Itorunt (Realm)

Itorunt Diplomacy

We are in a federation with Ibladesh and Yssaria and are allied with Old Rancagua, Sirion, and Fontan. We have recently declared peace with everyone in events chronicled in the Itorunt newspaper, including peace with the long time enemies of our confederate Yssaria, the kingdom of Caligus that has been forced to surrender.

Current Status

We are currently regaining ancestral lands as part of the old region trade agreement from Ibladesh and securing these regions under our administration, as well as enjoying tournaments and efforts to capture monsters for training in our RC.

History

Itorunt is an ancient realm with a rich history. Unfortunately, we only have the middle history of Itorunt. The accounts of our ancient history has been lost to time. The modern history is yet to be recorded in detail, but we in Itorunt know it well. Although if you visit the Itorunt Informer archives I'm sure you can learn of our recent history.

Gopherman's History of Itorunt

This is Itorunt, land of the brave, an ancient realm on the southern sea in the East Island.

Itorunt's history dates back far back to the makings of the first island. While much of its history is lost, there are still those in Itorunt who have survived the worst, the thick and the thin, and if they want, they can tell history of before what I know. My first history of Itorunt was when they were allies with Ibladesh. The realm of Isadril and Ubent were involved (there is better history on the old wiki, and not on this page, but I hope to get it soon). Anyways, this was after Ubent had defeated Perden, and the Ubent empire streched all the way down to Xavax.

However, the realm of Fallangard was created, and a war between Itorunt, and Fallangard was started. TK Jones, questionably the most influential TL in Itorunt's history, made an agreement when he was king that Itorunt would fight a war with Fallangard one on one, with no outside intervetion. Now it was during this long war that I entered the realm (and the game). After months of fighting, a situation developed (and once again, details are not to be found here, but are to be found elsewhere) whereby Ubent attacked Ibladesh for fear of Ibladesh, Itorunt's long time ally, joining in with Itorunt against Fallangard. I think this was because TK had gotten Fallangard to join Itorunt, instead of fight them, but that may have happened after the Ubent attack.

I still remember, the food code was new, and I was a trader, Ibladesh was starving, and due to the primitive food code Ubent won the battle in a matter of days. I could simply not get enough food to Ibladesh in time, and they city's stats dropped like a rock, and Ibladesh was quickly fourced into surrender, and Ubent continued their longstanding tradition of setting up "sister" realms, much like Perden, and Fallangard, where they changed the allances to their side, but left the realm to govern themselves. While this ensures that Ubent will never be destroyed, as their sister realm's actions will never fall on Ubent, the sister realms will eventually come around, as you shall see.

Anyways, Ibladesh turned on Itorunt, and under Ubent's control, attacked. Fallangard joined Itorunt, but Perden and Caligus quickly came to Ubent's aid. With the combined largest fource ever seen on the island, destroyed Fallangard, and striking Isadril, crushed the large fource defending the city.

Fallangard's regons were quickly taken by Ubent, all the way down to Xavax, and Ibladesh picked up Itor Boss and Aeng in the aftermath. TK Jones was seriously wounded, as he led a last frantic charge to Isadril to get to the city before the seige, but was cought one turn too late, and the large army crushed him.

The rulership was up for grabs, and it could have gone to 15 different people, thats how many great TL's that could rule there are, Jabeer, the Nyles, Esprite, Ryandal, Tommy, just to name a few. However the public choice was me, the writer, Gopherman. I remember the day, I was gone for the day, and hadn't logged in for 2 turns, so I log in, and I was shocked!

Anyways, I then started the long uphill battle to save Itorunt from certon destruction. The closest allied realm was Fontan, or Coimbra, it was Itorunt against Caligus, Perden, Ibladesh, and Ubent. They should have finished us off quickly, and next, we never would have lasted, but they didn't. Perden left to go aid Oligarch once again, you can talk to Doc about that one, and Caligus and Ubent were left to retake what was slimmly remaining of Fallangard. However, godly intervention came. A new hero from the west arrived in Isadril, and using the power of the people created a new realm, the realm of Yssaria in the ashes of Isadril. And so began my story of peace, and saving the two realms.

