Once Leonesse was considered the cultured, most civilized kingdom in the world while Nord held the distinction of being uncouth and brute-like, but somewhere in both countries’ long histories, an odd devolution had taken place. It began when a new monarch ascended the throne and immediately began remaking things in his own image, which was decidedly old-fashioned, humorless, and puritanical.
Forbidding the practice of alchemy, he banished the resident mage and outlawed the use of most of the inventions past alchemists had devised. He also closed the theaters and also outlawed the use of any medical treatment originating from alchemical pursuits and moved the capitol from Charmeuset to Purdha.
He didn’t last long, was killed during the next war, in fact, but managed to set Leonesse culture back two hundred years before that happened.
Nord, in the meantime, welcome the banished mage, as well as his creations, and profited from the Leonite Vicomte’s decisions, and flourished.
Thus while Leonesse backslid into a barbarian’s paradise, Nord earned the reputation of being a refined country as full of artists and poets a though their men knew how to wield a sword and lance as well as they did a sculptor’s knife or writer’s quill.
That was the situation when the current reigning monarchs began their fateful correspondence which eventually ended in THE WAR OF THE WEDDED.
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