Gaelian history

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Here chronicles the major historical events of the nation Ulster Gaelia. The Celtic island nation has been under the same system of government and union for over 700 years, marking it one of the longest surviving orders of government. The island nation has since expanded across the globe and made itself a major power in world affairs.

200-345

Mass human migration from the continent into the islands due to an unknown cataclysmic event. These humans due to the near constant overcast skies, rain and cool weather became pale skinned and developed a culture of egalitarian Celtic origin.

500-512

The kingdoms of ulster gaelia are united to fight foreign raiders under the legendary queen Boudicca. After waging a war to defend the islands queen Boudicca ruled a united realm until her death which led to the kingdoms splintering again.


550-1190

Warring Clans era

Following the failed convent of York, the Clans of Ulster-Gaelia splintered and began waging war for control of the islands. This era is often described as one of total disunity and chaos, castles and major fortifications are built by larger clans to maintain control of their respective claims. Several poems, books, and even films romanticizing the period as it was the height of medieval warfare on the islands.

1190-1234

Eddard the Black and the United Kingdom

In 1190 the warring Clans of Ulster-Gaelia had been consolidated into numerous alliances with the largest one being led by a man named Arthur MaCready the self crowned king of Edinburgh. MaCready was close to negotiating a truce and end to all fighting when he was betrayed by Clan McGregor and killed during a wedding between Clans Stewart and Armstrong. The murder of MaCready left the nation in turmoil and utter hopelessness when it was discovered McGregor also had Arthurs children killed. Without an heir to the Clan, MaCready's alliance was doomed to collapse, a druid by the name of Maurin however revealed a young warrior in the MaCready ranks to be the bastard son of Arthur and was made the defacto leader resulting in McGregor and their allies denouncing the bastard and the Clans of Faroe to withdraw their support from the MaCready's. The bastard son, Eddard united Southern Alba and waged a brutal war against the McGregor controlled Northern alliance. After the siege of York and taking the city from Northern forces, Eddard earned his title 'the Black' after ordering dozens of lords, who had committed crimes to locals and common folk for supporting Southerners in the war, to be hanged from the outer walls facing the North. 
By 1194 Eddard and his forces marched deep into McGregor territory and fought the bloodiest battle of the war, the battle of Brandbrock valley. The valley was home to a fortification built by Morgan McGregor the so called King of the North after his numerous victories decades earlier that established his clan as the main power of Northern Alba. After four days of fighting, the keep fell to Eddard's forces, but the young man nearly died in the engagement. The battle left both sides with heavy casualties and Tyran McGregor the Clan chief challenged Eddard to a one on one duel to end the war. Eddard accepted and met Tyran at a neutral location each with 20 men as witnesses. Eddard struck his opponent down severely wounding him but not killing him, Eddard forced him to concede to Southern rule. The war finally ended 1195. A council of Clan chieftains formed the first house of lords as the first official government and named Eddard the first King. In 1198 Eddard traveled to Faroe and arranged a marriage between him and princess Gwenith of Clan Erskine which united Faroe and Alba under one banner and house. Ulster-Gaelia was finally united as a single nation and the monarchy was officially sworn in 1207 with a constitution among the Clan chiefs and local lords. Eddard ruled a fairly peaceful reign, rebuilding his country and healing years of bloodshed. His reign came to an end in 1234 when he died of natural causes at the age of 64. He was succeeded by his son Arthur MaCready. 




The Battle of Brandbrock Valley, the bloodiest and final major battle of the war of unification.

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1234-1289

Reign of King Arthur

Arthur MaCready was crowned king after the passing of his father Eddard in 1234, Arthur created the class system of nobility that succeeded Clan politics within the realm. He also expanded Gaelian influence onto the continent and established foreign relations for the first time as a unified king. Arthur is considered by many to be one of the most beloved monarchs in Gaelian history, firmly establishing egalitarian policies and assisting common folk in rebuilding their lives from the wars. He is one of the very few rulers of Ulster-Gaelia to not have a war waged during his reign.

1330-1335

War of the Rose

Following the death of Jerem MaCready the line of succession was contested by four families, Clan MaCready, Clan Stewart, Clan Gordon and Clan MacBeth. The council of chiefs failed to prevent fracturing and dissent which resulted in the civil war known as the war of the rose, named for the Clan emblem of MaCready and their long hold on the throne. The war would be the bloodiest conflict since the previous Clan Wars, Clan MacBeth would eventually seize Edinburgh and the throne but they were denounced by several Southern lords and Clans due to MacBeth being a Northern Clan. A truce would eventually be struck with the formation of two new groups in the government, Parliament and the court of succession. A clear line of who would succeed the throne was established and it was dubbed from here on as the Emerald throne. 