I knew instantly that there was a link between Yssaria and Itorunt, and I vowed to do whatever I could to save the realm from the evil Bethe, tyrrant of Ubent. And I gave a passionate speach, probably (at least I think so) the most important speach in the history of the island, from Itorunt's and mine, point of view. I got Yamajima, the ruler of Perden to vow to protect Yssaria, and not to destroy it, like Bethe and Ubent wanted. Ubent showed who was really incharge, by simply ignoring Perden's wishes. Yamajima relized that there was nothing left for him to do, his council all had family members in Ubent (another think Doc can rant at better then I can), and he simply had no authority. He then resigned from the game, ending that chapter in Perden's involvement with the south.

This then began a near year long battle against Ibladesh. All this time, I spent time trying to convince numerous Ubent, and Ibladesh rulers to sign a peace with Itorunt, through Minerva, Mistress A. (sorry I destroyed that name...), now Mistress A was a great ruler, though she wasn't perminate. She did understand, and started me off on the long road. As for Ubent, just when I convinsed Bethe to swich, he vanished, never to be heard from again. I then worked on Quill? Was it Quill, I cannot remember the order, but eventually it moved to Ioshus. And finally, one of the greatest rulers, just wonderfull, was Sorcha. Understanding, charasmatic, and devoted to our cause, I spent months trying to open her eyes to the truth, Itorunt was not the villan, it was Ubent, who attacked Ibladesh, Itorunt's long time friend. The truth came out, through countless eye witnesses, even through God Thooommaas himself. Anyways, I finally convinced her to work to bring our realms closer, and through the help of Yssaria, who had grown, we joined together, in the Southern Allance, and finally attacked the dictator Ioshus (who OOC is great guy). Ubent quickly fell, and the begged Perden for help, Perden obliged, but not entirely willangly. A new ruler came to Ubent, and he brought sweeping change, and now we fight together against Perden, and Yssaria against Caligus.

We shall be victorious, we have the strength in numbers, and the strength in our hearts. Eleran, I love ya man! Lol, you too Sorcha.

I would also like to remind everyone that Itorunt is the ONLY realm on the ENTIRE East Island that is not offically at war with anyone. We have OK relations with every realm, and we are the most peacefull realm on the island, I like to promote peace, even with our enemies.

Thanks, Gopherman--King of Itorunt

Post-Gopherman History

Itorunt changed some when Gopherman was wounded and Emanuel was elected King. In an effort to show Perdan and Ibladesh that Itorunt was serious about its obligations to our ally Ibladesh we declared a state of war with Perdan. Ibladesh had consistantly lost battles against our common enemy Perdan. Things changed for the better and Ibladesh after much difficulty and help from our northern allies we were able to defeat Perdan for good. We remain strong allies with Yssaria. Itorunt no longer desires to remain peacefull with its enemies and will persecute them with all of its might.

Emanuel--King of Itorunt

This has yet again changed. We remain peaceful. There was a pseudo-rebellion and Emanuel stepped down. TK Jones was re-elected and we were restoring peaceful relations until Ubent declared war on us.

The war ended well with Perdan and Itorunt was able to gain significant grounds. The New King Lucian admist some protest moved the Capital from Itorunt to Semall to help in the war. Shortly after the capital move the war ended.

- Aurum Bishamon
Modified by - Emanual Prophet of the Triumvirate

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• The Itorunt Informer

Religions of Itorunt

• The Triumvirate
  Three goddesses that represent aspects that Itorunt holds dear. They also represent the seasons and winds from a compass point. There is a fourth goddess, known as the Crone, who is not usually directly worshiped, as she holds negative aspects.
  
