Montrium

The Kingdom of Montrium or known simply as Montrium was a nation in the continent of Arsine that was mostly surrounded by the Sea of Kjoldverd & the Arbornic Sea and bordered the nations of Ravenguard, Fortistan, Durlian & Scylding. Montrium itself was an enigma of a state and how it formed as its details of how it formed stretch back to December 2021, entailing a long history of fighting and diplomatic trades with other nations to reach the climax of the civilization. Montrium itself was an invention forever to be recalibrated and fixed until perfection.
== History ==
=== Life in the Scar ===
The continent's history goes way back to the nation of Iron Scar when the nation was founded around Late May 2021. The nation of Iron Scar was a nation apart of the Huitca Commonwealth and was one of the 6 nations that were a part of the Huitca Commonwealth. The leader of the nation was Zonate, and while Zonate himself was not a political or diplomatic person he still led the nation poorly for 2 months with little development occurring to the land and only having established 1 town during the month of no activity the nation had grown to around 5 people in the singular town of Mongrim. Right before July a coup was declared by a rouge citizen within the nation to which it was promptly put down by CT-2312 who was the one to protect Zonate at the time of the coup.
=== From a Scar to a Freehold ===
Around July 15th MrPancake joined Stoneworks for the first time and decided to join Iron Scar for he saw many adverts and decided to join. Upon joining MrPancake soon realized that Zonate was in nowhere fit to lead a nation and this was amplified by a message he received from Grimmguard suggesting a coup on Iron Scar to which MrPancake said sure. Around July 16 MrPancake set off to form another town called Monzar around the eastern border as a military fort and started building a fort which will eventually become the base of operations for the mayor. MrPancake, Zonate, Grimmguard, & CT-2312 were at Monzar on July 21st around 11 pm est and out of nowhere Grimmguard declared the coup and told Zonate he could peacefully step down or he shall take it by force. MrPancake surprised without warning on the coup still helped Grimmguard out and was the one to kill Zonate while CT-2312 remained at the sidelines. After this a 1 hour negotiation happened with the new nation of Grimmguard called The Iron Freeholds & the Huitca Commonwealth began. With the final judgement made as the new nation would be recognized but would remain a part of the Huitca Commonwealth. 
Thereby making The Iron Freeholds a sovereign state on Eldham.
=== The Great move East ===
With the Iron Freeholds established MrPancake was the 2nd in command without any special role and began to work on diplomacy and expansion to manifest the destiny of what he saw as his nation. Right when the nation was made MrPancake looked east to find Admero highly underdeveloped and only having 1 citizen within it and proposed an idea to them to sell them some chunks of land and they would become a vassal of the Iron Freeholds. This would become the Admero Purchase and would be the best deal in all of eldham History, buying out the nation for a mere 20K$ and annexing some of the border lands. after this MrPancake looked across the ocean and tried to purchase land from the Bai Federation but failed due to inadequate amounts of money for the land. Though this did not stop MrPancake, he heard from the leader of The Encan further north that they were going to be possibly vassalized by the new nation in the north called the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire and MrPancake decided to buy the peninsula before they were bought by the A.W.E. MrPancake then later contacted Redfirerex the mayor of the province and talked to Redfirerex about the purchase and settled on around 150k$. Now MrPancake didn't have this amount of money but decided to play the lottery that day and eventually won around 180k$ from the lottery and used 150k$ towards the purchase of the land and bought it on August 5th. 
After this MrPancake became exhausted with a lot of the diplomacy and began to phase in and out between August to early November to work on irl subjects believing his work will be taken care of.
=== The November Troubles ===
After MrPancake left the nation for a month or so the nation started to lean towards Grimmguard for diplomacy and began to run still as most of the ingame actions were done by MrPancake. This rapid change in ideology from Isolation to becoming aggressive politically caused the nation to almost falter near November when Grimmguard who had talked with Plagatean diplomats formed the Maximus Liberation Army (MLA). The MLA's ultimate objective was to dismantle the nation of Ravenguard which was Grimmguard's personal agenda. Grimmguard during this time ignored most of MrPancake's new internal policies which allowed the nation to develop property while Grimmguard was focused on the MLA during this time, and had claimed to have many sleepless nights . Though in the end Grimmguard's plan with Plagatea failed when the A.W.E decided to leave the coalition war which caused a ultimatum from Ravenguard to occur which then prompted The Iron Freeholds to join Plagatea as a protectorate to avoid a war from occurring. 
