Kordania

Kordania is a city founded by Trevor Dynami on the island of Tálor. The city is now the capital of the Kingdom of Tálor and center of the Aristarchi Faith hosting people of mainly the Zeosi and Korvaini cultures. 
== About The City of Kordania ==
Kordania is a small seaside city located on the southern tip of the island of Talor, within Rathnir. It was originally a squatter town in Yimmu-Audal but after talks of integration and even war, it joined the nation of Yimmu-Audal on November 28th. Later Yimmu-Audal merged with Aldovir to become the Empire Of Astyllea. Astyllea later collapsed prompting the reformation of Yimmu-Audal, where Kordania later seceded into the State of Zeos' Landing. Zeos' Landing later reintegrated into Yimmu-Audal once again taking the name 'Kordania'. It was founded on October 15th, 2021, by Trev48809 who wanted to build a small home for himself and his friends to stay in. Megavolt280, is another founder of Kordania, joining the city just 1 day after its founding. It was built on a small cliff, overlooking a bay that lead into the ocean. The city has later expanded to accommodate the entire Island Of Tálor, building a fortress on the mountain, a great palace, a colosseum, and farmland on northern portions of the Island. 
== County and Duchy of Kordania ==
After the short collapse of the Astyllean Empire, the Kingdom of Tálor of which the City of Kordania was within was granted its own independence and sovereignty. During this short period of sovereignty, the King (Silverchu) and Head Diplomat (Centurion Rochelle-Audalad) granted Kordania its own Duchy within the Kingdom of Tálor, consuming the area which included its colony Coilton and neighboring military settlement of Fort Blackmont. The Duchy marked it self as the most populous Duchy in the Kingdom of weeks to come.
Shortly after this, Kordania experienced a downfall in citizens and activity, but it once again began to slowly regain members. Because the new reforms of the Kingdom of Tálor (now part of the nation; Empire of Yimmu-Audal) the borders of the Duchy of Kordania changed to include, the City of Kordania, Jaminia, Kecenia, VanVoxia, and Turora-Loca. The Duchy was run by Duke, Trev48809.
==== Secession, Reintegration, and County ====
In August of 2022 Andara Dynami couped Kordanian leadership and led Kordania to secede from the Empire of Yimmu-Audal. This caused a great revival in its population and activity and much progress to continue across the city. Andara led it to become the state of Zeos' Landing all while going down as one of the most successful rebellions in Audalad history. After multiple months of independence the state of Zeos' Landing struck a deal with Yimmu-Audal to separate its religion causing it to reintegrate into the empire. The county of Kordania was dissolved and changed to the county of Tálor due to the rebellion. 
After Andara Dynami resigned from Kordanian leadership, son of the founder of Kordania Aetreai Dynami rose to power and eventually became the King of Tálor. The city of Kordania absorbed the nearby city of Tálor and once again took control of its county. Despite being the only remaining city within the county of Tálor, Kordania would not claim the name of the county. To this day the county remains called the County of Tálor in honor of the original city of Tálor. 
== Kordania's Architecture ==
Kordania is most well known for its stunning architecture, and extremely talented builders, such as Beaglebasset24, FantasticMrLuke, Cyp3r, and many more! Kordania has beautiful landscaping, and eye catching buildings. Ships can even be spotted off the coast. 
====== Zeos' Landing ======
Kordania in colaboration with Count of Tálor, Praetor, is building a fortress on the mountain on the island of Talor, called Valor Citadel. The fortress will have many towers, overlook Kordania, and the entire island of Talor.
The project has heavily slowed down and has since been renamed to Zeos' Landing since former county Praetor left the project. 
== The Kordanian Monarchy ==
Kordania's current leader is founder Trev48809, who formed a monarchy over Kordania, governing the City as he pleases, (under the rule of its higher empire of course) but in a fair way. People in Kordania are not taxed, but recommended to donate Money to Kordania every once in a while.
==== First Monarch - Trevor Dynami ====
Trevor Dynami was the founder of Kordania and led it during the very beginning. He reigned over the city for a long period of time, all the way through the Empire of Astyllea and into the High Kingdom of Yimmu-Audal before he drown in the Astyllean sea during the 5th Kordanian Festival, also known as the Red Festival. Trevor Dynami founded the Worship of Korvort, later renamed to the Korvaini Faith and eventually becoming the Aristarchi Faith. 
