The Kingdom of Ovrin
The Kingdom of Ovrin was a relatively short-lived nation that rose to sovereignty after after a series of rebellions against various fragmented nations following the collapse of the Gnoman Empire. With order rapidly falling apart, those in power attempted to found a series of administrative republics in the ethnically and racially diverse centralised provinces, but only those in the true Gnoman heartlands would survive. Ovrin was a kingdom formed by a collection of ethnic groups that rebelled from these republics, rallying behind a shared culture and faith, Obrusinium.
While Obrusi teaching made cooperation unusual, the pressures of the environment in which the faithful existed made it a necessity. Three tribes, the Ovrunns, (humans, for which the kingdom was known), the Bretryns, (also humans), and the Calics, (elves), were the three main ethnic groups that composed the kingdom, but it widely believed the nation attracted follows of the faith from across the north, acting as a melting pot for the various Obrusi cultures.
The country existed for approximately five decades forming sometime in the late 580s, as a cohesive. During this time rulership would change frequently, often transferred through Obrusi ritual combat and never through civil war. This unity, the ability of the culture to rally behind a single leader made would also sow the seeds of its eventual decline of the nation, as often each new ruler would strive to prove themself militarily. Against disorganised foes, of which their were many early on, this was successful in granting land and wealth to the Ovrunn kings, but as the century reached its twilight, the Ovrunn militias were becoming outstripped by increasingly competent opponents.
In 619 MH, the last Ovrunn King, Luthur Broc, declared war upon the Kingdom of Palus. Palus was a new neighbour to the kingdom, itself notoriously expansionist, but in the last decade it had faced similar difficulties to Ovrin as ever more organised powers surrounded them. No-one knows what motivated Luthur, speculation suggesting religion, resources, or simply pride, but either way it proved a fatal mistake. While initially the Ovrunns made gains, they faced a gruelling war of attrition with the Palish. It looked like fortune may favour them again when the Palish King Alfred the Bloodied was cut down in battle, but Palus eked out a victory when they pushed forward and captured the capital city of Lividum.
Throughout the war, the Ovrunns employed guerilla tactics, seeking to undermine the Palish advance, but this too would prove catastrophic. A demoralised and exhausted Palish army had little care for the Ovrunn citizenry anyway, but these actions made them a threat and a scorched earth policy became the norm for the battle hardened Palish forces. Over the next decade of occupation the Obrusi faith and the Ovrunn, Calic, and Bretyn ethnic groups would be purged and their cultures eradicated leaving only the faintest trace. What remains of Ovrunn culture is seldom attributed to it, only known by dedicated to historians to have an origin beyond early Palus.