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Telmerian settlement in modern day Cuthland-Waldrich dates back to classical antiquity. These early tribes began to coalesce into various pretty kingdoms and duchies at the dawn of the Early Middle Ages, leading to the region's dominance by Four Kingdoms from the 6th century onward. During the 11th century, Edmund the Great of the Kingdom of Meerland unified the Cuthish states into the Kingdom of Cuthland. Cuthland and its southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Waldrich, remained geopolitical rivals for the next four centuries, culminating with the Cuthish conquest of Waldrich during the 15th century and the establishment of the First Cuthish Empire as the most powerful state in Telmeria. Cuthland continued to expand throughout the early modern period, conquering parts of X, western Mascylla, and the northern Dentiran Peninsula while establishing one of the world's first colonial empires in Alvinia and northern and eastern Pamira. During the mid-18th century, Cuthland's dominance in Telmeria began to falter due to increasing ethnic tensions within the empire and the rising prominence of Aldia. The shifting balance of power culminated in the outbreak of the Cutho-Aldian War in 1755, ending in 1758 with Cuthland's partition and loss of its colonial empire.

A wave of nationalism swept through Cuthland during the mid-19th century, leading revanchist Foresitter Harold Farnham to declare war on Mascylla in 1839 in an effort to reclaim the lost territories of the Cuthish Empire. The war ended with the Treaty of Alderport in 1841, which restored continental Cuthland to its pre-1758 borders and returned large portions of the Mascyllary colonial empire to Cuthish rule. Cuthland enjoyed a second period of international prominence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, expanding its colonial empire in Caphtora and Pamira and challenging Mascyllary dominance. Tensions between Cuthland and Mascylla and their respective power blocs led to the outbreak of the Great War in the 1910s, ending with Cuthland's defeat and subsequent economic collapse.

History of Cuthland-Waldrich

• Pre-6th century: Tribes and stuff from prehistory until circa 6th century
• 6th century: Various petty kingdoms, duchies, etc. emerge and dominate throughout early medieval period
• 6th-11th centuries: But oh no, they keep getting fucked by Mascylla from the east and the Nordics from the west
• 11th century: Probably better if we unite into two kingdoms instead, Cuthland and Waldrich
• 15th century: Yeah this is pretty cool but Masc keeps fucking us so let's form a political union and totally not rip off Poland-Lithuania in the process
• 15th-17th centuries: Wow I like this whole empire thing let's go invade not!Scandinavia and maybe parts of Mascylla as well
  • We should also be artsy and shit while we're at it
• 17th century: Oh never mind this is actually completely unsustainable, ethnic tensions are sucky and our economy is in the shitter
  • Guess we better partition the G L O R I O U S E M P I R E and return to getting railed by Mascylla
• 1818: Lol jk we're getting the band back together
• 19th century: Oh look, industry and colonies
  • Oh awesome now Dulebia wants in, maybe we can challenge Lavarian/Mascyllary dominance and in no way collapse spectacularly in the process
• Great War: Oh wow that was shockingly predictable guess we suck again
• 1920s: Yep we definitely suck, Masc took our monarchy and now the commies want in
• 1930s: But what better cure for communism than a return of the monarchy, this time with double the oppression
• 1930s: Guess we should invade/annex Waldrich again, as is customary
• 1930s-1970s: Oh wow this is much better than before, we're actually kind of feared
• 1970s: Whoops maybe economics aren't our thing, the people are restless again
  • Okay we'll give you more capitalism but the monarchy stays
• 1980s-2000s: Mmm yes the sweet taste of cold hard cash
• 2000s-present: Wow we're actually developed as fuck for once