Though Grimmguard never left from his plan to ultimately remove Ravenguard from the map which left to his downfall soon after.
=== The End of an Era ===
The fate of the Iron Freeholds was sealed when the Sappho-Entente War occurred. The Iron Freeholds was a part of Plagatea which itself was a part of the Sapphire Commonwealth. Although the reason for this war is mostly forgotten, it caused the collapse of Plagatea and most of its protectorate states, including the Iron Freeholds. With the freeholds being threatened with invasion from a multitude of nations, including Goonguard, Ahalia, Aristios, and Sylvania, a majority of its population abandoned their homes and fled the continent as a whole. This led to a total collapse of the nation, resulting in the creation 6 separate duchies, led by the remaining prominent figures of the region.
=== The Dominion Times ===
Following the collapse of the Freeholds, the duchies of Seaterra, Pancakes, and Maykr reorganized themselves into the Dominion. The Dominion, led by igetnogirlslol, was an extremely centralized, authoritarian, and expansionist state. Within a few weeks of its creation, the Dominion went on to annex several surrounding duchies, Mongrim, and parts of Eiendom. The Dominion was seen as a very prosperous state compared to its predecessors, but that was not the case for many of the people living under it. The Dominion was quick to nationalize all of its profitable industries and was one of the few countries successful in establishing taxation for the majority of its population. However, the low wages for mandatory national labor for the citizens, and high living costs quickly drained the savings of its general population. This created a large disparity in the wealth of the average person and the upper class of the Dominion, and allowed prominent political leaders, including igetnogirlslol, to gain enormous wealth at the expense of the average citizen. 
The exploitation of its citizens allowed the Dominion to subsidize the rapid development of its land. Until then the majority of the land was covered in thick jungles, with no infrastructure and few developed towns. Under the Dominion, the existing towns rapidly expanded, the jungle began to be cleared, the first ever intracontinental roads were constructed, and the nether highways were rebuilt and expanded. Combined with its rapid expansion, Dominion Retail becoming the 3rd largest market on Eldham, and some of the richest people on Eldham residing there.he Dominion became a very appealing nation for immigration from the outside. This led to the Dominion having the largest population in the history of the region. 
=== Reunification of the States ===
The Dominion maintained its rapid progress for several months, founding new cities, planning mega projects, and attracting more immigrants. However, its authoritarian and expansionist natures threatened its neighboring nations, prompting the remaining independent states around it to form the AFE, a coalition for the mutual defense of all of its members against the Dominion. With the creation of the AFE, the issues with igetnogirlslol's leadership quickly became evident. Going against the advice of the whole assembly, igetnogirlslol gave into his over ambition and attacked the AFE. The invasion of the AFE looked promising at first, with the Dominion's military being able to easily overwhelm the unorganized AFE militia in small border skirmishes. However, 2 days after the declaration of war, several large empires came to the aid of the AFE, including Goonguard and Anglunia, turning the extremely one-sided conflict into an impending world war.
The war came to be extremely unpopular in the Dominion, leading to the people speaking out against it. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, with people beginning to doubt the absolute dictatorship that was in place and complaining about the unfair conditions for the average citizen. Although igetnogirlslol tried to ignore the arising internal conflict, he was eventually forced to go into hiding for several weeks following an almost successful assassination attempt. Following his departure, MrPancake came into power in the Dominion, and the AFE disbanded soon after due to a peace agreement signed with Ferrus Lupus & Abal 2 of the 3 member states in the AFE which was disbanded soon afterwards after MrPancake took charge. 
