Prologue
During the War, the Front became a byword for mud, misery and suffering. Within 3 years, millions of men on both sides were killed in a series of near-suicidal offensives in northern Jordania, but the situation on the ground remained deadlocked. Suddenly the Belarian army attacked after 3 years of war once more with an overwhelming force nobody on the Jordanian side had expected. The Belarians conquered city after city after city not even giving the Jordanians the chance to regroup. Because of the anger the Belarians had after fighting for 3 years they took revenge by looting killing and raping everything they saw. They killed, looted and raped until they reached the Jordanian capital Ammar and the Jordanian king sued for peace.
The peace treaty was a humiliation for the Jordanians losing the resource rich province of Daria named after King Darius the Great who made the Jordania a power to be reckoned with. Jordania also had to give away their fleet to the Belarians because if the was to be destroyed before the Belarians could get a hand on it, the capital Ammar would be annihilated not a single person to be left alive.
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After the war because the country was destroyed the crop yield was at record low starving thousends of people. Also disease spread like wild fire killing thousends more. All the while the king did nothing but protect himself and those most loyal to him not caring about what the populace had to deal with every single day. Hoping to not also catch the disdease which was ravageing the country.
That was moment the remainder of the army said enough is enough commiting a coup d'etat and putting the kings exiled 29 year old nephew on the throne who was much more capable than anyone expected. He even brought along a team of close friends, confidants and advisors. Starting reforms as soon as he was inaugurated. The new king, Darius V, vowed that in his lifetime the country would regain its former glory under Darius the Great and that he would destroy the Belarian kingdom.
The same day king Darius V was inaugurated something else, which was at the time insignificant, happened. In a small town a few hundred kilometers away a baby boy was born this boy would help change his countries history for Generations to come. This boy was named Arslan.