Veikaia

Veikaia as a nation sees its origins in the migration of the slavic Veikan Tribes of old to the modern lands of the Council Republic during the Dark Ages. Being forced to migrate by threats from the East, the Veikan Peoples of old found themselves running from home and walking a treacherous path west, where they found themselves near the Vei river that gave them their name.

Medieval Veikans were a pagan people. They followed their specific dualistic slavic pagan faith and continued to do so until the arrival of Christianity from abroad. Veikans were exposed to Gnostic Christianity, which saw many similarities in its views of the spiritual world with Veikan Paganism and spread like wildfire across the lands.

Even in these times, the Veikan Peoples were not truly united as a single, organized state but were instead a group of disparate tribes that sometimes cooperated but primarily found themselves in conflict with each other. From these tribes rose the semi-mythical figure of "Veislad the Great", the great unifier of Veikaia. As the ruler of the largest tribe in the region, set near modern day Oztov, Veislad waged a campaign of diplomacy and warfare that ultimately ended in both the unification of Veikaia and the mass conversion of the Veikan tribes to Gnostic Christianity, named Alitheian Christianity locally.