Tonsi. As the train was nearing Tonsi, it got onto a curve. The ride was going well and the driver was experienced, but suddenly, there were two dead bodies on the curve, laid over the tracks. The train hit the body suddenly. As the curve was rather sharp and the bodies weren't noticed for a while, the train driver had nothing much else to do. The fast speed caused the train to go over the bodies and dislodge from the tracks. The passengers were in panic and attempted to free from the train, but the lock on the doors malfunctioned and they couldn't get out. The train was just barely standing, right on the edge of a cliff. It was a dangerous situation to be in. Simultaneously, the train driver attempted to rewire the broken controls, but accidentally caused a train fire in the control room. He panicked and attempted to look for an emergency axe, equipped in most trains used to break windows in an emergency event. Unfortunately, this axe was missing, likely stolen. Passengers panicked more as the fire spread throughout the train and the driver was running throughout the train with his clothes on fire. The fire spread further, three passengers were believed to have died from the burns. The fire then weakened the rest of the train and a large part of it dislodged from damage, falling off the cliffs. All 20 passengers on that side of the train were found dead, including the three bodies with severe burns. Passengers on the safe side then attempted to escape, one of them failing, falling off of the cliff and also dying. The rest were rescued safely. In total, 21 died in the crash, and further train inspections were implemented in Cornia's system.Freecoder. Trolling.
===Other Accidents===
It was a nice, hot summers day in Eltonia on July 22nd, 1959. At 3:20 PM, a single blue car was driving down Jamerson Street, when suddenly it stopped for a moment. The driver got out and looked around, before quickly getting back in the car and driving to Elton Square. The car would crash straight into the statue at the center of Elton Square, the driver jumping out seconds before impact. He quickly opened the back of his damaged car and took out multiple cans of paint, all of which he threw at the statue of Sir Elton Pallia, covering the statue in red, blue and brown paint. For his next move, the driver would open his car's hood and throw in a lit match, quickly running away before the car exploded, creating multiple cracks in the statue's founding and leading it to fall onto the car. Meanwhile the suspect had ran away down Summay Street, suddenly jumping infront of a driving car and being hit by it, sustaining major injuries along with the car's driver, both being placed in hospital for three months, where the mysterious man would die of his wounds. The statue would be rebuilt and reopened to the public in 1962, though it would gain a mixed reputation for the two following decades due to the attack on it.
On June 17th, 1983, a tour bus made a stop in Mernia, on a city street by the coast. When the passengers came back after an hour of recreation, they noticed the tires on the bus were covered in oil, as well as much of right side of the bus looking forward. Most passengers thought nothing of it, but a father and his son were uncomfortable of this and walked off of the bus, calling for another one to take home. About fifteen minutes into the drive, in a rural hillside, the bus driver noticed a fallen telephone pole. The wiring was laid on the road, but the driver couldn’t tell. The bus drove through, causing a fire to the oil-covered bus. The tires, and the right side, were set aflame, and everyone on board was in panic. The bus driver was distracted by this, and drove off the road, falling about eight meters below. 18 of 20 passengers on board, and the driver, were killed in the crash.Written by Freecoder
On August 11th, 1992, a family living in the outskirts of Eltonia woke up to their entire house being flooded. They quickly rushed out, calling the police and fire brigade. After the home was pumped out, it was discovered a pipe going through the basement has broke due to not having been repaired for years. The pipe had first started leaking all the way in 1987, but every call to fixing services ended with nothing being agreed upon. As the situation got worse, the family twice considered leaving to Pallia, where other family members lived, but in the end decided against it. Just a week after this, the eldest son in the family, Peter Armback, who was 17 at the time, would on his own decide to drive to Pallia, driving off the road and into a tree due to getting drunk on the way. due to all of these events, the family's mental health would quickly deteriorate, ending on November 5th, 1993, when the family where driving to Dabok for vacation, making a stop in Savel. The dad, who was driving, was by then very sleepy and sad, not paying attention to what was happening on the road. After crossing a red light, their car would be rammed into from the left, killing the entire family and the driver of the other car.
On October 7th, 2008, in Noimeria, a truck carrying live beehives crashed into another car at full speed. The truck driver was seriously injured, and the two people inside the car died. In turn, the truck spilled beehives on the open road. Witnesses complained of excessive bee stings while reporting the crash to police.Written by Freecoder... what is going on...?
