The War of the Eagles

The War of the Eagles was a conflict between Cedar I Eaglemore, Petrus I Eaglemore, and their decendeants that was fought over the Throne of the Kingdom of Annunor. 
=== The King is Dead. Long live the King ===
Before the fueds between Cedar I and Petrus I and the Battle of Novus, there was a man named Nasayu. He was the King of Annunor between 1059 ACA and 1069 
ACA. He was a very simple and peaceful man that only wanted to bring peace and prosperity to the Kingdom which he did. The Kingdom began to thrive and became a real power house in Bardonia. But behind the seens, there was a power struggle. Everyone knew Nasayu was getting old and eventually he would die and someone would have to ascend to the throne. There were three Candidates for the throne, Cedar, Nasayu's first born son, Haiyang, Nasayu's last child, and Petrus, Nasayu's younger brother. For now, we will mainly focus on Cedar and Petrus. 
Cedar and Petrus were both capable leaders in their own rights. Cedar had been leading the Annunor colony over in the new world of Akonanda after his Grandfather, Cyrus I's death in 1059. He had expand the Colony from being a tiny little island nation to a good sized nation. He lead the colony through good times and bad. The colony was invaded by The Parahands and it lost it's capital. However, Cedar was able to expand the nation farther south. 
After his father, Cyrus I's death, Petrus became Mayor of Virothen and led the town pretty well. He was named Hand of the King of the Annunorian Colony and would work under his newphew Cedar but he really did nothing with the title. He was able to raise the population of Virothen and make it the biggest and most active city in Annunor and Bardonia. 
On Nasayu's death bed, he declared his brother Petrus, the new King of Annunor. While on a ship to the Annunorian Colony in Akonanada, Cedar learned of his father's death when a messenger pegion had brought the letter to him. He was livid at the news. Not only of his father's death but at the fact that he belived that he was cheated out of his birth right. He had the ship turn around and return to the docks of Yuzhen.
=== A Quill is as dangerous as an army ===
Once Cedar arrived in Yuzhen he recived a message from Petrus saying
"Dear Nephew,
I assume you have heard of your father's death and him picking me as his heir. Are you fine with this?"
Cedar did not respond and simply just burnt the message. He would right back to Petrus in an Open letter denoucing him and claim the Annunorian throne to be rightfully his by birthright. The two of them would go back in forth with threats of war being made. Eventually, Petrus would give up and would let go of the title, giving it back to Nasayu even though he was dead. Cedar agreed because he had a plan. Within the next 2 weeks, Cedar was able to make his way to the throne of Annunor and become the defacto Leader. A few days later, Cedar's brother Haiyang would come out of no where and would say that he thought he should lead Annunor. This forced Cedar to make an alliance with Petrus where Petrus agreed to Cedar being the Lord Paramount and Cedar giving Petrus the Hand of the King title. The two of them where able to keep the throne under Cedar's rule and there was some hope that maybe the fued between the two of them would stop and that maybe they would work together.
=== "Hard times create Strong men. Strong men create good times." ===
The qoute "Hard times create Strong Men. Strong Men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times is really proven in these next few decades of Annunorian History. When Cedar took the throne as Cedar I, he started to reform Annunor. First off by reforming the government and then by changing Annunor into a more fuedel place. Eventually, the 6th Bardonia Empire would fall and be intergrated into the Republic of Bardonia. Cedar was able to seperate Annunor from Bardonia and ran Annunor as if it was it's own nation. The republic feared losing Annunor so they decided to give both Cedar and Petrus government positions. However, Cedar just used it to milk information out of the Republic as he and a few others were planning on rebelling from the Republic. For majority of his reign, he kept Annunor happy by keeping the citizens updated on things that were going on in government, hosting events, and even worked with Petrus at times. One major thing he did was create a stable line of succession and succession laws to keep Annunor from falling into civil war.
Even though Cedar was able to keep away the threat of the Rpeublic, he had to deal with intreal threats, mainly his own family. Cedar's eldest son, Georg and his Grandson, Chrom had been plotting to over throw Cedar and take the throne of Annunor with Georg taking it but Chrom being the real person running the show. They got people like Haiyang involved. They got Petrus involved but Petrus remained loyal to Cedar and reported the etempted coup to him. Cedar would comfront Chrom about this coup. Chrom would leave Annunor for some time. Cedar would never really forgive Georg but when he died in 1091, Georg took the throne as Georg I. 
=== The apple falls far from the tree ===
After his father's death, Georg I Eaglemore took the throne as he was seen as the one to lead Annunor into a bright future. The people and the nobles belived that he would be the like his grandfather, kind and caring and be like his father, stern, just, and good with words. He wouldn't reach any of those expectations. During the first weeks of his reign, he ran to his younger brother, Cedar asking him for the Lordship of Yuzhen which Cedar refused to give up. He would then complain about how no body respected him. He would sit there doing nothing even though his father would leave him with a book of things for him to do to help Annunor. He'd also blame his father for leaving him with a Annunor that was in a terrible state. 
=== 1 is none, 2 is one ===
In the backround, people started to lose hope in Georg, mainly Cedar, Lord of Yuzhen, his younger brother. Cedar met with his grand-uncle, Petrus, and he cousin Kegor to discuss what they should do about Georg and Annunor. They all agreed on one thing, Georg would have to be controled out fully kicked off the throne. The question was, who would take the throne, Cedar wanted to the line of succession law meaning Georg's son who is also named Cedar would have taken over. However, both Kegor and Petrus decieded to make Petrus the new King and they made a new contitution. All three would have to agree but Cedar didn't agree with Petrus being the new King and the new contitution so he didn't give his seal of approval. Instead of waiting for Cedar, Petrus and Kegor went right ahead with his seal of approval and declared Petrus the new King. 
Cedar was livid. Once finding out about Petrus' taking the throne, he wrote a letter to Georg incouraging him to take back the throne. Georg was able to work out a deal with Petrus turning Annunor into a diarchy. 
Under Petrus II's reign, Annunor went to war with Solanum that didn't really benift Annunor at all. Petrus would merge the church with state giving the church more power and control. Georg on the other hand did nothing and was MIA for maority of his reign. Eventually, both Petrus and Georg would stop doing stuff for Annunor and Annunor started to turn into a shell of it's former self. 
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