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Two nations to our north, Etrugia and Nilhasse, have been at war because their marriage alliance was broken when the king of Etrugia failed to produce an heir. When it was discovered that he had taken several Mamono mistresses, Nilhasse took it as an act of power consolidation, thinking that he was doing it to keep the power on Etrugia's throne, and thus his own, and not have to marry it off to the next generation of another nation. Nilhasse declared war, and passed a Papal Bull that banished all Mamono from Nilhasse. The Order Inquisition was brought in to purge Mamono from every corner of their nation, thus beginning the migration years ago. It spiralled downwards from there as each nation appropriated smaller neighboring countries, until they both turned their eyes to Whitemarch.

It went by a different name then, and was ruled by a petty, corrupt king. The land was considered untenable and inhospitable, due to the Elves being fiercely territorial and always fighting with the Dwarves. Long story short, Adelaide heard of the situation, understood that the Elves and Dwarves would be destroyed if they were not united, and led a revolt against the monarchy of the capital with the support of local dissident barons and landowners. She united the Humans of the Capital with the Elves and Dwarves and conscripted the services of the then-wild Centaurs, as well as an independent city of Harpies known as Iveria, forming them into an alliance under a document known as the Free States Charter that gave each province its economic and ethnical freedom while agreeing to come to the aid of the others, regardless of need. She named the new city-state "Whitemarch" for the snow capped mountains that ring the entire nation.

There's somewhat more to it, but that's the general history of Whitemarch.