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Amazons knights of the rural nobility from Angster -the old amazonian city of Angstros of old-, in the High Alfos region, by the time of the early Second War of the Power, as Priva had become part of the Monastic State of Nortender. By then, the Privans had largely adopted weseurian armour and equipment.

The Amazon Queendom of Priva was a human amazon state that originated in northwestern Polforia, in the western shores of the Hieyokscream Bay at the 21 century a.a.H (After the Apparition of Humanity). For long the hegemonic power among the Amazon Tribes, this human state would be the first to be attacked during the First War of the Power (2203-2223 a.a.H) by the Dark Legions of Demons and their amazon allies of the Helzar Empire.

After the defeat of the demons and the collapse of the Helzar Empire, the former amazon queendom was reorganised in the Duchy of Priva, which held much closer relations to the human weseurian Five Kingdoms of the Northwest: example of this was the conversion to Karentian Christianity at the 2254 a.a.H.

The conversion of Priva to Christianity, soon the Duchy had conflicts with their pagan and demon-worshipping amazon neighbours, while due the cultural differences with the Christian human kingdoms of the North West will be the relations as well be strained. This would lead to skirmishes and war with Pagan Amazons, particularly the Helzar tribes, who had united in opposition to Priva.

With the wars against the Helzar Tribes, in 2296 a.a.H, Connie I, Duchess of Priva appealed to the Knights of the Order of Nortender to defend her borders and subdue the pagan Hieyokscream amazons, allowing the Knights use of Hieyokscream as a base for their campaign:
However, the rise of power of the Order of Nortender will be the downfall of the Duchy of Priva: By the decade of the 2340, it had lost almost all autonomy, and while there will be some amazon rebellions, it will become an integral part of the Monastic State of Nortender .

This had been a gradual process. In 2315 a.a.H, as the Bishopric of Cverri fell in the hands of the Order, this was considered unacceptable by the Privan nobility, but rather than open revolt, the weakened duchess and high nobility of Priva seeked a solution in the Treaty of Cverri, in which the nobles that submitted to Nortender had many of their privileges affirmed, which established a modus vivendi for the Order, Priva and the Highland tribes of Amazons:

Peace that was broken in the revolts of the 2320-2343 a.a.H, revolts that were initially very succesful: so successful, that planted the seed of their failure, as the loss of a common enemy in Nortender divided the tribes of the Highlands and Privans, division which we later used by Nortender, who enjoyed Karentian support and due the compromise reached by christian amazon nobles. By the 2343, after the successful repression of the last major amazon uprisings and the official surrendering of the new duchess and high nobility of Priva, Nortender encroached over most of former Priva, with the exception of a small rump state that was little more than a Nortendi puppet. Much of the amazon nobility that survived the uprisings emigrated or were resettled, and many free amazons lost their rights.

The amazon noblewomen who remained after the Uprisings were more closely allied with the weseuros landowners and gradually assimilated: After 50 years of warfare and brutal conquest the end result meant most of the amazon tribes that resisted were either killed or deported.
To make up for losses from diseases, plagues and to replace the partially exterminated native population -and as long term to strengthen the weseuros elements- the Order encouraged the immigration of colonists from both the five kingdoms (mostly Hunclech, Sargonic and Degolandic) and Navatiak, and from the failed colonies in Polforia, which were being hard-pressed by demonic dark legion remnants.
The colonists included nobles, burghers, and peasants, and the surviving amazons and kdaimons were gradually assimilated. The settlers founded numerous towns and cities on former amazon and kdaimon settlements. The Order itself built a number of castles from which it could defeat uprisings of amazons and natives, as well as continue its attacks on the demonic remnants of Dol-Nur , Khar-bad and Tempo-katzooine , with which the Order was often at war during the 2300-2400.
The final nail to the coffin of the Duchy of Priva was after the death of the duchess Connie IV without succession, hhe rump Privan duchy was finally incorporated formally into the lands of the Order of Nortender at the 2386 (in the map, dark red)
While Nortender had come to rule, directly or indirectly, all the lands of the western Hieyokscream Bay , things were far from perfect.
The cities that had grow into thriving trading centres wanted their political power recognised, and to be granted charters by the Maestre of the Sword of Nortender, who rejected these demands, as was seen as key the tax revenue from them for further expansion plans of the order eastwards, to complete the conquest of the lands around the Hieyokscream Bay.
Meanwhile, the peasants felt oppressed by abuses of the order:
So, while the Order launched some ambitious raids deep into the east of Hieyokscream, began to erupt rebellions.
While the peasants revolts were crashed, the great cities were granted the charters and free city status they demanded.

