Dûnthír

"Our Realm a Fortress"

- Dûnthíri motto

The High Kingdom of Dûnthír is an island realm, situated in the east of Eidora. The kingdom has long maintained a culture and society of local rulership, with strong local clans mostly working autonomously under a country-wide, elected (by the clan lords) "High King". This ancient and arguably antiquated political system becomes a pressing issue as the Age of Turmoil arrived: when some local clan lords where overthrown by their people and their territories organised into republics, it would kickstart a series of political conflicts on legality and power that would be called the Great Debate.

Age of Turmoil
With the economic collapse of the Age of Turmoil, Dûnthír was hit much like any other country. However, as each constituent clan realm functions wildly different from the next, some made it through the issues better than others - clan lords and ladies that handles the crisis well (in the eyes of their people) could rest well; those that handled it poorly drew the ire of the common folk. In 1903, this anger boiled over in a eastern clan realm, and the people overthrew their lord, proclaiming a elective republic instead. Before the High king or nearby realms were able to react, this set off a chain reaction, and many other realms would also experience revolutions, most being successful.

The clans would begin to mobilise their armies all over the kingdom, the lords to protect against insurrection, and the republics to protect against a potential attack. Seeing the threat of civil war on the horizon, the High king would quickly call for a great meeting of all lords, ladies, and republics, adamant that his sudden and widespread issue would be solved with words rather than war.

The Great Debate
The core underlying issue was wether or not any of the events after 1903 could be considered legal or not. Dûnthír society, and indeed Dûnthíri culture, is heavily regulated by sets of iron laws present since time immemorial - none of which had been written to account for the current situation, and most of which written with archaic and difficult language. As a result, the Great Debate would essentially become a long, drawn-out legal process that would ultimately reform the country in its very core.

The very first result of the Debate came in late 1904, where all newly established clan republics would affirm their loyalty to the realm. This came will all kinds of caveats and asterisks, with some of the republics indeed swearing their loyalty to the High King himself, but some only woving to uphold the integrity of the Kingdom. It was a compromise that in of itself spawned even more legal discussion, but it had at the very least averted imminent civil war, as the most burning question of all had been the political position of the republics. Despite the inconclusive wovs, the integrity of the realm had at the very least been affirmed - for now.