Hansetian Roots

[The Lion 736]

On the Topic of Hanseti

 

 

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The Conception of Hanseti

 

It seems most prudent to remind the modern age of the ancient Hanseti. A people mostly unrelated to the modern-day Hansetian that the Nordic/Highlandic cultures adopted the ways of. Back in the day, a surviving ancient Hansetian from Asulon in Aegis, Hochmeister Gaius Marius, revived his dead culture among the populace of Aegis. It was he who taught his Teutonic Knights the language of ancient Hanseti. The straight-to-the-point tongue of Hanseti was recorded by his scribes and named in Marius’ honour as the Marian Dictionary. The 3rd Teutonic King of the modern era, Hochmeister Mirtok DeNurem a.k.a. King Mark I of Hanseti as Haense calls he, left a massive record of both the ancient and modern Hansetians to dispel any discrepancies and organise concepts.

 

From his writings we gather that what we call Hansetian today is not exactly what Hansetian was in the ancient past. The thickly-built Teutonic folk that developed in the southern stone ruins of Asulon around the year 1400 that all modern Hansetians relate to have no blood relation to the ancient Hanseti. The ancient Hanseti peoples used the powers of the Wandering Wizard to interdimensionally travel to the Verge during the first war against Iblees that Malin, Krug, Horen and Urguan waged. These tribal peoples of ancient Hanseti learned to construct great ships which they used to discover the continent of Asulon long before the fall of Aegis. It was in this expansive continent that the Hanseti fractured into three main tribes; the Dervas, Subudai and Hansetians.

 

Isolated in the southern winter mountains of Asulon that the modern Teutonic Order under Hochmeister Bealcrest re-discovered was where the ancient Hansetians once bloomed. They first traded their tent dwellings for wood dwellings. They became the first to permanently settle and deviate from primitive nomadic-tribal society and began to build their important buildings from stone. Becoming the first of the three tribes to form an organised government. They stole from the Dervas technology regarding masonry and engineering that allowed them to abandon wood dwellings in favour of long-lasting stone structures for all which were more functional than beautiful. Geometric in shape, tending to shy away from potentially unstable circular shapes in favour of hard angles and precise mathematical architecture. They slowly began to integrate with their Mother Land and became one with it by focusing on living inside the earth much like Aegisean dwarves, but for the ancient Hansetian, this was a completely new concept.

 

For reasons mostly unknown and now for all intended purposes now lost to be found out. The ancient and highly advanced Hansetians vanished. Speculation is that they are sealed away from us by means of advance mining tools that allowed them to get much further underground than our inferior tools allow us to. It is also considered that a defector among them released a powerful gas cloud created using science and life-essence magic that wiped out the ancient Hansetians that could not escape to the surface in-time which we found evidence of in modern-Asulon during the reign of Hochmeister DeNurem. It is considered that from those ancient Hansetians that did flee, Gaius Marius came. He travelled back from Asulon to Aegis and created the first foundation of the modern Teutonic Order as its Hochmeister-King. A foundation that didn’t end until Anthos when Hochmeister DeNurem was banished by Users which heavily influenced the Order’s defeat at Dreadfort to the might of NATO. Hochmeister Marius re-kindled ancient Hansetian culture before dying of old age without any known children to continue the original ancient Hansetian bloodline.

 

Those that followed Marius were the Teutonic Knights who were a conglomerate of Aegisean nordic and northeron (highlander) peoples who adopted Marius’ ancient Hansetian ways and began to culturally identify as Hansetians without a blood relation to the ancient Hansetians. It could be propositioned that in-light of these facts that those we call Hansetians now are actually Teutonics or Marians if you’d like to call them. It could also be propositioned that being Hansetian is a lifestyle choice rather than having blood relations to Teutonic-Marians. Making any claim to the crown of the Kingdom of Hanseti one of ethos rather than having a family tree relating to the last great King of Hanseti, Mirtok DeNurem. Petyr Barbanov used loose blood relation to DeNurem for his claim to the crown of Hanseti to create the amalgamated Ruska-fused kingdom of Haense which in cultural comparison was majorly more Raev than it ever was Hansetian. Now that the Kingdom of Haense is no more, the crown of Hanseti once again rests. Hansetians should choose to flock to those who emulate the ethos of ancient Hansetians much like the Teutonic-Marians did under a Hochmeister rather than anyone who claims relation to DeNurem. Flock to those who have hardy Hansetian merit rather than those who have but mere historical lineage to something they have no memory of taking part in.