MrPancake was successful in mending relations with former members of the AFE and went on to accept a fair merge Ferrus Lupus & Abal. The following evening MrPancake and Ganstapimplimp the leader of Vulmire would establish the Hegemony of Montrium and establish the Co-Sovereignships (Diarchy) with the unanimous approval of the Assembly of the Boxer Treaty, Within this Approval Igetnogirlslol was to be exiled due to his embezzlement, democide and being named a tyrant, subsequently the city of Ironden was y seized by MrPancake, establishing it in the Monzar Metropolitan area.
=== The Antebellum ===
Soon after the Unification of the Hegemony of Montrium under the A.W.E, The Kingdom of Eiendom would formally join Goonguard as a Vassal, further souring the Arsine Cold War between both the A.W.E & Goonguard. MrPancake soon after the unification took a step back and was quite occupied during the late spring and announced his temporary retreat while he would let Gansta take over the reins as the other diarch. 
During Ganstas direct rein would see the Integration the Sanch Dynasty as one of his only crowning achievements he would preform as the nations population began to decay due to failure of several policies one of which were the implementation of a national road network and several diplomatic failures in Eiendom one of which was the Dexterton Raid which resulted in a termination of communications with Eiendom & Montrium. Sebby Aurelian whom during this time returned back to his city in Verskaya would soon have a lash out against the assembly on their inactivity and in short decided to send his letter of resignation of the governorship. While preparing to move his items Sebby saw MrPancake whom had several questions on the disparity in the Government, Soon after confronting the assembly MrPancake would be officially demoted from the position of Sovereign which instilled a Constitutional Crisis as both sovereigns had 'Absolute Power' This led into a 20 day period of the official Antebellum. MrPancake contacted both RageO'Fire & Hendrik 'MrPizza' concerning this issue which soon fell on deaf ears. 
During this time Gansta was formalizing a path for a Unification with the Kingdom of Einberg with OkaySya being the main proponent of this idea. MrPancake used everything he could to deliberately not allow this unification, sowing discontent and distrust with any future constitution being signed using his situation in the constitutional crisis to further propel this idea forward. The assembly several times 'approved' of merging with Einberg but never would be able to figure out a constitution. MrPancake continued this strategy to run out the clock as he tried looking for foreign allies as a unification with Einberg would deny MrPancake his legitimacy as it would be filled in with another foreign leader.
MrPancake would soon befriend the Serronan superpower of the Vulperium as he would raise the situation to Beastlybrock the High Valar of the Realm, The objective would be to raise the issue to the A.W.E again however this time in the Onthukhan Pact, a Multinational South Eldham Alliance. Soon a meeting was held concerning this issue where both parties went back and fourth on the constitutional issues, Beastlybrock & some proponents of the pact soon would denounce the Boxer Treaty and its wordplay as downright puppeteering a 'Protectorates' internal politics, However with no majority on both sides the vote was gridlocked resulting in the issue being disregarded from the pact and being designated an issue with the A.W.E & Vulperium.
From this very point forward MrPancake & Sebby formally entered a conspiracy to not just reinstate the diarchy but abolish it, It was clear what was happening, Gansta was a puppet of the A.W.E to eventually gain more prestige in the ongoing Arsine Cold War. MrPancake alongside Ghostlysickle began to secretly rally several mayors to cause and on May 25th 2022 Sebby would proclaim himself King of Montrium under a 'New Administration' officially declaring independence and beginning the Montrium Civil War.
=== The Civil War ===
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=== The Unification of the Kingdoms ===
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=== The Kingdom of Montrium ===
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== The Government ==
The Government structure of the Kingdom of Montrium is a quite simple form of Monarchy. At the top you would have MrPancake as Head of state, though their powers are almost absolute on internal affairs with projects and their own towns. To pass any treaties the Royal Advisors have to advice the King and come to a consensus to either agree or not to allow the treaty to be ratified thought not entirely up to the Royal Council.
=== Government Structure ===
Below sit the government structure of Montrium from the King to the Citizenry;
* King - The Monarch & Head of State
* Royal Advisor - Advises the Monarch in important decisions.
