Haleglar

Haleglar was the name of the nation created by the human settlers of Enamarith in 1179. For centuries it remained the only human nation on the island, and even when smaller kingdoms arose, Haleglar spent nearly seven centuries in complete domination. Despite this, Haleglar was a part of plenty of wars, first with the Elves, then Alikanaktor, and later experienced multiple civil wars, the last of which would lead to Haleglar splitting into several nations and losing a great deal of its western territory.

Haleglar was a monarchy, experiencing four royal families and various shifts in government over the years. For it's first five centuries and three houses, the monarch was aided in rule by barons and the land was split into baronies under those barons. In 1687, the Gathian House abolished the use of baronies and the nation was divided into five provinces, each with an appointed governor who helped in government. The role of provinces and governors would evolve and government would expand over the years, until provincal and national rule were completely separated.

In the nineteenth century Haleglar began to decline, losing several wars and with them much of its land and populace. It's downfall, though, came not from Enamarith but the Costaratan Empire on the other side of the Calaran Ocean, with which Haleglar had fought previously. Without aid from the Western Nations, Haleglar eventually fell, though it held off the Costaratan invaders for three years.

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Information
Created: 1179, by Oredus II

Dismantled: Secondal 2, 1906, by the Costaratan Empire in the Conquest of Haleglar

Capital: Enaliera (1179-1780), Aberdeen (1780-1906)

Government: Monarchy

Inhabitants: 1,887,000 (1760), 3,426,000 (1800), 3,690,000 (1868), 4,253,000 (1902)

Major Cities: Enaliera, Aberdeen, Adarr, Nyrin, Zagiranth, Oevith, Elerteen

Horgaro-Aethernalian Era
The Constitution of Haleglar was written in the early months of 1780 by the newly crowned Horgaron and Governors Escelor, Soredein, Etureno, and Eninren, all of whom signed the completed document, as well as well as by fifty-nine of the sixty-seven princes. The inspiration for the document was the grossly abused royal powers of Norvais, Horgaron’s predecessor. The victors wanted to insure that no future king could ever accumulate so much power and that, by granting more power elsewhere, it would help prevent future wars. Most of the clauses were written up by the victorious governors (Escelor of Mortinlaa, Soredein of Svinraa, and Etureno of Ectriaa) and proposed to the king for his approval. The Constitution was easily the greatest change experienced by Haleglar since the creation of the provinces in 1687.

New Provinces
Shortly after Horgaron ascended to the throne, he and the Governor’s Council, he and the Council were approached by Aethernel Aydombiel, future brother-in-law to the king and a successful general in the war, with a proposition. Aethernel suggested that the territories of Aethordraa and Hoedraa be given the rank of provinces. They were sorely underrepresented in the national government and giving seats on the Governor’s Council would give them a voice. This, naturally, generated an onslaught of debate among the seated governors, who were aghast at the possibility of the territories having an equal say in government as the five provinces. Only Escelor saw Aethernel’s point but, eventually, with the support of Horgaron, the proposition was put through and thoroughly discussed by the governors. The question soon became not whether territories would be promoted, but, which territories would be and what adjustments would be made. The governors, with due cause, worried that the provinces would be underrepresented in terms of population. For example, in 1780 Svinraa had a population of about three hundred thousand while Aethordraa had only one hundred and fifty thousand and Hoedraa only eighty thousand.

They eventually came to a resolution. In order to have a greater population, Hoedraa was given the city of Hosra from Zoraa, as a sort of war reparation, and Evelmeda from Aethordraa, as it was geographically more suited for Hoedraa. This gave it an extra thirty-some thousand people, bumping it over one hundred thousand. In addition, two more provinces were created; the territories of Boeraa, Pallator, Gascivar, and most of Sovielley, with a combined population of about eighty-five thousand, became the province of Boeraa, with its capital at Boeraa*. In addition to that, the island territories of Levicata, Delvaro, Nimoraa, and Eiphtor were reluctantly given up by their provincal owners and became the province of Bengardiaa. Bengardiaa had a population of just over a hundred thousand, its capital was located at Cabardica**. Boeraa was divided into three principalities; one for Boeraa, one for Southern Pallator, and one for Northern Pallator, Gascivar, and Sovielley. Bengardiaa was dived into four, one for Delvaro, Osstello, Tazeal, and Western Levicata, one for Cabardica and Levarica, one for Northern Nimoraa, and one for Southern Nimoraa and Eiphtor. Huesfear was offered provincehood but it declined and became a sovereign nation again.

