Scylding

Scylding, officially the Kingdom of Scylding, was a transregional nation in Eldham with territory all over the continent. The country was a Constitutional Monarchy, with the capital in Valhaim.
Scylding was a historical home to many viking clans of Eldham with the ruling clan being the Scylds. Because of the rich viking culture in Scylding, many nations hired the warriors for wars and raids. In addition to that, the vikings of Scylding were known to be great farmers and the nation's economy boomed as a result.
== History ==
=== The Scylds Rebellion ===
==== Valhaim in Plagatea ====
Valhaim the city of zarotli was placed in the lands of the former nation of Plagatea, Plagatea was a mighty nation with many cultures and religions. Valhaim at the start was greeted with kindness by the Plagatean people, after a while Plagatea blamed the Valhaim residence of stealing and banned their religion of shiduism. zarotli kept silent and focused on growth and building but the son of zarotli CCloak started a movement to stop the Plagatea tyranny on valhaim and to form a new nation with the viking culture, Cclock approached zarotli with a request to start a rebellion, after consulting with the gods zarotli decided to accept CCloak request for the rebellion.
==== The start of the rebellion ====
The rebellion had began in secret, zarotli sent messengers to many nations to form connections and get support, CCloak one of the messengers managed to get many nations to support the rebellion between them AWE, Novastonia and Midjor . But with the tries to recruit other nations and provinces to join our cause the news came to Plagatea ears. Plagatea started to form and call their army to stop this rebellion with their great army, with time a few provinces decided to join the rebellion between them were the great dwarf province of Gol'Muldor known by their smithing skills providing many weapons and armors for the rebels, and the peaceful province of Shiroyama known by their great building skills and samurais.
The news of the Shiroyama and Gol'Muldor departure from Plagatea devastated their moral, zarotli took advantage of this situation and pressured them to surrender and give all their land to the rebels. Plagatea decided to agree to the terms and surrendered, one of the nations that supported the rebellion tricked zarotli and CCloak and stole some land from the rebels after their victory by negotiating with Plagatea.
==== Peaceful solution ====
zarotli was happy with the results of the rebellion and formed the new nation of Scylding at the 24/1/2022. zarotli promoted a few important figures that helped him with his adventure: CCloak was promoted to the position of a chieftain ,the right hand man of zarotli. Mattyfish the leader of the dwarfs was promoted to Earl, the leader of the province of Gol'Muldor. Joe was promoted to Earl, the leader of the province of Shiroyama
=== Novastonia-Scylding tension ===
==== Novastonia backstab ====
Scylding was grateful for the help of the nations but novastonia took advantage of the new formed nation of Scylding and took a few of the old Plagatea land that Scylding was suppose to acquire from Plagatea for Kardivia Minatocho & Solaria. Scylding felt betrayed but this action and contacted their leadership about this act, Scylding received nothing but laughter. The government wanted to fight for the land but was to new and weak to do something against Novastonia at that time.
==== Shiroyama departure ====
Novastnoa and Santochi worked together on spreading false information about Scylding and their government, this act made Shiroyama citizens to have the wrong impression on Scylding and hate their government and culture. Shiroyama left Scylding and decided to join Novastonia, this act made the tension even larger.
=== The iron brotherhood ===
==== The formation of the iron brotherhood ====
Because of the Novastonia backstab Scylding knew that if it wants to protect her land it needs to form foreign relations, Scylding came up with the idea of creating a coalition that will protect each other from this kind of situation, Scylding reached out to many nation that felt the same as her.
The iron brotherhood is a coalition of many small nations that vowed to protect each other and share economy secrets together with the goal to stop big nation influence. the coalition contains Scylding, Aionios, Aurea, Heli, Eldercrest, Korosechev, Illystra, Einberg & Soolia.
