The Battanian Confederacy

"From time immemorial there has been a High King of Battania, crowned with great ceremony on the sacred hill of Dunthanach. Ask any Battanian chieftain, however, whose "kingdom" he lives in, and he will look around at his hall and in his fields and his pastures, his flock and his retainers, and answer "Mine, of course." Only lately, following the example of the Empire, have the High Kings made any effort to exert their authority. "Such unruly cattle as my people require a strong herdsman's hand to steer them from the ravine and protect them from the wolf," said one recent high king, just before he was betrayed by a jealous cousin and taken in chains to the nearest imperial outpost."

The misty hills of north-western Calradia are dominated by the Battanian clans, the original inhabitants of much of the continent. Their hilltop fortresses have born witness to countless wars fought to resist outside invaders: first the Daemons of Aloth, then Empire's legions, and more recently the rising Sturgian and Vlandian kingdoms. They idolise valour, but especially like it when mixed with a bit of mischief - the cattle thief who can whisk an entire herd into the fog; the champion who dines with a rival tribe, and, regaling his hosts with an anecdote of battle, produces from his bag the skull of one of their kinsmen that he took as a souvenir.
Battanian civilization consists of loosely organized clans who originally populated most of the Calradian continent, but has been reduced to a small pocket of free territory after much of their land was conquered by the Daemons, followed by the expansion of the Calradic Empire.
The confederacy is currently ruled by High King Caladog of fen Gruffendoc.

Military

They are masters of the longbow, the night raid, the sudden wild charge out of the woods. Specialties of the Battanian warrior culture include forest warfare, longbowmen, and two-handed swordsmen who wield large war scythes and are called "Falxmen".

Demography and Population

The population of The Battanian Confedracy is divided by race as follows:

• 62% Human 17% Dwarven 13% Elvish 5% Gnomish 3% Halfling

Many of the Dwarves live alongside humans in the major mountainside cities of the major clans of the confederacy. Meanwhile the elvish population is mor prominent in the central woodlands and glades surrounding Lake Baikal.

Unbowed and Unbroken

Founding Date

1874

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Capital

Marunath

Demonym

Battanian

Leader

High King Caladog

Deities

• Aphrodicia
• Cynthia
• Eostre
• Glorum
• Herodia
• Maedhros

Related Traditions

• The Ceremony of the Lady of The Lake
• The Great Hunt

Controlled Territories

• Car Banseth
• Dunglanys
• Loch Munremair
• Marunath
• Pen Cannoc
• Seonon
• the Canocian Badlands
• The Wyldwood

Neighboring Nations

• The Calradian Empire

Peaceful cooperation

The Battanian Confederacy

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The Kingdom of the Swadians

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The Swadians and the Battanians, though viewing each other as future rivals, both are mutual beneficial in their conflicts with the Empire.
Vlandia is happy to aid the battanians with supplies and mercenaries in exchange for minerals from the mountains. In this way, both are on friendly terms while they have a mutual enemy.

Frequent War

Tsardom of the Vaegirs

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The Battanian Confederacy

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The Battanians view Vaegir lands as belonging to them by ancestry, and the Vaegirs see the Battanians as a roadblock to their continued invasions of the Empire.
They frequently fight over ownership of the Kranirog peninsula.

Frequent War

The Battanian Confederacy

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The Battanians make frequent attempts to spread their control into new parts of the empire, as they view themselves as the rightful rulers of all of Northern Calradia.
The Empire views Battania as a savage and heretical place that needs to be reconquered and cleansed.