On April 1st, 2012, four men wearing bird costumes attempted to rob a Pallia supermarket using swords. They went after the fruit aisle, in specific trying to take as many orange's as possible, constantly fighting off store employees. Once police arrived to the aisle, the men began screaming "CURSE YOU APPLE ENJOYERS" and threw hundreads of apples at the police officers. They would manage to escape the supermarket, getting in a bright yellow van and driving to Northon Bridge, suddenly crashing into another car and causing a minor car pile up. They would quickly get out, setting their car on fire and jumping off the bridge, landing on some rocks head first and dying from injuries, except for one of the men, who managed to land in only water and survive. Police would arrive just in time to put out the fire, but the damage had already been done. Around 16 people had died, with many more injured and Northon Bridge closed for 2 days, with the supermarket closing for a week. After the one surviving robber was found, he claimed it had all been an "april fools prank", refusing to further explain the groups actions to the police.
==Anthems ==
==="Cornia, Greatest Pride" (1619-1723, 1775-1839)===
"Cornia, Greatest Pride" was the first anthem of Cornia and the second longest used one. It was written in 1601 during the October Rising by Sir Charles Berry Winfield, a major poet who joined the rebels in 1601, but was captured and executed on November 14th of the same year. The song would be adopted by Sir Starnfield Statter as the anthem in 1619 as an attempt to make himself seem more Cornian and loyal to his people, though from 1622 he would begin to use "Hail Starnfield, Live long!" as the royal and unofficial state anthem, having the same melody as the Mawbol anthem "For Glory Thee' King"Now known as "For Glory Thee' Mawbol" after the fall of the Mawbol monarchy in 1855..
====Lyrics====
Cornia, greatest land of our holy pride
Cornia, holiest land of our living mind
Cornia, strongest land of our knights
Cornia, bravest land of our justice
Cornia, greatest land, greatest pride
Cornia, greatest land and holy pride
Cornia, long live your peaceful mind
Cornia, don't ever give up your rights
Cornia, greatest land, greatest pride
Cornia, greatest land and holy pride
Cornia, live long ever more
Cornia, live long tomorrow
Cornia, live long till the end
Cornia, live long freedom land
Cornia, greatest land, greatest pride
Cornia, greatest land and holy pride
Cornia, greatest land... greatest land
==="Hail Starnfield, Live Long!" (1622-1627) ===
"Hail Starnfield, Long live!" was the royal and unofficial anthem of Cornia from 1622 to 1627. It was written by a unknown soldier during the Glorious War in praise of Sir Starnfield Statter, also known as Starnfield I, the only king of Cornia who ruled from 1618 to 1627. The song's lyrics are set to the melody of the Mawbol anthem, "For Glory Thee' King".
====Lyrics ====
Long live our great king Starnfield
Long live
Long live our great king Starnfield
Long live
He lead us to victory
Among the bushes and hills
He lead us to victory
Among the bushes and hills
He fought bravely till the end
His demise was of no fear
He fought bravely till the end
His demise was of no fear
Long live, long live, long live, long live
Long live, long live, long live, long live
Long live our great king Starnfield
Long live
Long live our great king Starnfield
Long live, long live, long live, long live
Long live our dear and great king
Long live and hail dear king Starnfield!
Long live and hail, long live and hail
Long live and hail Starnfield!
==="The Land of Our Fathers" (1723-1775)===
"The Land of Our Fathers" was the the second national anthem of Cornia, used from 1723 till 1775, when the first republic collapsed. It was replaced by the original anthem following the establishment of the second republic, being seen as too nationalistic and a representation of the last decades of the first republic.
====Lyrics====
Father's land, Father's land
Land of the people shinning on through
Play the melody over again, over again
Play that, play the song of our fathers
The land shines on through the stars
The light it gives off every night
The lightning that strikes everyday
The lovely tune we play, play all night
The light, light passed on through
Play the old tune til' forever, for....
Play it all until, until your life...
Play it until your life's... near... the... end!
The end! Never face, never race, never brace! The end!
[interlude]
Fatherland... Fatherland... oh dear Fatherland!
Dear Fatherland ! (x2)
[Interlude]
Fatherland... (x10)
Rise! Oh rise! The people! The Fatherland!
