The year 376, the year the Talguses ran rampant within the Avaven Empire and the lands around it, seeking more land and money after succeeding the 5th king of the Avaven Empire, Marcel Ismaros was the year the state, Wracralan was founded. It was only but a small village, after one of the nobles of the Avaven Empire Dario Krauss deserted the land of the Talguses to seek an honest living that was not evident in Avaven.
This very vital noble was targeted by the Talguses, but he managed to escape. His wife Christina Talgus, one of Cesar Talgus' daughters, was killed due to her scheming with Krauss to overthrow the Talguses. Both her and Krauss disapprove of their actions of seeking more land, only to filling these lands with labor facilities to overwork the population of the Avaven Empire and to build a luxury these people can only dream of. Dario Krauss was able to take some soldiers off of the Talguses and flee from the Avaven, while the weight of his wife's death burden him like an anchor.
After being on the run for around 6 and a half months, Krauss was out of their reach and was safe for now. He settled on a huge piece of land, basically in the middle of nowhere and a lot of uncultivated land surrounding him. Krauss called this land Wracralan. It held no special meaning and was just a thought he had. This land was built upon, and with his management skills, being that he was a past noble and he had to manage Ballaeter (a province of the Avaven Empire), he was able to evolve it into a small village like environment of 5 houses in the time span of 7 months, with the help of some constructors he hired from a neighboring kingdom of his abode.
With the 300,000 Gamdos that Krauss gathered after leaving Avaven, he used it to properly maintain himself, the constructors and his companions. The caravans he snuggled from Avaven was immediately put to work, after they settled.
With his 35 companions he bring along(16 men, 19 women), alongside these 24 constructors he started to properly appoint his companions to suitable roles that fit them, taking up the role as their leader. Most women take the role as shepherds, caring for sheep and other animals around, that they bought from other lands, and some became farmers and caretakers, while most men became small time soldiers and farmers for the village. The constructors on the other hand, was always hard at work, building and renovating.
After 20 years, news of the death of the current ruler of the Avaven Empire spread like wildfire and these rumors only seek to be a temporary sweetness as people already know that one of his sons, who had unfortunately harbored the habits of Cesar Talgus himself, would succeed him, and he too was named Cesar Talgus, which gives him the title Cesar Talgus the 2nd. It is said that after Cesar Talgus and his wife, Maria Talgus became the 5th rulers of Avaven, they enacted a law which states that only the sons of the Talguses shall succeed the throne, for the name Talgus shall remain heirs of the throne until the end of time. In these times, Krauss was not privy to Talgus' death and his son succeeding him, and was working diligently to evolve Wracralan. He was able to do this successfully, making Wracralan a province level settlement. The population grew steadily to over 100 and the production grew exponentially.
Over 30 years later, old age was getting the better of Krauss and he had already had plans to pass things on to one of the kids a pair of his companions had. Talia Nohad and Griess Nohad, his two married companions, had a child Norde Nohad and he was around 29 years at this time, and the fifth oldest in Wracralan. He was then entrusted with the responsibility of Wracralan, in the event that Dario Krauss passes away.
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At this time Cesar Talgus the 2nd was also succumbing to old age and he was also able to conquer more lands and was torturing his population with work as was planned by his father the past leader. Cesar Talgus the 3rd was then given rulership and was the 7th king of Avaven, after Cesar Talgus the 2nd passed away and Norde Nohad given rulership over Wracralan after Dario Krauss' passing.
The years have past by quickly, and it was already 23 years since Norde Nohad became the ruler of Wracralan. It was now the year 450, and during that time, he was able to steadily improve the different aspects of the settlement. It now could be described as a mini kingdom where there was a small outdoor schooling system, and a couple of stalls that vendors sell to make a living and constructors working hard as ever due to the increase in population.
While all these good things are taking place, Nohad was unaware that the king of the Avaven Empire, Cesar Talgus the 3rd found out about their location and what they were up to. Talgus, aware of what he must do, started to send soldiers to scout the area. It seems that one of the residents of Wracralan, betrayed them and gave this information to Cesar Talgus and now they are planning to attack Wracralan. After weeks of scouting and infiltration, Talgus gathered that their military power were not as strong as they were expecting and led his soldiers to Wracralan.
Due to the large amount of soldiers Talgus had to lead, he manage to reach in 6 days. With a total of 500 soldiers(only a quarter of his troops) he lead them to meet up against Nohad's 200 men. This was due to Talgus not being privy to the strength of Nohad's men and if they had backup plan for an event like this. Talgus was led by a mysterious man, who showed him the way to Wracralan.
The group that Talgus sent to infiltrate Wracralan, told him that Wracralan was not heavily guarded due to the none existence of attacks on them. This meant that most of the soldiers if not all of them, are off duty and supposedly helping with other things around the settlement.
With this information, Talgus closed in on Wracralan and surrounded them. Workers that were outside the kingdom, collecting resources for building shouted, "ATTACK!", before immediately crying out in pain. Soldiers within Wracralan immediately took formation, along with some of the other none combatants, who decided to protect their settlement. When these none combatants saw the sheer number of soldiers, the dropped their weapons, shaking in fear, wile the actual soldiers took their stance. Nohad heard the commotion from where he was and rush out to see what was happening. He froze when he saw the sheer amount of men walking through, while killing his soldiers one by one. Thoughts ran wild in Nohad's head. He was asking himself if this was Talgus and how he found them. He also started to get disappointed in himself as the ruler, after Dario Krauss told him about this possibility before he died.
Without wasting any time, Talgus run towards Nohad and cleaned his head off of his body. After he did this, he used Nohad's clothing to clean his sword off and residents watching began to grovel in fear. Talgus look down at them with a stoic expression on his face. After a few minutes, he started to talk:
"This settlement shall be another one of my labor facilities, where you will work and work till you die and same for your children and other generations after that."
After he said that, he left few of his soldiers behind to clean up the mess and to put the remaining ones to work immediately, in his quest for riches as was intended by his first ancestor.
And this is when Wracralan began going through a phase of turmoil that was inevitable in this current situation.