The Gloria Libertatis area has been inhabited for thousands of years. The earliest known settlement was a village of the Lolthi tribe, but its name is not known. Later, after the Lolthi were conquered by the Regnosians, the settlement became a city which scholars believe was called Perancas. The original Perancas was destroyed in the Regnosian civil war, but the name (adapted to Brancassa) was assumed by a new Micholerdian settlement in roughly the same location. Brancassa grew to be an important city of the newly colonised Lendia. When the colonies declared independence, Brancassa became the capital of the new Duchy (later Kingdom) of Lalta. Brancassa briefly lost its status to Quintara when Lalta and Neonia merged to from the Kingdom of Lendia, but regained its position under the Liliani