Osnor

**Kingdom of Osnor** or **Osnor** for short is a Sevostian monarchy in the north-east of the Inkunzi world, it's monarch as of 2030 A.F.F. (Bytos Calendar) is Scoman Sazov, the son of Andrei Sazov who established the kingdom.

## Early History

### Formation of Osnor

#### The Idea

Like many things, Osnor began as an idea back in 1926 A.F.F when Andrei Sazov noticed all the chaos in the north-eastern region of the Inkunzi world and came to a realization that he will need some land of his own to be able to feed himself and the workers from his construction guild if worst came to worst, since Kyoshia's rapidly growing inflation at the time and gradually escalating tensions in the whole region showed Andrei that no state could be trusted.

#### Growing tensions

As Andrei and the Sazov family grew richer at a fast pace, they also started gaining plenty of influence on the economy of their country of residence, Scherkeiss. However although their influence grew, they remained loyal to the Forttung dynasty of Scherkeiss. Forttungs knew that Sazovs could become an issue eventually, so Andrei Sazov was awarded $500,000 by the government of Scherkeiss for his contributions, which more or less helped the Scherkeissian government buy Andrei's loyalty, for a little longer at least.

Although this bought the Scherkeissian government some time before Andrei would start questioning his loyalty, it also accelerated the process of the Scherkeissian economy becoming increasingly controlled by the Sazov family. During 1934 A.F.F. Andrei had minted new Scherkeissian coins on his own accord, which was so successful for Andrei that the profits from this project turned him into a millionaire. As a reaction to this, Scherkeissian government started planning out a raid on Andrei's treasury in order to confiscate his resources before he could continue tightening his grip on their nation's economy. Andrei responded by holding a speech in his home city of Chauntea (Central Scherkeiss), in order to gather local support and have a source of resistance against the government in case they tried targeting Andrei, along with promising that he would provide them more jobs and chances to succeed in life, which went worse then planned but it worked regardless. After that Andrei also opened a beer hall in the nearby city of Lafaunda both for profit and a popularity boost there as well.

#### The Grand Exodus

Following the outbreak of the North-Eastern war, Scherkeiss lost any sort of army it had because Portugi, the king of Scherkeiss was caught lying about his nation's financial situation, which resulted in non-existent money being payed to the national army, which led to deserting of such scale that the Scherkeissian army became practically non-existent*.* (from a meta standpoint, the player who was the nation leader lied about his money and resources so his army got voided). There was a sense of defeat, a bitter feeling of betrayal amongst the people of Scherkeiss, Andrei felt it too. Andrei carefully observed Arslania and Jungso kingdom before the war and he knew they would serve as a harsh yet effective reality check for the Scherkeissian monarch, however that would also mean that many innocent people would die due to one man's inability to accept reality. Andrei decided that it was time to put his plan, over a decade in the making, into motion. He called all people of his home city of Chauntea to a grand announcement, where he managed to achieve a moderate degree of influence prior. Andrei wanted to evacuate the city's population and migrate westwards with them into an unsettled landscape of many small valleys separated by many forested hills, 75,000 people had migrated with him into an area where two smaller river valleys converged in what was northern Kylvaa'Kseryss at the time, this settlement would become the city of Maelstra in the following decades.

#### The March on Darvoza

Not so long after settling down in the town of Maelstra, was quick to go south towards the city of Darvoza and meet with one of his former contractors, Hegot Dadripon, owner and founder of the WhiteWood Mercenary Company that has worked for Andrei in the past to conduct some shady activities in the region that contributed to the wealth and power both men possessed at the time. Few dozen kilometres north of Darvoza in one of it's nearby towns, Andrei and Hegot with his forces have met up and discussed the plans on how to seize the city of Darvoza and the Kylvaa'Kseryss area and what to do with the land afterwards. After discussion it was concluded that the Scherkeissian vassal state of Kylvaa'Kseryss would be turned into the Kingdom of Osnor, with a large Paak Ourk autonomous region that would be dominant in the south and west, while a smaller, more economically developed and more densely populated paleremore north-east part of the country would be controlled directly from the capital city of Maelstra. After having agreed on this, Andrei, Hegot and his forces marched towards the city of Darvoza, once they arrived at the city walls they tried walking into the city but were seen as too threatening to be allowed in, with a letter being sent to the king of Scherkeiss requesting for support, immediately followed by Andrei's own letter to the monarch, explaining that he had to seize the area in order to gather additional troops for turning the tide of the north-eastern war which would lead to a swift victory, all while being overly vague and never saying himself which side he would fight for. At first the king of Scherkeiss was confused, however after a few weeks of letter back and forth with the letters, Andrei convinced the king of Scherkeiss to give him the area of Kylvaa'Kseryss. With Andrei having the support of his overlord only thing stopping him from taking over the area and establishing the Kingdom of Osnor was the city of Darvoza, whose Paak Ourk population strongly opposed this transfer of authority without their consent, so Andrei used the army he has hired to seize the city. Ten thousand musketmen had attacked the moderately protected city, one and a half thousand of whom had died in the attack, but the city was taken. With all resistance in Darvoza having been pacified, Andrei Sazov had proclaimed the Kingdom of Osnor and had given economic incentives for citizens of Scherkeiss to move to Maelstra, which resulted in another 300,000 people moving to the city. Few weeks later, the southern and western lands within Osnor were turned into the Paakland Autonomous Region which was ruled by Hegot and his WhiteWood Mercenary Company, being sort of a military dictatorship as the area turned into an army with a state. The state was internally divided into the economically dominant north, and militarily strong south, and even though Osnor was a Scherkeissian vassal on paper, they already acted very much independently and had started preparing for a revolt against Scherkeiss which would open a new frontline in the North-Eastern war which would catch Scherkeiss offguard, allowing for a swift victory for Osnor and the Alzhaic alliance to the south and west of Scherkeiss consisting of Arslan and Jungso.

## Life in early Osnor after the North-Eastern War

### Discriminatory issues

Although it does appear like a state with a demi-human population and leadership at the surface, the Sazov family is ethnically Helghian, a human ethnic group. Andrei wanted to make the paleremore demi-humans inside of Osnor more human by having them marry the low number of humans already present in the kingdom, others that couldn't intermarry were divided into those that had more animal traits and those that had less animal traits. As a result of this, the state favors paleremore with more human traits and encourages them to have children through things such as financial incentives, while citizens with more animal traits are discriminated and are forbidden from having more then two children. As a follower of the bytosist faith, Andrei also used the fact that according to the bytosist faith, demi-humans are permitted to be kept as property or even hunted. With the context taken from orthodox bytosism and twisted to match Andrei's ambitions, a law was created which resulted in paleremore with above average amount of animal traits that ever committed any sort of a crime being either enslaved or hunted down and killed on sight. This extensive discrimination and a "eugenics program" of sorts was one of the main reasons for the breakout of the Osnorian civil war.