1335-1390

The MacBeth Dynasty

The MacBeth Clan's hold of the emerald throne is viewed in history as an unpopular one, but one that expanded Gaelian influence in matters of trade and foreign relations. The MacBeth reign saw the creation of the Royal Navy, Merchant fleet, and implemented the Black Cloaks as royal guards of the throne. Despite a peaceful reign that made the kingdom begin to draw wealth from trade, the MacBeth Clan was still unpopular by many and in 1390 after the death of King Hargas MacBeth, the court of succession and Parliament chose a new Clan family to sit on the throne. 

1390-1480

The Stewart Dynasty

In comparison to the MacBeth reign, Clan Stewart's control of the emerald throne is viewed as a pleasant one. The Stewarts expanded the Galra colony on Reseria and began what is known as the First Gaelian Empire. The Stewart reign is known for successfully expanding trade on Reseria, but would fight continental wars to hold Galra. The Stewart reign saw the establishment of the Iron Bank of Gaelia and implemented into law that any wealth earned by the Emerald throne would be retained in the throne and not go to the Clan. This gave a basis for the Gaelian economy to grow and has been used ever since as the purchasing power of the throne. Clan Stewart was voted out in 1480 giving rise to Clan Ross.

1480-1667

The Ross Dynasty

One of the longest reigning dynasties, the Ross dynasty vastly expanded the Gaelian Empire. It would pursue a very aggressive expansion policy and King Torik Ross II demanded a large armada of ships expand across the sea. By 1607 the colonization of Touli began with the island of Criton and the coastal region of Zedon being claimed by settlers. The Empire entered a golden age of wealth and dominance between 1610-1629, Gaelian naval control of the Shawbalt was being firmly controlled and the Galra territory served as a buffered wedge that kept Reseria from interfering with island affairs. But all of that would quickly come to and end, King Henry Ross was made king at the age of 19 in 1630. And he would bring an end to the first empire.

King Henry Ross

If one ruler in all of Gaelia's history could be called the worst and most hated, it's Henry Ross. King Henry early on defied the Chuch of Neverra which was the dominant religion of Ulster-Gaelia at the time, he wanted to divorce his wife Carolyn MacBeth and marry the younger Anne Shae McAlister. He illegally divorced and exiled his first wife and married Anne Shae in his new church which took the Neverra religion and put him at the head of it. This Ulster version was considered blasphemy and caused the empire to divide especially in Galra. In 1632 several lords and members of Parliament began ordering for the removal of Henry with threats of uprisings and rebellion over the new church. Henry intercepted this and had all members of Parliament executed and the lords publicly hanged. Henry installed his friends into Parliament rejected public elections which caused the Winter rebellion of 1632, after a brutal battle in the city of York, Henry agreed to allow public elections into Parliament again. But by 1633, Galra had written demands to secede from Gaelia unless Henry stepped down and removed his church, Henry who was now cheating on Anne Shae with Tabitha Carnegie was now demanding divorce again. His own church ministers refused siting how poorly it would make the church look, so Henry had Anne Shae convicted of treason and publicly tortured and beheaded with no claim. He married Tabitha and had two daughters which he saw as her fault and also had her convicted of treason and hanged. He married Linda Campbell in a political marriage to secure his throne as at the time Henry was detested by the entire Empire and was running out of allies, Clan Campbell at the time was the wealthiest and most powerful Clan not on the throne. With the agreement that Linda would be his forever love and last wife, Henry was able to keep his throne. But after years of ignoring the problem in Galra it finally came to a head in 1637 when a delegation of Galra nobles went to Edinburgh to demand Henry to address the problems they were facing as unrest had ravaged Galra from religious division and now threat of foreign invasion. Henry saw them, heard them for a single minute and interrupted them accusing them of treason and had them burned alive.
This was the final straw, Galra seceded and the 30 years war had begun. This conflict was so devastating that it ended the First Gaelian Empire and receded Gaelian control to the islands. in 1666, Henry in his delusion to win the war demanded all available men and boys be sent to the front of a war that was long lost, Oliver Cromwell a young politician in Parliament organized a large coalition of Parliament, Clans and nobility and campaigned to end the war and for Henry to step down. Henry learning of this attempted to shut Parliament down again but was instead arrested and hanged for treason to Gaelia. Cromwell led peace talks that resulted in Galra becoming an independent nation and Gaelia not falling into another civil war on the islands. Clan Ross was removed from the throne. 