==== Second Monarch - Megavolt ====
Megavolt was the second Monarch of Kordania and led it multiple times. He mainly reigned after the death of Trevor Dynami and is remembered for an extremely slow time of Kordanian history. Kordania experienced extreme drops in player count and activity. Megavolt was couped by Andara Dynami late in his reign which led to the Kordanian rebellion.
==== Third Monarch - Andara Dynami ====
Andara Dynami became the third monarch of Kordania by forcefully taking control of Kordania from Megavolt, reigning after the great Kordanian depression. He promised activity and prosperity to the Kordanian people causing a massive increase in activity and population. During this time, Kordania rose to become one of the most active cities in all of Rathnir. Because of the massive change in leadership, ideology, and speed, Andara led Kordania to secede from the Empire of Yimmu-Audal. Andara shifted the religious focus from the god, Korvort to the God, Zeos and renamed Kordania to Zeos' Landing. Zeos' Landing integrated Coilton in the Treaty of Coilton. The states progress increased and new areas of Kordania were build, while old were revamped. Andara struck a deal with Yimmu-Audal in the treaty of Kordania renaming Zeos' Landing to Kordania and reintegrating it into Yimmu-Audal. Andara reigned later on giving leadership of Kordania to Grimothy Von-Valley
==== Fourth Monarch - Grimothy Von-Valley ====
Grimothy Von-Valley's reign was remembered similarly to Megavolt's. Thing slowed down very quickly after the rebellion and many players even quit the server. Here Kordania experienced its worst and most inactive state. Less than three people remained active in Kordania. Grimothy later resigned to pursue a career in scamming and potato farming. 
==== Fifth Monarch - Aetreai Dynami Âudalad ====
Aetreai took control of Kordania following the resignation of Grimothy Von-Valley. Shortly afterward he went on to rise to the position of King of Tálor. During his reign he finally got Kordania to absorb the nearby city of Tálor where construction on massive palaces and colosseums began immediaely. Progress sped up and slowly citizens of Kordania began to return to activity. Later he announced Kordania as the new capital of the Kingdom of Tálor. Aetreai Dynami Âudalad took control of the Aristarchi Faith and is leading it to peacefully separate from the Hukar Sharud Faith. He still reigns to this day and Kordania is beginning to return to an active state. 
== Kordanian Culture ==
Kordanians have long been known for their excellent skills in buildings and architecture. For as long as time people from all over the world have come to the city to hire builders for their own projects. The city itself was built without much designing and so it naturally sprung up around the current day town's square. Kordanians have a strong religious connection to both sea serpents (representing their god, Korvort) and phoenix's (representing their god, Zeos). 
Kordanians are proficient in shipbuilding and are the world's epicenter for shipbuilding. Many Kordanians are skilled when it comes to sailing around ships and transporting cargo goods across the sea. 
==== Religion ====
The state-religion of the city of Kordania is the Aristarchi Faith. The city was founded in the belief that the god of the sea, Korvort had chosen Trevor Dynami and Megavolt to lead a city in the gods name. The religion was reborn and founded by Trevor Dynami, and the city of Kordania has many statues and representation of both the gods Korvort and Zeos. 
== Stories & Tales ==
=== Founding the City ===
Trev48809 had been living a peaceful life in his home, which was located somewhere in a town of southern Rathnir just off the coast. On a day just like any other, the town was ransacked and raided by a band of pirates. They left nothing unturned and even took some of the villagers hostage in order to make them work. Unfortunately for Trev, he was one of those few. 
For months Trev watched helplessly as the pirates continued to plunder and raid other coastal villages, with each town a new bunch of workers were brought aboard. Many of them died because of the lack of food and water they were given so they had to always take new people from each village. Eventually, Trev met Megavolt280 who had also been taken hostage, the two of them grew close together with each night spent on the ship. Trev and Mega became good friends after a few weeks, even sharing food and drink as they did their best to keep each other alive in the poor conditions. As time went on they began to think out an escape plan. 
The two of them knew things weren't going to get any better, and that the only hope they had was to try and jump ship when they were near land. Once they had it planned out, they picked a date and it was settled. Both of them would escape this ship. But before that date arrived, the ship sailed through a storm. This storm was unlike any other, the sails were tearing from the strong winds, the deck being destroyed by the heavy waves crashing down on it. This was truly the work of a God. 
The pirates commanded the workers to go above deck and bring the supplies below, some refused and were shot for disobeying. This made the rest uneasy and they unwillingly went. As soon as the first man stepped outside he was knocked overboard by a wave even strong enough to take a cannon that slid off the side of the deck and into the black abyss with him. Most of the workers had just brought down the bulk of the supplies, but a small number, including Trev and Mega we're bringing down the final crates. 