* Lord Protector - Leader of a Vassal/Client State
* Earl - Governs a region of the state
* Viscount - Minister for the Government
* Squire - High class of Citizenry / Low Nobility
* Apprentice - Established Artisan
* Novice - Amateur Artisan
* Knight - A Mayor of a town
* Military - Approved citizens to be allowed in conflicts
* Citizenry - The Everyday citizens of the state
== Culture ==
Montriumite Culture and Identity could be traced back to January 2022. During this time where to so called 'Dominion Times' a time of Harsh diplomatic cut-throat warlord era between the nations of The Dominion, Abal, Ferrus Lupus, & Eiendom for influence in the region. After all the talks and diplomatic envoys the 'Hegemony of Montrium' would become the new state to absorb the Dominion, Abal, & Ferrus Lupus, with Eiendom as the exception. 
Over time political strain began to grow in Montrium and on May 25 2022 MrPancake & Sebby declared the 'Kingdom of Montrium' to be the new Montriumite state. A Lengthy 50 day conflict consisting of many gruesome battles at Erneu, Monzar & Ironcrest. In the end the 'Kingdom' won and the state became independent from the AWE with the previous Diarch Gansta promptly banished from Montrium.
Post Civil war there were many thoughts in the minds of Eiendom and Montrium about a merger since Eiendom supported the Kingdom of Montrium during the war. And In August 24 2022 after 1 month the merger was made public and the U.K.E.M. under Ravenguard was formed (United Kingdoms of Eienedom & Montrium). 
The U.K.E.M. was a relatively uneventful merge but was a stable one with most of the government functioning but largely still not producing any large sums of capita. Right until December 24th when the Ravenguard - Fortistan War was finishing up U.K.E.M. had left the Ravenguard vassalship due to political unrest in the nation and then reformed to The Kingdom of Montrium, and has grown massively since with a boost in activity and members increasing from more opened immigration and job accessibility.
=== Towns and Cities ===
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=== Montrium Architecture ===
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=== Artifacts ===
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=== National Heroes ===
Throughout the history of the continent there have been many national heroes though not remembered their sacrifices and actions have lead to the recognition of their honor to Montrium. During the Dominion Wars & Montrium Civil War there have been many national heroes who fought and subsequently through time left us, to remember them we shall honor their sacrifice.
=== From Sea to Shining Sea ===
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=== Tales among the Trees ===
# Pancake was travelling the south of Monzar cautiously.
# He went up and down the large scale jungle trees quite a bit nauseously.
# To then see a group of great travellers to whom looked displeased.
# The group grabbed Pancake to then be seized.
# Pancake asked what was going on in the trees?
# 'BRICKTOPS' they demanded as the group put Pancake to his knees.
# Pancake looked straight into the eyes of one of the members confused.
# They stared back largely amused.
# Pancake responds with 'Bricktops'?
# Pancake said 'The settlement over the hill-tops?'
# The group then left the trees and went to see.
# And over the top was a large town empty as could be!
# They then dropped Pancake to the ground as they went to and flee.
# Swifly they entered the town and redecorated it as a large group of bees!
=== Cap'n Cook Breaking Bad ===
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=== The Dexterton Cheesemonger ===
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=== The Pumpkin Colony Saga ===
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== Demographics & Geography ==
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=== National Geography ===
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=== Geography ===
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=== Demographics ===
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=== Cartography ===
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== Military ==
The military of Montrium consists of having a professional army lead by the King Sebby Aurelian. Sebby through much work and joining many groups in Eldham and Rathnir such as Uraka, Ossues and Requiem has managed to build up become the most professionally trained and the best combat ready fierce warrior in the entire continent and having the title 'The Maid of Montrium'. 
The Military Command consists of foreign mercenaries to which help coordinate and strategise in wars or battles even if Montrium itself inst directly at war in separate battles, Having a trained fierce leader alongside strong and combat ready mercenaries make the military of Montrium the robust militaries in south-western Eldham.
=== Military Organization ===
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=== Military Battles ===
Much of the military battles took place in the Montrium Civil War between internal continental claims against each other with some of the largest battles in the continents history and of the first wars the continent has seen. With many fierce battles/skirmishes taking place on many separate occasions so all shown below were official declared wars on claims and any other form of undeclared wars will not show up on here.