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1670-1705

The Era of Colonization 

Clan Campbell was chosen to ascend the throne with Queen Linda Campbell, the former wife of Henry Ross remarried and became the central figurehead at propelling the expansion of colonization of Touli. Ulter-Gaelians had already settled on Cricon and the Eastern coast of Touli but rapid expansions surged as the Gaelians marched West seizing lands from natives either by force or trade. Queen Campbell also oversaw several reforms that gave parliament more power and the Gaelic church instituted as a legitimate religious organization that eventually replaced Nevarran Etherealism with Gaelic Etherealism allowing the changes Henry made with the addition of a 9th Ethereal being Boudica who according to his alterations ascended to becoming a goddess over the Gaelic people. By 1690, most of Eastern Touli was overrun with Gaelic settlers, some of them fleeing the new Galra Empire formed from the recent war and others looking to escape the overpopulation of urban centers on the main islands. In 1695 Queen Campbell fell ill and died on the throne from what some historians believe to a form of cancer. Her son James Campbell ascended to the throne the following year, King James established the people within all borders of his empire would be Gaelic by civil right and ordered the city of Jamestown to be built in Western Touli to better administer the region. 


1705-1730

The Second Empire

James Campbell's reign saw the influx of wealth and power return to the UKUG, the new colonies fed a growing armada of Gaelic warships and trading vessels that under his reign entered foreign ports seeking to expand Gaelic trade. By 1718, Gaelic ships flowed foreign goods at a consistent pace and several diplomats of King James would be found in all corners of Ouhiri. The prosperity of the UKUG however attracted the Galra Empire, Galra had slowly expanded itself as a major continental political player and warred its neighbors quickly putting to rest the thought of peace if the Gaelic's left the region. Galra was now sending colonists to Touli and other regions of Ouhiri and actively competing with Lusatia, Seleucidenia, UKUG and Roskana in oceanic trade. 
King James would parlay several times with the Galra Imperial government to avoid bloodshed, but the Galra wanted to challenge their old masters and prove to Ouhiri they were a new power to be reckoned with. The Treaty of Marshall put in place a non aggression pact between the two nations that avoided war but saw both sides engage in trade disputes and international incidents for the following decade of the 20's. In 1730 King James stepped down from the throne due to increasing health issues related to gout and his weight. Clan Campbell was reviewed by Parliament to placed another member of their family on the throne but Clan Gordon won the election and placed Richard Gordon as King of Ulster-Gaelia in 1730.

1730-1744

The Shawbalt Cold War

King Gordon didn't shy away from the Galra conflict like his predecessor, he ordered the construction of a large fleet of man-o-war ships and the expansion of army. He also pushed Galra naval ships that intruded into Gaelic waters harshly, this led to small engagements in the Shawbalt between Galra and Gaelic warships that would fire upon each other and sink trading vessels. Some Gaelic warships would be set up as privateers and selectively attack Galra trading ships, stealing the goods on it and giving it to the Gaelic merchants. Galra retaliated by doing the same, tensions continued to rise as diplomatic correspondents went from attempting to deescalate to outright insulting and profane letters invoking escalation. It came to a head when in the spring of 1744 a Galra frigate attempted to seize a Gaelic trading vessel off the coast of Northern Touli, the trading vessel was carrying unrefined silver purchased from Elenria. King Gordon ordered the armies of Ulster-Gaelia be raised and sent a declaration of war to the Empire of Galra.