''*It was considered moving it to Talantia to appease Pallator but Boeraa had a population of 28,000 while Talantia had only a population of 16,000, with much more of Pallator’s 30,000 inhabitants living elsewhere.''

'' **This went against the ruling of Boeraa as Cabardica had only a population of 13,000, while Norian had 20,000. This was somewhat because Levicata was far younger than Nimoraa and was expected to grow in population much more rapidly (25,000 people had settled there in the last 15 years alone while Nimoraa’s 50,000 had accumulated over four hundred years.''

Governors' Council
With new rules in place and four  new governors to be appointed, the Constitutional Council had to make judgments on the election and powers of the governors. The recommendation of governors by the princes remained in place but instead of the king having the power of approval it was now the Governor’s Council that needed to approve before a governor could take office; a simple majority of five out of eight was needed. This step was taken to insure that the Council did not sit at the pleasure of the king and that it would now be the highest authority in choosing its own members. Another step was taken to make sure that the governors could not simply refuse to allow a representative from a certain province to take office . If the Governor’s Council refused three consecutive candidates from a province, they would be forced to choose between one of those three. A new governor had to take office within three months of the opening of a seat. A vote of six could ban a governor from taking part in the Council for one year when they could reconsider their action. The Principally Council could, with a simple majority, override the Governors’ Council’s vote and reinstate a member after just six months. Neither council had power to remove a governor from office in his own province, only from consular duties.

In certain circumstances, when there was a tied vote or it was too close to make judgment, votes would be counted on population basis and the provinces with more people would win the vote. The Council was still given the power to impeach the king but they needed a majority of seven to do so (as well as a two thirds majority in the Principally Council, more on that later). Most judgments required only a majority of five but some required six. It was up to the Council to decide Principality regulations but the power still resided with individual governors to amend these within regulation. Most any decision made by the king had to be approved by the Council and many decisions of the Council had to be approved by the king. This allowed the Council to be independent and have an equal say in government while still allowing the monarchy to retain considerable power. These decisions started the least debate as most everyone the Constitutional Council was agreed on the steps to be taken in this area.

Another point for debate was the leadership of the Governor’s Council. In the past it was headed by the most senior governor, whose main job was to lead the debates and had little real powers. It was a subject of constant conversation as to whether this system should be changed and who should have that power and should that person be given more powers. It was decided that they would retain the position as head governor to lead the Council but instead of the most senior governor, which often led to ineffectual leadership of old men, the position would be awarded by a vote of the governors. To qualify, a governor must have served for at least seven years and not received a ban from the Council (originally it was to be restricted to the five original provinces but the Constitutional Council observed that the major provinces had a majority and could vote only their own if they so wished). They also decided that every year a governor could challenge the current chairman and institute a vote for the position, regardless these votes would be held every five years or after the current holder of the position died or stepped down. The vote itself would begin with nominations. No governor could nominate himself for the position though he could refuse a nomination forwarded by someone else. Up to four nominations would be allowed. One month after the nominations a vote would be held for the position, the man with the most votes would be granted the seat. In the case of a tie, the other seven governors would vote between the two highest vote-holders, this insured that there could be no tie.

Principally Council
The idea of a council of princes with national sway was first brought up when the creation of new provinces was taking place. It was first brought to the floor by Etureno of Ectriaa, who suggested that a council of princes (or some other body of representatives based on size or population), should have a national voice and be set up in a similar fashion as the Governors’ Council. Escelor, unsurprisingly as the head of the most populous province, was in favor of it, King Horgaron, too, agreed. Eninren of Zoraa proposed that it should be composed by size rather than populace (unsurprising as Zoraa was the least densely populated of the provinces and would most benefit by this. Soredein of Svinraa, governor of what was still the smallest province, immediately opposed this, also stating that the power should remain with the governors. Etureno and Escelor eventually got their way and a law authorizing such a body was put in place.