 

REFERENCES

https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Hanseti (accessed 15/4/17)

https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Kingdom_of_Hanseti-Ruska (accessed 15/4/17)

https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Peter_of_Haense (accessed 15/4/17)

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/88770-the-culture-of-hanseti/

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/114622-the-marian-language/

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/114626-the-ancient-hansetians/

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/115690-disbanded-the-teutonic-order/

((It was 4:20pm three minutes ago.))

[Eddywilson2 2117]

An elderly scribe begins constructing a response:

 

"The Kingdom of Haense, also known as the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska, is not solely a Hansetian kingdom nor is it solely a Ruskan people. House Barbanov, the ruling dynasty of the Highlander people, controls the Kingdom and does not rely on one cultural entity. Rather, it is a conglomerate of all Highlander peoples.

 

The Barbanov line does not claim its legitimacy from loose ties to House DeNurem. Nor was it Petyr Barbanov who established Haense in its founding. The Kingdom of Haense is an ancient kingdom which traces its lineage back to the beginning of the Highlander people. Saint Karl Barbanov reestablished Haense with ties to Raev, Hanseti, and other Highlander cultures. To expect Haense to adhere to a single cultural entity goes against the very message of its foundation, a Kingdom for all the Highlander peoples."

[The Lion 736]

With delight and no ill-will, I will engage your obviously deep knowledge of Haense with the logic employed regarding the assertations raised about Petyr. I thank a fellow scribe for even speaking up in the first place.

 

Firstly it's prudent to state that there was no intention, assumption or announcement that the Kingdom of Haense was for one Highlandic culture as it's overtly apparent it was founded to unite Highlandic/Northeron cultures together during it's time in the light. Nor was it ever assumed that Haense was solely Hansetian or Ruskan. The author (whom is me!) simply wanted to state that for Hansetian identity was a minority in Haense and that those who culturally identified as Hansetians should be aware that Haense represented a much more Raev cultural identity. No slight was meant towards Hansae, nor Barbanov. In-fact it is well known to the author that Barbanov is not nor claims direct links to DeNurem. It is the Vladov link that was employed as grounds to make previous claims about Petyr.

 

Conceding that personal knowledge of Haense is limited at best; From what could be readily studied and gathered together it appeared that Petyr legitimized the Kingdom of Haense. He being a son of a Barbanov and Vladov was summarized to have used the Vladov link to Winter DeNurem (Whom married into House Vladov long ago) in-order to lay claim to the crown of Hanseti. To simplify the previous logic of words already stated: Winter Vladov being Hochmeister Mirtok's daughter was the grounds by which it was reasoned Petyr Barbanov had used to make claim to the crown of both the Kingdom of Hanseti and also that of Ruska by the authority of Emperor John III due to his other link to the Carrion dynasty through Barbanov.

With eager ears, I listen to objectors to expand my knowledge. Minds are meant to be changed when presented with new information. Dogmatic worship of anything is pure evil and leads to unreasonable needlessness.

[Eddywilson2 2117]

The scribe smiles as he reads the reply, gladdened to hear of people with such a knowledge in history.

 

"You are correct in each of your statements. Petyr's claim derives from his parents, one of Carrion bloodline and the other a descendent of DeNurem bloodline. Haense has always been a kingdom which accepts all forms of culture, and you are also correct to say a major part of the Kingdom is of Raev tradition and culture. Hansetian culture has been a minority in Haense as it lacks the needed support to ensure such cultire's survival. An easy fix to that would be for the newly formed Tuetonic Order to join its Northern brethren in the North-West where Haense is being refounded by Marius Barbanov.

