Founded in the wake of the collapse of Franz Josef's Empire, it flourished as a series of tiny, agrarian city-states in the deeps of the forest, maintaining isolation and secrecy in relation to its fellow states, reflecting on the great doom that cooperation and Empire had brought on all. Recently, the council of Prophets, formerly the leadership of Hochheim, have granted control of the tiny nation to the exiled Sigurð Óðinnsson, formerly of Niflungland, after he and his Order of the Brethren of the Holy Name left that land to the rule of the Knighthood of Othin's Eye.