Now they needed to decide whether it would be made up of princes or some other representative. Escelor and Horgaron argued that the princes should not be given this extra responsibility so that they could better attend to their own principalities. Etureno, Soredein, and Eninren, argued that it would cause too much trouble to choose another several dozen men for that job and that the princes could choose regents to stay behind while they attended to their national duties. Eventually Soredein won the argument with the proposition that the Principally Council would only need to meet every six months unless in a crisis, which would allow them to manage things at home most of the time* . Etureno objected having to send all fourrteen Ectriaan princes as far as Enaliera twice a year but the Council decided to postpone that debate for another time.

The next order of business was to decide the powers that would be given to the Principally Council. The governors were particularly torn on this as granting powers would cause in a loss of their own but withholding them would defeat the purpose of a population-defined government body. It was decided that the Principally Council would need to approve of major decisions such as the impeachment of the king or an amendment to the Constitution. The Governor’s Council would be higher authority in other strictly national rulings while the Principally Council would be the higher in rulings on provincal interaction and other choices that would affect all nine provinces. The individual governors still had the highest authority in matters of their own province, though Provincal Principally Councils were set up of the princes of each province. The appointment of new princes remained the same, with provincal councils electing new princes to be approved by the governor. The new Principally Council had no say in who its members were, though a two thirds majority could ban a certain member from the proceedings, but not strip him of his authorities at home. There were sixty-seven princes in 1780, according to the population demographic of 1800, there would have been one hundred and fifteen but the Council chose to change the princes to one per forty, rather than thirty, thousand, making it eighty-seven and decreeing that it would stay under ninety and principalities would shift as population changes demanded**.

''*In 1806, High Governor Ramidon initiated legislation that forced princes to choose between their seat at Aberdeen or their position at home. The motivation was that some princes could spend as much as five or six months travelling every year. Each prince was allowed to directly appoint without question the position that he did not choose. This allowed the princes to keep most of their power and it was the only way the Principally Council would ever except such a law. Over three-fourths of the princes elected to stay at Aberdeen as it was far more influential than the duties at home and they could still instruct their regent to vote for whichever governoral candidate they supported (the voting of the governor was, by far, the prince’s biggest job at home.)''

'' **In 1800 and 1810 the reapportionment was handled by the Governors’ Council but in 1819, just before the 1820 census, the GC, led by Aethernel, created a committee that would be specifically devoted to measuring the census and drawing principality borders. Each province would have a specific number of men on the committee based on its number of principalities the previous census. The GC chose to alleviate themselves from this massive responsibility every ten years and to prevent any corruption and false data by a majority in the Council. In fact, the latter was the precise reason that this duty did not fall to the Principally Council. It’s members were far too affected by the result. Especially as new princes were elected every ten years (they could return to office though) in light of the reapportionment.) The election of princes only happened if a provinces number of principalities changed (or altered so that the prince no longer resided in his domain). If it did, the Governor would make a nomination to appoint or remove a prince and this decision would go before the PPC for its approval (simple majority). ''

Seat of Power
Discontent with the capital at Enaliera had been going on since before the formation of the provinces and the Constitutional Council knew it was an issue that they would have to broach eventually. Etureno was the first to voice his issues with the northern capital but judgment was postponed until after the legislation on the Principally Council was finished. Now that that was done, the topic of the placement of the capital was approached. The newly created Principally Council had already overwhelmingly refused to be seated at Enaliera, which caused a problem for the governors who wished for all the branches of government to be located at the same place. The governors were also afraid that the king would refuse to move out of Enaliera so they first discussed the topic in secret. They managed to agree that, especially with the addition of new provinces, that Enaliera was too far from the rest of the nation but they could not agree on a new location as each wanted his own capital to be the center of government. Itorik was the most centralized of the new capitals but it was much smaller than the rest of them and was deep in the Seered Mountains, making it difficult to reach. Aberdeen was the next best thing and was a large city that could be reached relatively easily by the other provinces. Elerteen was also suggested as it was closer to the new western provinces and none of the governor would have to cross the Seered Mountains to reach it, however it was too far south for the liking of Zampaeadraa, Mortinlaa, and Hoedraa though the other governors preferred it to either of the other choices. Soredein, not missing out on the debate, suggested Svinlin as it was further north than Elerteen yet easier to access than Aberdeen or Itorik.

