Founding of the Principality of Thessalon

Founding

The Principality of Thessalon is one of the three Crusader States located in southern Ezura, specifically the Girded Valley. Though it was second to settle the region after Argosia, it has occupied its realm for more than five centuries. During this time it has grown and annexed some of Argosia's former river territory on its northern border.

The Crusader States are three semi-autonomous lordships operating in the Girded Valley in the south of Ezura. They were the natural evolution of the Crusade, a desperate show of force by the kingdoms of Albion to prove their valour and might in the eyes of Danu, Mother of Man, after the fall of the Empire. It was also a show of unity, as well as a land grab of both materials and resources, not to mention man power. The people of the Damaran, native humans of southern Ezura, were to be converted and preferably recruited into either society or the armies that made up the Crusade. Any who resisted were crucified without mercy, henceforth named the 'Crusade'. The Road of Crosses still bears the signs of brutality of the first crusaders today, with the skeletons of the innocent still hanging off their cross, exposed over centuries to the sun of Danu until they are naught but dust.