Rise! (x5)
Long live the land... our land!
The father... fatherland!
Long... live... our... our... land!
Long! (x2)
Live! (x2)
Our! (x5) (x2)
Land! (Land!)
==="Fatherland, Motherland, Greatest Land, Cornia" (1839-1868)===
====Lyrics====
[one day]
==="Our Motherland, Dearest Land" (1868-Present)===
====Lyrics====
[one day guys trust me]
==Population data==
===Religions===
Cornia has three main religions, those being the two old world faiths of Solarity and Moseltiny, Solarity being the largest at 32.9% and Moseltiny being the second largest at 17.2%, while the native faith of Kovorodais currently the third largest at 15.8%, followed by a smaller collection of religions totalling to a follower base of 8.4%, with 25.7% of the country not following any religion.
====Solarity====
Solarity is the largest religion in Cornia with a following of 32.9% of the entire population, having been brought to Messer in the 1500's by Neuver. The religion is based in the belief of Solarus Majornus and Solinus MinoarusTranslated from Old Raelite as the Great Sun and Lower Star., the gods that created the world from themselves. Followers of the religion also espouses the ideals of chivalry, manly honour and sociatal stability, though most sects have by now dropped the manly part of honour, though the previously listed ideals were an already edited and culturally more correct form of the older ideals that existed during the 1200's to 1700's, which espoused the "civilizing of the blinded and saving of the sinners", which in actually referenced the forced conversion and murder of people who did not follow the religion or were considered less developed, mainly native groups not from Neuver or the other northerner states, as the religion originated in and around that area in the late 300's CE, though these old beliefs were abandoned by Cornia after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1627.
The origins of Solarity are found within a single damaged painting inside of an abandoned church, which from records was open during the late Raelite Empire. The painting depicted Solar Majornus wearing a gold leaf crown with crowds of people around it, assumed to represent the god's divinity by prophet Masolius Jada, who found the painting and created the earliest form of Solarity, writing the Holy Book of Sol based only on the painting. After the church was located and confirmed to be the true one in the 1980's and examined by the researches, the painting was discovered to indeed represent Solar Majornus, though by then records from the Raelite Empire had revealed the truth of the god, with it actually having been a rather minor god along with Solianus Minorus, both representing the winter solstice celebrations along with the god of winter, Aelidius.
The religion today has spread all around the world due to Neuverian colonisation and adoption by other countries, having diverged into many distinct sects all over Werbia, with the main one in Mawbol being the Messerian Sect, though a few smaller ones also exist. The church of Solarity has been decentralised for roughly two centuries, as in the late 1800's the Neuver monarchy forcably fired the last high priest of the church in a move to limit the power of religion, which could be used against the royalty. Following the decentralisation, the religion slowly split apart into the hundreds of sects that exist today, also limiting it's appeal, though this didn't affect Cornia as badly as other countries, as the religion hadn't been overly popular anyways, having reached a high of only 44.6% in 1903, the second lowest of any majority Solarite country.
====Moseltiny====
Moseltiny is the second largest religion in Mawbol with a following of 17.2% of the entire population, brought to Messer in the late 1500's and 1600's by Bornian merchants and mercenaries who arrived during the independence war and following it, mainly taking hold in the settled and rich Ikrayi, the Rakul's and Yellowia. The religion is polytheistic, meaning that it has multiple gods with their own sects and rituals, the seven most major gods being Bosk, god of the sun, Marv and Marvina, god of the sky and godess of the moon, Rabisu, god of the earth, Gammer, god of the rich, Lija, godess of the poor and Nako, god of the virtous. It does not contain any base ideals, with each individual god representing a good or bad ideal and beliefs connected to them, being split into the upper and lower gods on this basis. The religion has gone through a few changes in it's ideals to keep up with what is acceptable, but nothing major has been changed for most of it's history.
The religion came into existance in Bornia over multiple centuries, having formed into a form resembling it's modern one around 450 CE, not having any true major prophets who formed or shaped the religions. It would slowly continue changing over the centuries, until being reaching other parts of the world in during the 1600's, mainly through Bornian merchants, mercenaries and settlers who followed Neuver in it's colonisation path, spreading the religion all over the northern hemishpere to Neuverian colonies. The religion has been slowly declining in popularity in Cornia, as most people of Bornian descent have been moving back to Bornia, while Neuverians who followed the religion are becoming atheist or switching to Solarity, with natives having almost never adopted. The religion had reached a peak of 23.5% in Cornia during the 1900's and 1910's, slowly decreasing to it's current standing at 17.2%.