The debate went on for weeks with none of the governors giving up ground. Some suggested that the capital be moved every year to give each of the governors a chance to host the capital but that was thrown down as it was said to be too much hassle to move the entire court every year or even every five. Eventually the desperate governors appealed to Horgaron to choose between Aberdeen, Svinlin, Elerteen, or Digared (it was as large as Itorik yet much less deep inside the mountains). They all swore to uphold his decision regardless what it may be. Horgaron initially tried to remain at Enaliera but the governors said that he had to pick one of their nominations. Horgaron, somewhat frustrated, chose Aberdeen, the largest of the four cities as well as the closest to Enaliera and the home of his closest ally, to be his capital. Naturally this was met with some grumbling but all nine governors stuck to their word and, by the end of the year, they had moved to Aberdeen. Shortly afterward, the Principally Council also agreed to be seated there.

Note on Principality Makeup
In 1780, each principality contained as close to 40,000 people as possible while remaining logical. Each principality had to be contiguous (unless in Bengardiaa or Boeraa and divided by water) and no principality could span two provinces. No principality could exceed six thousand of the mandated population. Every twenty years a special council would be called of all the governors and princes to study the census and redraw principality borders as necessary. Mandated population would be given at the council. Each principality should contain roughly 1.25 percent of the population. Borderlines must be reasonably constructed and should reflect cultural regions as much as possible.

Note on Federal Departments
In 1784, four years after the signing of the Constitution, the current members of the Governor’s Council and King Horgaron sat down to discuss any revisions to the Constitution. One decision that was made was to divide certain areas of supervision to various departments that would decide laws in their areas. They decided that each department would be headed by a member of the Governors’ Council and would consist of a certain number of princes. Each governoral post would be filled by a vote by the Governors’ Council of those who applied for each position, no governor could head more than one department and the Chairman of the Council could not head one either. In 1786 this was altered so that the princes in the position would choose the head of their department once a vacancy occurred. The position of head of department could be challenged and brought to a vote either by the members of the department or by the Governors’ Council, a two-thirds majority was needed of the princes and a majority of six-two or more by the governors. The original princes to serve on the various departments were chosen by the Governors’ Council, in future, the departments would choose their own members.

Department of Foreign and Domestic Relations
This department had the most political importance of them all as its primary job was to keep order between the king, the Governors’ Council, and the Principally Council and to oversee relations between them. It also controlled minor legislation as to which body had which responsibilities. In any major circumstance in which a greater say for the involved powers was necessary, the Department of Domestic and Foreign Relations would chair the discussions. It would also oversee any complaints from one body to another and deal with impeachment trials for the monarch or a member of one of the councils.

Its second job was to pursue good relations with other nations, primarily Ellismona but also Huesfear and Rahorsez. Trade laws with other nations would be made and ambassadors appointed by this department. In later years it would deal with the thorny issue of Haleglaran settlement on Salorthaias and the creation of a satellite state there, with delegates going to Rahorsez and Seavsklas themselves when war seemed eminent.

The first head of the department was Ramidon of Aethordraa. He was the closest ally of Escelor and Soredein on the Council, save Etureno who headed the Department of Defense, and they felt that they could quietly manage from behind the scenes. In the thirty years of his holding the post the landscape of the departments and their heads and how they were chosen was constantly in debate but Ramidon managed to hold on to the post until his death in 1813.

Department of Provincal Regulation
A department of somewhat small importance, but which legislated heated issues over the rights of provinces. While this was an area of meticulous control by the Governors’ Council to protect the governors’ rights as chief executives of their provinces, the department was created to oversee smaller issues and provide a median between national and provincal interests. It also sometimes worked closely with the DoFDR and the DoC to insure healthy relationships between provinces.

The first head of the department was Governor Arturos of Zampaeadraa, though he was compelled to resign in 1786, after two years in office, due to the rearranging of powers in the departments and as it was decided, with heavy pressure from King Horgaron, to separate the governors from this delicate role in which they were highly affected. It was also to insure that the interests of the Governors’ Council would remain on a national level rather than to protect their own interests. This was unpopular with the governors at the time who were suspicious of royal power after the Civil War and had a strong view of their own rights. The separation of the governors from national authority increased greatly with Oriathon V (1838-1876).

