A Prince of Hurmu

The cultural successor to the former Hurmu, with a smidgen of Finnic influence, based in the lakes region of Lyrica.

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Kaiser Ayreon IV
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A Prince of Hurmu

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It was with some apprehension that Kaiser Ayreon IV stepped off from his gravship at Vesüha airport. Once known as Huyenkula, Vesüha was the now blossoming capital of Craitland’s overseas Lakkvia province. The city did not seem very much like the old Huyenkula of yore, famous from the stories he had heard from his family. His ancestors, beginning with his grandfather’s grandfather’s father Kaiser Ayreon the First (Rashid Arsalani) had been princes of this land of peace and quietness. Flanked by his personal guards, the Kaiser went through the airport terminal to a limousine waiting outside – as he walked through the airport he saw the trilingual signs in Craitish, Lakkvian and Hurmu (in that order).

The Lakkvians were a strange people, the Kaiser thought. Coming from the steppes of Keltia, related to the Reindeer Herders of what is now Normark, they managed to cross the ocean just after the Hurmu genocide to help their brethren, the Hurmudans. But their aid had, in the view of the dead, come too late. By then some 80 to 90% of the Hurmu population had been slaughtered by the Jing armies. The sad truth was that the Hurmu people had always been brought up in the ideology of pacifism – do not kill another human, even if it would protect yourself. So it was to this giant graveyard that the Lakkvians had arrived. Armed to fight off the Jing, but the Jing had already left, all they could see were the dead bodies lining the streets of the villages, towns and cities of the once majestic Hurmu land.

The Lakkvians rebuilt. The Craits also came, vowing to aid their Hurmu brethren too. The Craits had armies, but more importantly, they had money, engineers, and they brought life to this once dead land. The even-smaller Hurmu population, now reduced to a minority in own land (mainly living in the primeval forests and thereby had been protected from the Jing onslaught), stayed, kept their habits in the forests and among the hills, singing their Brida, living off the fruits of the forest. Some worked with the Lakkvians and the Craits in Huyenkula (renamed Vesüha by the Lakkvians), but most remained rural, letting the new government be the new government. Other Hurmudans had fled to Shireroth or Stormark.

However, when Craitland joined the USSO, the Hurmudans protested vehemently. How could Craitland join in an alliance with Jingdao, the massacrer of their homeland? The Hurmu people started organizing, established political parties, associations, labour unions – and did everything it could to bring the Hurmu people together. This new Hurmu revival was met with some resistance from the Lakkvian majority – and the USSO question had divided the people of the Lakkvian territory – the division was bitter. In the end however, Craitland decided to leave the USSO.

The political associations of Hurmudans remained though, and this revival brought forth more Hurmu education in schools, the revival of the languages, both the Norse and the ritual/liturgical Hurmumal. And on the fourth day of the ninth month of this year, the Parlerment of Hurmudans, the main conference of the Hurmu organizations of Lakkvia, elected Kaiser Ayreon IV to a nominal Prince of Hurmu, and offered the Kaiser this office with the consent of the King of Craitland.

This title, only titular and without any actual power, was offered the Kaiser due to him being the senior heir to the last Prince of Elwynn – Elijah Ayreon. Elijah’s father Daniel Kalirion and grandfather Rashid Shah were both also Princes of Elwynn.

For the Kaiser, this was a tremendous honour, and he felt a sense of pride to be part of the people that he had not had many connections with – despite it being a big part of his ethnic identity.

The Palace of the Elenaran, the old palace in Huyenkula, erected in the days of Menelmacari sovereingty, in the outskirts of Vesüha, had been donated to the Hurmu communities by the first Lakkvian governor and reconverted to a museum. But there was an apartment there ready for the Prince, and this would be his Hurmu home.

The Kaiser had come home.
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Re: A Prince of Hurmu

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The Jingdaoese Empire has also brought music to Hurmu.

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