Vladimirian Vozdh

The Vladimirian Vozdh, also called Vozdina and officially the Grand Principality of Volodymir-Korolevets, is a realm in northern Hasperia. Its capital is Korolevets.

History

For millenniums, the history of the Vozdinian nation is part of the greater tale of the primary Forest Peoples that dwelled in the Great Forest in a semi-nomadic lifestyle for numberless generations. "Vozdina" itself, as a word and concept, derives from the ancient word "Hvozdh", which means "deep forest". The Vozdinian tribes were part of the Great Migration that eventually toppled the Old Empire more than 500 years ago. This is where Vozdina truly enters history. Not advancing too deep into imperial territory like the people that would eventually inaugurate the Holy Omnican Empire, the Vozdh stayed on the forested and mountainous margins of it, in a land barely touched by imperial culture and civilisation. This era of sedentarisation also sees the development of a local alphabetand of the rise of a more unified Vozdinian culture. However Aurelianity remained marginal for centuries, as the princes wouldn't accept the superiority of a figure such as the Heliarch above their head and would fight the presence of missionnaries on their lands.

Politics

Vozdina is a collection of formerly independent principalities ruled by a Grand Prince (Veliki Knyaz) from the House of Vladimir. Even if the words of the Grand Prince and of the royal seat of Korolevets are final in terms of law and military authority, the principalities retains some degree of independence: the local princes are responsible for the upkeep of their local armies. They are also to collect their own taxes and to pay a tribute every two months to the central authorities. Bridge tolls, the gathering of salt and minning of gold and silver are royal monopolies.