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'''Staynes''' is a country within [[Great Morstaybishlia]]. It shares southern borders with [[Axdel]], [[South StaynesValeria]] and [[DurentrusDurentria]], [[Caltharus]] to the east and [[Vothetria]] to the south-east.
 
The area now called Staynes was first inhabited by modern humans known as the Strathipolic people around 52,000 years ago, but takes its name from the Staynnica, the most prosperous kingdom during the time where the second kingdom of Maltervenia fell and the "third" kingdom of Maltervenia (Kingdom of Staynes) rose. Staynes became a unified state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The Staynish language, the [[Thaerism|Thaerist]] Church, and Staynish law – the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world – developed in Staynes, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been adopted by a respectable count of other nations.
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Plague erupted in the region on multiple occasions, wiping out nearly a third of the population at the turn of the 7th century. Returning epidemics would rise and fall in the next thousand years, most notably in 795 and 812.
 
During this time, the more successful EthalriedKrösnauen Empire in southern Aurora absorbed the economic sphere and influences that Maltervenia and Calath once had.
 
===Era of Changes (890 CE - 972 CE)===
[[File:970 Aurora snip.png|right|thumb|450px|Aurora circa 970 CE. Maltervenia in dark green and descending levels of linguistic, economic or cultural dependence/ties to Maltervenia in other greens, other spheres of influence in grey.]]
Arin couped the EthalriedKrösnauen Empire and established matrilineal succession in 890. The claim to the throne was contested and the nation fell into civil war. With the EthalriedKrösnauen Empire’s attention on its internal problems, parts of the outer territories were either annexed by the second Maltervenian Empire, annexed by other empires or seceded, forming their own kingdoms. The Maltervenian Empire saw rapid physical and economic expansionism across northern Aurora and established itself as the hub of a new trade route. These lands were a mixture of loosely controlled, economically dependent nations or satellite kingdoms.
 
When the decline of the EthalriedKrösnauen Empire began, Egbert declared himself king of Staynnica and amassed large armies from his influence as a nobleman and the new nation began rapid expansionism in the north-west. Staynnica became the largest kingdom to secede from the collapse of the EthalriedKrösnauen Empire, though it inevitably became economically dependent on the trade and riches of the Maltervenian Empire.
 
The first grandson of Egbert, King Ræulf, sailed to Aetern in 965 and met with the kings of the Kingdoms of Dovia, Laulia and Calthia. Unhappy with how they were treated under their economic dependency of Maltervenia, the four kings planned military strategies and came to an agreement. News caught wind in Maltervenia and Ræulf’s boat was sunk on its return voyage, though survivors managed to escape and return the plans and news of his death to his brother Rænnulf who was a revered military commander. Rænnulf became king, and declared war on Maltervenia.