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History of Vandalia (PT1 TW: RomeBarbarianInvasion Timeline)
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It was in the year 363 CE that the noble Vandals moved westward in what would be a fateful trip for the whole horde as a people and eventually a nation. This great trek westward was the dream of Vismar the Great, founder of Vandalia.
Vismar had contrived this great migration of people for several reasons. The Vandal people had always been on the move as nomads traveling the steppe but it was with the move of the Huns westward that it was for the best to move further west. As well, at this time the Vandals inhabited a strech of territory just north-westward of the Black Sea. Vismar had heard from traders and word of mouth of the great Roman Empire of its land and wealth. Wealth and plunder was a major reason in its own right but many say that it was the lure of seeing the Great Sea that hooked the warlord. He yearned to see the end of the Eurasian continent and set up his own land that would remember his name forever. Suffice to say he achieved what he wanted.
In the year 363 as the Vandals moved westward the events in the west were on the verge of apocolyptic. The West and Eastern Roman Empires long split were facing hordes of nomads from the deserts of the Middle East to the Saxon in the cold north. The arrival of the Vandals, The Goths, The Sarmatians, Roluxini, and The Huns were just apart of the times.
Vismar was far-sighted and knew that these other nomadic hordes would soon settle down and be his neighbors so as his people moved west he first established pacts of alliance with the Huns, Sarmatians, and Roluxini in hopes that once the Vandals had laid themselves down these people would uphold their word and find some other place to plunder. Though the Roluxani alliance soon ended as it begun when they became the first target of the Huns forcing them southward into the East Roman Empire.
It wasn't untill 365CE that the first scouts of the Vandals crossed the Danube river south of modern day Vienna but the Vandals soon followed later during the winter. Entering the West Roman Empire's lands they traveled and pplundered the rural country side staying away from the cities and main West Roman Empires easily. It wasn't untill a Roman army attempted to halt the Vandal advance into Northern Italy outside of modern day Saravejo that things became bloody-though the bloodshed was light as the Roman Army fled to safety as soon as it became clear the true size of the Vandal horde of thousands upon thousands upon thousands.
Crossing into Northern Italy in 370CE they caused quite a stir amongst the relativly undermanned Italian cities (the armies of the Empire off fighting the Alemanni and the Goths who had crossed the Danube not long after the Vandals) but again Vismar refused to attack these cities. he wanted to preserve his people's fighting force untill reaching his destination. Though in the winter of 370 CE his people did stay in southern Gaul, twice sacking the cities of Massila and Aires.
In 372CE the Vandals crossed the Pyreerenes into Roman Hispania! Commemorating the event with sacking the city of Tarracco twice! In 373AD Vismar's people had, had enough wandering and demanded to settle down so, Vismar took his own personal army and in less then a year took Carthago Nova! Making it is capital as he sacked the city and supplanted the native peoples with his own Vandals. Similar events played out in Tarracco which was governed by two of his sons. While one last movement of his people cemented Vismar's dream of settling at the water's edge of the world by taking Salmanacia and North-Western Iberia. Driving out all Roman influence except for the city of Corduba which had revolted against Roman rule and formed its own 'republic' under the rule of Gaius, soon joined by parts of north-western Gaul. Imemdiatly the rebels began trading rights with the Vandals. Vismar did ponder crushing the rebels but first he wanted to settle his people into ruling most of the Iberia Peninsula, what would become Vandalia, and use the rebels as a buffer to the Berbers in North Africa and the West Romans in Gaul.
After much settling down and building, Vismar sent a force under Theogi his second son to take the remaining Roman territory in Burdingala (Bordeaux) successfully taking the territory. Though soon in 383CE events would spiral into great conflict for Vismar and his Vandalia! As the Sarmatians, still on the move, arrived in Gaul taking the Roman Rebel territory there-obliged in alliance Vismar declared war on the Sarmatians! Though at the same time the Rebels under Gaius, parinoid at the oncoming hordes later declared war ont he Vandals in a bid to throw out all barbarian influeces. He failed in this as the Vandals united all of the Iberia under their rule. Taking Corduba in 389CE and killing Gaius by tieing him to two horses and pulling the tyrant apart.
With that ended, Vismar called on all the chiefs and warlords in Vandalia to muster their people to face off the Sarmatians who were heading straight for Vandalia....
