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Title: l’Ensauvagement de la Prydanie: un pays détruit en siècle (Prydania’s descent into savagery: a country destroyed in a century)
Country of Origin: Saintonge
Authors: Jeanne-Solange Chanfrault, Ketilbjörn Skarbövik
Publisher: Presse academique de l'Université de Saintes (University of Saintes Academic Press)
Year of Publication: 2020
Synopsis/Blurb: One of the first history books delving into the recently-concluded Prydanian Civil War, historian Jeanne-Solange Chanfrault of the University of Saintes and her graduate student Ketilbjörn Skarbövik analysed the roots of the war that nearly destroyed a nation. Chanfrault and Skarbövik trace the fault lines to the 1920s and 1930s, with the rise of the fascist regime of King Rikard VI of Prydania. The Prydania of King Robert VII was but an aberration, a veneer of placidity where radicalised movements were brewing underneath. The subsequent Social Commonwealth and Syndicalist governments were reactions to each other, when the extreme polarisation tore apart society and country.

“l’Ensauvagement de la Prydanie” is a well-researched, unbiased, third-party analysis of the turbulent recent past of the Kingdom of Prydania. Chanfrault and Skarbövik remain objective yet sympathetic when writing about Skarbövik’s country of roots. The story is ominous; a cautionary tale on how a country can be easily torn apart.

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Title: Achevé Idiots Guider à Parler Prydanienne (Complete Idiot's Guide to Speaking Prydanian)
Country of Origin: Saintonge
Author: Fenrir Varvik
Publisher: Editions du Choquet-Pretre (Choquet-Pretre Publishing)
Year of Publication: 2018
Synopsis/Blurb: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speaking Prydanian makes leaning Prydanian fun and entertaining - so you don't feel bogged down with a "directory" of words. Feel confident about speaking the language and communicating with native speakers whether you're planning a vacation or preparing for a business trip. This helpful guide focuses on more academic topics, such as verb tenses, while useful travel-themed chapters deal with everything from renting a car to visiting a doctor.

Title: Þar sem Sverðið Liggur (Where the Sword Lies)
Country of Origin: Prydania
Author: Tommy Lind
Publisher: Langtsviði Útgáfufyrirtæki (Farfield Publishing)
Year of Publication: 1942, subsequent editions in 1954, 1975, 1984, 1985, 2010, 2019
Synopsis/Blurb: Jarl Nökkvi of Brandvold eagerly answers the call of the Pope and King Rikard I to embark on Crusade against the Syrixian Empire. The journey to the Syrixian Home Islands sees him meet a knight-errant named Kristján Strom. The two reunite on King Rikard's campaign from Shravasti to Hastinapur. The trek through the Syrixian countryside sees the Jarl and knight-errant grow close as they examine their reasons for joining the fight- For the Jarl it's his strong Courantist faith. For Kristján it's to seek his fortunes in this strange land, so he may prove himself a warrior and win land of his own. These divergent motivations melt together as the trek towards Hastinapur through the unrelenting jungles and stiff Syrixian resistance break down their reasons for joining the Crusade, and have both pondering why it is they truly fight.

Title: Restoring Hope
Country of Origin: Astragon
Authors: Abashahd Na Kevsha
Publisher: Tsime Publications
Year of Publication: 1960
Synopsis/Blurb: A historical examination of the difficulties Astragon faced during the Fascist war written by the countries primary military leader Abashahd Na Kevshah. The book charts the war from the early conflict with the Na Themba state and concludes with the march into Iraelia. The book was controversial at the time of its writing due to the honesty in which it notes the flaws in the nations strategy and their overreliance on outdated equipment and tactics. The author ultimately goes on to explain how the early setbacks Astragon suffered would eventually lead to major reforms which would see the exalted empire emerge victorious.