So, by the time of the early Second War of the Power (2434-2539 a.a.H) in the Monastic State of Nortender, the Order of Nortender wasn't the only player to take in account. The Leagues of Cities -formed ad-hoc for specific goals, often opposing the interests of the Maestre-, the rural remnants of the amazonian privan nobility clinging for their last holdhouts of power, the weseurian magnates and great nobles that had come to settle invited by the Order. The sister Order of Nortender, the Order of Saint Creöle and their battlenuns. Merchants guilds and often -too often, for the sake of the Order of Nortender- rebel leaders of the tribes like the Dzintara Krasnaj that resisted the Nortendi rule...

It's important to note that Priva and Helzar originated years ago from s Prima and Helzig, when I added them to Aiers among other amazons tribes as a tribute to him. But that actually had it's problem, because some people confused came to think that Remnantcomic's work were set in Aiers -and it isn't like that AT ALL!- so I stopped drawing Helreigns and Primeans for long to avoid confusion -and any Remnantcomic related drawings, given to him so he could post them as he saw it fit-, but Helzig and Prima remained in the old maps, only as names.

larqven wondered about them, and so we requested permission from Tom to "revive" them with some differences -but mostly still similarities- and he agreed. Hopefully, nowadays people see the tribute is my work, and not the other way around!!

A Privan amazon, by the First War of the Power (to compare gear and equipment)

This drawing was inspired by a discussion with about the surviving privan amazonian nobility in the lands of the monastic state of Nortender.

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Mature Content

Amazons knights of the rural nobility from Angster -the old amazonian city of Angstros of old-, in the High Alfos region, by the time of the early Second War of the Power, as Priva had become part of the Monastic State of Nortender. By then, the Privans had largely adopted weseurian armour and equipment.

The Amazon Queendom of Priva was a human amazon state that originated in northwestern Polforia, in the western shores of the Hieyokscream Bay at the 21 century a.a.H (After the Apparition of Humanity). For long the hegemonic power among the Amazon Tribes, this human state would be the first to be attacked during the First War of the Power (2203-2223 a.a.H) by the Dark Legions of Demons and their amazon allies of the Helzar Empire.

After the defeat of the demons and the collapse of the Helzar Empire, the former amazon queendom was reorganised in the Duchy of Priva, which held much closer relations to the human weseurian Five Kingdoms of the Northwest: example of this was the conversion to Karentian Christianity at the 2254 a.a.H.

The conversion of Priva to Christianity, soon the Duchy had conflicts with their pagan and demon-worshipping amazon neighbours, while due the cultural differences with the Christian human kingdoms of the North West will be the relations as well be strained. This would lead to skirmishes and war with Pagan Amazons, particularly the Helzar tribes, who had united in opposition to Priva.

With the wars against the Helzar Tribes, in 2296 a.a.H, Connie I, Duchess of Priva appealed to the Knights of the Order of Nortender to defend her borders and subdue the pagan Hieyokscream amazons, allowing the Knights use of Hieyokscream as a base for their campaign:
However, the rise of power of the Order of Nortender will be the downfall of the Duchy of Priva: By the decade of the 2340, it had lost almost all autonomy, and while there will be some amazon rebellions, it will become an integral part of the Monastic State of Nortender .

