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====== Caddancia ======

===== Social structure =====

Since its foundation in 93, Caddancia has always been divided into two groups following a different philosophy. The first group, influenced and filled with members of the rich Galdor families, sought to imitate the Galdor system in Caddancia. The second group, small merchants, farmer and craftsmen wanted to get away from the Oligarchic society they had to experience in Galdor. However, in the beginning the reason was not the wish for political power, but to get rid of the repressions, Galdor society meant for trading and agriculture.\\ Ironically, it was the first group being in charge that led to the government that can today be found in Galdor. After the two large Galdor clans, defeated during the Civil War in Galdor, found a refuge in Caddancia, the “Galdor” group became the major power in Caddancia. The influence of those noblemen was accompanied by a sought for independence from Galdor and militaristic and expansionist tradition. This led to the Occupation of Ashandor in 451. During the Caddancian reign over Ashandor, that lasted for more then 400 years, many of the Ashandor ideas found a way into Caddanian culture. In the beginning of the 8th century, the call for economic freedom (and political freedom now as well) grew stronger, leading to the first election of the Mayor of Caddancia in 756 and the foundation of the four assemblies. Those first attempts to install a government, elected and legitimated by all Caddancian citizens were still influenced by the long lasting feudal tradition as well as the central economic thoughts of Caddancian people. In those early elections, votes could be bought, leading to a lot of corruption and didn’t change much. Several reforms of the election rights were made until Caddancia found a satisfying system.\\ Today, each citizen has at least one, to a maximum of three votes, depending on their wealth and the land they posses. Each candidate has to be accepted by the four assemblies of Caddancia or he or she can’t be elected.

===== Organisation =====

==== The mayor ====

The mayor of Caddancia is elected every 8 years by all citizens of Caddancia. He is the official representative for Caddancia in the Kaerthia Council and has legislative rights.\\ However any new law altering the 8 main principles of Caddancia, which contain the organization of the election and the assemblies, needs to be accepted by all four of them before. Still the mayor of Caddancia has much power as he again can only be removed by an agreement of all four assemblies, which has never happened until today.

==== The assemblies ====

The assemblies were installed in 1127 to prevent corruption and nepotism during the election of the mayor. Later they were also made a control instance to prevent the mayor from abusing his power. The four assemblies are.

  * 1st assembly: Merchants, craftsmen and other citizens producing non-agricultural wares 

