Thracia and Dacia

#### ***Season I***

The **Holy United** **Kingdom of Thracia and Daci** (Romansque: *Thrace Si Dacia*), also known as the **United Roman Nations** in some historical texts, is a south east Europan nation located on the mountainous Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered to the south by its close ally the Republic of Hellas, to the north by the mighty Carpathians, part of the Alpenenes, to the west by part of the Marea de Mijloc and finally to the East by the Intuneric Sea. Thracia and Dacia contains 2 kingdoms, the Kingdom of Thracia and Kingdom of Dacia, who united in 1412, each with its own separate army and government but a shared king. Its capital and largest city is Buchareia, which sits on the mighty Vahn River, the largest river in Europa. Other large cities include Galatia, Obzor, Kazanluk and Sofia.

## **History**

### History Pre-Unification

#### Thracia

Thracia, pre unification, was the larger of the two kingdoms. Remaining an independent, centralised nation following the collapse of the Romansque Empire in 498 AD, Thracia dominated the Balkans for hundreds of years. The dynasty that ruled following The Collapse, the Klyenas, reigned for 24 generations, or 708 years until the War of Athreni Succession in 1206 and sought to recreate the legendary Romansque Empire. They failed however did gain the lands of Lower Thracia, land that still remains Thracian. Following the War of Athreni Succession, the Klyenas were deposed of and replaced by the Athrenis, a noble family from Lower Thracia who still rules to this day. The Athrenis sought not to expand but to consolidate power in their nation and did this through the Barons Reforms in 1247. The reforms stripped barons of the ability to own a private army and ceded all their armies to the control of the king under the unified Thracian Army or Army of Thracia. The reforms secured the Athreni position on the throne and allowed for them to rule with complete power.

#### Dacia

The smaller of the two kingdoms, Dacia spent much of its pre unification history as part of another empire. Following the Romansque Collapse, Dacia became part of the Empire of the Huns and remained under its rule until it too collapsed in 1422. Following this Dacia became a mostly divided barbaric land controlled by numerous small warlords. This changed in 1511 when one war lord, Duke Asen Macedan, sought to unify the old Romansque vassal of Dacia and so, through conquest, marriage and alliance created a united Dacia in 1529, crowning himself King Asen I of Dacia. He died at the age of 61 only 2 years later without a clear heir, once more plunging Dacia into chaos. War broke out, the War of Dacian Succession, and was ended when a new king, Andrey Sofia I seized power in 1536 and eliminated all opposition in a reign of terror known as The Blood Days (Romansque: *Zilele Sângeroase*) where many rival dukes and barons were tortured into submission or publicly executed by impalation on stakes. It is said that so many people were killed that the rivers ran red with blood for months and when it rained there was no water and instead only blood. Mercifully, Andrey only ruled for 4 years before being stabbed to death by his own 16 year old son Nikolay who ascended to the throne. 9 years later, Nikolay would spark the events that would cause the Thracian-Dacian unfication.