Title: Steppenpferd: Our Pride and Glory
Country of Origin: Norsos
Authors: Saul Rugen & Braegan Volkmann
Publisher: Wolf Books Ltd
Year of Publication: 2018
Synopsis/Blurb: Written by Essalanean expatriates following the successful conclusion of the Karg war. The book is a semi-biographical examination of the rise of High Chief Gaiseric Volkmann and his attempts to unite the clans under a central authority. The book enthusiastically supports Gaiserics modernisation of the country and calls for the clans to unite under his rule in order to bring about a new golden age for Essalanea

Title: Faim Froide: la catastrophe humanitaire en Hessunland au lendemain de la guerre gottienne ("Cold Hunger: the humanitarian disaster in Hessunland in the aftermath of the Gottian war")
Country of Origin: Saintonge
Authors: Gilles-Maximin de Montcharmont, Theobald-Heinrich Brockdorff
Publisher: Presse academique de l'Université de Saintes (University of Saintes Academic Press)
Year of Publication: 2016
Synopsis/Blurb: In the aftermath of the Gottian War, the country was destroyed and downtrodden, its people a pariah and ignored by the occupiers. The international community was slow to act, and the destroyed country descended into famine in the brutal winter of 1989-1990. Two Santonian journalists, Mériadec Rocquinarc’h and Adam-Denis Latteux, doggedly publicised the plight of the people of Hessunland, spurring Saintonge and the international community to act.

University of Saintes historians Gilles-Maximin de Montcharmont and Theobald-Heinrich Brockdorff chronicle the series of events that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people - even more than the casualties of the war itself. De Montcharmont and Brockdorff draw not only from Rocquinarc’h's and Latteux' material, but from other observers, Hessunlanders, and even the occupying authorities. The book paints a complete picture of a societal and economic breakdown in a broken country ravaged by one of the worst wars in the modern era.

Title: The Amulet
Country of Origin: City State of Knightley
Authors: Laura Key
Publisher: Yerristown Group (Knightley City)
Year of Publication: 1994
Synopsis/Blurb: An unsuspecting girl named Flora learns the true meaning of value and worth when she inherits an heirloom from her family which has little to no monetary value. It is a timeless story of a person seeking worth outside themselves in the world to no avail then leading to the discovery of worth inside and above rather than around.

Title: Commentaries for a Better State
Country of Origin: Hessunland
Authors: Hugo Von Hagen
Publisher: Erleuchten Ltd
Year of Publication: 2010
Synopsis/Blurb: Hugo Von Hagen discusses the transition of Hessunland from a dictatorship towards a democratic state. Hagen examines the historical failings of Gottia and lays out a roadmap to creating a free and prosperous society where civil rights and political freedoms are enshrined. The book has become a landmark text and was one of the primary works cited when the monarchist movement chose Von Hagen as their candidate in 2017.

Title: Ríkibrjálæði: Prydansk af Rikard VI og í Fasististríð (Realm of Madness: The Prydania of Rikard VI and the Fascist Wars)
Country of Origin: Prydania
Author: Hallvarður Ektavon
Publisher: Uglubækur (Owl Books)
Year of Publication: 2020
Synopsis/Blurb: Historian Hallvarður Ektavon's second book on Prydania during the Fascist War since the end of the Civil War (and third overall) is an in-depth analysis of both life and government during the first Social Commonwealth regime. Ektavon explores the feelings of alienation and anger those left behind by rapid industrial and societal modernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries felt and how this contributed to fascism's rise in a time when Prydania seemed to be becoming more open and democratic.
Both the Social Commonwealth government under the omnipresent figure of King Rikard VI and the lives of everyday people under the regime are discussed in detail as Ektavon draws on private letters, personal journals, newspapers, and even the words of those at the top of the regime themselves to paint a near-complete picture of the first Social Commonwealth era. This approach allows Ektavon to explore everything from the particulars of Social Commonwealth government structure and how its internal policy developed to how the common citizen viewed the regime and reacted to it.
Ríkibrjálæði: Prydansk af Rikard VI og í Fasististríð paints a complex picture of Prydania between the years 1937-1951, examining a dictatorship that valued bigotry and allusions of strength and tradition over coherent ideology and a fractured populous that at times seemed to both embrace and seem weary of the regime.

