The Great Crossing

The Great Crossing was a mass migration event that started on the year 698 Before the Union.

## The Polisian Empire

The Polisian Empire was a great state that dominated over the northern region of Sulton, before it's official collapse in the year 181BU.

### Imperial Conversion

Ruling over many cultures and religions due to it's great extent, it has been historically lenient to accept and integrate different peoples into their nation, that changed in the year 681BU, with the coronation of Emperor Éfesivos III, the Pious. The new emperor converted to the emergent religion of Thricism, that worshipped the three elements of nature as deities: Air, water and earth. With his conversion, the emperor decalred Thricism as the official religion of the empire and any deviant would be persecuted and executed.

### The Persecution of Infidels

The persecution started in the nation's capital, Polis. Sources of the time differ on how the exact numbers, but it's commonly believed that at least 3,333 infidels were gathered and executed in front of the Imperial Palace, in between those included the majorly followers of these religions: The Rhys faith, The Twelve Gods and the Sun Deities. The Rhys followers were greatly weakened and fled to the outskirts of the empire, mostly gathered on the great Mother of Rivers, a enormous mountain range that is the source of the major rivers of Sulton. The faithful Twelve Gods gathered and resisted the slaughter, with riots and assaults on important imperial institutions, but to no avail. The followers of the Sun Deities fled to Zyambe were it was the major religion in the kingdom.

### The Great Fleet

The followers of the Twelve Gods rebelled against Emperor Éfesivos, but to no avail. A great leader (historians speculate this was a group of many people), started gathering followers and gold. He hired many ships, and his followers provided with their own. A great fleet was gathered with the promise of a new land where they would flourish and one day, become more powerful than even the Polisians. That was the beggining of the Great Crossing, but also of a great split of the people.

### The Nortenos and the Angrians

During the great crossing, peoples united in a single vision of escape, found themselves struggling for power and dominance over others, as they found themselves divided between two groups: the Angrians and the Nortenos. With this conflict, the Nortenos decided that Norton would be their new home, where they would live in peace with the natives of the land, and the Angrians decided that they would not accept to stay in these lands full of barbarians and people without civilization. Within weeks, the Angrians departed Norton, one by one, in search of a new home, which they found on the continent they named after themselves: Angria, where they would spread their culture and faith by force and brutality, just as the Polisians who they fought so hard to escape.

## Aftermath

Angria and Norton's stories are different, but very similar. While Norton joined the tribes that already lived there, learning from their farming and hunting and fighting techniques, the Angrians specialized in slaughter and barbarians. Both continents went through their Age of a Thousand Kings, with small kingdoms battling each other for dominance. The relationship between the peoples is not extremely friendly, but no wars were ever fought between the continents.

### Kingdoms of Norton

**Prior to the Blacksmoke Unification, the there were five kingdoms in Norton, four of them ruled by Westmen/Nortenos. They were merged into one by Percy I, the Great, forming the Kingdom of Norton.**

Kingdom of Coroal

Kingdom of Aurenia

Kingdom of Florenia

Kingdom of Nevia

Kingdom of Railuna (was formed prior of the Great Crossing)

### The Kingdoms of Angria

**The Kingdoms of Angria never united into one kingdom. Angria is always at war between one or more kingdoms.**

Kingdom of the Strait

Kingdom of Histan

Kingdom of Calpur

Kingdom of Flancya

Kingdom of Glian

Kingdom of Costia