The Sentinels

## Government

Autocracy

Búrumhedal - InvertedEldron
Icódal - Ukiyovik

## Overview

The Sentinels were created with the purpose of maintaining balance among the nations of Iaddithis by acting in the shadows. Recently however, this policy of what had been described by Eldron as "shadow politics" has drastically changed, with much more conventional means of conducting diplomacy and political affairs now common.

This nation was created by Karmaa\_EX, nicknamed Akabane, who pseudo-ruled the nation until his abdication with InvertedEldron taking the title.

## History of the Sentinels

### Foundation of the Sentinels

The Sentinels was founded by the user **Karmaa\_EX** of whom founded the nation after a failed election in Albia. Karmaa founded the Sentinels under the concept of becoming an organisation of which "works in the shadows to serve the light" *(The Sentinels Motto)*. For the early days of it's existence, the Sentinels were not as involved in too many global affairs.

### "The war that nearly came"

The Sentinels began truly receiving the spotlight after the Albian town of Holeness tried to secede and join the Sentinels. This angered the government of Albia so much that during one of the International Assembly meetings, in which the user and leader of Albia, **FS\_Seeker** called out Karmaa\_EX claiming him to have sabotaged Albia when he was staying there. It was at this time that the concept and idea of war between the Sentinels and Albia suddenly became very likely, with the Sentinels having even ordered all members of the nation to begin preparing for war if it was to come. This was also around the time that **Eldron\_99**, someone who had become the Right Hand Man of Karmaa\_EX now began gaining a reputation with his long and lengthy debates against FS\_Seeker, with one having lasted nearly two entire hours of back and forth debating.

This however, all ended when Karmaa agreed to team up with Albia in the war of the coalition. Eldron\_99 was very sceptical of working with Albia at the time, but eventually became fine with such a concept, and accepting the idea that Albia was now the ally of the Sentinels.

### The Begining of the Eldron Era

After the war, Karmaa had officially abdicated his position as Akabane *(Leader)* of the Sentinels, and passed on the title to Eldron. Eldron had since began going ahead with economic plans such as the "Great Urbanization Plan", and has begun diplomatic relations with neighbours such as Szchnow, forming the North Eastern Pact, and begun to move towards completely ending the policy of Shadow Politics, a policy of which Eldron himself coined. However, during the start of Eldron's reign he began facing a massive issue, the issue of activity and large amounts of stagnation to the development of the nation. This issue plagued the Sentinels and it's capital of Varshaad, of which had been immensely suffering when it came to the activity of the town, to the point at which there were around two, and soon three active players in the capital. Major projects that were panned such as the development of town walls had to be scratched due to this crisis, and the great urbanization plan soon was abandoned due to the inability to effectively build enough homes.

### The Great Revival

The 14th of November saw massive events take place that would ultimately revive and develop the sentinels significantly, saving it's position as a relevant nation. The most important of these events, was the joining of four new members: Helpeneer in the Remnants, and Jahar, Hawaiiko and finally Ukiyovik in Varshaad. Although Helpeneer would go inactive fairly quickly, Ukiyovik and Hawaiiko both greatly contributed to the development of the nation and town of Varshaad. **Ukiyovik** began becoming the main builder of the town near almost immediately, with Ukiyovik having been able to adapt and improve on pre-existing homes and architecture without issues. Ukiyovik thus was able to help build new homes and buildings with ease on his first days on the server, of which improved the look of the town and provided housing, thus allowing for even more people to wish to join after seeing the improved quality of Varshaad. This, added with people like **Hawaiiko** kickstarting the economy, allowed for the town and thus the nation to enter an era of revivals in activity. Over the coming days, more and more people had begun to join, nearly doubling the server population and allowing for the development of the town to even further speed up.

With Ukiyovik's contributions to the town both in mass urbanization to develop the town, and with Ukiyovik having worked on projects like the **Varshaad Cathedral**, Eldron soon decided to officially make Ukiyovik the **second Right Hand** of the nation on the 14th of November 2021 after asking him about it on the Sentinels discord voicechat.

### The Period of Stagnation

After the rapid growth and development of the **Great Revival** the nation began entering an era of population stagnation when it came to growth and development. Ukiyovik had begun having to focus more on running the nation and aiding Eldron in the duty of administering the Sentinels and it's development, however this meant Vik could not handle development of smaller builds such as housing, causing for although some housing expansions in Varshaad occuring, the development slowed down fairly quickly. However, this did not mean the nation was growing inactive, in fact due to Eldron's policies on ensuring jobs for all peoples were secured, many had things to actually return to do, allowing for the nation to still grow however very slightly. However after a union with Szchnow the Sentinels population doubled in terms of size, allowing for both higher positions in politics and more power as one of the **major powers** of Iaddithis.

### The Great War

During the Great War, fearing a possible Tennu attack on the North East the Sentinels joined the war on the side of Albia. During the earleir battles of the war the Sentinels were doing the most work, and yet recieved no credit for it, thus the military began protesting for more rewards for the Sentinel peoples for actively doing the most work in the conflict. The Albians caved in, and accepted demands. During the second battle for Nova Domus, Albian troops caused the Coalition to recieve many casualties due to their recklessness, because of this the army began blaming the Albians more for the failure in battle, and pressured the government to sign peace with Tennu and the Constidel, with many Sentinel citizens fearing Albia was going to loose anyways, and this was the best way to preserve Sentinel lands.

With the failure in the war, Eldron went ahead with reforms that had been postponed pre-war, dissolving the Sentinels as a nation and in it's place founding the constitutional monarchy known as the Kingdom of Faltírvars. With this, the era of the Sentinels had ended with a new nation being it's successor.