 

Historically, the Northern people have always been weaker divided than when they are united under a single banner. While I feel that shall go ignored do to pride for independence, the joining of the Teutonic Order, the founders of Hanseti, with the Haensetic people would increase the culture of Hanseti in Haense dramatically and restore the Northern powers on the battlefield once more.

[yopplwasupxxx 5946]

7 hours ago, A Wandering Wizard said:

 Petyr Barbanov used loose blood relation to DeNurem for his claim to the crown of Hanseti to create the amalgamated Ruska-fused kingdom of Haense which in cultural comparison was majorly more Raev than it ever was Hansetian. 

"You are incorrect for a few reasons,

 

First, while Peter of Hanseti-Ruska used his distant blood ties to give credence to himself holding the title, it was the Imperial endowment of the title which gave him the actual title itself for him and his descendants to use. Before then, the title 'King of Hanseti' was used numerous times as a secondary titles to nearly every Orenian monarch post-Schism War, namely for King Andrew's claimed victory after the destruction of Aesterwald, which itself was acclaimed as heirs to Hanseti after Mirtok bestowed King Frederick its crown and vaults. From there, the title stayed with the Ashford dynasts and then the Johannian Horen Emperors, to which its scion John III granted Petyr the titles of both King of Hanseti and King of Ruska.

 

Second, the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska was neither Hansetian nor Raevir, but a melting pot of wide variety of Highlander cultures. You had Raev-blooded nobles naming their children in the Marian custom (such as the kingdom's last king, Marius I), speaking in the Hanso-Waldenian accent (such as the House of Kovachev) and overall acting nothing like the Old Raev or the Old Hansetians, but rather something new.

 

Third, in the end you speak of a culture from over two hundred years ago, from the current year of 1607. Times change, people change, the cultures of the days of Godfrey adapt and evolve into something different and new. We cannot control it, but instead look forward to see the lasting impact of the ancient ways into the modern customs we hold today. There is no true Raev anymore, nor is there a true Hansetian, rather a accumulation of centuries of cultural contact and intermarriage."

 

Says a scribe.

[The Lion 736]

Having learned of the Elder Scribe's knowledge dropped, a closing statement on that matter comes:

A third founding of the Teutonic Order? This is news. I fear that it has nothing to do with pride for independence that will be the struggle with your idea for bolstering the Hansetian position. Historically it was simply up to major cultural difference between Teutonic-Hansetians and Raev that blocked them from cooperation in the past. The historical struggle could be traced back to Anthos when Emperor Godfrey sanctioned Carrion to live on Hansetian soil.

 

Actual Hansetians have always striven to progress their position and improve their people's lives. They are not above bending a knee to another when it's the wiser, more prosperous move. Reference back to mid-Asulon when Hochmeister DeNurem agreed to serve Emperor Godfrey in-order to avoid the death of his people in a needless war. If the goals of the Teutonic-Hansetians aligns with that of the establishment, they will no-doubt cooperate. If the goals do not align, they will no-doubt prepare for war.

The world will always fear a strong Highlandic corporation. Yet the fault most encountered by the Highlandic peoples is that they wish to be the one to control it because the current establishment appears weak in their eyes. Few times has the Northeron shared a commonwealth.

EDIT: Having been reminded by this new Scribe that Hochmeister DeNurem relinquished the crown's powers to the Kingdom of Hanseti to his people of the Northern Commonwealth. It's reasonable to assume that cultural direction also went with the relinquishment of power. Retiring what was.  Allowing the room for what is to exist. In-light of his points, I think it's reasonably prudent to reinforce more Hansetian values by way of introducing this new Hochmeister to more of those that culturally identify as Hansetian. For it is traditional practices of Raev, Waldien and Hansetians that have been keystones for each culture to thrive.

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