History of Aldegar

Early History
The region that is Aldegar today was filled mostly with warring states during the beginning of recorded history. In Amuro, many city-states and small kingdoms battled each other and Rusky tribes that invaded. In Polran various tribes fought each other. They occasionally turned north and invaded the small countries in the Kemoku state and even as far as the French Principalities in Hikirena. In Somasi, tribesmen cousin to the ones in Polran fought each other and occasionally sent out ships to raid the coast. In Hikirena the first organized civilization appeared around the year 800 BCE. King Charles of the Varigosian Dynasty won the allegiance of lesser lords after his victory over bands of raiders from Somasi. He founded a kingdom near Shatsebury.

In Kemoku the many small city-states were gradually expanding. Inspired by King Charles, many left behind their traditional ways and adopted French Culture. French Language and Cuisine, based on meat and potatoes, were quickly replacing traditional Kemokian ways. Traditional Kemoku culture was based upon city states with a Patron God. The King was often the chief prophet and head of the religion. The French way of the King being a more secular figure with an established priesthood was foreign to the Kemoku. However many cities in northeastern Kemoku tossed aside their cities God's and began worshipping the French deities.

In the area around Sanctasburg, however, an event called the Kemoku revival happened. Poetry celebrating lush gardens replaced tales of warriors. The people of that area were not about to see their traditions die. This movement might have sputtered out if not for an event that happened in 710 BCE. In that year a young shepard emerged claiming he had spoken to the one true god, Ahura Mazda. He preached a doctrine that was radical at that time. It claimed there was only one true god, humans had to choose between good and evil, and that humans would be judged for eternal bliss or suffering.

With this religion, called Yazdism, Kemoku developed a unique cultural identity. Cyprus the Shah of Sanctasburg made Yazdism his domains official religion. He gathered the allegiance of several other Shahs. In the battle of Sanctas Plains Cyrus and his allies defeated a larger alliance of opposing shahs supported by the French king. He attributed this victory to AHura Mazda. He and his immediate successors spread across Aldegar.

The wild tribesmen of Polran fell beneath the Kemoku. The confederations and the tribes of Amuro, fierce lovers of independence soon became subjects to the Great Shah. The Great Shah decentralized his Empire's rule. He made sure that the rights of his subjects, as long as they paid their taxes and served in his army, were protected.

The Kemokian Empire under the Cyrian dynasty took much of the Varigosian and other smaller kingdoms territory. However, Louis the Cripple checked the Kemokian advance at the second Battle of Hyères. French Knights trapped the Horse archers and light infantry of the Kemokian Empire in front of a river and crushed them. This ushered in an era of peace as the greatly reduced Varigosian Kindgom and the Kemokian empire entered a stalemate.

While the Varigosian kingdom gained stablity from the era of peace the Kemokian empire did not. Wars of succession, weak emperors, rebellions, and usurpers all did their part ot weaken the Empire. However in 467 BC a strong Shah was able to put down all rebels and brought all Satraps back under the governments control. His name was William Carma. He was a mercenary of Somasian descent that had worked and plotted his way to the heights of power. With the situations stabilized throughout the Empire William Carma decided to invade Vargosian kingdom.

Pippin the Thunderer, the king of Vargosia knew his armies were no match for the Kemokians. He sent word to several Somasian tribes plunder in Aldegar in return for aid, the largest being the Frisians. The Frisians lived in small villages in their desert homeland. However, they had a strong sense of national identity and when the Council of Elders decided to invade mainland Aldegar at the Vargosian kings request, thousands of warriors turned out.

William Carma had to divert many of his soldiers from his invasion of Hikirena to deal with the Frisian's who's army streched nearly over the whole shore. At the battle of the Marne, Pippin the Thunderer lead a charge against the Kemokian army. Legends say he slew William Carma personally. Meanwhile the Frisians and the lesser tribes had crushed the Kemokian armies sent to fight them. With no leadership and with enemies battering down their gates, the Kemokian Empire crumbled.

The Varigosians, celebrated their victory. However, they had traded one doom for another. The Frisian and their Somasian kin had no plans on returning home. Their elders realized that the intitial wealth of plunder pailed in comparison to the wealth to be had from taxation. Their roving warbands and armies quickly subjugated the corners of the Kemokian empire. They also crushed the Varigosian Kingdom.

The Frisian Warriors invited their families to cross over into their new kingdom. In 1323 CE the Frisian Federation was announced. All of what was to be know as mainland Aldegar fell under their rule. The Frisian elders elected a king, named Edward.