Agyosi (1128-1179)
In Elven year 1128 twenty-eight cargo ships bearing twenty thousand settlers from the Eastern Continent of which we now know little. They landed at an uninhabited shoreline east of Kamperadon and north of Sevadielon, lands ruled by lords of the Plains Elves. These Elves first made contact with the Human settlers in 1130. They allowed Ieto, the leader of the humans, to build settlements on the eastern shore of the great plain. The first settlement built was named Agyos of which Ieto became duke. The next major settlements were Nyrin, in a bay near the lands of Lord Irephtin of Peamel, and Adarr, on the edge of the great plain near the borders of Sevadielon and Kamperadon. These settlements became collectively known as Agyosi and were ruled by Ieto at Agyos.

Within fifteen years on Enamarith, Ieto became dissatisfied with the land allotted him and, when refused more by Lord Rendolar of Kampedera, he decided to take it by force. A force of eight thousand led by Ieto met with an army of at least thirty thousand from Kamperadon and triumphed over them at what would later become Enaliera. Ieto had specifically chosen this place because of its defensibility and defeated a force four times the size of his own. This was not only due to Ieto’s leadership but to the far superior training of the Agyosian warriors to those of the Elves, who had not fought a major war for eleven hundred years. This superior training would prove to be a massive advantage to the men of Agyosi when fighting far larger elven hosts for the next three hundred years.

In 1151 Ieto died and was succeeded by his nephew Oredus to the duchy at Agyos. Oredus continued the conquest against the plain elves and conquered Kamperadon and the cities of Zampedon, Kamperadon, and Peamel. By the end of his life in 1172 only the Elven lord in Sevadiela continued to challenge the military might of Agyosi. He also constructed the city of Enaliera in honor of Ieto’s great victory in the mountains there. Oredus also intended to eventually make it his capital as it was far more defensible and centralized than Agyos. Due to its etymology, Enaliera is most likely an elven name though it was only settled in the mid twelfth century by Agyosian followers of Oredus I and II.

Early Odorian (1179-1268)
Oredus was succeeded by his son, also named Oredus. Oredus II was a man with big dreams; though they had grown and become powerful, the men of Agyosi were still a collection of settlements that were loosely organized by the duke at Agyos, Oredus saw them as becoming a nation and dominating the entire land of Enamarith. After five years of preparation he made his move. He had already moved capital to Enaliera and now he declared himself king of the nation of Haleglar. Haleglar was the name the men gave to all the land between the Anarin River and the Eastern Sea and with this, he claimed everything north and east of the Seered Mountains. This was far from reality as southward expansion was already blocked by the strong cities of Aerian and Sevadiela. Oredus did manage to conquer the great expanse of land west of Enaliera and campaigned up the Anarin River and founding the city of Antiurn.

Oredus died in 1210 and was succeeded by his son, Argonned, who died in a campaign against Senaera after eight years of reign and passed the throne on to his son, Oriathon. Oriathon was only twenty-one when he was crowned in Enaliera but he became known as the greatest of the Odorian kings. In 1224, after facing troubles with the dukes of the scattered cities of Haleglar, he reorganized the nation into four baronies, one on each corner of Enaliera, which would be led directly by the king rather than a baron. These early baronies were Zampor in the north with Zampedon as its capital, Agyos in the east with Agyos as its capital, Anarinia in the west with Onori as its capital, and Magledor to the south with Adarr as its capital.

In 1248 Oriathon launched the greatest assault against the elves ever undertaken by the people of Haleglar, mounting an attack on both Sevadiela and Aerian, the most powerful elven cities on the plain. The fighting lasted for years but, in 1753, Aerian fell, two years later, so did Sevadiela. Rather than making peace, Oriathon moved against the land of Roandon on the southern coast which had supplied troops to Sevadielon and defeated it, razing Roandia to the ground. The war with the elves that had been going on and off for a hundred years was over, only Seneron and Hajirron remained autonomous and they were too far to be easily dominated by Enaliera. In response to his new conquests, Oriathon established four more baronies, Sevadiela, in the center of the plain, Zangor, in the hills east of Seneron, Attarok, in the foothills of the Seered Mountains, and Navigla, which stretched across the coast from Roandia to Aerian. In 1268, after fifty years of fighting, Oriathon retired from war and spent his final years among his family in Enaliera.

Later Odorian (1268-1324)
Oriathon died in 1273 and was succeeded by his son, Horgath. Horgath was already fifty when he ascended to the throne and he had seen enough of battles during the campaigns of his father. He decided to make what he hoped would be a lasting peace with the remaining elves and signed a treaty with them at Digared, promising to end hostilities. In addition to the peace, Haleglar was given the empty land on the banks of the Gascon River, which greatly increased the size of Haleglar. Horgath died two years later and the throne went to his son Argaddeon.

