Duchy of Ogror

The Duchy of Ogror is a Northern Duchy in the Kingdom of Wermania. It is home to the Ogrorians and Jeretians and borders the duchies of Chuacia and Bruuckzell. To the Northeast lies the North Sea and to the Northwest the Aclian Sea. In the middle of the uchy lies Lake Ogro and the Ogror Desert.

First mention (-10.000)
The first known mention of Ogror was in 10.000 in a Desert Legends religious text. The text tells the tale of an impossible love between a Chuacian and an Ogrorian.

First war of the Ogro Lake (-8.000 to -7.000)
The co-existence between the Chuacians and Ogrorians was a complex one. The two peoples regularly fought over water sources. Between -8.000 and -7.000, the Ogrorians were forced to flee to the desert by the dominant Chuacians in what became known as the First war of the Ogro Lake. After the war, the Ogrorians were forced to search for fortunes beyond the desert. After generations of living in the desert, they longed for their old homeland and began preparing an army.

Second war of the Ogro Lake (-6.000 to -5.000)
The Second war of the Ogro Lake was a very one-sided conflict. Although initially, in -6.000, the Chuacians had a larger population, the Ogrorians had a better trained army and slowly but surely started to kick out the Chuacians. In -5.000, the Ogrorians were the dominant group around Lake Ogro.

Exploration of the Ogror Desert and expansion (-3.000 to -800)
In -3.000 the leader of the Ogrorians sent a scout division to hunt survivors of the Chuacians in the desert. They did not find the Chuacians, but they did perfect travel in the desert. Using this newfound knowledge, they expanded north and east, through the desert. In -2.000, they conquered the Jeretians as well as other groups along the coast. In 1.000, their lands reached from the island of Jeretia to the city of Arshot. In -900, they had fully mapped the desert, and they conquered more Jeretian land, as well as going up the Iron River to conquer more land, up to what is today the city of Bridges. In -800, they conquered all Jeretian lands, though the religion of the Jeretians was not surpressed.

War with Bruuckzell (-700 to -650)
Ogror tried conquering lands on the other side of the Iron River, who were at the time owned by Bruuckzell. Thinkng the Bruuckzellians no more than savages, the Ogrorians invaded. Very quickly it became apparant that the Bruuckzellians had a better trained army, after the Ogrorians lost the first battle. In -690, the Bruuckzellian forces had crossed the desert and occupied Lake Ogro, getting access to their knowledge of the desert. In the following decades, Bruuckzell systematically took over all lands of Ogror, including its coast lines. Ogror became ruled by the Bruuckzellians directly. By -650, the Bruuckzellians had consolidated all of Ogror, and started moving West to fight the rumoured nation of the Chuacians. Many Ogrorians joined the Bruuckzellian army to help invade the Chuacians, in what they called the Third war of Lake Ogror.

Third war of Lake Ogror (-650 to -550)
Bruuckzell, taking advantage of the Ogrorian volunteers, invaded Chuacia and later Aclium. The Ogrorian elite troops served between -600 and -580 as the Bruuckzellian king's personal guard.

Formation of the duchy (-350)
In -350, King Fer-anck the Great formed the duchy of Ogror and put a befriended Ogrorian noble family, the House of Machiva, in power. Ogror kept most of its lands it had in -800.

The Exodus (31-32)
In the year 31, Simon Bruuckzell, leader of the Poor-fellow Order, marched his army through the Ogror Desert to conquer the Jeretian lands. The duke of Ogror, David Machiva, sent his own armies against the Holy Order, defeating them and killing the grandmaster. Some Jeretians, who didn't feel save, fled to other parts of Wermania such as Ushen or Crai Plea.