Tara/History

History of Tara

Years ago, The Cagilan Empire had grown big, maybe too big. At the same time a lot of Troop Leaders' ego had grown and they were aiming to become king of something. Then Duke of Tarasac, Jamuga saw that his time had come, he called Tarasac off from the Cagilan Empire. Shortly many ex-Cagilan Empire warriors joined under Taras flag. Cagilan Empire and Tara have always had good relations between them because most Taran warriors were good friends with old veterans of the Cagilan Empire.

From the very beginning Tara has been warring, there have not been many weeks that Tara has not been involved in wars, and usually these wars have been fought on our borders.

Tara grew rapidly, Tara and her allies marched and rampaged on south and destroyed a realm known as Lamar. Carelia is now about where Lamar used to be.

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Jamuga stepped down in about July (2005) and Achilles was elected as Dictator of Tara.

Abington and Redspan are south, Falasan and Ash Sea Islands are north and east. These realms have been Tara's enemies for some time. Now things have changed, we can say that first time in Taran history, Tara has been beaten, beaten by internal betrayals and external wars causing some of our allies to look after their own realms and leaving Tara for short times alone, but not always, just enough to cause us to pull out of Aja.

Our first external betrayal came when RedSpan betrayed CE, Carelia and Tara and signed an alliance with Abington, ASI and Falasan as well as Minas Ithil, their motives unclear save that they claimed no support from CE and her allies.

Our first internal betrayal was Ari - Executor of Tara, who attempted to create a rebellion, a nation by itself using Foda as his base. He had lost faith in our future, and claimed to help Tara by suceding Foda. That was thwarted before it ever got off the ground. Then, came Victor - Duke of Sullenport, who in an argument over his role in Tara surrendered Sullenport to ASI, landing a devistating blow to Tara's income and property rights. Then came Leonid, who, in defense of his brother, Victor, cursed Tyrant Achilles and swore vengence, trying to cause a rebellion using words, but was also thwarted by the brave soldiers of Tara in their defense of their Tyrant. Then shortly there-after Tuchanon IV was created, and Est Is and Edvard the Deacon - Executor of Tara joined that realm and left Tara. Tara had made a valiant effort to relocate their capital to Sullenport, and made it to their very gates. But, it was one day too late, as Abington forces poured into Sullenport, blocking Tara and her allies from entering. Our armies and our allies armies had had a string of victories in our march south and it had taken it's toll on our valiant, courageous army. We had to fall back to Aja. On our return trip, Dagger, a troop leader of Tara informed our enemies of our troop movements, and Tara quickly changed movements, causing Dagger and Leonid to get hit by the enemy forces in a fake order designed to through our enemy off. As we returned to Aja, Achilles decided to fall back to Aja and negotiate peace with ASI in exchange for Aja.

Part of our allies were distracted and could not come to our aide. Darka started a war against Talerium, suddenly we were short 2 allied realms. Of course Falasan and Barony of Makar/Norland noticed this opportunity, Falasan broke all contracts made with them and began to invade Tara's lands along with ASI. BoM/Norland attacked Eston, so Eston was tied up to the north and couldn’t help Tara either.

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Tara has always been under strong Tyrants, which of course from time to time has caused some internal issues, but Tara has always survived.

Taras time will come again, we had far too many internal issues to fight an external war.

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Historical Timeline

2005

September

• Tara has fallen back to 4 regions in and around Foda. Sorting out our internal conflicts so that one day, when the time is right, we may rise again to greatness

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October

• Tara joined forces with Abington, Redspan, Carelia, Cagilan Empire, Darka and Telerium in one of the largest alliances in the history of Atamara. The forces we are fighting are Falasan, Minas Ithil, Ash Sea Islands and Drachenwald

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November

• 3rd - Si Ju Jarugi from the Petterson family in Drachenwald attempted to assasinate Achilles of Tara. While Achilles was getting ready to go to sleep, the lowly infiltrator snuck into his quarters and was able to stab him twice, seriously wounding him and removing him as Dictator
• 4th - The great Hakki, one of Tara's oldest members was elected ruler
• 9th - Hakki stepped down as ruler, which called for another Realm Wide election for the new Tyrant of Tara
• 10th - Achilles was re-elected Tyrant of Tara with 70% of the votes
• 28th - Tara was able to finally take over Jagla and is working to get the region under control

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December

• Cagalin Empire, Tara and Darakan forces stormed Tarasac and were able to defeat the Drachenwald and Falasan forces.
• 9th - Cagilan Empire has begun a Brutal Take Over of Tarasac
• Tara was able to gain control of Chagasu, a former region of Falasan

2006

January

• 6th - Tara has initiated a Take Over of Nazgorn. A region in Falasan. Darka and CE forces joined in Nazgorn with a combined Combat Strength of around 35K
• 10th - Tara finally took control of Nazgorn, and the region was quickly brought up to Core
• 20th - A letter was intercepted from Aramil of Carelia planning the a sneak attack and the destruction of Tara. Achilles, Dictator of Tara immediately challanged Carelia, Redspan and Abington. Their responses confirmed that a plan of attack was in the works
• 22nd - Tara reduced relations to Redspan and Carelia to Neutral

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February

• 3rd - Tara declares war on Redspan
• 8th - Tara take Meldeen
• 9th - Tara declares war on Abington
• 10th - Tara signs cease fire with Falasan
• 11th - Tara gives Chagasu to Falasan

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History of Leadership

Dates are to the best of our ability to gather

Jamuga was the first Great Tyrant of Tara 04/03/2003 (creation of Tara)

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Wilhelm Pitkämiekka was elected 12/15/2003 to 01/15/2004 (retired)

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Max Pitkämiekka followed on 08/08/2004 and stepped down 05/05/2005 reigned for a long time

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Gil'derun was then elected

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Jamuga was re-elected then stepped down

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Achilles was then elected on 06/28/2005

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Hakki was elected on 11/04/2005

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Achilles was re-elected on 11/10/2005 after Hakki stepped down

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