Solomona Dynasty

**Official History of the Nation of Jamesonia**

## **123AD-879AD(The Solomona Dynasty)**

### ***Formation(Richard I 123AD-143AD)***

  Jamesonia was first founded by a group of exiles banished from their homeland-the city-state of San Cambristein. The reason of which they were denied by their nation was due to their continuous call for political and social reform within the state, which, at the time, was suffering from a problem of mass corruption, and political instability. So the king said to them, ”If you view your motherland to be unsatisfactory, then go forth and establish a new nation worthy of your ambitions. ” And off they went.

  The group of exiles eventually settled down in Fenwanestein, a piece of fertile land unclaimed at the time, where they declared the formation of the Kingdom of Jamesonia. And there leader, the honorable Richard Solomona, became King Richard I.

### ***The First Peace 123AD-399AD***

  For 276 years, the nation grew and flourished in peace, making significant progress in architecture, mining, science, sea navigation, ideas and politics. However, historic accounts regarding this period of time remaines relatively rare.

### ***The age of assembly 399AD-433AD(Modric III 399AD-433AD)***

In 399 AD, King Modric III came to the throne, and unlike his predecessors, he had ambitions of expanding his realm. Yet ambitious as he was, Modric still remained a sensible and pragmatic man. He knew that if his desires were to be fulfilled, preparations would be needed. Modric’s time on the throne will be eventually remembered as “the age of assembly”, during these 34 years, the kingdom’s military capability grew exponentially, with the most significant one being the navy. It was estimated that by the time the age had ended. The Jamesonian army had an immense force of 100000 infantries, 60000 calvaries, 800 battleships with 70000 sailors and marines(then called the landing force), 87 fortified strongholds and countless reserves. All was set for the final command from Modric. Yet tragically, it never came.

#### ***The Plague 432AD-434AD***

  In 432 AD, a plague swept through the streets and alleys of the kingdom. The disease was later identified as magpiepox, a serious illness that affects the lungs. Yet thanks to the two centuries of medical development, scientists were able to develop an effective cure within 14 months, drastically reducing the number of infections and deaths. It was estimated that 2,430,000 people died because of the disease, including King Modric III. Upon his deathbed, the king whispered his final words to his heir, prince Denethorn, “My child, my time has ended with remorse, my dream has yielded to fate. Fulfill my ambition, finish my legacy and erect a monument for me east of the sun, west of the moon. ”

### ***The Age of Expansion 434 AD-654 AD***

#### **Conquerings and Constructions**

##### **Denethorn I 434 AD-452 AD**

 After the prince took the throne as King Denethorn I, he set forth on completing his father’s dream. Under his leadership, Jamesonian forces were able to triple the kingdom’s land mass, claiming one victory over another. The series of consecutive victories abroad brought a sense of pride of the motherland to the nation’s people, enabling them to be motivated in participation of the nation’s development, whether it was a rise of efficiency in production or eagerness in joining the expeditionary army. Then in 440 AD, Jamesonians conquered San Cambristein, the country of which they originated from, in **the Battle of Generations**, named due to the remarkable relationship between the two sides. They renamed its capital Cambridge to New Cambridge.

##### **Modric IV 453 AD-467 AD, ConstinianII 467 AD-487 AD, William I 488 AD-518 AD**

 After Denethorn was Modric IV, who marched his forces north, capturing city after city, covering half of the Massachusetts Peninsula under his sphere of influence. Constinian II crossed the Emarald Mountains to secure the entire region around the river Tiden. Promoting the development of culture up and down the river (in fact the region was later known as the cradle of Jamesonian classical art ). Then came William I, who, unlike most conquering kings(the name given to summarize all the kings of the era), focused more on land development and construction. Thus he organized the project on creating the city of Romney, located on the tip of the peninsula. The city quickly flourished into a hub for trade and manufacturing. Together, along with Fenway(formally Fenwanestein)and New Cambridge. The three cities eventually became known as the Trident of Jamesonia, representing the utmost development and progress of the country.

