The Viking Homeland

**Ragnarsteinne** or more commonly known as **The Viking Homeland**, was a town and the main base of The Vikings. Located high in the central Mountain Range of Aeternia, the Viking Homeland was a mysterious place and home to arguably the most fearsome faction of Aeternia during the time it was active. The town was slowly abandoned by it's inhabbitants during the War of the Withered Capitol, especially when a great famine arrived in the town, wiping a part of it's already dwindling population. The final nail on the coffin of the town and the Vikings in general was when a raiding party led by Deepa found the half empty town and began setting it on fire while looting it. Blowing up parts of the Ragnar statue and the community house.

## Lore & History

### Foundation

The foundation of the Viking Homeland has a very fuzzy history. Legend say they slayed the Ender Dragon 3 times over as a sacrifice to Thor and Odin, before finding the mountain top they chose to settle on. There a viking named Ragnar was struck by lightning to death, indicating this was the place to settle. Ragnar was cremated and the Vikings named this new town on a stone mountain in honour of him, *Ragnarsteinne*.

The leader of the Vikings, Jordy constructed a central wooden long house, as the community house of the vikings. The others also built multiple other houses, among which include a floating watchtower, and a giant statue in honor of Ragnar.

As the self proclaimed, gatekeepers of the End. The Vikings held a tight leash on who enters the lands they controlled, and that included Ragnarsteinne. Barely letting anyone enter, or letting anyone leave alive, especially during the early days of the faction. Alan Shaka once accidently entered a nethergate that led to the Viking Homeland, fearing he'll be killed he re-entered the portal and ran away. Raiders would try and rob the base out of it's valuable stash of items, but barely any of them would succeed and would be killed as a result. Those who did survive, will set the stage of the town's fall.

### The Fall

The fall began with a famine killing many of the Vikings' best warriors and townsfolk. This famine led to many Vikings to leave the town and seek life elsewhere, this also led to the demise of the Vikings as a group and they're code of limiting access into The End. Jordy himself was already embroiled in a political conflict within the United Aeternian Republic senate and had lived away from the Viking Homeland for sometime. When the war did broke out, the Vikings were a shell of it's former self, and without it's leader became vunerable to attacks by raiders and Anarchist.

The final nail on the coffin came with a deathly sack of the town, by Deepa and his fellow anarchist. Deepa who had survived multiple times while raiding the town, set fire to the city and put an end to what once was, Aeternia's mightiest civilization and warriors.

### After The Fall

The Viking Homeland since it's fall became a place of travellers, who came to see the ruins of one of the first human civilization in Aeternia. It also became a symbol of the old guard along with Cova Dragao and The Capitol. Members of the Anarchist Nightmare had made the ruins of the town a base of some kind, to regroup before and after battle, they also took the famous *Oath of Loyalty and Victory* as a sign of they will never surrender during the war, it is victory at all cost, just like what the Vikings of the past, would have wanted.