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Qwert · 10-21-2021, 03:08 PM

These are the major historical events in Peonic-Sedunnic history and other important events that affected the two nations' common history. Comments, questions? Post here! @Hammerstar, I went ahead and posted our draft (from 2017, that's crazy Oops

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1442s: Pirates and Seafarers of the Feng Dynasty (predecessor of Huawan) heard a navy from a faraway land, Empress Reina Taizong orders the navy to search for the nation

1450s: Feng Ships landed at Sedunn carrying an expedition force and chartists. The Feng Dynasty deployed vassals to the Sedunnic King, offering silk and tea as a peace offering. Goods are exchanged.

1590s: Feng Merchants provided exotic goods to Sedunn and vice versa. Piracy towards Sedunnic merchant ships stood down.

Early 1600s: Exchange of goods on a larger and more controlled scale.

1640s: Charts and Maps are shared between Sedunn and the Feng Dynasty. Relations grow warm.

1665s: Exchange of technology is done between the nations. Emperor Qin Taizong expects the flourishment of Feng-Sedunnic relations. Feng Alternative medicine flourished in Sedunnic trade cities. A Sedunnic trade station is constructed.

1685: Sedunnic Culture is taken in by the Feng Dynasty, those of upper class take a liking of Sedunnic culture, wearing its clothes and speaking its language. Sedunnic of influence grows.

1695: Emperor Tang Taizong is proclaimed Emperor, succeeding his father Qin Taizong as Overlord.

1700s: Sedunnic shipbuilding puts its timber industry under heavy strain, imposing a severe threat of deforestation. To save its forests, and to maintain the ever expanding shipbuilding industry, Sedunn starts to look across the ocean for timber.

1705: Emperor Tang Taizong offers Sedunn wood for shipbuilding, which is still in shortage in Sedunn. Sedunn starts purchasing wood at high prices. People living off the woods are neglected.

1710: Emperor Tang Taizong decides to increase wood production by deforesting more Feng forests. Prompting further dislike from the people. Both Sedunnic and Feng navies grow as a result.

1712: Peaceful protests are made to the Feng Dynasty. Emperor Taizong decides to ignore pleas of the people and continue to produce timber, especially in the Forests of Zakariya and the Eterna Forests. Emperor Taizong gives monetary compensations to the peasants, the people accepts, but relations between them deteriorates from dislike to hate.

1714: With backing from the Sedunnic king, Emperor Taizong secretly orders The Sacred Forests and Heaven’s Trees to be cut down. This sparks outrage, as these two forests are considered sacred.

1715: Violent Protests begin, Emperor Taizong responds with force with official backing and aid from the King of Sedunn. Secret sabotages are carried out by the people of Aweiqinna of the Emperor’s lumbering expeditions to protect the Heaven’s Trees.

1716: A massacre happens in the village of Āwéiqínnà due to Emperor Taizong ordering to rout the villagers out. Sparked by several religious leaders, intellectuals and soldiers, numerous rebellions occur in the major towns. Emperor Taizong requests aid from Sedunn. The Sedunnic king personally provides aid to terminate the rebels, but the Sedunnic state remains neutral.

1717: Rebel leaders at Lian, Yin, Mudan and ZeShui unite. The four core leaders take the name Sìtiānwáng to define the unity of leaders, and take the name Huawang as the name of the rebellion, which would later become the official name of the Peocracy. They fight by taking down government buildings and route royal forces, forcing them to retreat to the capital WeiSheng.

1718: The Sedunnic trade contingent vows their allegiance to the Emperor and joins the fight against the rebels. The rebels respond by capturing and driving off the Sedunnic people. This angers the Sedunnic King, prompting him to provide more military aid including several military advisors and weapons (including artillery) and soldiers.

1719: The greatest defeat of Royal forces comes in the battle of MuShu, when a majority of royal forces and Sedunnic support expeditions are destroyed and captured. At the same time, ZeShui Rebel Leader and Pirate King, Gao Feng, blocks off Sedunnic shipping routes that were carrying weapons and war equipment, blocking off aid in the river delta. The Sedunnic state starts seeking new trade partners, but the king does not back down. He is allowed to continue because of Sedunnic laws granting him extensive personal liberties and immunity.

1720: Rebel forces march into WeiSheng, where Emperor Taizong makes his last stand. The emperor is toppled and is sentenced to beheading. The Taizong family is sent to house imprisonment. Rebel flags fly over the Royal Palace. A period of anarchy begins and the state is known as Huawang. Rebel leaders discuss the fate of the Sedunnic contingent expedition.

