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|area_rank=|GDP_PPP=|GDP_PPP_year=|HDI=|HDI_year=|today=|established_event2=|established_date2=}}'''Aikthudr'zhur''' officially the '''Kingdom of Aikthudr'zhur''' is a
== History ==
=== Early Settlement and Pre-Kingdom Era (1000 B.C. - 399 AD) ===
The Aikkian coasts were first home to native lutryne groups, while the Atiovha mountains were later settled in 1,000 B.C. by exiled Vhydaszi Akuanists. The new arrivals lived a mostly pastoral lifestyle and primarily raised goats and sheep.
The original and largest settlement by lutryne and kemonomimi Akuanists was swept away in a flood due to a harsh rainy season and primitive dam constructions blocking the flow of water. The original city's name has been lost and only few historical records make mention of the settlement that was once located where modern-day Highdrilian sits. The handful of stone structures that survived the flood are now maintained by the Royal Society of Historical Services. The purpose of the structures is unknown, but historians have theorized that they were once either religious sites or small granaries.
The site was abandoned for several centuries until the construction of a second settlement, Lodrilia, which eventually grew into a large city. It was later renamed to Highdrilian by King Okford of Ny'thudr'zhan in 1550.
==== Shatlo Migrations ====
Around 800 B.C. the region saw an influx of Shatlo elves who had been pushed out of their homeland on the Oshombran Peninsula by Taragai and later Talveri pressure. They named their new home "Aikthudr'zhur," or literally, "The Eastern Places." The arriving Shatlo converted to Akuanism but maintained much of their existing hierarchy and cultural traditions. Their comparatively long lifespans allowed them to consolidate their power in the region, and many modern political dynasties can trace their roots back to these original settlers.
Shatlo settlements were distinguished by their use of brick and stone structures rather than the wooden buildings of the natives. According to surviving records, the Shatlo settlers remained largely segregated from other species, although there was trade between the different groups. The refusal of the elves to convert to Akuanism caused further tensions between the natives and the Shatlo.
==== Dwarven migrations ====▼
==== Inter-Species Conflicts ====
Shatlo and the other native groups had risen to a boiling point. The lutryne and kemonomimi shunned the Shatlo elves and refused their access to the riverways. The intermixing of trade routes, riverways and passages being blocked off to the Shatlo practically isolated the elven villages from one and another. Based on the written records from a kemonomimi brewmaster living in a large city next to a series of Shatlo settlements. Shatlo was greatly enraged by the shunning and blocking off of established trade routes, the two combined causing a famine to spread across the Shatlo settlements.
The 'Shatlo famine' was marked by historically high growth within the lutryne and kemonomimi settlements, with high grain yields and fishing harvests. This only drove further tensions to the point of violence and raiding the smaller, richer native settlements. The Shatlo formed raiding bands and parties to pillage the Akuan settlements, though always attempting to avoid killing the Akuanists.
▲==== Government Reform ====
Ny'Sænuri clans within the region originally tried to act as meditators between the Shatlo and native Akuanists. However when the Shatlo raids start, the Ny'Sænuri didn't hold to the same standard as the Shatlo did with avoiding to kill. The rules of the Ny'Sænuri demanded all the raiders either surrender or be put to the sword.
=== Plague and Cryrian Imperialism ===▼
==== Shatlo Conversion to [[Akuanism]] ====
==== Akuan Syncretism with Shatlo Culture ====
A still-recovering Aikthudr'zhur comes under pressure from rising Cryrian power in the region. The First Treaty of Highdrilian forces the Kingdom to open up its economy and cede concessions in its ports to Cryrian control. Cryrian interference in Aikthudr'zhur only intensifies as Leidenstad begins to increasingly monopolize its mining and logging industries over the following decades. Aikthudr'zhur also became an important base for Cryrian naval projection into the Norsian Sea.▼
==== Creation of the Duchies and Ny'Sænuri Influence ====
=== Unification ===
As the new Albertine government in Cryria seeks to consolidate its sphere of influence in Northern Novaris, Aikthudr'zhur is pressured into ending restrictions on foreign agricultural imports. Almost immediately, cheap Cryrian agricultural goods flood into the Kingdom and force its many small farmers off their traditional lands and into the mines to sustain themselves. In 1887, Cryrian-owned docks increased their fees on local fishing vessels, causing an explosion of anti-Cryrian riots in Highdrilian. Cryrian forces react violently and the Royal Family is forced to flee to the interior mountains when the RCRN threatens to bombard the city. Cryrian troops briefly occupy the capital and sack the Royal Palace while unrest spreads around the Kingdom. The looting of the Royal Palace has been a long lasting scar on Aikkian history, and several artifacts was robbed out of the royal shrine. The most important of these were the three swords of the royal Aikkian house - The Sword of Generations, the Sword of the Ancestors Past and the Sword of the Crashing Moon. The blades have been in the royal family since the founding of the Kingdom, and each sword was wielded by the first monarch of the kingdom. They has been used in every enshrinement as a means of symbolically channeling ancestral spirits into a new monarch. The swords were now delivered to Leidenstad as a means of ensuring Cryrian control over the monarchy and the throne's future inheritance.▼
In 400 A.D. Aikthudr'zhur was finally united by the House of Ny'thudr'zhan beneath the Gloaming Throne. The House was formally enshrined in the Akuan tradition and is supported by three powerful Shatlo elven families who symbolically surrendered their blades to the Ny'thudr'zhan and were in turn granted governance over their respective regions of the new Kingdom. This created a division between supporters of the new monarchy and Akuan Traditionalists, the latter of which cited Akuan religious positions on non-hierarchical governance in opposition to calls for centralization in the face of foreign influences.