Title: Yfir Hæðirnar og til Baka: Minningargreinar af Konungur Tobias III frá Borgarastyrjöld (Over the Hills and Back: Memoirs of King Tobias III from the Civil War)
Country of Origin: Prydania
Author: Tobias-Brice Höjsleth
Publisher: Uglubækur (Owl Books)
Year of Publication: 2082
Synopsis/Blurb: Tobias-Brice Höjsleth, the son of Prydanian refugee and former Santonian National Assembly member Thorbjörn Höjsleth, had known the recently-deceased King of Prydania his entire life. The King, a friend of his father, sat down with Tobias-Brice over a period of years going over his memoirs of the Prydanian Civil War; a conflict the King had lived through from the ages of seven to twenty-two. The resulting book is only now being released upon His Majesty's death, as per his request.
The dictation of King Tobias' memoirs to a family friend results in a frank and honest retelling of the events that shaped the King's life during his formative years. It is sometimes bleak, sometimes heart-wrenchingly emotional, sometimes full of hope. His Majesty recounts everything he can, from being separated from his parents, to seeing their execution, to living in hiding. He also frankly opens up about his experiences in combat, and how he and those like him coped and tried to eek out something of a normal life during the horrors of a war that tore the country apart. The King fully admits that as hard as reliving the Syndicalist era and the conflict is, he feels it's a necessity to inform younger generations and ensure that these horrors are never visited upon Prydania- or anywhere else- again.

Title: Sezessionskrieg: Iterien 1964-1979
Country of Origin: Zhen (Zhenmen)
Authors: ZenShiqun-Panis!
Publisher: Yanguangshi
Year of Publication: 2012
Synopsis/Blurb: In Makopa, sitting behind the resolute mountains of Ifugao, lies the fertile plains of Yamanpatagan where Hightonian settlers founded their new homeland: Dallicania. While Dalikaners grew and prospered, the native Makopans were kicked out of their own homes, became prisoners in their own country. A humiliated people. So when the Dalikaners massacred unarmed Makopan students in 1963, getting away with Makopan lands in a so-called "act of unilateral independence," the Makopans decided to take back what is rightfully theirs—Kalayaan o kamatayan!

Sezessionskrieg: Iterien 1964-1979 is a fictional alt-history novel based on ZhenShiqun-Panis!'s first-person-shooter franchise, Sezessionskrieg. Apart from establishing its epic origins, the story is mostly a bridge between the franchise installments. It also features wargaming scenarios, orders of combat, and background information about the game's development.

Title: Petrishah, Petria and the Age of Counts (Original Title: Petrishah, Petria y la Era Condal)
Country of Origin: Vivanco
Authors: Dr. Lethan Widrowness
Publisher: Editoriales Bilbalino
Year of Publication: 1997
Synopsis/Blurb: This is the product of years of investigation by the former Master Archivist for the Marquisate of Vivanco in the research for the origins of the importance of the current capital of the country, Petria, and the events that gave the now bloominng city its importance across the time, from the times of the Kingdom of Rethan, to the several times democracy came to the country (1433-1433, 1530-1532, 1700-1833, 1834-1870, 1903- Actual times).
It centers around mostly the time of the so called "Wars of the Counts", where first is heard of the city as a key role in the nation's politics.

Title: Gojan Aandageist (Gojan Spirit)
Country of Origin: Goyanes
Authors: Ronald Admusson, Helen Martinsdottir Van Elby, Jean Pierre Johannson Hernon
Publisher: Academic Press of the University of Nyhett
Year of Publication: 2020
Synopsis/Blurb: This is a series of textbooks of Gojan Language and Culture aimed at people from Saintonge. The series encompasses beginner to advanced levels, and is mostly aimed at secondary school students and university-level students, though the textbook can be used at any age. Digital resources are included with the textbook for a more integrated and multi-faceted learning experience.

Title: Der Høykald Vinteren Bringer Skøn Vårseit: En Memoar van Der Gotmarkkrieg (The Coldest Winters Bring Beautiful Springtimes: A Memoir of the Gotmark War)
Country of Origin: Goyanes
Authors: Reidar Larsson
Publisher: Ænningberg-Hosen Sæg Press
Year of Publication: 1994
Synopsis/Blurb: Reidar Larsson's harrowing first person account of the Gotmark War has become a standard of Goyanean literature, having become required reading in many high school Gojan classes around the nation. Released 6 years after the Treaty of Frankthorf, the book follows a younger Larsson from his enlistment in the Imperial Army two years before the war started to the heat of battle in February to April 1988. The book is particularly vivid in its descriptions of not only what he saw as a soldier, but of what he and his companions in his troop were also thinking and feeling. The book is set to be adapted into film within the next five years.