1744-1747

The Gaelic-Galra War

One of the largest naval wars at its time, hundreds if not thousands of naval vessels engaged in open warfare across the Shawbalt and Poheram. Ulster-Gaelia invaded Galran Touli, and Gaelic forces began landing in Western Galra. In the initial phase of the war Galra had a much larger land army and managed to bear down on the Gaelic invasion of Western Galra repelling it within a month sending thousands of Gaelic troops back across the channel. But the Royal fleet was decimating the Galra fleet and the war on Touli had become a bloody stalemate. Galra offered a ceasefire in the winter of 1744, wishing to stop the fighting but King Gordon and Taoiseach Victor Nunnelly refused as Ulster-Gaelia was swept up in the notion of getting revenge against Galra. By the Summer of 1745 Galra's fleet had lost half of its ships trying to engage the aggressive Royal Navy and chose a doctrine of avoiding outright engagements, but this left supply lines to the colony at risk at Gaelic warships tore supply shipping lanes apart. Galra once again appealed for ceasefire to end the war but King Gordon refused, in the winter of 1745 the Touli war was turning against Galra forces as they began a long and beaten retreat to the Northern coast. In 1746 Ulster-Gaelia prepared for a second invasion of Western Galra forcing the Galra navy to assemble and defend the coast, the battle of the Gulf in the spring of 1746 was the largest naval battle of the war and saw the Galra fleet largely destroyed. UKUG forces landed in Western Galra and engaged the larger Galra Imperial Army, this time however the Royal Army defeated them and established a foothold in Nemia. The Touli colony surrendered to UKUG forces that summer and King Gordon demanded a formal surrender from Galra which was refused. Gaelic forces marched onto Carogen and seized it as Galra prepared the bulk of its army to counter, by the winter of 46' Galra's massive imperial army descended upon the Gaelic forces kicking off the battle of Carogen the bloodiest battle of the war. With most of the fighting in the snow filled winter landscape, it became a hellish existence for foot soldiers, the battle was a pyrrhic UKUG victory, but it broke the Galra military's counter offensive. With the knowledge that their continental enemies could join in Galra accepted UKUG surrender terms, they could not expand their Touli colony and they could not challenge UKUG shipping from this moment forward. This loss forced Galra to focus expansion on the continent instead where they began building their large empire and the UKUG entered a colonial golden age. King Gordon was seen as the monarch who finally gave the Gaelic people revenge from the Galra. 

1747-1880

The Golden Age of the UKUG

King Richard Gordon ushered in an era of Gaelic political dominance in the Shawbalt region of Ouhiri following the war with Galra, during the remainder of his reign which lasted til 1762 Gaelic trade would expand rapidly and the Royal fleet doubled in size to become the largest military fleet in Ouhiri at the time. After his death he was succeeded by King James Gordon who consolidated Gaelic political power by tightening his alliance with Lusatia. The new alliance ceased colonial competition between the two major powers and saw a Reserian based hegemony begin to rise. The expansion of industrialization by the way of Staol vastly expanded the United Kingdom's wealth and power. By 1780 the United Kingdom was the main super power of Ouhiri its vast trade network touching ports all over the world and feeding a developing empire. 

Staol wars

Mary Gordon becomes Queen of Ulster-Gaelia 1819 her reign being the peak of the UKUG being a global power lasting til 1889. 


Modern history

1910-1912

Kumo-Gaelian War

By 1910, Ulster-Gaelian hegemony over the Shawbalt was in decline, King James Gordon III was impatiently looking for a way to instill that the UK was still the global power. Reports of Kumosenkan building an Armada and with intentions to invade neutral Hawaii propelled the King to push warhawks in Parliament for intervention took a small conflict between Kumosenkan and Hawaii and escalated it into a major war. April 5th, 1910 the United Kingdom of Ulster-Gaelia declared war on Kumosenkan and declared its support for an independent Hawaii. 
By the summer of 1910 Gaelia had deployed over 45,000 troops to Hawaii and over half of the entire Royal fleet to engage the Armada. Kumosenkan had carefully prepared for an opponent like Ulster-Gaelia while the UK completely underestimated the new rising naval power. The first naval engagements were an utter disaster for the UK as Kumosenkan wiped out the Royal fleet in a matter of months. By August, Gaelian troops were under siege on Hawaii and cut off from naval support. Admiral Bron Windsor was demoted after failing to equip the fleet for such a dangerous foe and the Parliament scrambled to find a way to save their troops on Hawaii. In January 1911, newly appointed Admiral Richard Lennon properly prepared the fleet for prolonged engagement but at this point, Kumosenkan outnumbered the Gaelian fleet 5-1 after destroying most of it in the summer of 1910. Admiral Lennon changed naval tactics and managed to break through the Hawaiian blockade, against orders from King Gordon, the admiral ordered a full retreat instead of supporting ground forces against Kumosenkan saving over 30,000 Gaelian troops and safely escorting them back home. King Gordon ordered the admiral to be court marshaled, but massive public dissent to the war pushed Parliament to refuse and demand for peace talks. In 1912, King Gordon III agreed to peace terms with Kumosenkan which allowed them to freely sail in the Shawbalt and compete with Gaelian shipping ending the war. King Gordon III then stepped down from the throne for his cousin Rufus McDonald who was a reformer and against the war. The conflict ended Ulster-Gaelia as the major naval power in the world and saw the rise of Kumosenkan as a major power.