Xylvania

**Xylvania** is a nation in the Battalion Wars series, roughly based on the World War I era German Empire and World War II era Germany. It's also partially based on Transylvania, which was once believed to be the home of Vampires, explaining why the Iron Legion and some Xylvanians resemble vampires and demons. It lies in the north east of the second continent (which also includes the Dune Sea).

## History

### The Lightning Wars

Long ago, the Iron Legion of Old Xylvania, led by Lord Ferrok, attempted to conquer the world. Despite doing well initially, Lord Ferrok became overconfident, and gathered what remained of the legion at the Iron Tower to prepare for the destruction of their enemies, but instead this caused the entire Legion to be trapped in the explosion of the Iron Tower along with Lord Ferrok when it was destroyed by the Solar Empire Satellite Weapon, finishing the Iron Legion for good and ending the Lightning Wars. This ensured the rise of the Western Frontier and the Tundran Territories as the two modern super powers because they were the only two powers without a heavily damaged military.

### The Rise of Kaiser Vlad

During the following centuries, Xylvania became rather unimportant on the global level. It appeared that it had been partly influenced by the two new superpowers, the Tundran Territories and the Western Frontier, but mainly by the Western Frontier. Kaiser Vlad wanted Xylvania to burst back into global politics. For this he made the Xylvanians build a powerful military. In doing this, he also boosted Xylvania's economy by offering jobs in weapons factories.

The necessary industrialization for putting Xylvania back on the map transformed some of Xylvania into a toxic wasteland. Vlad later spread the rumour that the Western Frontier was making a super weapon, thus starting the First Frontier War.

### The Second Frontier War

During the Second Frontier War, Tsar Gorgi traveled to Xylvania to ask Kaiser Vlad for an alliance to fight a losing war against the Western Frontier, Vlad agreed to help the Tundrans but in reality he fooled the Tsar so his Bombers could enter the Tundran Territories.

### The Global War

During the battle of the Radar Arrays, Xylvanian Bombers attacked both the Tundrans and the Westerns and started a global campaign to takeover the world, their first step was to protect the newly acquired nerocite supplies in the Dune Sea that he bargained off Gorgi. however, they were defeated by the Alliance formed by the Western Frontier and the Tundran Territories.

Later, the Xylvanians attempted to defeat their ancient enemies: The Solar Empire. Their campaign in the Solar Empire went smoothly until their leader; Empress Lei-Qo joined the Alliance of Nations. After several defeats, Xylvania withdrew its troops from the Solar Empire's isles.

After several defeats, the war was taken into the Xylvanian Motherland where Countess Ingrid revived the long-fallen Iron Legion to defeat the Alliance of Nations after their first defence was decimated. however, she was killed by the Empress Lei-Qo. Eventually, the Alliance of Nations took the war to the Xylvanian Headquarters were Kaiser Vlad escaped shortly after their defeat but the Kommandant Ubel was taken prisoner by the Tundrans.

### The Anglo-Solar War

Two years after Xylvania fell and was annexed by the Alliance of Nations, Kaiser Vlad with his remnant army planned to recover the lost staff of Qa-Len on Tundra to defeat his enemies. To cause a distraction, he fooled the Anglo Isles into invading the Solar Empire by leaking the supposed existence of a secret weapon of Mass Destruction in the isles. Their war eventually ended in the Solar Empire (Admiral A-Qira) requesting the help of the Tundran Territories to defeat the Anglo Isles.

### The Xylvanian Occupation of Tundra

As the Tundran Army was busy in the Anglo Isles, Vlad invaded the Tundran Territories and conquered half of the country and eventually found the Staff, but his plans were thwarted by the Alliance of Nations, this time led by Marshall Nova.