Fontan (Realm)/Alise's History

Greetings. I am Alise Athins. The following is the history of Fontan as I know it. I came to Fontan just as the war in the north broke out, and will detail the history from there until the present. The East Continent is an old island, with alot of history. Thus I think it necessary to detail some prior events. We will start long ago. I should say that the following is second hand knowledge and most likely is not one hundred percent accurate.

Pre-History

The East Continent used to be a much different place. Many countries existed that no longer do. Eventually three main factions emerged. Itorunt, Ibleadesh, and Yssaria in the south formed the Southern Federation. Sirion, Old Rancagua, and Fontan in the north formed the Northern Alliance. Caligus, Perdan, and Oligarch formed the Southern Alliance. (*Note* These were not the only realms of the time, only those in the major factions.) Eventually, Oligarch was defeated, and Caligus was forced to take refuge in the Perdanese duchy of Partora.

The continent then entered a time of peace and prosperity. Many tournaments were held, and although a few small wars broke out (namely the destruction of Kalmar Islands and the Avamar Selective, and a war between Fontan and Light of Fountain), the continent still was not plagued by the long wars of it's past. After quite some time, the gods grew angry, after all our world is made for conflict. The gods forced the leaders of the nations into action with lightning from the sky.

Itorunt moved first. They broke their federation with Ibladesh and Yssaria, and allied with Perdan and Caligus. Itorunt and Ibladesh moved to war, and Yssaria was forced to defend herself when Itorunt attacked. The Duke of Isadril believed that Itorunts only interest in Yssaria was his duchy. He seceded from Yssaria and formed Tuchanon V.

Perdan and Caligus wished to aid their ally Itorunt, but they were afraid that the Northern Alliance might move against them if they did. Nightmare, then King of Perdan began talks with Katsuyori who was our Chancellor at the time. The two rulers signed the Unprotected Borders Agreement (UBA). The effect of the UBA, at least what mattered, was that Fontan and Perdan agreed to a length of peace, and that no attack could be launched from the others land. This effectively cut off Sirion and Old Rancagua from the south. At the time we believed that this would let us fulfill a promise we had made long ago to create a new Coimbra. Fontan approached Old Rancagua with this wish. Old Rancagua had once signed a treaty stating that they would help create a new Coimbra, but King Dekion, Old Rancagua's King at the time, said that such a treaty did not exist. Things broke down into a heated argument, and Dekion began throwing insults at our Chancellor. What happened next is not entirely clear. We know that we broke the federation with Sirion (since they were federated with Old Rancagua) and went to war with Old Rancagua. Sirion was not please with this. Fontan asked them to remain neutral, but when a Fontanese TL accidentally wound up in Oligarch, Sirion declared war on Fontan.

The Four on One War

Soon after Sirion's war declaration, the Obsidian Islands and the Light of Fountain decided to join in and declared war on Fontan. The Obsidian Islands joined in to help their allies Old Rancagua. The Light of Fountain, however, joined in to regain the lad that Fontan had taken back from them. Fontan's military leaders decided to concentrate on destroying Light of Fountain first, as they were the weakest and caused a second front in the south. Around this time we also decided that we would no longer form a New Coimbra, I cannot remember if it was by vote, or that the few remaining former Coimbrians no longer wished to reform their former realm. Fontan proved a force to be reckoned with. We kept Sirion and Old Rancagua at bay, and even gained some territory, while we repelled the Obsidian Islands slow and weak assaults, and destroyed Light of Fountain.

While we were destroying Light of Fountain Tal, our Chancellor, worked on negotiations with King Doombringer of Caligus. These talks revolved around Light of Fountain regions (which were all former Caligan regions) and Caligus' war against our ally Yssaria. These negotiations went sour, and Doombringer gained a personal hatred for Tal who had offended him in their talks.

A referendum was held to determine the future of the war, and it was decided that we would destroy Old Rancagua. So we finished off Light of Fontan, and turned our full force north. We moved fast, crushing Old Rancagua and Sirion's forces and gained quite a bit of territory easily. We completely cut off Oligarch from Sirion, but waited to assault the city as it had a large militia force behind it's walls. We moved on Kazakh, when a huge controversy broke out.

