The Settlers

The Settlers is the name of the group of foreign mortals who went to the nation of Anrusha at the beginning of the second age.

## Philosophy

### Purpose

Claim the lands of Anrusha to secure resources for themselves to survive the current age.

## Lore

After the victory by mortalkind at the battle of the first lands, the world still strained from the chaos and damage of the war that had given mortalkind their freedom. As such, with their homes damaged and the newfound freedom they had, many people began to spread across the world to new places they could call home. The group that would come to be known as the settlers, were foreigners to the shores of Anrusha: simply looking for new lands they could make their own.

As they arrived to the new land, they came into contact with the native harpies of the lands. Harpies by nature, are not the most accomodating species: and this was reflected in their reception of the settlers. After several small scale conflicts, the two parties came to a ceasefire after the settlers gained some aid from some allies from the mainland. A small section of the land was established as the home of the Settlers, as the harpies still harbored some animosity to the foreigners, not wanting to allow them to fully integrate them into their society.

As the years went by, Settler society began to grow as they continued to recieve aid from the mainland and developed as their own rich and independant society. They would negotiate with the harpies for more and more land, providing them resources and their aid. This developed a working relationship between the two sides, as the Settlers would gain more land slowly over the course of time.

However, this harmony between the two wouldn't last. As breaches in reality sprung up, the harpies were quick to blame their foreign neighbours for the events that occured and began to treat the Settlers with more hostility. This caused tensions to rise, as the harpies began to alienate themselves away from the nation next door. The Settlers took offence to this backlash from them, and began to claim injustice: painting themselves as second class citizens and removed from harpy society as a result. The Settlers began erecting blockaids and retaliting towards the harpies, who took these acts aggressively.

The two sides began actively cutting off connections with the other, reverting to the state of enemies that they initially were. As this was all happening, the Settlers began to put into action plans to claim back land that they believed was theirs from the harpies. Through political propaganda, the Settlers began to muddy the waters and sully the name of the harpies in order to rally their citizens together. This even began to spread to other regions, down to the name. While Anrusha was always the original name of the island mass they had arrived on, they began to refer to their land as Puerusha, the true lands. Further tainting the records by referring to the harpy homelands as Balrusha. Due to their widespread influence, this spread to the mainland and many other organizations such that it is referred to Balrusha now.

Towards the end of the second age, they began pushing further on the borders: but when the third age began, the invasion of Balrusha began. Settler forces have since begun invading and pushing the border further and further inwards, claiming the land for themselves under the guise of wanting to protect and aid their own people.

## Miscellaneous

* The Settlers in their propoganda claim that they deserve the land due to the harpies not properly owning the land.
* They also claim that this is only fair after being abused and treated as second rate by the harpies for the majority of their history.
* Yes, the Settlers are propogating extreme levels of racism.