Francia

Coat of Arms of Francia

Romance Frankish

Anglo-Frankish

**Francia** (Frankish: *Frenkia*), also known as the **Kingdom of Francia** or the **Frankish Kingdom** (Vulgar Latin: *Regni Francorum*), is a country located in Western Europe.

### Pre-Roleplay (-704)

When the Germanic Franks first came into Gaul, they started assimilating into the Roman culture, however with varying success. Gaul was then conquered by a single Frankish kingdom: the Merovingian Empire. It fell into hundreds of small principalities and kingdoms in the mid 500's, until it's northern part was reunited in the 630's by the duchy of Valendriut into the modern Francia. Its king, Mertadou Joafin, claimed himself as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He made efforts of removing Catholicism and conquering the Frisians, which caused his death during a siege. His son Avartemut, would conquer the southern region and raze the city that killed his father. He continued the belief of Francinism, and was knows as the most brutal anti-Catholic king. He made the claim for Britannia and its greater counterpart, conquering the first and establishing some small colonies in the latter. When he died in the late 600's, his son Feltaviou Joafin continued the colonization efforts, and conquered the coastal west of Aquitaine.

### Reign of Feltaviou Joafin (704-706)

Feltaviou made the huge conscription of 15,000 men from the south for his war against Anglo-Saxons, when he was suddenly killed by a Catholic soldier who went in his camp. Francia fell to civil war, between the Francinists and Catholics, and despite the large army in Britain, the Francinists won. One of the greatest military commanders of the kingdom was Vherhan Sevartiu, a senator who was loyal to Feltaviou.

### Reign of Vultora Joafin (707-719)

The new king was now the young child Vultora. He was too young to lead an army, so Vherhan controlled it instead. He manipulated the king into making laws in his favour, making him the de-facto ruler. When Vultora turned 16, he went to the British isles hoping to take control of the army from Vherhan and to command the war against the English. Vherhan refused, and whether coincidentally or not, Vultora drank from a contaminated water tank, killing him and making him the patient 0 of a plague that spread across Europe. Vherhan took advantaged of this, by killing the Anglo-Saxons using the disease.

### Reign of Duramius Sevartiu-Joafin (721-742)

When he became too old to rule, he made his son Duramius Sevartiu-Joafin the new king of Francia. He launched succesful wars against the Frisians, married the west Frisian sister of the king, and led succesful wars against the remaining of Aquitaine and Burgundy. The Anglo-Saxons were pissed at Francia, and led by Mercia, they started a coalition against it. Despite the odds, Francia won the war, and vassalized Wessex. However, a group of Viking showed up allied against the Franks and murdered the local area using shitting in the well logistics, and so Wessex was passed to them, who in turn gave it to Mercia. Peace would continue in Britiain, however an alliance of Vikings stormed the city of Casealtia. Even though Francia was now incredibly poor and its second most major city was devastated, Duramius wanted to lead a war on the land. The troops refused, and mutinied. The nobles tired of Duramius started a revolt, took control of the mutiniyng troops, and assassinated the king.

### Reign of Charlamed (750-)

Francia was now divided in a lot of duchies, and the Vikings took control of northern Flanders making the colony of Yeoland. A coalition of powerful nobles took most of the army, and reunited Francia under the old banner. They formed a sort of confederation in the form of a republic, where the lawmakers and military commanders were dukes and grand lords. One duke, Charlamed, of the duchy of Orleans seized power with majority votes, re-established the monarchy, went on tour in Francia to secure the loyalty of grand lords, and killed the unloyal dukes. Ever since then he has been the king, he had replaced Francinism with Catholicism, allied with Liege to take over the land west of the Rhine, and was passed control of the war devastated West Frisia. He started missionary campaigns in Germany, which would make half of the population Christian by the end of the 8th century.

## Culture and Language

Most traditional dishes are primarily made from legumes, having made the best out of the lack of animals, with one exception being the sheep, which is quite commonly seen in the kingdom. The sheep also provides the traditional clothes, with your day-to-day peasant wearing cheap and warm sheepskin. The Kingdom particularly takes pride in its art, which is more advanced than the rest of the continent. Although it is required to have your music and paintings to be done with strictly religious and patriotic purposes, the king often promotes the arts to the rich noblemen who can afford to practice it. The city in which the king resides and that has the largest population is Valendriut, however, the cultural and political capital of Francia is Casaeltia, with it being the home of the Senate and the second largest population. The small colonies of Nova Caesium and Nova Vralta are the biggest towns in Frankic-colonized England.

The language spoken predominantly in Francia is Frankish - A language that evolved from the Romanised Gauls with some German influence from the Franks establishing their presence. The syntax and grammar of Frankish is germanic (not much of a difference anyway), however it's vocabulary is dominated by modified Latin, and it of course uses the Latin alphabet. It is also quite common to have a lot of synonyms because of the varying source languages. Some sounds that Germanic used to uniquely have simply no longer differentiated from similar, Latin, sounds, while some continue to exist. Those south of the river Garrone have a tendency to speak a much more Romance language - Occitanian, however that's only with the common man, as nobles who try to seem loyal learned their more German counterparts. A lot of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy in the colonies speak Frankish with a heavy accent, with their accents becoming a whole separate dialect known by their peasants as "ágendfréena bréost", while settlers speak the same old language. Personal relationships between Saxons and Franks in some areas has also resulted in a separate dialect spoken by their children, however since the colonies are no more than 3 generations old the dialect has yet to evolve substantially.

## Administration

The current king of Francia is Charlamed (as of 768), the Duke of Orleans and named Holy Emperor of Gallia by Pope Gregorius III. He has most of the power, most notably controlling his army, however the senate made up of dukes and grand lords has a bit of authority as well.

## Military

The military is divided into 4 types; The Marscultous (unprofessional armed militias in coastal cities for the purpose of defending them from Vikings) The Tercustod (Professional garrisons on land who often go to war on the mainland, and serve as bodyguards for aristocrats and merchants in need.) The Bretagnes (Professional garrisons in Britiain who secure the land from raids, occasionally launch wars, and solidify Frankish presence amongst the Anglo-Saxons) The conscripts (Unprofessional men who are recruited for going to war as levies) The military unit of Francia is the battalion, a unit of 700 men.

## Religion

The original Franks were catholic with small traces of paganism, and when the Merovingians came, the population became fully Christian. However with the Joafin dynasty, large amounts of nobles stated converting to Francinism to be on the good side of the monarchs. With the monarchy overthrown, catholicism became the norm, and Charlamed would lead intense conversion campaigns outside of his realm.

## Economy

Land ownership is passed with rent. The king technically owns all of Francia's land, however he then rents it to his dukes for a part of the income their land produces. This cycle continues from dukes to grand lords (who control counties) and between grand lords and lesser lords (who control manors). It is worth noting that lesser lords are almost always just the father of the house and are usually just hardworking farmers, who rule over their peasant family. By rule, I mean being the owner of what their manor produces. Trading is often done with the Mediterranean for the grand lords, from the port city exclave of Narbonne.