>>6087012>Name: Ordalan>Colour: Blue>Capital: Sturnes>Leader: Queen Leutgard Siglinda>Government: Elective Monarchy>Race: Nix(en), humans cursed with weak males, thus women have to pick up the slack.Once mighty warriors, a curse renders them unable to have strong sons and cannot interbreed with other humans. Women have thus taken over all the jobs, as best they can.
>Religion: Orda Nixglau. A pantheon of 4 gods, but the two war gods are in conflict.The Nixen had 3 gods before the Tellden conquered them, two were syncretised into Diloter (wine, plenty) and Hilda (humility, death), but Schwaerz (fire, war) became a symbol of the old ways. Thus Janos (heavens, war) became a symbol of Tellden ways, opposing Schwaerz.
>Culture: Early Merovingian aesthetic. Highly pious.>History:The Nixian Tribes were mighty warriors, and though the Telldan Republic defeated them, they took to recruiting their men as auxiliaries. As the Republic became the Telldan Empire they had become reliant on the Nixen, their own people growing soft. But during one of their campaigns, a terrible curse was put on the Nixen, so they may no longer bear sons. When the Empire noticed, they raised their levy, and with a series of aggressive wars sought to eliminate all their rivals. But a new enemy struck, razing the Empire's greatest cities, ensuring the Empire's fall. The Nixian warriors would keep fighting, but with no Empire to fight for, they soon started their long walk home.
When the Empire fell, the neighbouring barbarians invaded the Nixian lands, but realizing their inability to bear sons, they exterminated any Nix they caught. This put the Nixen into a war for survival, and without any new sons for the army, women started being levied instead. It was a losing battle until the veterans of the Empire returned, but when they captured any barbarians, they repaid them in kind, slaughtering them all.
The war killed so many people that the dead started to rise, as necromancers were drawn to the death. With this, the barbarian invaders fled, while the Nixen fought, even as their Empire veterans were becoming too old to keep fighting. When the last of the dead wes put to rest, warchief Leutgard Siglinda called an assembly of the Nix chiefs. By unanimous vote they agreed to unite, forming Ordalan, and the warchief was of course chosen as queen. Together they started the long process of rebuilding.