The monarchists found an important political ally in local Ny'Sænuri clans within the kingdom, who supported the enshrinement and became the enforcement arm of the monarchy. Despite this the political divides lead to a period known as the Troubles. Though no violent uprising occurred, the Kingdom suffered from general discontent and passive opposition throughout its lands. support of other groups.
==== Ny'Sænuri Clans and the Royal Ny'Sænuri Clan ====
The situation is resolved in the Second Treaty of Highdrilian, which allows the monarchy to return to the capital and sees Cryrian military forces withdraw back to their concessions, while officers linked to the worst of the violence are recalled to Leidenstad. However, the Treaty also allowed for a Cryrian official to be appointed to the Royal Court and generally ceded further economic control to Leidenstad. Thus, Cryrian control over Aikthudr'zhur only expanded, while the root causes of the unrest remained unaddressed and continued to plague the Kingdom.▼
==== Ny'Sænuri Enforcement of the Monarchy ====
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==== Great War and Removal of Cryrian Imperialism (1904-1924) ====▼
The Kingdom experienced an influx of dwarven migrations in 539 A.D. These groups were largely welcomed in by the House of Ny'thudr'zhan in exchange for their political and military support against the Traditionalists. The new arrivals were settled among the mountains which had historically been difficult to project authority into and were a bastion of Akuan Traditionalism. The Dwarven migrations ultimately ended the Troubles and allowed the House of Ny'thudr'zhan to stabilize and legitimize its reign.
With the advent of the Great War, Queen Katharine forms an accord with the Aikkian government. In exchange for the Kingdom’s support, Cryria would remove itself from Court affairs and allow Aikthudr'zhur to once again set its own tariff and trade policies. Aikkian troops are primarily drawn from the impoverished interior and serve under the Cryrian banner across numerous fronts in the war, while Aikthudr'zhur itself remains an important naval base.▼
==== Dwarven Guilds and Conversion ====
==== Further Influence of Ny'Sænuri ====
==== Construction of the Ny'Thu'ken Transportation and River Tariff Network ====
==== Start of Construction of the Grand City of Highdrilian ====
==== Second Dwarven Migrations ====
A second wave of dwarven migrations took place almost a thousand years later in 1558 as a result of repression against dwarven groups by foreign governments. The Kingdom once again allowed entry to the new arrivals, but mandated conversions to Akuanism - A fact which served to reignite Traditionalist thinking which opposed forced conversion.
==== Grand Conversion ====
=== Era of Dual Kingdoms ===
==== Norvit Plot ====
==== Tri-River Battle ====
==== Peasant Protests ====
==== Crushing of Descent Movements ====
==== Ending of Dual Kingdoms ====
==== Petite Nobility Decimation ====
==== Constitutionalism ====
Aikthudr'zhur first established a constitution in 1643 which created a formal parliament and implemented land reforms. The 1643 Constitution was a compromise between the Monarchists and the Traditionalists and served to define the role of the Crown and the nobility. The creation of the parliament helped legitimize the monarchy in the eyes of the Traditionalists and served to alleviate many of the renewed cultural disputes within the country.
▲=== Plague and Cryrian Imperialism ===
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[[File:Melker.png|thumb|Melker Öberg, Governor-General of the Aikkian Concessions during the Sack of Highdrilian]]
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▲The humiliation of the Sack and the loss of the swords served to unite many different factions within the country and turned local bureaucrats against Cryrian influence, thus prolonging the conflict. The situation
=== Modern Era (1900 - ongoing) ===
The end of the Great War sees the fulfillment of Katharine’s bargain with Aikthudr'zhur. However, the escalating Cryrian Anarchy offers the Kingdom a chance to fully eject foreign influence once and for all. In 1923, Cryrian military outposts in Aikthudr'zhur were closed, and the Kingdom reclaimed the coastal concessions as well as full control of its own affairs.▼
[[File:Sonja.jpg|thumb|Sonja Yonuvhe, the final Cryrian Governor-General of the Aikkian Concessions]]
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▲The end of the Great War sees the fulfillment of
==== Post-Imperial Period ====
The three swords are returned to Aikthudr'zhur in 2020 by order of the newly crowned Queen Ulrika II as part of a new Cryrian diplomatic effort to re-engage with the Novaran mainland. The swords had by now resided in the House of Leidensen's possession for one-hundred-and-thirty-three years. The return of the blades was received with much fanfare and nationwide celebrations, and marked a new chapter in the still-strained Aikkian-Cryrian relations.▼
With its independence restored, Aikthudr'zhur spent much of the 20th century recovering from the impacts of Cryrian influence. Under King Håkan renewed efforts were made to implement Akuan environmental ideals which ultimately resulted in a constitutional amendment that mandated at least 65% of the nation's forests remain intact. The Kingdom's geography favored hydroelectric developments, and a trend in favor of environmentalism continues today. In modern Aikthudr'zhur personal vehicles remain uncommon, and have transitioned entirely over to electric vehicles. By 2022 virtually all cars, trains and urban areas are powered by renewable sources.
▲The
== Economy ==
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=== Foreign Trade ===
Despite a complicated relationship stemming from the colonial period, Aikthudr'zhur retains numerous economic links to Leidenstad. Cryria remains an important producer of renewable energy technology, and as such has played an important role in Aikthudr'zhur’s energy sector. Aikthudr'zhur is also an important customer for Cryrian electric vehicle manufacturers and imports significant amounts of machinery from Cryrian producers. Aikkian woodcrafts remain popular within Cryria, and Aikthudr'zhur is a common vacation destination for Cryrian tourists. Both the trade deficit and the impacts of tourism in Aikthudr'zhur remain a source of domestic controversy.
[[Category:Cryria's Pages]]
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