The Sultanate of Asena

The Military Council at the time was a group known as the Council of Defense (CoD). It leaked out that they had planned a colony in Kazakh, and that all arrangements had already been made. This caused quite an uproar, and angered alot of people. As Fontan is well known for alot of debate and arguing soon followed. Many claimed the CoD had no right to do such a thing and that it should have been brought before the Fontan Assembly. After things settled down it was agreed that the populace would be given a few days to propose new ideas for the colony, and then the ideas would be voted on. Having the advantage of the advanced preparation, and having already brought knights in for the soul purpose of the colony, the CoD's plan easily won. So when the city of Kazakh was taken Sir Korkut was made its Duke. He soon seceded it to form the Sultanate of Asena. This sat badly with quite a few nobles for a long time. Eventually these nobles put forth enough pressure and the Minister of Defense, Lord Basilius, disbanded the CoD. Tal also choose no to run again for Chancellor, and was replaced by Rogal Dorn.

Fontan soon became split into two faction. The Old Guard, mainly made up of Fontan's older members it was lead by two of Fontan's Dukes, Gregor and Alexi. The Upstarts, which was made up mainly of the former CoD members, and was lead by Tal. The two factions, especially Tal, Alexi, and Gregor, we constantly at each others' throats. None could have foreseen what this eventually lead to.

Fontan's Golden Age

The war in the north continued. We took the cities of Avamar and Oligarch in turn. We broke the walls of Old Rancagua's Capital of Ashforth and continually destroyed the city. The Sultanate gained ground, taking Old Rancagua's regions. Fontan had become the largest, richest, and most populated realm on the continent. During this time, Fontan was home to 180 nobles and controlled seven duchies.

The war in the south came to an end. Caligus destroyed Yssaria. Ibladesh was overpowered and had had enough, they signed a peace treaty with Itorunt and Perdan. Only Tuchanon V and Itorunt remained at war.

Treachery and the Six vs Two War

To say the war in the north was going well for Fontan would be a huge understatement. Fontan had taken the Avamar and Oligarch duchies from Srion. The Sultanate had taken quite a bit of Old Rancagua's northern regions and was moving on Oroya. Fontan was occupying Ashforth and had begun a Take Over (Which would have made her eighth duchy, more than any realm has ever held).

The war in the south had ended, and many in Fontan were afraid Perdan and/or Caligus might get involved. This fear turned into an almost absolute certainty when Perdan refused to renew the UBA.

No would have foreseen what happened though. A mere day before the take over of Ashforth was complete, Gregor, a former Chancellor of Fontan, seceded Fontan City to form the Confederacy of Fontan. His reasons can be found here. Hours latter Caligus and Perdan declared war on Fontan. The reasons they gave were that they wished to protect the new realm, and to stop Fontan's "Empire Building." It was quite clear that this move had been long planned. Gregor had been bringing Perdanese nobles into his duchy for weeks, claiming they we joining to help in the war against Sirion. No one in Fontan had grown any the wiser until it was too late. Fontan found herself surrounded by enemies, at war with five realms. Fontan's only ally in this war, the Sultanate, was also at war with the Obsidian Islands. Fontan found herself in the midst of a six on two war. Though we had thought we would be fighting Perdan and Caligus, we had not expected Gregor's treachery. Perdan advanced quickly and took Troyes and Westmoor. But the treachery was not over.

The Krimml Incident

You can find the details of this incident here. The author would like to add a few things to the prelude. Since Gregor's treachery some had been suspicious of Alexi, especially among his political enemies. Rogal Dorn was one such, and had already announced he would not be running again for the Chancellory. When he exiled Alexi he gave the reason, "I don't want the next Chancellor to have to deal with him." There was talk of the next Chancellor recalling the Duke's exile before the Duke snapped.

More History to Come

Random Facts

Positions

Chancellor

• Katsuyori
• Tal
• Rogal Dorn
• The Revenger (Now known as Reven Gert)
• Alise
• Mikhail
• Katalynfae
• Zadek

Minister of Defense

• Basilius
• johnn(sp?)
• Malfurion
• Alise
• John Paul
• Luke
• Murat
• Gabriella

Minister of Finance

• Cant remember
• Elberan

Supreme Justice

• Katsuyori
• Duncan
• Moria

Dukes

• Fontan - Gregor, The Revenger(Now known as Reven Gert)
• Karbala - The Revenger, , Lionheart, Requiem
• Krimml - Alexi, Amelia, Richard
• Westmoor - Sartan Morningstar, Basilius
• Akesh Temple - Jai, Andrew
• Avamar - Katsuyori
• Oligarch - Sulliven
• Kazakh - Korkut
• Ashforth - Duncan, Elberan

Misc

• Highest Number of Nobles - 181
• Highest Number of Regions -