[hider=Andy] [b]Name and Title of Vassal State[/b]: The Egyszer Incursion [b]Ruler[/b]: Incursor Vaulosz [b]Race[/b]: Egyszers are - if one was forced to admit - human. They are naturally paler, but by exposure to the sun even amongst nobility tend to end up darker. Their hair is typically black or brown, their eyes amber or green; other colourations are distrusted. Their features often tend to the extreme, tending away from the mean and median with men either tall, strong or short, lanky. However centuries of negative relations have had many other races and realms come up with wildly exaggerated stereotypes of them from devious slanted eyes to hook shaped noses and clubbed feet. [b]Location[/b]: [img]https://i.imgur.com/5wHmMke.png[/img] [b]History[/b]: The arrival of the Gaulletics swept the entire geopolitical scene of the continent. Their destruction of the old order was swift and effective, but incomplete. The Egyszers were one of the few proud peoples that withstood their onslaughts. Though they had to surrender much of their ancestral lands, they left a trail of Gaulletic heads mounted on stakes culminating in a great wall of them by the mountains. Retreating over them to the plains beyond, the Egyszers split into two main groups; the Mountaineers and Plainsfolk. They drifted apart for years with their culture growing into two ever more distinct ones. These people feuded amongst themselves, uniting only to destroy hapless punitive expeditions. They lived a harsh life, but a happy, free one. They killed one another in droves, they starved every decade, but they were not shackled and that made them better than all else. But in the last century, it came to be that youth could hardly remember the old animosities as they were pursued ever less. Trade spread through the mountains, and ever more it came to be considered among the Egyszers that freedom and bounties of the mainland aren't mutually exclusive. Mountaineers and Plainsfolk alike crossed to enjoy newfound bounties amongst the mainlanders, eventually growing fond of the continent and what it had grown into. But the trouble was that they were not truly of it, only appearing briefly in troupes to trade before fleeing back lest any one bearing a grudge hunt them down. This changed some twenty years ago when a boy in one of these troupes, a young Vaulosz thought after one such trip that the fate of his people was on the mainland. The son of one of the chiefs of the disparate bands of Egyszers among the plainsfolk, he set out to do much work. Duelling his father for rule of his kin was a first step, securing him a base from which to spring his growing political career off of. From then on he spent several years fighting and convincing fellow tribes that under him they could ascend to be conquerors of the mainland, enjoying both freedom of their current state and the wealth they were robbed of all those decades ago when forced to flee. Using traders to bring examples of the great things that could await the Egyszers he began a gradual reform of their society to prepare them for their new goal of returning to their ancestral homeland. His greatest obstacle thus far has been the complete unity of his people, wherein he was to convince the Mountaineers to region their now estranged kin. Though for the most part they did not want his greater goal of settling down away from their mountains, they whole-heartedly agreed with his menacing cries for vengeance. Combined with a marriage to the daughter of one of their dying chiefs and a promise to several of their own fiefdoms under him, Vaulosz narrowly secured the unity of the Egyszers. If he had made his move at any other time, the Egyszer Incursion as it came to be known would have been slaughtered by far larger, better prepared armies. But the growing grip of the Gaulletics combined with their recent plague had created the perfect time for the Egyszers to arrive in the land with violence in mind. Overnight entire villages and cities disappeared. Any Gaulletic that did not have useful knowledge from medicine to smithing was beheaded with the rest conscripted, humans formed into collaborators, and remaining races enslaved. It was when the beautiful city of Pallare was sacked, that the people of the continent found couriers carrying a surprising message. Vaulosz was now on the throne of the city's governor using the seat's previous occupant as a footrest, and as ashes rained down on him he wrote letters to the powers of the land that he simply wanted equal recognition for his people in the selection of The Throne. Though many laughed at his message, the laughter dissipated as the news spread of the city's taking. Though yet nobody has replied yet, the Egyszers will push hard to get a seat at the table. [b]Special Note[/b]: Imperial Intelligence on the Egyszer Population 12-13 million including local peasants or minor nobles Economic production Wheat Domesticated animals (horse, primarily) Barley Fish (anchovies, hake, eel, shrimp, crab) Hardwoods Grapes Iron Nut trees Copper Silver The Egyszer have the status of a foreign envoy in Garnalaña [/hider]