This had been a gradual process. In 2315 a.a.H, as the Bishopric of Cverri fell in the hands of the Order, this was considered unacceptable by the Privan nobility, but rather than open revolt, the weakened duchess and high nobility of Priva seeked a solution in the Treaty of Cverri, in which the nobles that submitted to Nortender had many of their privileges affirmed, which established a modus vivendi for the Order, Priva and the Highland tribes of Amazons:

Peace that was broken in the revolts of the 2320-2343 a.a.H, revolts that were initially very succesful: so successful, that planted the seed of their failure, as the loss of a common enemy in Nortender divided the tribes of the Highlands and Privans, division which we later used by Nortender, who enjoyed Karentian support and due the compromise reached by christian amazon nobles. By the 2343, after the successful repression of the last major amazon uprisings and the official surrendering of the new duchess and high nobility of Priva, Nortender encroached over most of former Priva, with the exception of a small rump state that was little more than a Nortendi puppet. Much of the amazon nobility that survived the uprisings emigrated or were resettled, and many free amazons lost their rights.

The amazon noblewomen who remained after the Uprisings were more closely allied with the weseuros landowners and gradually assimilated: After 50 years of warfare and brutal conquest the end result meant most of the amazon tribes that resisted were either killed or deported.
To make up for losses from diseases, plagues and to replace the partially exterminated native population -and as long term to strengthen the weseuros elements- the Order encouraged the immigration of colonists from both the five kingdoms (mostly Hunclech, Sargonic and Degolandic) and Navatiak, and from the failed colonies in Polforia, which were being hard-pressed by demonic dark legion remnants.
The colonists included nobles, burghers, and peasants, and the surviving amazons and kdaimons were gradually assimilated. The settlers founded numerous towns and cities on former amazon and kdaimon settlements. The Order itself built a number of castles from which it could defeat uprisings of amazons and natives, as well as continue its attacks on the demonic remnants of Dol-Nur , Khar-bad and Tempo-katzooine , with which the Order was often at war during the 2300-2400.
The final nail to the coffin of the Duchy of Priva was after the death of the duchess Connie IV without succession, hhe rump Privan duchy was finally incorporated formally into the lands of the Order of Nortender at the 2386 (in the map, dark red)
While Nortender had come to rule, directly or indirectly, all the lands of the western Hieyokscream Bay , things were far from perfect.
The cities that had grow into thriving trading centres wanted their political power recognised, and to be granted charters by the Maestre of the Sword of Nortender, who rejected these demands, as was seen as key the tax revenue from them for further expansion plans of the order eastwards, to complete the conquest of the lands around the Hieyokscream Bay.
Meanwhile, the peasants felt oppressed by abuses of the order:
So, while the Order launched some ambitious raids deep into the east of Hieyokscream, began to erupt rebellions.
While the peasants revolts were crashed, the great cities were granted the charters and free city status they demanded.

So, by the time of the early Second War of the Power (2434-2539 a.a.H) in the Monastic State of Nortender, the Order of Nortender wasn't the only player to take in account. The Leagues of Cities -formed ad-hoc for specific goals, often opposing the interests of the Maestre-, the rural remnants of the amazonian privan nobility clinging for their last holdhouts of power, the weseurian magnates and great nobles that had come to settle invited by the Order. The sister Order of Nortender, the Order of Saint Creöle and their battlenuns. Merchants guilds and often -too often, for the sake of the Order of Nortender- rebel leaders of the tribes like the Dzintara Krasnaj that resisted the Nortendi rule...

It's important to note that Priva and Helzar originated years ago from s Prima and Helzig, when I added them to Aiers among other amazons tribes as a tribute to him. But that actually had it's problem, because some people confused came to think that Remnantcomic's work were set in Aiers -and it isn't like that AT ALL!- so I stopped drawing Helreigns and Primeans for long to avoid confusion -and any Remnantcomic related drawings, given to him so he could post them as he saw it fit-, but Helzig and Prima remained in the old maps, only as names.

larqven wondered about them, and so we requested permission from Tom to "revive" them with some differences -but mostly still similarities- and he agreed. Hopefully, nowadays people see the tribute is my work, and not the other way around!!

A Privan amazon, by the First War of the Power (to compare gear and equipment)

This drawing was inspired by a discussion with about the surviving privan amazonian nobility in the lands of the monastic state of Nortender.