Elvische Staten

The **Elvische Staten**, translating to **Elvish States**, was the biggest province in the Verenigde Vrijmasten Raden. It is also the predecessor and forefather state that would eventually influence the creation of the Queendom of Latria.

The province had a long history, after the reformation of the VVR on the 16th of June, 2023, and survived until forming Gardenia, later helping to establish Latria, as the province was officially abolished on the 8th of October, 2023, with it's leaving of the VVR.

## History

### Pre-establishment

The Elvish Lowlanders, having migrated over to the VVR, had lived through the Civil War and had even fought alongside the VVR's forces in battles like that of Ruddersdam, and stayed in the region as the VVR fell. However in it's reformation, the leader of the Elvish-Lowland People in the VVR, Dextrixion van Goudklomp-Guryon, agreed to help reform the VVR under one circumstance: an Elvish Province would be created for the majority Elves in the region.

The VVR agreed, and the VVR was officially declared in Zandengracht on the 16th of June, 2023.

### Creation

The province started small with a handful of territory the VVR had gotten back from the other nations in the region. However this did make the Elvische Staten the biggest province in the VVR.

The City of Zandengracht, the temporary capital of the VVR at the time, was also declared the capital city of the province, referred to in the Elvish Lowland Dialect; *Tovon-dór*, as Othrond'o-Zand, meaning "City of Sand".

### Growth

As the VVR grew, so did the Province. After the VVR annexed Pasifan Lands of Nyr Villhorn, the Province gained two new cities, owned by two loyal Elvish-Lowlanders. The new cities were a former city known as Astrantia in Gardenia and Nieuw-Ruddersdam. Nieuw-Ruddersdam having been on the west of where Centre-Ruddersdam lay.

The Province slowly got more involved in politics within the VVR, being the largest province, as well as owning the former capital city of the VVR, and it started building up it's cities slowly but surely.

#### Struggle for independence

The cry for independence started as the Elvish people wanting their own state and the internal politics of the VVR starting to look unfair in the eyes of their leader Dextrixion van Goudklomp-Guryon. As such, he went to the King of the VVR, his father, Willem Frederick van Goudklomp-Guryon, and pleaded for some form of an independent state, whether it be his own nation or a vassal state. However, they both knew this would split up the VVR and end up creating a futile state that would be invaded soon after independence. Despite the issues upfront, the province did gain more autonomy, and more cooperation was requested within the VVR high command, involving Dextrixion in more of its affairs.

However the Elvish people noticed that due to the denied request for an independent state, they started aligning themselves more with the Gardenians. They still remained in the VVR as cooperation was established, but the idea of an independent Elvish State, as they called, The Verenigde Elvische Laagland Staten, remained imprinted amongst the Elvish Lowlanders.

### Dissolution and establishment of Nyr-Gardiná

The Elvish States eventually had enough, and began cooperating with Anna Ifirit Ædalwölf-Varen and Hovar Atreiyen to create a newer state in the region to fight for their independence against the VVR.

This attempt failed as the newly founded state fell into chaos, forcing the Elvish-Lowlanders to settle in the land of Latria, leaving Central-Eldham and bringing the majority of the Elvish-Lowlanders with it to the new cities of Igazatigheid and Lertimantsze. From this point on, the E.S. was remembered there as the province which never got a chance to be a nation.