dec 1, 1605 - The Annexation of the Mredon

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Summary: After the Death of Mredon's final monarch, Javicia annexed most of Mredon. However, the barons, earls, and some counties became independent. Mredon wasn't fully annexed but was only left with one town and made a vassal of Javicia. The event is also known as the Great Annexation of 1605.

The Emperor of Mredon, Emperor Vèrasẽf IV Yíbík, had 6 daughters and none outlived him. His 4th daughter, Èreia, was arranged to marry into the Falkot Dynasty of Javicia, the most powerful family in the world. Vèrasẽf had wanted her to marry the Holy Moroph Emperor, Hiera II, but instead she was to be married to his brother, Xerin II, who was, at the time, the heir to his brother. The marriage was done to cement the relationship between the two countries.

However, 4 years after her marriage to Xerin II, a massive plague hit Mredon and Duyavarm. This plague killed the majority of her sisters (4 of them) and severely weakened her father. After a second wave of the plague hit 11 years later, the rest of her sisters died off, leaving her weak father to make her his heir to the throne of Mredon. In late 1605, her father passed away from his already severely weakened immune system. Thus the title of Emperor of Mredon came into the possession of Èreia and Xerin II's daughter, Eldfam Alme Falkot. However, Xerin II took the title away from his daughter and merged the Mredon Empire into the Javician Empire.

Due to the contested transfer of power between Eldfam and Xerin II, not all of the Mredonese nobles agreed and rebelled against the annexation. Xerin, who had just lost numerous soldiers to the 6th Oipientixian Crusade, did not want to waste more precious resources and soldiers on fighting what he believed to be insignificant holdings in the Eastern Steppes of the Nuomdeims.

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