During Argaddeon’s forty-two year reign, Haleglar enjoyed relative peace and Gascony flourished. With the addition of the Gascon territories, trade and communication now reached a new level as Haleglar could now access the lands of Aloveon and Illiscron, which had been previously inaccessible to him. Argaddeon also refrained from carving Gascony into baronies, he was afraid that, so far from Enaliera, barons there might break away from Haleglar to rule themselves, so, instead, he kept it as a fairly self-sufficient territory. He also worked to colonize the islands of Nimora and Eiphtor in the Eastern Ocean. Building relations with the elves was slow, as they were long-lived and the Great Plain War was still well within living memory for them.

The downside to Argaddeon’s long rule is that he was predeceased by three of his four sons, leaving the youngest, a weak man named Oriathon II, to succeed him. As soon as Oriathon inherited the throne, six of the baronies, led by Norvais of Magledor, rebelled against the crown. In addition to this, Gascony chose this time to secede from Enaliera and, with royal troops tied up elsewhere, was unchallenged. Oriathon II was killed at Adarr in 1323 and was succeeded by his nephew, Horgath II. Poor Horgath didn’t stand a chance and, within weeks, was pinned up in Enaliera. Soon afterwards he was murdered by a courtier and the Odorian House, which had lasted for one hundred and fifty years, ended with him.

Addikite (1324-1397)
With Horgath II dead in his bed Norvais marched into Enaliera and, rather than abolishing the monarchy as he had professed he would do, he had himself crowned as King Norvais I, founder of the Addikite House. Norvais  kept the baronies as they were for the most part but brought Enaliera into his home barony of Magledor as well as seizing Nyrin from Agyos, which met with a great deal of outrage. After securing his kingdom, he went to war with Hajirron, breaking the treaty of Digared. He conquered all of the land along the coast below the mountains and made it into the barony of Svienra but was stopped short of Hajirria. The rest of Hajirron would fall to Gascony during the next thirty years. Norvais died in 1354 and was succeeded by his son, Garonnin.

Garonnin I, soon after he was crowned, launched an invasion of the Seered Mountain Elves and, when it came to their aid, Senaera. The Seered Mountain War was the costliest that Haleglar would fight until the Fourth Goblin War, lasting for twelve years before peace was made with the surviving elves at Mosmurin. Digared and Senaera both fell to Garonnin as well as a large swath of the mountains, which became the baronies of Senaera, in the old elven land, Seered, in the center of the mountains, and Kivarr, off to the west of Seered and capitaled at the new city of Itorik. Garonnin’s eldest son, Norvais, had been killed in the war so when he died in 1380 he was replaced by his second son, Tavelssion.

Tavelssion’s ascension marked the end of the Addikite House. He was soon dethroned by his nephew, Arcadian, the son of the deceased Norvais. Arcadian was briefly unseated by his uncle, Oriathon III, but mustered an army in Adarr and retook the throne the following year. After a very oppressive three more years on the throne, he died and passed it to his son Arcadian II. Arcadian II was even crueler than his father and lasted for four years, until he was driven off and slain by his cousin, Garonnin II, thus ending the Addikite House.

Divided (1868-1906)
Despite having brought an end to the war in Salorthaias, Oriathon was still faced with fighting on multiple fronts and with the impending fall of Norian and subsequent invasion of the mainland by the Tyronians, Oriathon was forced to act. Kivarrmin was now cut off from the rest of the nation and most of Garvodea was now in Aethordraan hands, which led to threats of secession by Zoraa and Ectriaa if peace was not made. So, in desperation, Oriathon met with Horgath at Elerteen and signed a treaty which recognized Boretheraa as a sovereign nation and made peace. Horgath and Oriathon even publicly made up with one another in signal of peace between their two nations. However, the political waters darkened once more for, as part of the treaty of Elerteen, the Ectriaan region of Garvodea and the western border of Zoraa were given to Boretheraa, which infuriated those two provinces, leading to a declaration of independence by them. Not wanting to risk another war, Oriathon hurried back to Elerteen and recognized Zorectriaa as a new nation, though not before securing Digared, Seuvadel, west Attarok, and the Anarin strip from Zoraa. Upon returning to Aberdeen, Oriathon was met with yet another declaration of independence, this time from the Governor of Begardiaa, who was still enraged at the ease with which Eiphtor and Nimoraa had fallen, as well as a note informing Oriathon of peace made between Bengardiaa and Tyronia. Unable to take any other action, Oriathon was forced to allow Bengardiaa to slip from his grasp just as so many other provinces had. Despite this, Halglaran troops swept into Norian and managed to drive back the Tyronian army. Aid was sent from King Horgath of Boretheraa and, by 1869, the Tyronians were driven from Nimoraa, with Eiphtor liberated soon after. While no official peace was made, by 1870 all hostilities with Tyronia had ceased, allowing the nations to return to internal affairs.