====Kovoroda====
Kovoroda is the third largest and only major native religion in Cornia, having a following of 15.8% today. It's origins can be found in Northern Mawbol, specifically Ikrayi, where the first signs of their current beliefs developed around the 10th century, finding roots in Cornia during the 1400's after the tribes that represented it migrated north and spread it among the tribes already in Cornia at the time. The religion is polytheistic, having around 600 deities, of which there are roughly 60 considered to be major ones, some of these including Jmklir, the god of war and the sun father, Lbgia, the godess of love and the sun mother, and Brobjug, the god of wealth and the sun son. It does not have a easily defined list of main beliefs, though some, like being virtous or nice, are present through out the ideals of it's many gods, however seemingly contradictory. With so many gods, every local community adopts one of them as it's patron god, representing the community for the next 25 years and defending it from harm. It does not have any major sects, having stayed united for it's entire existance.
The religion would for a while drop in membership, as many of it's followers were forcibly converted to Solarity or killed by the New Neuverian regime, which had a self-declared mission of "civilizing the natives", implying the complete extermination of their identity, which included religion. This process would be ended in 1634, when the Cornian government declared that any killing, enslaving or forced conversion of the native population was illegal and punishable by death, which it still is to this day. This and other laws safeguarded the natives from major attacks, though it didn't stop them completely, but the culture and religion of the natives was allowed to recover and grow larger, with Tonsi becoming the center point and even a holy site of the religion due to being founded by and having a native majority up to the modern day, with the central government even granting the city the exclusive right to adopt it's own official patron god every 25 years. The religion is currently slowly growing along with the increase in the native population and is not going away anytime soon, with it being expected that it will reach the 20% mark by 2045 or even earlier.
===Holidays===
Name 	Date 	Place 	Description
New Year's Day 	January 1st 	Worldwide 	The coming of the new year.
Celebration of Solinus Minoarus	March 20th 	Inglosh-Speaking World	The day when Solarites celebrate the second main god of Solarity, Solinus Minoarus. The date also lines up with the spring equinox.
Discovery Day 	May 3rd 	Messer 	The day on which Karl Echfrugt and his crew spotted the coast of Messer in 1497. While this isn't the first discovery of Messer by an outside people, it is the first case in which the discoverers stepped on the land and explored it, being considered important enough to be declared Discovery Day.
Independence Day 	February 8th 	Cornia 	The day on which Cornia declared it's independence from Neuver, beginning the independence war.
2nd Independence Day 	December 14th 	Cornia 	The day on which Cornian troops liberated Pallia during the Neuverian invasion of Cornia in 1708.
Celebration of Solarus Majornus	December 21st - December 27th	Inglosh-Speaking World	The time of year when Solarites celebrate the main god of Solarity, Solarus Majornus. The date also lines up roughly with the winter solstice, a practice inherited from the original Old Raelite faifth in which Solarus Majornus was a minor god.
Old Year's Day 	December 31st 	Worldwide 	The ending of the old year.
==Maps==
Cornia map.png|A basic map of Cornia.
Cornia province map.png|A map of Cornia with province borders.
Cornia provincial names map.png|A map of Cornia with province borders and names.
Cornia physical no borders map.png|A physical elevation map of Cornia.
Cornia physical borders map.png|A physical elevation map of Cornia with province borders.
Cornia physical and city no borders map.png|A city and physical elevation map of Cornia.
Cornia physical and city borders map.png|A city and physical elevation map of Cornia with province borders.
==Flags==
===Cornia Flags===
Cornia flag 1.png|Unofficial flag used during the October Rising, Flag of Cornia 1618-1644
Cornia flag 2.png|Flag of Cornia 1644-1712
Cornia flag 3.png|Flag of Cornia 1712-1775
Cornia flag 4.png|Flag of Cornia 1775-????
Cornia.png|Flag of Cornia ????-Present
==Miscellaneous==
Cornian provincial name history table.png|A table showing the historical name changes of Cornian provinces from 1620 to the present, also including alternative names.
==Info and Credit==
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