  • Elysia represents Spring and the East. Her symbol is a torch which warms the cold away. She is the youngest and stands for enlightenment and truth. Truth and honesty shine forth, but also self-discovery and curiosity. The hopefulness of youth.
    
  • Aulysia the South wind is a warrior goddess. She represents summer, when most wars are held. She is middle-aged and strong. Her symbols are the shield, sword, and spear. She represents vanquishing evil. Her shield protects all and her weapons reach far.
    
  • Zama the West wind is a matronly figure; she represents fall and the harvest. Her symbols are the sickle and scales. The scales represent the accounting of things for much financial transactions happen at harvest time, and the sickle for the harvest. The areas of the mind, diplomacy, trading, and negotiations are her area of expertise.
    
  • Ballisa the North wind, also known as the Crone, controls the north wind that brings the cold of winter. She adds mystery to the religion and stands for the unknown. The Crone is the Queen of the Underworld and cares for little besides those that fall under her realm. Until they are dead, she has little use for them. Her priests usually act to appease her in the winter months and pray for the undead to quiet.
    
    

Each goddess represents specific aspects with real life attachments. The cycle of the seasons and life are represented. The mystic symbols are the torch of enlightenment, the sword and shield of war, and the scales of balance. All represent aspects that we hold dear. General followers worship each aspect of the four winds equally, and the first rank of priesthood balances each of the goddesses. Higher-ranking priests begin to specialize their teachings into one aspect of the four. Finally, the Prophet of the four completes the cycle and worships all four again with equality.

The Lost Scrolls of the Triumvirate were found by Emanuel of Itorunt. Emanuel said he was traveling to do bureaucratic work in Dayr when he saw a previously-sunken cave in the region of Zamor. Out of curiosity, he and his squire ventured up to the cave. Emanuel and his squire saw nothing in the shallow cave and decided to set up camp. During the night, Emanuel had a dream in which he saw four women. One was young and beautiful; holding a torch, she beckoned for Emanuel to come to the back of the cave. She held her torch up against the back of the cave, and Emanuel could see that there was once a shelf in the cave. The woman pointed at the ground and Emanuel could see a tunnel with handholds cut into the rock. There were three women at the bottom of the tunnel, and they gestured for him to climb down. Emanuel climbed down into the lost Library of the Triumvirate. Emanuel began to speak to the women, but suddenly was awakened by his squire. The cave was once again cold and dark. Morning was on the horizon, and Emanuel explained his dream to his squire while they built a fire to cook breakfast and warm themselves. Emanuel and his squire discovered that indeed the tunnel existed, but it needed to be dug out. Emanuel and his squire returned to Semall and bought digging equipment. They returned to Zamor and excavated the tunnel, unearthing the forgotten scrolls of the Triumvirate. Emanuel translated all of the scrolls, and now spring has finally arrived for the Triumvirate in Itorunt.

Guilds

• Order of the Doughnuts
  
  • Semall
• Band of the Savage Hand (All but dead)
  
  • Ibladesh (Itorunt has several nobles in the guild, but we have no guildhouses within realm's borders)
• Church of Oc Lu Pesh
  
  • Oc Lu Pesh (Itorunt has several nobles in the guild, but we have no guildhouses within the realm's borders)
• Itorunt's Royal Guild
  
  • Itorunt, Semall
• Soul of Itorunt
  
  • Semall
• Order of the White Shield
  • Xavax, Ejarr Puutl

Fallen Heroes

A record of Itorunt's heroes that have fallen in battle fighting bravely for our realm.

• Itorunt's Fallen Heroes

Hall of Fame

Currently both Divisions have a Hall of Fame. Talk to your Division Leaders for updated Hall of Fame records.

• Division I Hall of Fame
• Division II Hall of Fame
• Itorunt Hall of Fame

Itorunt

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Continent / Island	East Continent
Capital	Semall
Largest City	Itorunt
Government System King High Marshal Arch Priest Royal Treasurer	Monarchy Lucian Wilfred Lodius Manfred
Region Numbers	15
Population	176125 (4th)