Thure

Thure, also called Turiana, was an independent Arldom. It bordered the Archadian Empire, Whitehaven, which was its vassal, and Blackrode.

History

During the Great Inner Sea War, Ragnar Firebeard led the country to war with the Archadian Empire to annex Praxidea and Cecasandria. After victory in this war, Thure's men of power suddenly found themselves the masters of large swathes of fertile soil. Soon after the Imperial Spring, Thure fought a minor conflict with Blackrode, taking tribute. Despite being one of Thure's golden ages, with the decline of the old world abroad, trade became less and less profitable and, at the same time, Nosamo's navy ruled the sea and enforced the ban on piracy. Slowly, Thurian raiders and seafarers became farmers and artists. As the Solarian faith began to spread, the Thurian way of life was put to an end - the people no longer following the aggressive propagation of warfare by the Thurian gods.

In around 650 AIC, disaster struck. As if to punish the old Thurian capital for being the only town not yet having renounced the old gods, pestilence broke out in Thure, at the heart of the trade node of an entire region. More than three quarters of the population perished in agony, peasants and nobles alike. Rudwik the Wise recognized the nature of this threat and closed city gates as well as the harbor, thus shutting off traffic into and out of Thure and thereby preventing the further spreading of the plague. But to the simple people on the street it was a sign of the Solarian god that those who do not follow him will get wiped from his world. The big fire of 703 AIC, only one year after the pestilence receded, put an end to the city. There were not enough people left to rebuild what was lost. Cecasandria was separated from the older Thurian territories and developed its own culture. The towns that had lived in the shadow of Thure for many centuries had no interest in paying for its revival.

Throughout much of the Great Migration, Germans were settling in Thurian territories. By around 785 AIC, the old viking way of life was completely gone. The new burgher elite, well educated and following Solarianism, were inspired by the successes of the Tor Ardwen Sotiranity and eventually launched their own rebellion against the Heliarchy which went on to become the Karlsbund.