Title: 5 Cold days 5 Hellish nights
Country of Origin: Yalkan
Authors: Karl Rule, Richard Aga
Publisher: Zeta Boktrykk (Zeta Book Prints)
Year of Publication: 2009
Synopsis/Blurb: This autobiography was written by Karl Rule with the help of renowned journalist Richard Aga. As a young man, Karl Rule served as a corporal in the renowned Våtmark Brigade, being deployed into the Oclusi Corridor during the infamous Five Day War of 1988. Follow him on his journey to revisit the place that still clings on to the horrendous events of his past. Read his revealing account of the harrowing “Cauldron” and his desperate attempts to survive the catastrophe of the war. It is a story of how a man had to lock away his humanity and become something otherworldly to come out unscathed. Join Karl on his journey to bury his friends and demons of the past whilst making sense of the doomed military strategy known as Operation Drake that would claim untold thousands of lives. Read as Yalken Commanders bring the army to the brink of catastrophe, shocking the nation, and the world alike…

Title: Ingmar the Third
Country of Origin: Goyanes
Authors: Vilhelm Anthony Thaddeus
Publisher: Various; the copyright for this work is expired
Year of Publication: 1632
Synopsis/Blurb: Ingmar III dramatizes the story of its namesake, Grand Emperor Ingmar III (r. 1562-1588). It follows the final years of his life, where his quest for power leads him to poison and kill his brother, Geirolf VI, as he seeks the throne. While Geirolf's son, Geirolf VII eventually retake the throne from Ingmar, the scars left in the nation continue to fester, leading to the Second War of Goyanean succession. The play is seen as an allegorical story for many modern political conflicts, and of the dangers of greed and lust for power. The play has seen many theatrical adaptations since its publishing in 1632.

Title: The Guided Precepts
Country of Origin: Karzastan
Authors: Turab Nerbangal
Publisher: Karzan Ministry of the Interior
Year of Publication: 1981
Synopsis/Blurb: Written in the early '80s by Karzan dictator Turab Nerbangal as both a work of propaganda and a guide for his citizens to live productive lives, the guided precepts read every bit like the work of an egomaniac. In the infamous work, Turab claims descent from the Prophet Tariq, demands complete obedience to the state and proclaims his authority over both temporal and spiritual matters. Owning the book remains mandatory in Karzastan, children are taught to recite its verses in schools and being discovered to not be in possession of a copy carries a minimum sentence of up to a decade in a labour camp. It remains a testament to the levels of repression many peoples experience across Eras.

Title: The Last of the Kladerais
Country of Origin: Tardine
Authors: Setoni Erwien
Publisher: Eronei Bokkelen (Eronei Books)
Year of Publication: 2019
Synopsis/Blurb: They called her crazy, but was Kardenccia II really crazy? When she was 2 days old, her mother was killed by Hermani III (also know as The Slayer), in a coup. All of the Kladerais were killed in the attack, but she got away with her mother's friend who took her to a coastal village, where they hid until she was 15, when she tried to get back and take back her throne. Instead of it, she was forced to marry the son of Hermani, shortly before The Slayer's death. Kardenccia Berduk Kladerai killed her husband 2 years after, but she already had a son with him. To protect the Kladerai lineage she took away the life of her own son, and that's how she got the title of crazy. In this book, I, Setoni Erwien, with the help of 7 renowned historians analised her life and what made her do these things.

