Sorne

Royal Standard of Fredreitse V Azules (National Flag of Sorne from 1858-present)

### Major cities

Hyberdeen, Akladeen, Crobashire, Yorthington

### Official language

Sornese (majority/official)Gail, Kiestrian, Kolomechi (minority)

### Leader (Season 3)

Queen Marseia Azules(r. 1914-present)

Coronation Portrait of Queen Marseia Azules

### National Day

July 7th

Sorne, officially the **Kingdom of Sorne**, is a country located in north-eastern Frijum. Founded as a small principality in the year 1556 from within the city of Hyberdeen by Prince Azalon of Hyberdeen, Azalon's descendants (who took the family name Azules in honor of their founding ancestor) expanded into the four main historical regions of Sorne, effectively unifying the Sornese ethnicity around 1711 with the founding of Yorthington under Prince Fredreitse III. Following the Sornese conquest of Kiestrionton a year prior, Sorne's then-ruling Prince Fredreitse V upgraded the feudal status of the Sornese monarchy from Principality to Kingdom in 1858. Fredreitse V's change in title came with a change to the Sornese flag, replacing a black and red saltire on a white field to an orange and maroon saltire on a white field with the symbol of the Azules family, the Sornese Sun, placed at the center. Sornese terrain tends to be comprised of flat grassland in the northern portions of the nation, with vast, hilly forests encompassing the region deeper into the continent.

After its defeat in the First World War, Sorne largely took a pacifist approach to foreign policy for the following 49 years. Following the capture and execution of Fredreitse V in 1865, his 18 year old son, Zorsha II, ascended the throne and relaxed monarchical power over the governing of the state, leaving certain responsibilities to previously mostly ceremonial Parliament. Due to Zorsha II's relative ineffectiveness as a leader and decadent lifestyle, he was murdered only four years into his reign in 1869 by a cabal of ministers who backed his nephew, Welmon, as a more fitting ruler. Welmon died of a heart attack two days before his coronation, so the throne instead passed to Zorsha II's youngest brother, Alitani. Alitani had a considerably long reign, ruling for 40 years until his abdication at age 58 in 1909 to his son, Zorsha III. Alitani's reign was marked by a considerable improvement of relations with many former Defense Pact nations, notably the Lapivian Empire. Upon Zorsha III's ascension to the throne, he was quick to place ambitions on Kolomech's mainland Frijum territory, which he annexed under threat of war in 1910. Four years later, he was assassinated at the infamous Zubek bombing, leading to the ascension of his 17 year old daughter, Marseia.

Immediately after Marseia's coronation in 1914, Sorne joined the Allied Forces against Merxi's Global Axis Alliance in the Second World War. Marseia and her Parliament were forced into exile in Melvurium in 1917 following the capitulation of Sorne to the Axis forces. From 1917-1922, Sorne was ruled as a fascist puppet state of Karmar, headed by the fascist sympathizer Count Evantu of Iforgor, a nobleman who had previously served as Minister of Agriculture. Immediately after the beginning of the Third World War in 1921, Sornese partisans swore allegiance to Marseia and the Defense Coalition, all culminating in the naval landings in Akladeen in 1922 and the effective collapse of the fascist puppet state in 1923. Marseia and her government returned to Hyberdeen on July 7th, 1922, marking "Reclamation Day", which serves as the national day of Sorne. Sorne fought the rest of the Third World War in Frijum and Manaia, fighting alongside Kiestrian and Kolomechi partisans to capitulate Karmar in 1924. Following Karmar's capitulation, most Sornese forces remained in Frijum to occupy Karmar during negotiations while some were deployed to Manaia to aid in the campaign against Merxi. Following the war, Sorne would gain previously owned territory from Karmar and Evantu of Iforgor was executed in 1925 on charges of high treason.

Former King Alitani, presently aged 79, lives in a hunting lodge in Yorthington. During Iforgor's administration, his were activities not monitored despite his frequent correspondence with Marseia during the years of the interwar period and Third World War, which leaked vital intelligence to the Defense Coalition.

Queen Marseia, aged 33, lives in the Azulonen Palace in Hyberdeen with her two daughters, Julnira and Irina, and her second husband, Netheon of Gailblokea. Her former husband, Fendal Daentra, was exiled from the capital following the Endarna-Usita Scandal, in which it was discovered that both Queen Marseia and Prince Consort Fendal Daentra had been having affairs with other people, with the Queen having had an affair with Netheon Endarna, a count of an ancient Gail noble house, and Daentra having had an affair with member of Parliament Alia Usita. With the potential for Marseia's heirs to be declared illegitimate, Marseia divorced Daentra and married Netheon, legitimizing the couple's daughters' claim to the throne.

Sorne is largely a stable nation today, with its only real rival being Karmar, with the populations and governments of both nations being at odds with each other in many ways. Sorne is friendly with all other former Hyberdeen Pact nations, and also holds close diplomatic ties with the Lapivian Empire, the FDS, Kolomech, and probably others that im forgetting bc im writing this at 1:30 in the morning so im gonna go to bed and finish this later

also add something about marseia abolishing noble hereditary rule of provinces
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