#### **Law Reformation(Edmund V 519 AD-555 AD)**

Perhaps the king who made the most significant contributions in Jamesonian expansions, both in terms of gaining land and also in economic and cultural development was King Edmund V, who took the throne in 519 AD. Through his flexible yet firm rule, the kingdom reached a golden age. In foreign matters, the navy was able to reach and conquer the strategic island of Obamanton, enabling the Jamesonian government with the full power and right of taxation and trade in Imperial Bay, enriching the nation. In domestic matters, amid calls for reforming the already out-of-date judiciary system. Edmund V gathered nearly all of the scholars within the country to attend the now-famous Council of Nilenberg, where they debated and discussed on framing a new judiciary system. After 77 days of continuous and productive work. They produced the ***Corpus Jamesonian Civilis***, a three-hundred page code of law to review the earlier compilations as well as individual laws, eliminate everything unnecessary or obsolete, make changes as it saw fit, and create a single compilation of imperial laws in force. This was considered by many historians to be the most complete, coherent and advanced code of laws at the time. In fact, nearly all of the nation-states founded in the future used it as a template to create their own code of law.

#### **Richard III 555 AD-589AD, Modric V 590AD-633 AD**

 After Edmund V were King Richard III and King Modric V. Who executed their reign by building on Edmund’s legacy, additionally inserting some slight modifications of their own. Their wise and prudent actions extended the time of the Jamesonian golden age to 114 years. Hence at that time, the Solomona Dynasty reached to a peak, introducing their kingdom to the outside world as a mighty and respectable force unchallenged at the time. Alas, glorious days were yet to come, and the country still had many golden days of fruitiness awaiting, but not for many a year.

### ***The Years of Night 634 AD-721 AD***

#### **The Great Drought (Denethorn II 633 AD-663 AD)**

In 636 AD, several catastrophic events came upon the nation like tidal waves. First, a drought caused by harsh atmospheric uncertainties (it was later discovered to be mass outbursts of solar winds) swept through the plains of Fenway. But desperate as it may be, the Jamesonian people showed strength, unity and kindness in the face of disaster. Together, as one, they strived on with a will as steel. In fact, a common saying at that time was ”With pain in my veins comes the temper of my heart.” Eventually, Jamesonian botanists were able to develop new traits of hybrid crops suitable to harsh environments, which actually led to the first agricultural revolution of Jamesonia, promoting the development and practical use of hybrid crops. The most notable example was the Romney wheat, developed by Sir Howard Goldenberg, who in course of developing hybrid crops, discovered the existence of genes. The drought ended 2 years later.

#### **The Era of Invasion and Vengence**

##### **Denethorn II 633 AD-663 AD**

After the Great Drought, another darkness settled upon the unfortunate nation, this time not due to natural factors but by external invasion. In 651 AD, the Kingdom of Jamesonia was invaded by the armies of Warrengard. A confederation of city-states encircling Warren Bay, west of the Grey Mountains. Like the Jamesonians, they had grown to be wealthy and powerful over the past centuries, feasting on the abundant resources of the bay. The two countries had long been rivalries, with each one struggling to gain initiative and claim supreme over the other. And now the tension had erupted into full-scale war. **The War of Equals**, as it is now called, lasted for 17 years. The Jamesonians were able to secure their supremacy of the seas, thanks to their unmoving stance towards maintaining a strong navy. However, the infamous Warrengard calvary, renowned for their harsh and inhumane treatments towards innocent people, proved to be unmatchable at the time. In the **Battle of the River**, they ransacked and pillaged almost all the settlements along the River Tiden. Although the attack was eventually repelled, it caused unhealable destruction to the cradle of Jamesonian art, leading to the transition of the nation’s cultural center to New Cambridge, where most of the surviving residents of Tiden eventually settled down. It was rumored that after the battle, the river flowed in a mixture of red(blood) and black(ink).