Title: Sigur: ÞFkjósandi (Victory: The Social Commonwealth Voter)
Country of Origin: Prydania
Author: Torgærd Heien
Publisher: Uglubækur (Owl Books)
Year of Publication: 2021
Synopsis/Blurb: Dr. Torgærd Heien of the University of Haland brings forward the most comprehensive look at the second Social Commonwealth regime and its supporters yet in Sigur: ÞFkjósandi.
The Syndicalist Republic partially justified its dispossession of the rural farmer and the cruel agricultural collectivization that followed by painting the farming class as the most ardent supporters of the second Social Commonwealth regime of 1984-2002. This justification was in part able to survive initially because it played on public perception of the Social Commonwealth fascist movement dating back to the 1920s. Dr. Heien emphasizes that a narrative in post-Fascist War Prydania began to take shape that laid the blame for the fascist regime of 1937-1951 on "under-educated, boorish, unenlightened rural groups fighting against modernity." This perception allowed the country to push the blame for the fascist movement onto a selected irredeemable internal "other" that could be set aside as the country recovered, and later prospered, following the restoration of parliamentary democracy. The legacy of this painted how the disparate opposition groups to Social Commonwealth's second rise in the 1980s viewed the fascist movement, and in part led to them underestimating their capabilities until it was too late. And allowed a justification for the Syndicalist tyranny that followed to target rural landowners in an orgy of violent retribution against a supposed enemy.
Dr. Heien deconstructs these base assumptions of the Social Commonwealth movement and support base after nearly five years of unrestricted access to files locked away by the Syndicalist regime. Her conclusions are frank and revolutionary- the vast majority of Social Commonwealth Party members from 1981-2002 were not farmers or other rural individuals. Rather the Social Commonwealth support base was primarily middle class, university educated, and urban.
Sigur: ÞFkjósandi paints a picture not of angry rural traditionalists fighting against modernity, but of a secretive but lockstep middle class movement that unashamedly supported their interests and values at the expense of the rest of society. Its appeals to "Prydanian traditionalism" were largely idealized in a way that ran counter to how actual rural populations understood their values. Instead it was a movement that weaponized vague archaic traditionalism to violently uphold an educated middle class Laurenist-centric social system.
Dr. Heien writes that the greatest threat to democratic stability is the eagerness of mainstream parties to trivialize and write off extremist actors. By exposing the disturbingly mainstream supporters of Social Commonwealth fascism she hopes to send a message to people everywhere that such movements must be understood and combated as serious threats to democratic norms if they are to be effectively countered.

Title: 1999 (Tausant neit-kentur en neitent-neit)
Country of Origin: Tardine
Author: Benjamin Asimov
Publisher: Valorat Publications
Year of Publication: 1951, especial comemorative edition of 2001
Synopsis/Blurb: 38 years after the last Big War, Eras was now in peace. A very fragile peace, however. The few surviving forces left after those days, know as "The Bad Days", decided to split the world in factions, by the year of 1961. This peace didn't come without a price, though. Half of the planet was now a nuclear wasteland, after the United States of Auroria, former Aurorian Union, attacked the Meterran Empire, now know as The Big Wastelands, leading to a World War that lasted 6 years, leaving millions dead and thousand injured. The USA is in a constant state of war, be it against the Kianese Federation, or the Gothian Republic, or even the Iterian Union. On the year of 1984, the Great Mother, leader of the USA, set up a surveillance system called "Mommy's Caring Eyes" ("Mammi-su Kanperainin Elos"), aka MOKAE, which identifies and reports any dissidents, for the sake of the Union's safety.

Hermani Haruka, our protagonist, was born in 1965, year of the fourth anniversary of the USA. He was recently promoted to Law Enforcer of the People's Popular Party (Fertien-su Karnet Pareto- FEKAP), main and only political party of the Union. Hermani was assigned to arrest an opposer of the Party. When the man started to defend his views, Hermani was strangely draw to the old man's talk. The man said he was born on 1932, being alive during the "Bad Days", who was able to see the transformations the region went through. He said that, before the Aurorian Union, there was many countries on Auroria. This, however, was against the FEKAP's teachings, as they said that, before the USA, the AU existed since ever and there was never another country on Auroria. "One nation, One language" ("Onen naito, Onen lenguad"), was their motto. Therefore, Hermani was utterly surprised when the old man started to sing a song on another language, which he remembered from his childhood, before his parents were arrested for opposing the Party: "Brilla, brilla, estrelita, quero ver-te a brillar" ("Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are").

However, the man tried to convince Hermani that the FEKAP's teachings weren't real by saying that the Great Mother was already dead. According to him, she was born on 1908 but died due to a heart attack on 1983, and he saw the report on the television, which was banned ever since. This was an absurd to Hermani, as he talked to the Great Mother every single day, didn't he? He would go to hers room, and hear what tasks she would assign to him. Therefore, the old man had to be lying, so he did the only thing he thought it was correct: killed the man.

The seed of doubt was already planted on his mind, though, and that was going to change everything. Forever.