Antetand

Antetand is one of the oldest countries on the planet dating
back nearly a thousand years. While the borders have constantly shifted the
core regions of the state have remained constant. Antetand has long held to the
claim they are the ‘official’ nation for the Tand peoples, despite frequently
controlling less than 30% of all the Tand lands throughout history. It is only
since the end of the Great War that Antetand has controlled all of the Tand
lands.

lords, epic wars, and the intense rivalries of the medieval Dukes of Antetand. Texts
from the days of the earliest written history show the landscapes of the modern
regions of Greater Ethon, Usthonn, Hessischen, Konikstoin and Marrenbusch were dominated
by magnificent castles, fortresses, and palaces. Nearly four dozen dukes and
their combined hundreds of counts fought near endless conflicts with each other
for dominion over the vast fields and forests of central Antetand. While
occasionally a duke would rise to a position where he or she could call
themselves king it rarely lasted more than a decade and never more than two
generations.

Many of the dukes united under King Arcturus the Great
during the fifty years war with the Kingdom of Yolsa or Queen-Conqueror Maria
during the invasions of the Merchant Republics or King Gerald the Mighty during
the Arrimn Crisis; however, in all cases, as soon as the conflict concluded, or
the liege died, the dukes returned to their squabbling nature. It wasn’t until
1578 under King Charles Wolfen that Antetand was finally united under a single
banner and became known as the Kingdom of Antetand. Wolfen’s dynasty ruled for
nearly a hundred and fifty years during which time they completed the conquest
of the central midlands of modern Antetand, annexed the Republic of Marrenhaven,
and established took the Seaholm valley from the Kingdom of Toaona.

#### Crisis of the 18th Century

In 1714 a plague ripped through the continent killing the
entirety of the Wolfen Dynasty plunging the kingdom into a succession crisis
that saw a distant relative, Edward of Hemport of the Kingdom of Lyradur ascend
to the throne, establishing the Highport Dynasty. At the same time Lyradur and Toaona
were going through similar succession crises that threw their noble houses into
disarray.  Edward Highport had a well-established
claim to the throne of Lyradur and his future wife, Carloina of Tethi, had a
strong claim to the Kingdom of Toaona. While Lyradur emerged from the crisis
period as a Democratic Kritarchy with no noble ruling class, Antetand -even
after the end of the monarchy- has long asserted thanks to this historic claim,
that it should rightfully rule over Lyradur.

The Highport Dynasty ruled Antetand until 1820 when congress
pressed for more power and was able to force the King to sign the Ethon Accords
which turned the state into a Constitutional-Monarchy. This didn’t last very
long however as the death of King William II Highport saw his three year old
son become King and without hesitation congress dissolved the monarchy and
established the office of the High Premier in its stead turning Antetand into a
Constitutional Republic. The latter half of the century however saw Antetand
lose war after war to its historic rivals culminating in the inevitability of the
Great War.

#### Modern Times

Through the Great War Antetand was able to reclaim all of it’s
lost territory, humiliate its enemies, and for the first time in a century take
new land. With it’s southern borders secured Antetand looked north; conquering
the disorganized Yuktal regions and annexing the Yolsa Republic. Antetand then
swiftly turned south again, seizing control over the low countries and
integrating them into the state. While Kieli proved to  be an admirable adversary they two were
eventually defeated and turned into a puppet state.

The last decade has seen a massive upheaval in Antetand with
the National Movementist Party winning the 1926 elections in landslide. Shortly
thereafter the courts deemed the elections invalid leading to massive public
outcry that led to a full on revolt in early 1927 known as the Student
Revolution where University students stormed the corrupt courts and hung most
of the judicial. Trial by legislature was introduced as the courts were
suspended by popular demand. Rebellion sprung up in Yolsa and in the conquered
Lyradurian territory and mounting domestic crises pushed High Premier Reginhold
and the National Movementist Party to suspend the legislature while order was
reestablished. However, a failed coup attempt in 1934 by a sizeable portion of
the congress saw the congress suspended indefinitely until the situation within
the nation had stabilized.