Celtic Horde (Polis)

The Celtic Horde is a federation of 6 nations, all with Celtic origins; Celtic, Indus, Irish Empire, Gaul, Ireland, and Iremart. Most exist in the British isles, Gaul exists purely in Northern France and Indus exists in the entirety of India. **This is the successor state to the planned United Kingdom led by DerpNuke and Barataca.**

## Info

The Celtic Horde is currently undisputingly lead by Highlander Olhsoo, Mayor of Edinburgh. Everything else is managed through their individual nations through their various kings and cokings. The horde has roughly 210 combined members, with over 40 towns. It was founded on the 28th of March, 2021.

## Rising Age

The beginning of Celtic was extremely hectic and quite dangerous all considering the circumstances, nevertheless Celtic thrived. Celtic was initially supposed to be the United Kingdom but was changed to Celtic due to UK King DerpNuke being unable to maintain activity during the first two weeks of the release of Polis. Henceforth, Olhsoo succeeded him in his role and created Celtic in its place.

In the beginning, Celtic was just one nation--It encompassed all of Scotland, the isle of man, Wales, Ireland, and some of England. Unfortunately there was fierce terrorists attacks from the established English state under Offlined, who made it in retaliation to DerpNuke. These attacks were, quite honestly, legendary as they show the immense progress the nation had and the resolve to just show one man a bad time. But, again, the nation thrived nevertheless.

Once Edinburgh was established by Olhsoo, it soon became a hub for farming--The mayor put no time to waste and established a large cactus farm for all of the world to see. This significantly boosted the town economy and Edinburgh became the richest town on the server for a time. Elsewhere, things were going rather steadily: Cork, Ulster, Dublin, and Galway were all thriving significantly--Cork in particular, being the most populous town on the server for a time. The two towns in wales, Snowdonia and Yawncorp, were making steady progress, although the latter town was abandoned by its mayor. The Gaelic towns of Normandy and Northampton wasted no time and developed at an extreme pace. And Douglas, the town encompassing the Isle of Man, was inactive fairly quickly--This was Barataca's town and unfortunately he had to take a hiatus from the server. Greater London was also established by DerpNuke, but only to spite the town of London owned by Offlined.

It was in this time that the nation truly became 'Celtic' as it were--This was made up of the original planned UK people and, as they saw everything didn't go to plans they decided to go elsewhere, causing an exodus of some of the nation's members. This news didn't go alone, however; At the same time as this, Celtic was preparing for a counterattack against the nation of England for its crimes of terrorism, but unfortunately backed down due to Ottoman pressure.

Though, over time, the region stabilized to some degree as England steadily became an unsustainable nation and eventually collapsed due to a mix of decay and sieges from the Danish, led by Raller90. And although this would be good for Celtic, the nation unfortunately had something else to deal with.

## Portugal-Celtic war

The siege of Lisboa by Celtic forces marked the first siege on Polis ever, the brief but deadly Portuguese-Celtic war--Initially the nation prevailed but then was pushed back by combined Portuguese-Ottoman Forces. And just after 1 or 2 days, the siege ended after negotiations succeeded between King Olhsoo and GoldenFlamesTM.

Although the war was short, it both helped and degraded Celtic's position in the world. It did display itself as a force to be reckoned with, but one with limits in regards to greater powers such as the Ottoman empire. And this position would last for a fair portion of Celtic's existence as of now.

## Federalization and Decline

Like stated before, despite Celtic showing its worth and recently federalizing for blitzing and management purposes, it now has a formidable enemy that is essentially allied with all of their enemies--Because of this, there were no more major sieges that Celtic incurred onto any other major nation,. And, unfortunately, this led to a gradual decline in activity. Players simply did not maintain interest in something unchanging, something static and unbending--So more and more people went inactive or migrated away. And, over time, Celtic went into a kind of obscurity, it was still a power but not the juggernaut it used to be.

## Revival

In recent times, however, there have been some increases in activity, despite everything going on Polis.