Costa Marina

Costa Marina was founded by a group of wandering merchants, who settled onto a valley now known as Taria, overshadowing the Sierra Frontier. It is located on the east of the Commonwealth of New Harbor, in the continent of Frontier, with Salacia and Anchorage to the north, Copper Lake and Scholium to the east, and Cortosa to the west. Marina is one of the newest kingdoms, yet it quickly grew to the size of kingdoms who have been alive for much longer.

Councilman Navi Stronkgar is the current leader.

It was previously ruled by High King Tilly, with Prince Poison Azures as second in command.

### History

Wandering merchants settled upon Taria. They lived happily on the very wet region, until the Great Catastrophe occurred, in which beasts summoned by a dark mage attacked the city and pulverized it. It was re-built thanks to the inhabitants of the neighboring town of Kolka and other peasants who lived on the other side of the mountain.

#### Ancient Times

##### Empire

The Empire of Frontier was founded by Archduke Perrin Azures, who decided to unite all the neighboring towns into one nation, so that they could protect themselves from the wrath of Lord Raven and his pirates, prosper economically, and more. The nation was composed of the states of Kolka, Taria, Wysteria, Rioles and Atoria. It quickly grew to become a very strong nation, an economic lobby of the far east.

The greater geographic region once occupied by the empire would later come to call itself Frontier.

##### Downfall of the Empire

It is not yet known how this empire came to die. Some suspect that Lord Raven landed on the shores of Atoria and conquered the empire with the help of pillagers, others think the political structure became so volatile the entire nation dissolved and so did all the prosperity. Yet, it wasnt the only one, and soon enough all of Drevhall was barren of any life other than nature itself.

#### Contemporary Times

##### Under Aquos Rule

Millenia after the fall of the empire, rulership over the area that would later become Frontier and Costa Marina passed to Aquos and its interregnum council. It is here where Poison came to Drevhall through a place familiar to post, Ivy Hills. He met the Judge Magister of Aquos, Jester, who bestowed him with generous gifts including a barony and raised Poison as if he was his son, and set him up for success by helping him build Shipwreck Outpost.

##### New Harbor Independence

After New Harbor was amicably granted independence by Aquos, its new leader, Captain Tilly, a former councilor of Aquos himself, redrew the borders and granted Poison the expanded position of Baron of Costa Marina, and tasked him with reviving a heavily forested area filled with caves, rivers and lakes. Costa Marina took part of its name from Costa, the water goddess of shallow waters. Poison gladly accepted the task, and using his expertise acquired in his past realms, he built up a town from the ground, Kolka.

It is said that while New Harbor officially split from Aquos, Captain Tilly retained his seat on the governing interregnum council of Aquos, and that New Harbor was ruled from the shadows by Aquos' interests. Some of the more conspiratorially minded say that what would come to follow sheds light on Aquos' true aim, and that New Harbor was only granted independence to conceal Aquos' ultimate aims of annexing the New Harbor bay area from the Riverlands, bringing them one step closer to uncontested hegemony over the seas. What is not disputed is that Aquos held much influence over New Harbor, and the two nations were closely linked even after separating.

After the passing of Captain Tilly during Bloody Wednesday, the unity of the nation of New Harbor was fractured. Poison asked the new leader of New Harbor, Captain Floof, to grant his baronies independence. A request which was granted, as per Captain Tilly's wish before death to split the Kingdom of New Harbor into many kingdoms. And so New Harbor planned to split into the kingdom of Cortosa in the west, beneath the banner of the Riverlands, and the kingdom of Costa Marina in the east, which would not answer to the high king of the Riverlands.

##### Aquosi Political Crisis

After skirmishes with the Knights of the Withered Rose and assassins, the leader and Judge Magister of Aquos, Jester, was found dead in the high temple of the Deep One in Aquos from unknown causes. Without him at the helm, Aquos descended into chaos, which prompted Frontier to send a relief force to stabilize the nation, but delayed their preparations for independence.

##### Frontierian Underpopulation Crisis

After a severe underpopulation crisis, which slowed progression, a nomad by the name of Hanna settled upon the land, and made massive contributions to its development. The various nomadic barons inhabiting the area came together in an alliance, and the kingdom of Costa Marina was born. Captain Tilly's brother, Tilly assumed the throne, and appointed Poison as Prince and Grand Duke of Frontier and its various provinces.

##### Independence

In just a month, Costa Marina achieved its status as one of the largest and most populated nations in the entire realm of Drevhall. Kolka and Wysteria were been rebuilt, and the ruins of Taria, Rioles and Atoria were discovered and were undergoing repairs.

##### The Marina - Frontier Civil War

However, this peace and prosperity would not last forever. The High King and Grand Duke ruling together when one had higher authority, and other disagreements over rulership brought them into conflict. Ultimately, Grand Duke Poison announced his intentions to secede from Costa Marina. Yet this was a topic of more dispute. The two disagreed on which kingdom should own certain provinces, and on how to settle the dispute. And so the two plotted war against each other.

Tilly went so far as to contact the shipwright's guild of Aquos to commission a warship for the occasion. The guild was unwilling to relinquish control over a guild warship, but constructed a new warship in their own fleet and allowed him to rent it for the battle. In a pre-emptive strike, to deny the enemy any advantage in their march through his territory, Grand Duke Poison and his followers burned his own village of Kolka to the ground, and destroyed the Kolka - Cortosa bridge. He began fortifying his stronghold in Rioles. But when the day of battle approached, and the stronghold was breached, Poison and his followers were nowhere to be found. Realizing they were at a sever manpower disadvantage, they fled into exile, seeking foreign support for their claim to Frontier.

##### Reunification

The lands of the Grand Duchy of Frontier were absorbed into the kingdom of Costa Marina. The king of Costa Marina reaffirmed his position as high king of the entire region, which also bore the name Frontier, and lent his ear to others who dwelled within that region as his subjects.

The High King passed several reforms, and granted a military religious order of devotees to Sol calling themselves the Order the authority to keep order within his borders. In due time, the king would be called away on a holy mission by Sol, leaving the kingdom in the hands of the new High Queen, Teide.

##### Rule of High Queen Teide

As an ardent adherent of Sol, Teide's support for the actions of the Order, and their reputation brought her into conflict with one of her vassal counties, Crassus, which claimed they were responsible for misdeeds. Ultimately, this conflict ended when Crassus blew up in the Crassus caldera eruption before they could march on the Riverlands or rebel. The rule of High Queen Teide is most memorably marked by the High Queen being marked for death by the hand of blood, after which she ruled from seclusion. Rumors circulate that her enemies arranged for her to be assassinated, but other rumors suggest she tried to contract the assassins to cause her troublesome vassal to trouble her no more, but that during their communication, she must have caused some grave offense.

##### Rule of Navi Stronkgar

After Teide's apparent death at the hands of the assassins, Navi Stronkgar, half-brother of Faornar Stronkgar of Crassus and son of Vikram Stronkgar, claimed the mantle of leadership over Costa Marina and Frontier, and with the consent of those in attendance, immediately set about reforming it. Like Aquos before it, he abolished the high kingship, and created a council to rule over Frontier, representing each nation within the region, and even giving a voice to the nomad enclave at Copper Lake.

Shortly thereafter, the former High King, Tilly, returned from his quest. But was High King no more after leaving his responsibilities behind.