==== Einberg squater war ====
Einberg one of the iron brotherhood members was attacked by a large amount of squaters, Einberg reached out to the iron brotherhood and requested their help. The iron brotherhood answered einberg goal and started to arm themselves, at the same time Einberg tried to solve this with diplomacy. After the Squaters saw the large number of 80 players ready to defend Einberg they decided to surrender and remove their claim.
This was the first victory of The iron brotherhood, this victory showed Eldham that even small nation can be a threat if they come together to help each other. 
==== Aionios & Korosechev - Helsia tension ====
Aionios reached out to The iron brotherhood because according to Aionios Helsia sent bandits to attack Aionios and harass their citizens. Eldercrest one of the iron brotherhood members decided to invite Helsia to talk about the situation. Helsia denied Aionios claims, Scylding decided to go and investigate, Ccloak waiting for bandits in Aionios land and found out that a few of Helsia members are raiding there. After confronting Helsia about this they claimed that they don't control their members and they can raid whoever they want from. From the information Scylding gathered they were aware that the bandits only focus Aionios, The iron brotherhood suggested to sign a NAP between the nations to stop this but this was rejected but Helsia. Scylding saw their rejection as an act of aggression and threatened them that if there will be another bandit attack there will be consequences. 
This conflict made one of the iron brotherhood members illystra to leave the coalition and support Helsia in this conflict
==== Aionios defense ====
The warning that was sent to Helsia didn't help and they sent bandits again to harass Aionios citizens. The iron brotherhood sent bandits of their own to attack Helsia and managed to inflict many casualties to the city of Ycaz. The conflict raged on for many days with casualties from both sides stacking up.
=== Scylding expansion ===
==== Scylding aiding illystra ====
illystra and Scylding were great friends even after they left The iron brotherhood, Illystra decided to leave their overlord Uldarash and get independence, with this act they lost some land to Uldarash and wanted to get it back. illystra underestimated Uldarash and was in threat of distraction because of a declaration of war. illystra reached out to scylding for help and decided to be a vassal of Scylding, Scylding tried the best to help out illystra and managed to finish this with diplomacy and signed a peace treaty with Uldarash.
This act of kindness to illystra resulted at the end to the decision of the illystra government to merge completely into Scylding and to create the province of Illystra in Scylding. The Chancellor of Illystra was promoted to Chieftain the highest rank in Scylding (One below the king).
==== Aionios merging with Scylding ====
Because of the continuous helsia assaults Ccloak reached out to Aionios and offer them Scylding protection if they join as a province of Scylding, After many days of thinking Aionios decided to accept this deal and to create the Aionios province in Scylding later known as Grand Farencia province.
Gizmo Blade was promote to an Earl (Province leader) and knok was promoted to an army lieutenant.
=== First Diplomacy Voyage ===
==== The first Scylding diplomacy voyage ====
After the recent expansion of Scylding, Scylding decided to focus on stability and gaining players instead of involving in wars zarotli decided to focus on strengthening the relations of many nations.
The long week of the diplomacy voyage resulted in a few treaties being signed:
Atelchia - Scylding MDP "We are happy to welcome our newest ally and friend, we had talked with Holgerborg and found out that we have a lot of things in common. So why not work together to make sure that our cultures survive and flourish."
Einberg - Scylding Alliance "Scylding and Einberg always were brothers in arms and always helped each other out, its really surprising that we didn't sign this until now but here we go"
Rodinnbrok - Scylding NAP "Scylding always had deep respect to Roddinbrok and we are happy to start and improve our relations with a NAP that will show our mutual respect."
Vassalisation of Morladron "We are happy to welcome a new nation into the Scylding family, Scylding is looking forward to advance both Scylding and Morladron interests.
=== Morladron Vassalisation ===
==== Morladron help request ====
Morladron reached out to Scylding requesting their help to defend against Sylvania, Sylvania sent an ultimatum to Morladron requesting them to kick their leader and to take a large amount of land from them. Scylding accepted their request and vassaliased Morladron.