1721: A Sedunnic military envoy is sent by the Sedunnic king to meet the four leaders. He urges the rebels to not underestimate the power of Sedunn, which is "far more advanced than the Rebels", even going as far as asking for renewing the timber trade deal and tribute to the King of Sedunn. Rebel Leader Guan Yu of Lian cuts the ears of the emissary with a knife, saying: "the King's request is so ridiculous even his emissary's ears fell off after hearing it". This prompts the beheading of several Sedunnic military advisors along with several individuals that committed most heinous crimes against the people. The rest are sent back to Sedunn, along with them are several members of the Feng upper class that favoured Emperor Taizong, who had been sentenced to exile. Huawang breaks all diplomatic contacts with Sedunn.

1722: Huawang decides to rebuild its military and nation and seeks new trade partners through expedition efforts up north. Yin Rebel Leader Mangling Mangtsen becomes the leader of the state, with Gao Feng as its High Commodore, Guan Yu as the High General and Ming-Na Wen (Rebel Leader of Mudan) became Minister of the Interior.

1730: Huawang pirates takes control of areas in modern day Arnchow, setting up a trading outpost to the far northeast. Huawang is able to expand its naval and pirate forces by doing this.

1745: Piracy escalates in the South Pacific Ocean, Huawang pirates are main contributors. Gao Feng passes away, and another pirate takes the place as High Commodore, Gao Feng’s daughter Shao Yan (age 18 at that time). Huawang becomes a great power, expanding its influence, unlike Taizong, under Mangsten and her further successors, grater care is taken when extracting natural resources.

1746-1755: Under her own banner, Shao Yan is a respected and feared pirate. Her bands of pirates embark on a campaign to dominate the South Pacific Sea, coming into conflict with the major seafaring nations. By 1755 at the age of 28, she is considered to be the most successful female pirate and one of the world's most powerful pirates.

1759: To combat the ever growing piracy, Sedunn challenges Huawang and the pirates of Shao Yan by flaunting their military might and by increasing security in trans-Pacific trade. Huawang responds by urging pirates to continue pestering the trans-Pacific trade, rallying pirates against the Sedunnic cause.

1759-1771: Karnetvor joins Sedunn to crack down on the piracy. Combat between pirates and the Sedunno-Karnetian navies increases in intensity. Sedunn hires privateers to attack Huawang merchant ships in the north.

1761: Rebel Leader Mangsten passes away, Huawang rule is given to Shao Yan. Under her rule, the nation proclaims the transition from from anarchy to a Peocracy. Shao Yan takes the title "The Peony", and proclaims the state to be known as Huawan, making her one of the founders of the Peocracy. Piracy escalates under The Peony. Sedunn and its allies urge the rejection of Peonic sovereignty, accusing it of being "simply a gathering of thieves and pirates".

1765: As tensions escalate, a surprising event occures when a Peonic Pirate Lord and sister of Shao Yan, Shao Feng, falls in love with a Sedunnic naval captain called Mats Bakkallu. Their marriage is challenged by both sides, but it inspires delegations from both sides to negotiate a ten year armistice between the Peonic navy and pirates and Sedunnic and Karnetian navies.

1765-1774: During the armistice, The Peony often sends gifts and exchanged letters with the new Sedunnic King, trying to mend the devastated relation.

1775: The Peony and King Poljier II meet to negotiate a settlement. Both nations agree to end hostilities. Peonic pirates are to stop terrorizing the South Pacific Ocean, in exchange for monetary compensation for the losses in the revolution. There is also to be an an exchange of prisoners, as well as the official recognition of the Peonic government from Sedunn. Relations normalise. The Peocracy continues with its piracy outside the agreed regions.

1914-1915: An increase in a vermin infestation causes food production in The Peocracy to decline. The Peony orders a swift burning of infested lands to curb the vermins, burning several farmlands in the process, and reducing food supplies while increasing its prices threefold. An accident in the national food storage system causes the rice and wheat supplies to severely decrease, initiating the infamous "Bug Famine". Trust in the Peony goes down, and The Peony immediately sends emissaries and merchants to negotiate a food deal. The Peony is willing to trade any raw materials in the state in exchange for an emergency supply of food until the Famine is over. Peonic Pirates try to tip the famine scales as well by increasing their fishing prospects as well.

1915-1916: The Empire of Ubesii declares war on Sedunn after Sedunn declined an ultimatum to give up the city of Loennvem to Ubesii, attempting to combat the fierce Sedunnic competition for trade and power in the Mediterranean Sea. The Sedunnic government looks for additional supplies of coal to fuel its navy in order to maintain the intensity of the operations. With Sedunn having a high production and supply of foodstuffs, and Huawan having a surplus of coal, an agreement is made to exchange these vital goods. However, with the majority of its fleet directly engaged in the war against the Empire of Ubesii, Sedunn finds itself unable to protect the transports crossing the Pacific Ocean. Therefore it is included in the agreement that the Peocracy also shall protect Sedunnic ships through its pirates.

1916: The Bug famine is over, and relations between states grow better.

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