  * 2nd assembly: Farmer 

  * 3rd assembly: Noblemen 

  * 4th assembly: Priests and other religious institutions 

===== History of Caddancia =====

  * **93** Founded as a colony of Galdor, to find new room for the fast growing Galdor population. Little is know about the early years of Caddancia, as Galdor remained the only remarkable power during this time. The rise of Caddancia that led to the extraordinary status it has today began in
  * **253** with two of the largest Galdor noble clans retreating to Caddancia, because of a defeat during the Galdor Civil War. At first, the old noble families were still watched with suspect and fear. Caddancia was not yet ready or willing to separate completely from Galdor and risk a militaristic conflict with the Capitol, especially as there were no troops to defend Caddancia. Still, the noblemen were able to convince the Caddancia population of the necessity of an independent army against Galdor hegemony. Early Caddancia army was nothing more then a colourful band of vagabonds, rogues and other shady figures. But when Caddancia was besieged in
  * **344** by a Galdor army, returning from Ashandor and the Caddancia army surprisingly celebrated its first victory, the reputation of the soldiers and its leaders, the former Galdor noblemen grew extreme, which led to a long period of an expansionist politics within Caddancia.
  * **375** **Foundation of Kirminstor**. The foundation of a Caddancian colony was not only an obvious insult towards Galdor pretensions, but also a catastrophe for early Caddancia expansionism. Kirminstor was never able to grow until its early end, as Caddancia lacked the organization and unity required for such a mission during this time. Kirminstor was finally destroyed by the eruption of a nearby volcano. Today, only ruins of the Kirminstor keep show any sign of the former colony. Still the expedition had one positive side-aspect for Caddancia. The relationship towards the dwarves of Natu-Dum was improved. Trade agreements were made and later also militaristic alliances. That was to play an important role in later incidents.\\ Nevertheless, Caddancia politics had failed. Not only the Kirminstor disaster, but also the disappointing results of the 2nd council, that ignored the question of a Caddancia independence from Galdor, led to a frustrated and aggressive mood among Caddancia people. The calls for war grew stronger and finally Caddancia troops attacked and occupied Ashandor in 451 leading to the →1st Capitol War.
  * **451-455** **Caddancia during the 1st Capitol War.** The discussion about who was responsible for the outbreak of the 1st capitol War has been as emotional as fruitless.\\ Anyway, Caddancia felt surrounded by Galdor with Ashandor to the West, new founded Throck-Badd to the North, the desert to the East and Galdor itself to the South. After the occupation of Ashandor and the destruction of Throck-Badd, an alliance of Caddancia and the Natu-Dum dwarves, defeated isolated Galdor on the Dragon March fields. Caddancia was now the primary power in Kaerthia.
  * **455-856** **Caddancia after the 1st and during the 2nd Capitol War** The Years following the victory over Galdor were a peaceful and prosperous time for Caddancia. Old trading relationships, for example with the dwarves, were expanded and fortified, and new agreements were made. Many of the Gnomes moved from Galdor to Caddancia to improve their options for inventing and experimenting. The picture of Caddancia as known today originates from this time. Political power though remained in the hands of the victorious militaristic leaders of the war. However, they failed to adapt the new situation. Their traditional concept of ruling was not suitable for the new face of Caddancia anymore. Influences from Ashandor, Elves and Gnomes, a new powerful class of incredibly rich merchants, this and more led to discontent among the citizens of Caddancia towards their government. Since the beginning of the 7th Century, the times for Caddancia became unstable and dangerous. Several attempts for reforms were made. Almost none were realized. Power switched from one group to another, the 2nd Capitol War begun and if it wasn’t for the inability of Galdor nobility to build a united force, Caddancia would have fallen. Still the efforts necessary to survive were extreme. Galdor troops were bribed, when militaristic power wasn’t sufficient. And often, Caddancia leaders demanded the same. The City’s wealth faded.
  * **In 812** the first mayor of Caddancia was elected. But still disunity among Caddancian people and corruption during the election didn’t lead the town to its former strength. Finally in 856 Mayor Barnard had to sign a peace treaty that basically gave Caddancia independence but ended its overwhelming position in Kaerthia, as it was to negate all claims towards Ashandor and Galdor.\\ But the negative results for Caddancia didn’t lie mainly in its loss of political power. Worse was, that once again, Galdor became the main place for science and culture. The gnomes and other races left Caddancia towards Galdor one after another, so today Caddancia has lost most of its former glory, although the trained eye might get an image of how beautiful the city once was during its climax between the 5th and 8th century.
  * **1000-1127** The intervention of the gods caused more chaos in Caddancia then in all other cities. As there were all kinds of different groups, with different interests, there were all kinds of religious movements, meant to help fulfilling these interests as well. The problems in Caddancia, however, tended to affect all of Kaerthia religious movements, as the Caddancian people sought to build alliances with other religious groups outside Caddancia. This led to the 4th council of Kaerthia in1125, where official religions were defined and the cities obliged themselves to maintain equal right and freedom for those religions.\\ Two years later, in 1127, Caddancia society was divided into four several groups, with each group having a representative organ in official meeting: The four assemblies. In the following two decades, Caddancian law was further adjusted, until it reached its current status.
  * **1343** Western Caddancia destroyed by a fire. What caused the fire is unknown until today and led to all kind of accusations for a long period of time. Remarkable, however, is the fact that Caddancia was unable to repair the destruction the fire had caused, so that the current city is still smaller then it has once been
  * **1540** Caddancia renewed its alliance with the dwarves of Natu-Dum. The reason was that Galdor held its council in the rooms reserved for the Kaerthia council. However the conflict was ceased by Sirimon of Galdor, who managed to make Caddancia sign the treaty of the 5th council in 1562.
  * **1781** Caddancia is struck by a deadly epidemic. Although it only lasts half a year until a cure was found by priests of Serena, more then one third of Caddancia population died of the effects. The quickness with which a cure was found however saved other cities from the same fate, as the losses there were not large.\\
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