 The River Massacre, as it is called, released a wave public outrage, regardless of identity. King Denethorn II visited the river shortly after the battle, after he beared in witness the scene of carnage, the king knelt on the bank and made this now-famous pledge “I will strive on, I will conquer, I will revenge. ” But what the king did later afterwards are still being debated. The next month, he led an expeditionary force of immense size to destroy and erase any trace of Warrengard’s civilization. The two sides met just south of the Grey Mountains where the historic **Battle of the Wilderness** was fought. So deadly and bitter was this battle fought that the battlefield remained unsuitable for human settlement till this day(the area is now the famous Prohibited Area 51). Upon estimation, casualty numbers are between 300,000 and 400,000 people, and Jamesonia claimed a bitter victory. Warrengard’s armed forces never regained full power after that. Battle upon battle, Denethorn II conquered city after city, including the largest one of the region-Hathendor(renamed Brookline), ordering the looting and massacre of every settlement his forces could lay hands upon. Official records from the Commonwealth National Archives speculated the disappearance of 1.74 million Warrinians. And after the war they were still treated harshly and as second-class people(for them, this period of time became known as **the Age of Tears,** and officially this incident is **the Hathendor Genocide**), it was a dark page in the history of Jamesonia.

##### **Edmund VI 664AD-721AD**

After Denethorn II, King Edmund VI took the throne. Unfortunately, he inherited his father’s personality of lust for revenge, war and glory and exaggerated it. During his reign, he focused solely on transforming the nation into a war machine, destined towards a ultimate goal-victory and revenge over the enemy. Over the next 27 years, Jamesonians waged war on any state that was considered unsatisfactory by the king, the first of which being Warrengard, which collapsed in 658 AD, after **the Siege of Wathendor**, their capital stronghold. Edmund ordered the erasing of the country’s civilization, burning down thousands of libraries to ashes, reducing countless pieces of architecture to rubble and silencing scholars. Perhaps the only lingering sign of this past civilization’s existence is the name of the city of whom thrived upon the ruins of their former capital-Warren City.

#### **The First National Crisis (Edmund VI 664AD-721AD)**

   The decades upon decades of continuous and bitter warfare drained the nation of its wealth, labor, beauty, and cultural development potential. The kingdom had expanded in a way unprecedented, but had not been accompanied with the growth of power. According to official recordings from the Commonwealth National Archives, during this three decades, 4,230,000 acres of once plowed and fertile farmland were left barren, causing widespread hunger, the nation’s economy declined exponentially, along with the people’s living standard, of which had been long seen as the pride of the kingdom. To accelerate the situation, the year 667 was introduced by a wave of hailstorm and grasshopper attack, wiping out entire plains of crops, and the decades of external warfare had created many enemies, eager to pounce on the slightest hint on the nation’s decline, forcing the government to direct more money and energy on military expenditures rather than civilian social security. These factors all accumulated into a negative feed-back loop, representing the darkest time of the dynasty that went on for another 50 years. During this time, cultural and scientific development came to a complete standstill, with the exception of military technology, bringing down the nation’s number of scholars and intellectuals, creating the **First Intelligence Crisis**. The kingdom was on the brink of collapse. Fortunately, speculations at the time were proven wrong.