-"Excerpt from "The Total History of Vandalia" by Vangouie Varrson, 1984. Nova Vandalia Press. Nova Vandalia City.
Vismar had contrived this great migration of people for several reasons. The Vandal people had always been on the move as nomads traveling the steppe but it was with the move of the Huns westward that it was for the best to move further west. As well, at this time the Vandals inhabited a strech of territory just north-westward of the Black Sea. Vismar had heard from traders and word of mouth of the great Roman Empire of its land and wealth. Wealth and plunder was a major reason in its own right but many say that it was the lure of seeing the Great Sea that hooked the warlord. He yearned to see the end of the Eurasian continent and set up his own land that would remember his name forever. Suffice to say he achieved what he wanted.
In the year 363 as the Vandals moved westward the events in the west were on the verge of apocolyptic. The West and Eastern Roman Empires long split were facing hordes of nomads from the deserts of the Middle East to the Saxon in the cold north. The arrival of the Vandals, The Goths, The Sarmatians, Roluxini, and The Huns were just apart of the times.
Vismar was far-sighted and knew that these other nomadic hordes would soon settle down and be his neighbors so as his people moved west he first established pacts of alliance with the Huns, Sarmatians, and Roluxini in hopes that once the Vandals had laid themselves down these people would uphold their word and find some other place to plunder. Though the Roluxani alliance soon ended as it begun when they became the first target of the Huns forcing them southward into the East Roman Empire.
It wasn't untill 365CE that the first scouts of the Vandals crossed the Danube river south of modern day Vienna but the Vandals soon followed later during the winter. Entering the West Roman Empire's lands they traveled and pplundered the rural country side staying away from the cities and main West Roman Empires easily. It wasn't untill a Roman army attempted to halt the Vandal advance into Northern Italy outside of modern day Saravejo that things became bloody-though the bloodshed was light as the Roman Army fled to safety as soon as it became clear the true size of the Vandal horde of thousands upon thousands upon thousands.
Crossing into Northern Italy in 370CE they caused quite a stir amongst the relativly undermanned Italian cities (the armies of the Empire off fighting the Alemanni and the Goths who had crossed the Danube not long after the Vandals) but again Vismar refused to attack these cities. he wanted to preserve his people's fighting force untill reaching his destination. Though in the winter of 370 CE his people did stay in southern Gaul, twice sacking the cities of Massila and Aires.
In 372CE the Vandals crossed the Pyreerenes into Roman Hispania! Commemorating the event with sacking the city of Tarracco twice! In 373AD Vismar's people had, had enough wandering and demanded to settle down so, Vismar took his own personal army and in less then a year took Carthago Nova! Making it is capital as he sacked the city and supplanted the native peoples with his own Vandals. Similar events played out in Tarracco which was governed by two of his sons. While one last movement of his people cemented Vismar's dream of settling at the water's edge of the world by taking Salmanacia and North-Western Iberia. Driving out all Roman influence except for the city of Corduba which had revolted against Roman rule and formed its own 'republic' under the rule of Gaius, soon joined by parts of north-western Gaul. Imemdiatly the rebels began trading rights with the Vandals. Vismar did ponder crushing the rebels but first he wanted to settle his people into ruling most of the Iberia Peninsula, what would become Vandalia, and use the rebels as a buffer to the Berbers in North Africa and the West Romans in Gaul.
After much settling down and building, Vismar sent a force under Theogi his second son to take the remaining Roman territory in Burdingala (Bordeaux) successfully taking the territory. Though soon in 383CE events would spiral into great conflict for Vismar and his Vandalia! As the Sarmatians, still on the move, arrived in Gaul taking the Roman Rebel territory there-obliged in alliance Vismar declared war on the Sarmatians! Though at the same time the Rebels under Gaius, parinoid at the oncoming hordes later declared war ont he Vandals in a bid to throw out all barbarian influeces. He failed in this as the Vandals united all of the Iberia under their rule. Taking Corduba in 389CE and killing Gaius by tieing him to two horses and pulling the tyrant apart.
With that ended, Vismar called on all the chiefs and warlords in Vandalia to muster their people to face off the Sarmatians who were heading straight for Vandalia....
-"Excerpt from "The Total History of Vandalia" by Vangouie Varrson, 1984. Nova Vandalia Press. Nova Vandalia City.