The Frisiand gradually married into the local people. Their once harsh rule generally turned into a peaceful one. Trouble was just around the corner. In 1603 CE the Quasirian Tribe fell under the sway of a phrophet. Suprisingly the tribe considered the most violent by many fell under the sway of a frail blind boy. This phrophet told the Quasirians that God (they had been Christianized by missionaries gradually over the last two centuries) had made them his new chosen people. They should cross over into mainland Aldegar and crush the Frisian Empire and the Mongruls in it who had diluted Somasian blood. The Quasirians agreed with this message of conquest. Their Warlord met with the leaders of the two largest tribe confederations in Somasi the Frihet and the Aldegarians (from where the modern name of Aldegar comes from). They agreed to invade the Frisian Empire in the second major Somasian invasion.

The Somasian armies armed with both guns and swords crushed the complacent Frisians. The Quasirians, Frihet, and the Aldegarians set up their own Empire in its place. It was at first a Kingdom based on segregation of the Anglo-Saxon Somasians from the conquered people. The king gradually lost power in the face of congress and became obscure. A few attempts to restore the monarchy would take place, but none succeeded. Gradually Aldegar came to become a modern nation state with equality, liberty, and justice.

Aldegarian Empire of the One
List of Padishahs

Malachi Camara (2535-2585)

Darius Camara (2589-2593)

Adrian Nastif (2597-2615)

Second Republic of Aldegar
By the early 2700's, however, a new era was ushered in with the formation of the National Populist Party by a 20 year old young man named Joshua Snyder. At the time of the NPP's creation in 2720, Aldegar was, for the most part split between the far right wing, semi-dictatorial National Party and the far left, pacifist Green Party of Aldegar. The National Populist Party was founded on a more moderate, but still distinctively right wing political platform but more of a left-leaning economic platform.

The National Party held an obvious majority of the nation, but by 2730, the leadership of the party divided and the entire party ceased to exist almost over night. In the void that followed, the Berosian Party, Traditionalist Party, and the National Populist Party gained ground, with the Berosian Party holding the majority of the nation. The Green Party of Aldegar had the perfect chance to become the head of the nation with the National Party's fall, but due to an increasingly right wing Aldegar, as well as the formation of the People's Self-Defense and the New Whig Party as strong moderate contenders, the party began to lose ground.

Another 10 years passed with steady growth by the National Populist Party. Joshua Snyder kept his party greatly organized. This would prove to be essential in projecting the NPP to power. By 2740, the Berosian and the Traditionalist Parties fell apart, with the majority of their followers creating the Christian Democracy Party. This new party would command a vast following in Aldegar, but only for 5 years.

In 2745, Joshua Snyder was finally elected as President of Aldegar, and 3 years later in 2748, he oversaw the appointment of loyal members of his party as Premier, head of Foreign and Internal Affairs, as well as the head of the Ministry of Defense. Joshua Snyder and the National Populist Party became the most powerful machine in Aldegar since the old monarchy. In the same year, President Snyder successfully changed the national animal to the Aldegarian Eagle, which lead the way to Aldegar adopting the National Populist Party's flag and motto in 2752. That year, with the dissolution of the Christian Democracy Party and the weakening of the Green Party of Aldegar, the National Populist Party had enough power to control all legislation and usher in any law, save for constitutional amendments, that it wanted. And it did. The only parties that could even begin to stand in it's way were the People's Party for Progress and Justice (The successor party to the People's Self-Defense), and the New Whig Party, and even those two parties together couldn't stop the NPP from voting in their laws.

In 2755, however, the battle for dominance of the government was turning to the favor of the rest of the parties. Two new leftist parties, the Aldegarian People's Party and the militant communist All Aldegar Worker's Unity Front were formed, and after making alliances with the Green Party and the People's Justice Party of Aldegar (The People's Party for Progress and Justice), they took the majority of the votes from the National Populists. Not even the National Populists' close partnership with the New Whig Party could give them the majority to prevent a slow turn back towards a leftist government, but it never stopped the NPP founder Joshua Snyder from being elected to his 5th term in 2757 by the people. 5 years later, however, in 2760 the disorganization that had been plaguing the leftist parties in Aldegar for decades had proven once again to favor the National Populists, and the two new parties, the Aldegarian People's Party and the All Aldegar Worker's Unity Front began to loose their voices. Slowly but surely, the National Populists began to reenact the laws that the leftists had done away with in the past 5 years.