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===Canonical History of the Valknyre Region===
'''Short History Bullet Points'''

'''The Formation of Ragnyll'''
* The Statesmen took over Voss after domestic industries were convinces of their anti imperialistic stances 
* Voss economy staggering after paltry reparations from Kashir didn't make up for loss of resources. Deal was sabotaged by Statesmen's purist notion of being anti-imperial and thus denied full assimilation of Kashir. 
* The empire of voss's War industry proved too expensive to dismantle, and so entered into trade deals with other nations. >When that wasn't enough to keep their economy afloat expanded into Krussia. Royal houses "voluntarily" went. 
* More war. 
* Student Revolts and underground parties form. 
* Political Prisoners Roundups and executions happen as per "Will of the People " 
* Vilkas Organizes a mass exodus across Gran Lake to form the first defensive line of Ragnyll alongside expatriated veterans of the Kashir war. 
* Pandemon's Death Police unit goes after Vilkas in the Capitol. 100 to 1. Royal guard escapes. 
* The Royal guard disbanded after the heir apparent died escaping the capital. Vilkas still at large. 
* Civil war erupts. Statesman party reconverts back to Voss Imperial after staggering losses led to mounting criticism of their opinion leader. The Three Generals of Terror allies with some statesmen and brands the rest traitors as they reform the Dominion Party. 
* The rest is history.

Long story short: 15 years before the end of the Helghast unit's story, Vilkas Von Voss' story takes place. At the end of that story, he sends forces to what is modern day Ragnyll, and the Iron Command forms to protect the true loyalist forces from the Generals of Terror's attack. 8 Years before Iron Heart's 3, the Helghast Unit's story is left off with them breaching into Iffram from Hel due to the black unit's machinations.

'''Age of Advancement'''

During the past 8 years everything was a haze of childhood memories, hearing her relatives' exploits and Ragnyll becoming a stronger wall against the Voss empire. Clovis guns, Voss Tanks, Bitank technologies, all of it started taking off as Ragnyll did win a war for a short while. The nation was slow in forming its government but soon even Iron command was able to delegate matters to domestic officers and political officials such as Truint - one of the Idealists from the Statesmen party who opposed any war from the start.

'''About Valknyre Clans'''

At the pillars of Voss society is the rich history that the wars of Valknyr have burned in their very pages. The living testimonies of those once remembered battles and wars rest with the proliferating clans of the Valknyr War Clans, known today as the GranKinn or " Great Descendants "

While many nations and empires have came and went in the Valknyres, it is in the genes of the Grankinns that the history of the region lives on through the Voss. From the north are the Belarusa clans comprising of the Urs ,VonClaudes, and Reiders, who were said to have played a key role in the demonstrification battles that reached its high point during 1st Von Voss's lifetime.

From Heartlands of the Valknyres is the Thanes, the Reins, the Sturm clans and the noble families connected to the Von Voss. Who created the first sparks of revolution to overthrow the black kings that ruled tyrrannically over them for centuries.

As the Valknyres is a region vulnerable to invasions and is doubly attractive for its richness of resources and access to all other areas of the Midland kingdoms, aspiring nations from all corners have risen, trampled, and taken and settled on these lands populated by these white-haired ancestors.

Because of these recessive traits, genetic dominance became an all too clear sign of foreign invasions, on top of that, the Valknyres that lived in a region with no need to advance technologically was simply outright repressed by the warring powers that came to visit them from distant corners.

Very quickly did the situation develop an "us and them" mentality that the invading lords tried to appease it's citizens by scape-goating and even attempted to fight the local inhuman residents there.

At the center of such racial strifes impostor kings indoctrinated the Valks with their own brand of anti-monster propogandas with neighboring tribes and clans being turned against each other. It was here that the bloodshed reached a turning point and the one they would call Killer King would arise from the killing fields to restore the Valks to their former peace.

Ascheron VonVoss, or the first of the Killer Kings started like any warring clan in the Valknyres looking to overthrow any self serving baron or count. At the time , at least 4 nations were vying for dominance in the region. One of which were the Aeon Holy Empire, then known as Cruxtania. Predatoria, Kashir and the Machine city of Labrese.

Residing in the Valknyres were what was once the majority of Iffram's demihuman population, and the various clans in the Valks themselves. Those who were a resident valknyre in these times survived a thousand years of monsters and beasts that only their legends could speak of. It was through these common bonds that Ascheron took on the black mask, forged by castors and cursed by witches to befall on the head of a true Valknyrian Hero that will lead them to victory or certain death.

With such words to accompany the meaning of the Black Crown, the numerous warring clans of the Valknyres took up arms, settled their differences and found the only true king they will need to topple these impostor kings.

The first Valknyre army was formed then. So prolific were their presence that it was said that even Valkryes, Demons, and Dragons joined hands to fight all 4 opponents simultaneously fighting them back all the way to their homelands and turning the cultural invasion inside out.

Today the Valknyres are said to only exist in meaning within these Clans and it is through them and the so called Ancients that the Voss retains its name as the true ruler of the Valknyre region.

'''Notable Valknyre Clans'''

*Gaunts: Farming Clan that poisoned their harvest and outstarved their Cruxtanian oppressors.
*Von Voss: Gave rise to the Von Voss empires that intermittently ruled the Valknyres when the crown was said to choose a wearer. The third and most recent being Vilkas Von Voss, an illegitimate child to a wandering concubine.
*Monandeas- Shamed family line that was said to only have one notable hero: Basillica Monandeas. Their dark history with the black hordes still stirs terror from ancient wars.
*Axolos- Predatoria Sword masters
*Volerons- Predatorian Assassination Clan. Known for using circus performers to train their runners.
*Carmelias- Predatorian Assassination Clan [Known to hunt humans for sport]
*Lupins- Predatorian Thieves Guild
*Bellic- Laboria Union resistance leader
*Petrovics- Laboria Machine specialists
*Domovoi- Laboria Seige clan
*Odderkonn- Northern Laboria Industrial safety Comittee [Espionage]
*Ibrahim- Southern Laboria Bomb makers.
*Kalashnikovs- Family line has a predetermined prison sentence even before birth. Those who kept the Kalashnikov name was considered a criminal citizen. Kalashnikov relatives still developed high criminal tendencies in their lives.
*Thorfinn- Warrior Clan [God Slayer]
*Odahviing- Forger Clan [Heaven Ring]
*Skwiglef- Warrior Clan [ The Fast Men]
*Wolfgang- Mounted Cavalry / Armored Clans
*Augustine- Assassination Clan. Dates back 323 Years as of 632.
*Schmidt- Forge Family. Produced motorized transports.
*Gunthers- Engineering Family. Self Propelled Artillery
*RosseWeisse- Armor Pilots, protected VonVoss nobles
*Pandemon- Noble Family. Funded wars. Breadmakers.
*Krauss- Red Knights. [Krieger Family line]
*VVinkles- Notable Riflemen/ Huntsmen. Said to fire on targets a mile away.
*Alexanders- Holy Knights that lent their aide to oversee peacekeeping treatise with Cruxtania