Heen (Realm)
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| Realm Motto: N/A | ||
| Capital | Heen | |
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| Government | Monarchy
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| Population | 26447 (9th Feb '07) | |
| Nobles | 27 | |
The Holy Kingdom of Heen
Heen is a monarchy split from Varyamo Nolvo. Heen, in its founding, had dedicated itself to purifying its all people of the evil faith of Hedonism, as well as eliminating its two defenders, Vice and Varyamo Nolvo. With that goal accomplished, Heen now seeks to serve its rightful place in Beluaterra. Heen is filled with upright nobles, who wish to live pure, rightous, and holy.
Diplomacy
Ceded City Alliance
The Monarchy of Heen
The Democracy of Khthon
The Monarchy of Irombrozia
The Republic of Fwuvoghor
The Monarchy of Vlaanderen
Other Alliances
The Theocracy of Sint
Documents
Royal Documents
The Constitution of Heen
The Royal Posting
Newspapers
History of Heen
Heen was created by Gauis Marius Angmar when he ceded away the city of Heen from the realm of Varyamo Nolvo. The cause of his ceding was when the Minister of Defense of Varyamo Nolvo, Scion the Skilled Twinblade, called for an uprising for the government that seemed as if it would not fail. He did not want his city to fall into the hands of Scion the Skilled. But after the 'gods' spake agianst Scion in Varyamo Nolvo, the rebellion failed. And Scion and his supporters fled to the Kingdom of Heen.
At that point Gauis Marius began to attempt to keep the power from Scion and his supporters, he coaxed Juno GreatSword, one of Scion the Skilled's most loyal, to the position of High Marshall, in exchange for steping down as Archpriest, leaving it open for elections. Scion the Skilled won. And after Scion pointed out to his supporters, nearly the entire realm, that Gauis Marius was taking all of the tax, and keeping all of the power he could, they began to protest heavily, abdicating Gauis Marius off of the throne entirely.
Scion the Skilled easily rose to power, and Gauis Marius fled back to the same realm he sceded from, Varyamo Nolvo. Scion quickly had war declared on Varyamo Nolvo and Vice (a realm reborn for the exact same reason, fashion, and time as Heen when Skadhi Storm ceded the city of Latlan away, at the time of the rebellion, from Varyamo Nolvo) declared war on Heen in turn. This war rages this day, with Heen attempting to destroy all of Hedonism (an evil religion whose highest form of art is sin) and its two defenders, Vice and Varyamo Nolvo.
As the war progresed, things began to get wors. Heen lost Hcallow to Varyamo Nolvo, Watersdown to Vice, and faced several defeats by the two larger armies. It also turned out the first duke of the reformed Heen, Javan Taanach, turned out to be a Dark Wizard (OOC: Multi Cheater) and was cast from the realm. Hindering Heen's struggle further. Heen was then surrounded by its two enemies with larger forces running TO's in Kif and Ling, which held out very nicely, but in the end fell to the brutality of Vice and VN. After the loss of Kif and Ling, the King, finally decided to begin launching the first offensive campaign. After FIRMLY securing the capital, the War for Survival and Purification began.
Light vs Dark, Rightous vs Evil, Holy vs Taint, Heen vs Hedonism.
War for Survival and Purification
The War for Survival and Purification is a war that Heen is currently fighting. It is Heens' first war. It is being fought for the purification of Hedonism and for the survival of the Kingdom of Heen. The war has began as a unfair war, where Heen is facing its two hated enemies, the defenders of Hedonism, Vice and Varyamo Nolvo, without assistance. Starting only with the capital city of Heen.
- The Recapture of Ling
- 1st Battle: The nobles of Heen assulted an abandoned noble of Vice who was occupying the region of Ling. After the nobles gaurd was defeated and began to retreat. Marshall Medium began a friendly TO, King Scion and High Marshall Martana began to hunt the survivors, while the rest of the nobles began to brace themselves for the inevitable fight of the entire Vicean Army that was sure to come to try to stop thier efforts. A day later, Ling was back under Heens' control, but just as the govenment switched, a huge, 219 horde of undead attacked. Heen retreated, hoping to leave the horde to Vice, then come and clean up the remains....
- 2nd Battle: After the Undead horde that plauged Ling for two turns then left to Watersdown, Heen assulted two Vicean nobles, Badai and Peace, who came to occupy the region once the horde had left. After the battle, Untrained scouts returned to the nobles reporting that the Vicean army was nowhere to be seen, seemingly leaving their capital nearly undefended. This opened a window of oppertunity to cause devastating damage to the capital of Vice. King Scion issued the attack...
- The Looting of Latlan
- 1st Battle: The nobles of Heen attacked the capital of Vice, Latlan, and successfully defeated the Ponitfix's TO size unit, city milita, as well as a few lesser nobles and thier guards. They even managed to wound Pontifix of Vice, hikari. Heen had no trouble in scaling the level 2 walls. Once the battle ended, Heen began to hold public executions of Hedonist radicals. Heen began to take the Hedonist gold from the temples, and began to cripple the military infastrature in Vice's capital.
