Tara
The History of The Great Nation 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.
Jamuga stepped down in about July (2005) and Achilles was elected as Dictator of Tara.
Abington and RedSpan are south, Falasan and ASI 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 Ithel, There 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 poored 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 Tallerium, suddenly we were short 2 allied realms. Of course Falasan and BoM/Norland noticed this oppurtinity, 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 couldnt help Tara either.
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.
At this time, September (2005) 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.
