History of Sweden | The Beginning - Loremaster Caeruleus
Like any respectable academic I will start by quoting a very important person, without whom this would never have been possible:
"This is my work, be it fact or false. It still bears truth." Caeruleus (me)
The Beginning – The Age of Myth
This is where it all began. The foundations of our future civilizations were laid for us to build upon.
Things seem to have been somewhat quiet in Sweden during this period. Like most nations, we started with humble beginnings.
Things were not so quiet across the Atlantic. Chile was building a massive Empire. They and a handful of countries such as Lithuania, Brazil, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, to name a few, were the first large and active nations.
Chile seems to have been the dominant power on the global stage. At the height of their power, they ruled an Empire stretching from South America to the far reaches of the Arctic Circle. They ruled most of Scandinavia, while Sweden was just a small nation with an idle population. But there were those who stirred and started moving.
At some point during the Chilean Period, Sweden named its first leader: @6813b769efecdf9bab196222.
@6813b769efecdf9bab196222 seems to have been a simple man, switching between the epithets "Bonden" (The Farmer) and "Skjutarn" (The Shooter / The Shoota’). In many ways, this humble man embodied the truest essence of the game in its early days.
We Farm. We Shoot.
@6813b769efecdf9bab196222 was a man of few words. Only one article of his can be found: "Skjutarn"
His writing is simple yet eloquent. He speaks of his double nature as the farmer and the warrior. He feels the battlefields of France calling him to leave his peaceful farm. And as he goes, he leaves us with a quite profound message:
"I did not say goodbye to the farm. The land understood. It had always understood. It knows that sometimes the roots of war grow even in the gentlest soil."
Bonden's successor, @68274e4abf5e6ef63c794afa (Emilio), appears to have been quite the opposite: a leader with a seemingly bad temper and a lack of respect for authority.
@68274e4abf5e6ef63c794afa was banned and muted multiple times, and had their username and comments erased.
Although most traces of @68274e4abf5e6ef63c794afa have been erased, there is an imprint left in history. Between the censored lines, we can see a glimpse of what seemed to be an outspoken rabble-rouser. Not much of @68274e4abf5e6ef63c794afa is known, but they were re-elected and served as leader for two terms.
Both of these early leaders embody WarEra in their own unique ways. Where one is quiet and goes from farm to battlefield in times of crisis, the other stirs the pot for the sake of stirring the pot.
And so, The First Era comes to an end after the second term of @68274e4abf5e6ef63c794afa.
The two first leaders made Sweden take its first steps into a world where giants walked the Earth. The Chilean Empire had met fierce resistance and was losing its grip on Scandinavia.
Sweden was now awake.
Sincerely, Loremaster Caerulues