- 2nd Battle: The remains of a unit of city milita and two lesser Vicean nobles had re-rallied, and assulted the nobles of Heen in a desperate attempt to liberate thier capital. They failed, resulting in another day of executions, looting and victory for Heen.
- 3rd Battle: Paladin Primus of Vice, Skadhi and Marshall of Latlan, Grey returned with a few lesser nobles from hunting monsters and assulted thier capital at the same time as the Haruspex Maxiumus of Vice, Attila, and the rest of the lesser nobles already in Latlan recruited the remaining soilders. This force was strong enough to defeat the army of Heen, and drove us from thier capital. The cause for the loss of the battle to the smaller Vicean force was due to low moral, unpaid soilders, and high equipment damage. But all around, the looting of Latlan was very successful, gaining Heen hundreds of gold, and severly crippling Vice's income for more than a week.
- The Skirmish of Sotrebar
- 1st Battle: The nobles of Heen assulted Sotrebar, the only region besides Ling that has access to the Vicean capital. The nobles of Heen met little resisitance, just a few Angry Peasants. The Marshall of the Army of Heen and newly appointed Royal Treasurer, Medium, began a Brutal TO, while the remaining nobles looted for a few hours, than began preparing for battle.
- 2nd Battle: 5 Vicean nobles, Paladin Primus Skadhi, Marshall Grey, and Haruspex Maximus/Fiducary Attila, and two lesser nobles assulted the running TO and Heen easily claimed the victory. Heen celebrated by looting, hunting, then re-fortifying. After so much looting, 55 People Milita took arms and prepared to do battle with Heen along side the re-rallied Vicean nobles, and the remaining nobles coming from Latlan.
- 3rd Battle: Fresh Reinforcments from Latlan, including two lesser nobles and the Vicean Pontifix, a large 55 man peasant milita, as well as the re-rallied nobles that had already been defeated, assulted Heens' TO of Sotrebar and prevailed, causing the nobles of Heen to retreat, ending the Skirmish of Sotrebar. Heen accomplished ransacking and pillaging Vices' most productive region besides its capital, makeing the Skirmish of Sotrebar an overall victory in Heens' eyes.
Disclaimer: **The scribe that was keeping the records of the war was killed shortly after this last recording in a battle at Ling.
Reconstruction
After the (what was considered by all other realms) 'civil war' also refered as the War for Survival and Purification, Heen began a period of reconstruction. With Heen , Latlan, Tahgalez, and thier respective duchies under the Heenite banner, it was time to carve a Kingdom not to be forgotten. During this time, The Constitution of Heen was written by King Scion the Skilled himself. Thus reforming the kingdom into a constitutional monarchy, rather than traditional. It was also during this time that peace with nearly every nation on the continent was acheived. As well as an alliance with Sint and a federation with Irombrozia.
The governing council during this time was:
King Scion the Skilled Twinblade
High Marshall Martana Curs
Arch Priest Kagurati Tian
Royal Treasurer Medium T-style
Much was accomplished during the reconstruciton period. The devestated population was givin time to heal and rebuild, many peace treaties were signed, much infastrature was rebuilt, and fortifications raised. Even the banner that Heen so cherisly followed during the war was slightly altered. And it was a great time for peace and prosperity in the desert.
Religion in Heen
Despite being named The Holy Kingdom of Heen, no single religion dominates the deserts or cities of Heen. Noted religious scholar, Valeria DeSyrr wrote the following about religious tendencies in the Holy Kingdom:
- It's also interesting to note the difference in religion in the realm. The north is predominantly Draconic. The south is predominantly Qyrvaggist. Latlan is known for Hedonism but is becoming increasingly dominated by Valentic converts.
- The problem with this is that religion is not always along cultural divides. Draconics in the "pure" Heen City probably don't completely trust the formerly Varyaman Draconics in Tahgalez. On the same token, Qyrvaggists in Heenite Ling, Vicean Sotrebar, and Varyaman Watto and the wartorn region Watto all probably are all very different in opinions and demeanor.
- Furthermore, none of these religions are native to the desert. There is still a Pagan minority is probably reeling over the fact that the old ways are being cast aside. Maybe the reason there are slightly more Draconics than Qyrvaggists or Valentics is because the people can relate more to the many Draconics that inhabited the desert city of Joppo.
- Heen is special in that it is so diverse. This is odd for a realm. Sure, a realm may have more than one religion, like Fronen. It has/had temples of Qyrvaggism, Yggdrasili, Octarianism, etc but to this day is still overwhelmingly dominated by Draconics.
- Here you don't see that. Heen's the melting pot of Beluaterra.