Far from reaching an era of peace as the new nations had hoped, the end of the wars led only into new conflicts. In 1873, Zorectriaa faced a crisis which led to a reorganization of government, the splitting of Ectriaa into Elcergon and Listonia, and the renaming of the nation to Thargeld. 1876 saw the death of King Horgath of Borectriaa (succeeded by his grandson Aetherdron) and the following year the province of Gascopallator seceded from the nation, though it was allowed to do so peacefully. However, in 1882, this was followed by an invasion of Gascopallator from Boeraa, which, after being commanded to cease hostilities by Aetherdron, removed itself from Boretheraa as well and proceeded to occupy the Gascopallatorian ports of Talantia, Pelton, and Turempa. Aethordraa (the name Boretheraa had now taken after losing Boeraa) was conflicted by requests of assistance on both sides and, while siding with Gascopallator, Aetherdron refused to do more than send unbacked threats to the Governor of Boeraa. The stalemate lasted until 1886, when a resource-starved Gascopallator was forced to surrender and become a vassal-state of Boeraa, as well as setting an embargo against Aethordraa. Aetherdron, feeling threatened, swept troops into Gascivar (and Western Sovielley), setting it up as a rival vassal-state to Pallator.

Meanwhile, Haleglar was having troubles of its own. Ever since the Treaty of Aberdeen and its separation from the rest of Svinraa, the city of Njirrin had been working in every way possible to break free of Haleglar and form its own city-state; there were revolts in the streets and the city council made offers to both Thargeld and Levicata for aid but was both times rejected. Eventually, in one last attempt at freedom, Njirrin threatened King Tarogon of Haleglar that if he did not comply with their demands, the city council would appeal to Tyronia for help. Tarogon, realizing that the Tyronians would jump at another opportunity to invade, grudgingly allowed Njirrin to become an autonomous city-state. However, this only led to more complications as Njirrin quickly attained a trade monopoly, causing the other commerce-heavy cities of Svinraa to demand action by Tarogon. Soon, even the Governor of Svinraa was considering shifting his allegiance. This led to an occupation of Svinraa by troops from Aberdeen to ensure that it remained part of Haleglar. During all this, Njirrin worked continuously to undermine Haleglar however possible, forming alliances with Thargeld and Levicata and occupying Norian, followed by the rest of Nimoraa. However, Haleglar was unable to besiege Njirrin or in any other way effectively halt it without angering the other nations and possibly leading to war.

Starting in the 1870s with Oriathon and continued by Tarogon was the isolationist policy by Haleglar, which essentially cut it off entirely from the other nations, in communication, travel, and trade. This was, in fact, a major reason in Njirrin’s uproar as, while under Halglaran rule, it was unable to conduct business as it wanted to with the other nations. In 1888, Aethordraa, Thargeld, Boeraa, Njirrin, Huesfear, and Levicata signed an agreement against mass-production of firearms, which were now becoming readily available, due to the destructive nature of these weapons. However, Haleglar refused to comply with the terms and, cut off from the others as it was, it was impossible to know whether or not guns were being manufactured there, which caused unease to the other nations, particularly Aethordraa. In 1892, this led to the province of Hoedraa breaking off silently from Haleglar, declaring neutrality as a shield and becoming a protectorate of both Aethordraa and neutral Huesfear. The peace that Horgath and Oriathon had hoped for was short-lived indeed.

While tensions ran high, a relative state of, if not peace, but at least of stability finally reigned. Until 1902 and a very fateful decision by Njirrin.