==== Scylding diplomacy with Sylvania ====
At that time Sylvania was way bigger than Scylding but still would have had an hard time attacking their land requiring from them to spend many coins to gear themselves. Scylding, Scylding spoke with Sylvania and managed to reduce the ultimatum demands to only demoting the leaders of the nation and picking new once in addition to a small coin fee.
=== Second & Third Diplomacy Voyage ===
==== The second Scylding diplomacy voyage ====
zarotli went back the diplomacy journey and managed to get many treaties active with powerhouses of Eldham
Scylding - Drackar Alliance "Scylding Drackar cooperation has been here for a while. Eversince Scylding met Drackar they have been nothing but trustworthy, loyal and friendly to us. From this point onward every act of aggression against Drackar will be an act of aggression against Scylding! "
Scylding - AWE MDP "From the start of Scylding AWE have treated us as their equals even when we were still evolving and had nothing to offer them in return, this is something we appreciate and salute. Scylding has observed AWE judgment and decisions on the world stage, we have seen nothing but righteous and thoughtful decisions. We believe that AWE is crucial for the future of eldham and will only bring peace and light to this sometimes dark world."
Scylding - Yunria MDP "Scylding met Yunria not so long ago but we believe this was fate! We are impressed by Yunria culture and morals and we are sure that they will bring a brighter future to the north. We will be here to make sure their culture is preserved and protected." (Not active in modern days)
Scylding - Vulperium MDP "Scylding and Vulperium first met in the defense of Ahalia (Scyldings former ally), We were amazed to see their great strategy and organization in the war. We believe that this MDP will bring only good and stability to the south of eldham!"
==== The third Scylding diplomacy voyage ====
Scylding - Rodinnbrok MDP "On many occasions Scylding has seeked advice from Rodinnbrok and Rodinnbrok always showed us the right path to follow and we are thankful for that. We are happy to make our relations formal with this MDP"
Scylding - Mosir-Sumari NAP "Mosir-Sumari and Scylding have been talking recently about starting relations between the two nations. After fun and enjoyable talks with Erica we decided to sign an NAP together. We hope that this is the start of a great relationship between the two nations."
The Arcaan Merger "In the recent Chaos in the north the city owner of Arcaan reached out to us with the wish of leaving this chaos behind and joining Scylding. Scylding welcomes Arcaan as its new brother! From this point onward any act of aggression against Arcaan will be an act of aggression against Scylding!"
=== Arcaan Merger ===
==== Uraka Collapse ====
Uraka started to collapse with the new rebellion fighting the government of Uraka many provinces had the chance to go independent and start their own path. Czech the leader of the province of Arcaan reached out to Scylding with the request of joining their Kingdom, Scylding accepted this request and formed the new Scylding province of Arcaan. But some nations weren't happy with this decision
==== Drak Yamar Squaters in Scylding ====
At the time of Uraka collapse Drak Yamar a large province in old Uraka decided to go to different provinces and claim buildings in their land, Okojoko a high member in Drak Yamar with the blessing of Tylics claimed the pvp arena of Dragon's Eye in the arcaan province. Scylding was mad as Drak Yamar seen Scylding as a weak nation that can be squatted on! Scylding demanded Drak Yamar to remove the claim or get ready for battle, Drak Yamar started to fear the fight and decided to join the Constellation of the North. Scylding started negotiations with Drak Yamar and in the end decided to pay Okojoko to leave the land showing their appreciation to the Constellation.
=== Fourth Scylding Diplomacy voyage ===
==== The fourth diplomacy voyage ====
Scylding - Kazan MDP "Scylding usually does not connect with Rathnir nations but in this case Kazan showed us the beauty of Rathnir and that our people are not that different. We decided to start our friendship with an MDP and we welcome our new brothers"
Scylding - Gardenia NAP "Gardenia and Scylding have been talking recently about starting relations between the two nations. After visiting Gardenia and speaking with their people we decided to sign an NAP together. We hope that this is the start of a great relationship between the two nations."
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