The Holy Swadian Empire - History

For us to go forth to the whole history of Calradia, only the Swadians would be able to tell us the long truth of it all. From its first settlement from Swadii tribes in the middle of Calradia to the formation of the first empire, it was in the centre of all the conflict with the Vaegirs. From the fall of the first empire to descent from empire to Kingdom, Swadia has been at war with all the natives of Calradia.

At the current date, the Holy Swadian Empire is the current reincarnation of a “new Swadia” prophesized by bards and poets. This “new Swadia” was a Swadia they wished to return to them their old empires and the Swadia that will finally defeat their eternal enemies: the Vaegirs.

For centuries, the Ellisian Empire had been ruling over the Swadian provinces. The populace that tried to revolt, swiftly dealt with. Every revolutionary leader would be executed, and the Ellisian legions sent to deal with the rebellious population.

Early into the slow decline of the Ellisian Empire, however, the Swadians revolted. Due to extended campaigns against the southern nomadic tribes, only one legion of the Ellisian Empire was able to fight back the revolt. Numbering only three thousand soldiers, lacking proper provisions, weapons in need of maintenance, the legions were easily fought back. The new Swadian Kingdom was created, bringing forth the prophesized Swadia all have dreamed.

An army of three legions of the Ellisian Empire were established to fight back the revolutionaries, but the expedition was cancelled due to raids by the nomadic peoples to the south taking advantage of the Ellisian’s two theatres of war. The Ellisian Emperor prepared for a Swadian invasion, garrisoning Ellis and nearby castles and preparing the food stores. No such invasion came.

A few hundred years after the Swadian revolution, a threat came in from the seas. The Nords, once thought eternally wiped out from Calradia, returned with a larger force and retook their cities of Tihr and Wercheg and were destined to march on to their old capital of Sargoth. To the East, the Vaegir Kings were barely fighting off the Nords, who were inching their way closer and closer to the Rock of Rivacheg.

Sargoth was never invaded. An uneasy peace was forced by the Nords after they were driven back from the Vaegir motherland at Rivacheg, and it seemed that the Nords were driven back for the time being.

Another few centuries after the Nordic invasion, the Nords still remain in the Calradian continent, but they have been mostly unharmed. The Vaegir King was sympathetic to them, and the Swadian King merely extended his trade routes with the prosperous Nords as the Swadian Kingdom was expanding to the west.

However, the Nords took advantage. While the Swadian armies were far away dealing with the natives of their new lands, while the Vaegir King was trying to conquer back his lands after the Khergit invasion to the south, the Nordic army invaded Sargoth, and it fell within ten days. The Vaegirs were more successful, Rivacheg was never taken, and the local Nordic chieftain leading the armies was beheaded, and his standards thrown into the surf.

The Nords marched south instead, reaching Suno before they could prepare. Suno was luckier; it fended off the Nordic breaches on their walls for a full week. Sadly nothing could strengthen the garrison at Suno, the Nords surrounded the city and the food stores could last for only a month, not enough time before the Swadian army could reach Suno. The Swadian messengers rode like the wind, they stole horses from nearby villages and replaced their exhausted ones to speed the ride, they stole food from the villages and ate while they rode, and within two days the Swadian army, far in the west, was contacted and ordered to march straight for Suno.

The population of Suno was near starvation when they heard the loud war horns of the Swadian army, fighting on the plains of Suno the Nords were easily routed and pushed back. Thousands of Nords were killed, and even more were captured. Less than five hundred Nordic warriors were able to return to Sargoth.

Distraught, the Nordic king took everything he had and abandoned everything, returning to the Nordic homeland. Tihr and Sargoth were taken by the Swadians, and Wercheg by the Vaegirs.

More was to come against the Swadians. The province of Ulterior wished for independence under a different Swadian king. Citerior however wished for the two provinces to stay united. King Nibel died, barely a year before this conflict, his son was ousted by the governor of the Citerior. Ulterior assembled an army and marched for Suno, Citerior met their army and fought back. This ricochet of victories and losses made the Swadian civil war to continue for fourty-eight years. A status quo ante bellum was announced, and the two provinces were united under a Swadian Empire, the two provinces were allowed to choose their own governor through the noble houses, but their independence was limited to this.



In the 15th century of Calradia, the Ulterior declared its independence, the house of Wilhelm, the local nobility that governed the Ulterior for centuries, became the first royal house of the new “Imperial State”.

Following the independence of the Ulterior, the Nordic lands were invaded by the Laurians, a new enemy facing the Swadian Citerior. The Imperial State agreed to aid the Citerior, but the professed army never came. The Laurians never extended their reach beyond Nibelheim, their resources were depleted after the campaign, and they needed rest to resupply. During this time, the Swadian Citerior reshaped themselves. They were then turned to the Church of Calradia, they declared for a new Theocracy, with their Calradian god as the head of the state, and the emperor merely representing the head of the Swadians.

The Holy Swadian Empire, under Emperor Lothair I of Nibdomum has been created.

-Chronicler: Boomie