### **The Second Peace 722AD-1002AD**

#### **Reconstruction 722AD-807AD**

##### **Modric VI 722 AD-757AD**

 In 722AD, King Modric VI inherited the throne from his father(Edmund). He was considered by many historians to be the savior who prevented the fragile nation from utter collapse. Wise, prudent and pragmatic, he acquired all that was necessary for dealing with the dire situation. He quickly realized the urgent need for the government to cut back expenses on the military and redirect them to welfare benefits and nation-wide reconstruction. First Modric VI signed the **Treaty of Hartford** with Jamesonia’s enemies, agreeing in principle on a bipartisan basis to not direct anymore unnecessary aggression on each other in order to achieve stable development. This historic treaty eventually maintained peace and stability within the region for many centuries. With external threat eliminated, Modric VI created the **Royal Foundation**, the first ever government owned charity organization in history. It was founded to distribute much needed financial aid to farmers in order to revive the agricultural industry, but later was given the responsibilities of more programs, like social welfare and economic rebound. In addition to this, the king also ordered hundreds of construction projects in the hope of reducing unemployment rate, improving urban landscape, restoring national confidence and revising Jamesonian culture and art. The wise decisions by the king had immediate and promising effects, the economy began recovering at a steady pace, the nation’s living of standard improved, art and cultural flourished once more, with New Cambridge leading the way as the culture capital, and the agricultural industry was once again renowned over the world as most advanced and productive.

##### **Parvis I 757 AD-807 AD**

After Modric VI passed away in 757 AD, King Parvis I took the throne. He was considered to be the first conservationist king of Jamesonian. During his time as Prince of Cambridge, he had developed a sense of closure and harmony with nature, and after he inherited the throne, he was determined to execute his philosophy into policies. Under his rule, the government organized wildlife conservation projects and established the **Royal Natural Reserves.** Following their king’s ideas, the people of Jamesonian became the first people to insert green ideas into their daily routines and future plannings. According to the Commonwealth National Archives, during his reign, the forests of the nation tripled in mass, the air and water quality improved, and the average Jamesonian life expectancy rose to 69 years old. The improvement of the nations health largely owed to the king’s decision to modernize cities, primarily on waste managements and enforcing health quotas. These eventually accumulated into the **Parvis Project,** a state-funded project destined towards constructing complete and modern sewage systems in major cities, eradicate all the places defined as health hazards, and remodify city roads and buildings to reduce their potential of becoming unhygienic. The results were beyond expectations.

King Parvis I died in 807 AD, ending the age of reconstruction.

#### Helena I 808 AD-879 AD

King Parvis I made a very astonishing decision at his deathbed, by naming his daughter-Helena Solomona then Duchess of Tiden, to be his heir. Many historians now believed that the reason that triggered the king to make this unorthodox decision was due to the **New Cambridge Rebellion**. During which Prince Howard Solomona promptly fled the city without resisting, where Helena, then paying a visit to her brother, valiantly stepped up to take the command of the city’s defending troops. She showed the ability of being flexible and firm simultaneously, where her brother showed cowardness, which earned her the throne.

  Despite her abnormal identity, Queen Helena I quickly proved herself upon her subjects to be an able ruler. Calm and firm, she executed her reign with an iron fist, imposing strict laws such as curfew and civilian arms control. But in summary, the queen wasn’t a tyrant. Helena had been renowned for reviewing about-to-be policies with her advisers for hours, ensuring no errors. Though tough on crime, she knew that it had to be taken with the right approach, that was why while ordering the expansion of prisons and reforming the police, she also ordered the abolishment of capital punishment and created the **Inmate Parole and Reconstruction Program** (IPRP). Her wise approach towards crime earned her the name the Mother of Steel. By the time her reign ended, Jamesonian crime rate had fallen drastically.

### **The Birth of the Donimone Dynasty**

 Queen Helena I ruled for 71 years, the longest at the time. Yet through all her life, she had always refused to marry, knowing full-well if that were to happen, her spouse would certainly make an attempt to struggle for supreme power. When heading towards the last years of her life, the question of her heir was brought up. Finally, while inhaling the last breath of her life, she whispered out the nation’s next ruler to be her nephew Parvis Donimone, Duke of Romney. And thus after 700 years of toil and tears, the Solomona dynasty made its swansong on the world stage, presenting a mighty kingdom made from scratch, eulogizing an epic tale of hardship and courage, and paved the way for the birth and rise of a new dynasty destined to achieve things greater and more spectacular.