=== Montrium Civil War (Main Belligerent) ===
The Montrium Civil War started from a dispute of leadership and consisted of 4 battles between the time of conflict of May 25, 2022 to July 14, 2022, roughly a period of 50 days.
Battle of Erneu
Ended in a Tie (Kingdom Defensive Win)
Battle of Monzar
Decisive Kingdom of Montrium Victory
Battle of Ironcrest
Strategic Kingdom of Montrium Victory
2nd Battle of Erneu
Absolute Kingdom of Montrium Victory
Result: Ended in the dissolving of the A.W.E. protectorate status over Montrium, and the establishment and recognition of the Kingdom of Montrium.
=== Ravenguard vs Fortistan War (Co-Belligerent) ===
The Ravenguard x Fortistan War began from a dispute of land with a group of squatters which resulted in 3 battles between the time of conflict of November 27, 2022 to December 29, 2022, roughly a period of 32 days.
1st Battle of Fortistan
Inconclusive Battle (Neither Side Won)
2nd Battle of Fortistan
Decisive Ravenguard Victory
3rd Battle of Fortistan
Diminutive Fortistan Victory
Result: Ended in the concession of land of Ravenguard to Fortistan, a small indemnity paid, and recognition of Independence of Fortistan.
=== Soolia vs Far Harbor (Co-Belligerent) ===
The Soolian X Far Harbor War began from a dispute of land secession with a group of squatters backed by the A.W.E, which resulted in only 1 battle between the time of conflict of March 1, 2023 to March 26, 2022, roughly a period of 26 days.
Battle of Far Harbor
Crushing Soolian Victory
Result: Ended in the concession of land of Soolia to A.W.E, and the establishment of the Imperial Archonate of Soolia to be a Vassal.
== Vexillology ==
The Vexillology of Montrium consists of many different Banners and Flags representing the nation and their respective culture of Knighthood. Montrium has a vast collection of many Flags even before its modern founding. One of the first historical banners of the dead and buried is the banner of the Iron Scar, history takes these banners through the Freeholds, The Dominions, U.K.E.M. & finally Montrium. Currently the Flag of Montrium is represented as the Crusaders Templar in the middle with a Laurel on the emblem in the middle and the outside representing victory against outside invaders.
=== Historical Banners ===
Many of the Historical Banners of the past span from June 2021 to May 2022 and one of the first banners was the banner of Iron Scar. The Iron Scar was the first of two countries on the continent being the future successor state of a continental state.
=== Iron Scar ===
The Iron Scar was the first of two countries on the continent being the future successor state of a continental state. Not much is known in this period as this was before papered documentation became conventional so much of the meaning of the flag is lost to history.
=== Iron Freeholds ===
The Iron Freeholds was the first continental nation which diplomatically took over neighbouring regions and established itself to be the continental state. The new continental state went through many flag changes to choose which one was to fit the new population of the state.
=== The Dominions ===
The Flags of the Dominions was a collection of flags made by independent states in the region. Most notably, The Dominion, Eiendom, & A.F.E. These countries where as a result of the dissolvent of the Iron Freeholds. Many of the flags represent more regional differences since now many cities previously in the Freeholds became independent.
=== U.K.E.M ===
The United Kingdoms of Eiendom & Montrium was a result of the merger of the Two Kingdoms as a result of the Post Civil War Era. Many on both sides wished to have their autonomy in their respective Kingdoms so many on each side used their previous banners but a used to represent the Unified Kingdoms.
=== Current Banners ===
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=== Heraldry ===
Under the Rule, the Knights were to wear the black mantle at all times: they were even forbidden to eat or drink unless wearing it. The yellow cross that the Templars wore on their robes was a symbol of martyrdom, and to die in combat was considered a great honour that assured a place in heaven. 
The yellow templar cross represents the never ending symbolism to fight for independence and having the choice to rule over ones town undisturbed. The cross not only represents just a icon but a people willing to fight for self rule.
== The Future..? ==
=== On 27 March 2024 Montrium ceased to exist due to the freezing over of Eldham. ===
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