Hirdism
Hirdism is a far right political ideology created by Tir Dveirleson a colonial officer stationed in Ymirland during the Great War. The ideology being mainly based around Dveirleson’s book called ‘Total Krig og den Nasjonale Sjelen (Total War and the National Soul)’, the book was released in 1900 and became popular among members of the Norgsveltian army especially those stationed in its colonies.
In the book Dveirleson argued for the creation of a military junta whose loyalty was to the nation instead of the monarchy. Proclaiming that the only way the nation can protect itself from foreign and domestic threats is through a “national purification” of political institutions and national culture. According to Dveirleson the establishment of a political system that will ensure a secular, nationalistic, republicanist and militaristic government is the only way to ensure national unity and strength.
Dveirleson’s ideals were formed through his experiences as a member of the Norgsveltian settler community in Ymirland. In which he grew to despise what he viewed as a “weak” native population, mainly as a result of the kemonomimi natives following Akuanism. Which he viewed with disgust for its pacifist stance, in which according to letters he had sent to another army officer he has said: “The natives are the most cowardly people i've ever had the displeasure to meet. They hide behind their degenerate pacifist religion as an excuse of why they are inferior. I wonder if kemonomimi is just genetically inferior or if they are simply culturally inferior.”
Though he was not alone among the settler community in the attitude of viewing the kemonomimi natives as inferior, he was alone in his attitude against the settler elite which was mostly made up of elven nobles or gothirs. Proclaiming them as leaders of an old and dysfunctional monarchical system. Viewing them as something holding settler societies back, and that if one freed those societies away from those old structures can they be purified.
During the Great War the ideals of Hirdism became popular in the army, but especially in the Norgsveltian colonial forces. With colonial forces being biggest perpetrators of the Akuan Atrocities , with Tir Dveirleson and his fellow colonial officers doing what most have considered to be an genocide against the native Akuanists living in Ymirland. In which most historians think was him trying to establish a settler society based around his Hirdist ideals. In which he proclaimed in a nationalistic speech in Kyinster for his soldiers that they were going too “wipe Ymirland clean from religious degeneracy and start a completely new society built around our superiority”. Dveirleson would be captured and executed for treason after the Great War when he and his soldiers started the Hirdist Rebellion after they got the news of Haakon III dissolving the Norgsveltian parliament.