When suddenly the two of them and the last of the workers spotted a creature in the water. One that dwarfed the ship in size, not a shark, a whale, or a squid. This was a serpent. A pale serpent, double the size of the ship, maybe more. Its eyes were as red as blood, and fangs the size of a man. This was a monster. The sea serpent had to have been Korvort, a God of the sea. A tale that every coastal town, sailor, and pirate knew of, stories of a sea serpent big enough to topple a ship with one whip of his tail. With that final thought, it happened. The tail of Korvort rose above the sea, leaving the workers frozen in fear, until it dropped. Time seemed to slow at first, the workers couldn’t move, the rain fell, lightning spread across the sky, and thunder roared. Then time sped up again, and with a loud crash the ship was split down the middle. Both halves were airborne for a moment. People spilled out of the now wide open lower deck, and the people on the upper deck had been thrown. 
Trev and Mega, who were both on the upper deck, were now in the air. For a few seconds the clouds didn’t seem that far away, until they started falling. Fear built up as the black water got closer and closer, until… Nothing. They had hit the water and the impact had rendered them both unconscious. 
Days went by before Trev had awoken. Washed up on the shore of an island, and Mega was nowhere to be found. He didn’t know what to think. He was set free, before he and Mega even had a chance to set their plan in motion. But it was just him, was Mega even alive? Trev couldn’t continue thinking that way so he spent the majority of the day searching for his friend along the shore. But Mega was nowhere to be found. He then reluctantly gave up and made a small campfire where he had washed ashore, staring blankly into the sea as night began to fall,  Trev thought to himself “Was this fate? Did Korvort spare me for a reason?”. 
He drifted off thinking to himself until he spotted something in the water. A plank of wood, and a body. It was slowly drifting towards the island, Trev stood up and walked slowly to the coast. He knew that man, it was Mega. There was no way of telling if he was alive or not but Trev was not about to leave him in the water, dead or alive. He then quickly ran out into the water and swam to the plank of wood. He grabbed it and began swimming back to land, dragging Mega along with him. Trev found his footing on the sandy shore and he pulled Mega onto the land, but in that moment, just as the sun had set, the outline of a white creature was seen in the water and the very tip of what looked to be a tail surfaced before delving back into the now dark sea with a small splash. In that very second, Mega had awoken. As Mega gasped for air, Trev understood. This was no coincidence, this was destiny. The two men had been chosen by Korvort, chosen by the sea, to be his people. 
Since that fateful day the pair had begun building homes for themselves, but to their surprise more people began to wash ashore the island. The first was BeagleBasset24, a man who was being sent across seas with a group of workers and builders to construct a town. Both Trev and Mega had brought him into their newly built house. When he woke Beagle told them his story, the ship was due to sail through some rocky waters, which shouldn’t have been a problem, if it wasn’t for the storm that shook the ship with each wave slamming against the hull. The ship had apparently gone head first into a jagged rock island. The clash had caused Beagle as well as many others to be heaved overboard and into the dark water. At some point Beagle had been knocked unconscious, until now.
Trev and Mega then knew this man was like them, chosen by the ocean. They took the time to explain to Beagle why he was here and what it meant. This of course was a shock to Beagle, to be chosen by a God. But after a few hours he understood the situation, Beagle took pride in this. Just as Trev and Mega both did. But Beagle wasn’t the last person to be washed ashore. More and more people began to be found along the island's coast, the construction of the houses soon became the construction of a town. It was named Kordania, named after the God of the sea Korvort. Each of the men had been calloused by the wrath of the sea, they had survived it and now they've been chosen by it. With the rapid growth in population the town had sprung to life, soon after the town was founded the “Temple of Korvort” had been built, by Beagle. This marked the true beginning of Kordania’s glorious journey.
== Photos ==
File:Kordanian Town Square.png|Town Square Of Kordania
File:Kordania Outline Map.png|Borders Of Kordania
File:Updated Kordanian Port.png|Kordanian Port
File:Ship Off The Port At Night.png|Ship Off The Port At Night
File:Docked Airship Off the Coast.png|Airship Off the Coast
File:Screen Shot 2022-03-09 at 8.45.20 AM.png|Ship off the Coast - Midday
File:Dining At the Winslow Bar.png|Dining Hall at the Winslow Bar
File:Board-Walk and Nature.png|Board-Walk and Nature
File:Render Of Kordania.png|Render Of Kordania (outdated)
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