At autumn of 497 Avitus was dead, the king who had united us from a loose tribal confederation to a true and proper kingdom. His son Dubnovellaunus had athough legacy to live up to.
Althought Noricum paled in comparisson to rome in strength and riches it was arguably the third strongest celtic nation in the world at the time.
Avitus had brokered a alliance with Rome and gotten a tributary in cisalpine gaul. We were in fact "helping" Rome in a war currently. We also had a war of our own in the west that were ongoing.
The war in the west were going very well and it looked to end soon.
With the death of our old king our tributary stopped being our tributary.
With a quick end to the western war we turned out eyes to our former vassal to the south.
Our former vassal had made some friends but no matter we will punish them.
Around this time our king got married.
The vassal war was harder than thought so mercenaries were hired to help.
Our lands have been very fertile since our new king took the throne, he saw it as a sign he was favored by the gods.
The vassal war has come to an end, they dragged one of their allies with them to the grave.
In the eyes of the world this turned us from a minor kingdom in the alps to one of the major powers of our time.
The dead were barely buried before another war was started, this time to make sure we were the only power in the alps.
The arverni a gaulic tribe were intrested in a alliance around this time.
Rome could barely hold together what they have.
We embrace itallic influences on our military. and will in the years to come copy much from Rome.
The alpine war has come to an end.
In just under 7 years our new king had doubbled Noricum in size even if granted he inheirited a next to won war on his ascent to the throne.
The rhaetians had quickly turned to a insignificant minority so they were replaced in the administration.
Lepontics were the ones replacing them.
A campaign into northern Illyria was done.
The first victim in Illyria.
Te rest of the victims.
With no sons of his own our king decided to let women take the throne if no male heirs were present.
Our lepontic subjects quickly became a major part of our army.
Boihemia was invaded.
The boihemians and their germanic allies were quickly defeated.
Our first leader were a god among men but from this point on he also counted among the many gods among gods..
It was decided to integrate more gauls.
Rome faced a sardinian revolt.
While we faced minor frontier revolts.
That were quickly killed.
And again. They were quickly killed.
Germans had invaded the areas next to us so we decided to expell them from the region.
The treverians had grown to be the third most powerfull people in the region (with us in first and our ally arvernia in 2nd place) we decided that we would suffer no rivals.
Minor powers in the region was also invaded due to rumors of a good rock being there.
Most of the treverian land were surrendered to us and the arvernians.
Before the minor nations surrendered their land.
And their rock.
Noricum in the 28th year of Dubnovellaunus reign.
With having gotten a son just 3 years ago everything seemed well.
Before I got assasinated.
While i wanted to do some things before my session was over i cant really complain i got 3 decades. Three decades of war.