Unification of Cattala

Despite claiming the throne of the entire island, neither King Roger Celestine nor his son and heir, King William I actually controlled all of Cattala. House Celestine controlled the south west of the island, and numerous other noble houses and lords held land across the island. House Aroe, controllers of Fieranti province, pledged fealty to the Celestine's in 994 AD, enabling Roger Celestine to declare himself King and begin expanding his reign. The ideology of the first King was followed by his son and defined Celestinian policy for almost a century, until Alain the Princemaker introduced a feudal system of rule.

Siege of Garlas
House Garlas refused to support the Celestinian claim to the crown and declared themselves Princes of Garlas. King Roger marched a host of 10,000 men through the forests and sacked the city, obliterating House Garlas' army in the process.

The story of the brutal treatment of the Garlas dynasty was spread across the islands and when King Roger died in 1021, many lords hoped that his son would not repeat such an atrocity. However King William raised an army three times the size of his fathers and marched through Aroe land, and arrived at Allais. Here, William's army met the small garrison of House Callea's border town. The Lord of Calleas saw the vast host and pledged fealty to the King at once. Neighbouring House Blais, surrounded by allies to the Celestine's, also pledge fealty.

King William and Alain the Princemaker
By the time of William's death, all of the mainland noble houses of Cattala had pledged fealty to the crown and only House Garlas had been fought against and defeated in battle. He had followed his father's ideology of expanding the realm and was regularly away from the capital during the campaigns. Because of this, his son was never taught and did not follow the same beliefs as his father and grandfather had. Alain the Princemaker feared the houses rebelling against the Celestine's and granted six other houses the positions of Royal Houses and made their most powerful members the Princes of Cattala. This devolution of power ultimately weakened the grip of power House Celestine had and strengthened the most successful principalities and their noble families.

Alain had created the early system of Cattalian feudalism which led to the foundation of the Seven Principalities, a framework that remained for four hundred years. This new feudal Cattala was based on the system that he had encountered whilst travelling in France and Britain in his youth.

Bronze War
Roumeli's Kings had remained independent of Cattala despite the Celestine's pledges of peace and prosperity under their rule. The island itself was divided into several small kingdoms, and any signs of one king considering allegiance to the Celestine's would have resulted in island war. It was the northernmost King of Roumeli, King Bronze, who began the first war with Cattala. He was named Bronze because of his desires for gold, despite the fact he couldn't afford it, so he often ended up using bronze instead. King Bronze invaded the Ontano islands, ruled over by the Scavallo family. Ontano was captured and the Bronze army attempted to attack the mainland. The Scavallo lands were vassals of the Celestine kingdom and the family appealed to their king for assistance in protecting his realm. The Battle of Piaré was held on the south east coast of modern-day Lessito, and resulted in a massacre of the outnumbered Bronze troops by Scavallo and Celestine armies. King Bronze lost 80% of his army in one day's fighting and returned to Roumeli humiliated.

The attack by a Roumelian infuriated King Roger II, the son of Alain, who ordered his army to cross the Roumeli Strait and conquer the island by force. When the troops arrived, the four remaining Kings of Roumeli immediately surrendered and pledged allegiance to the Cattalian monarchy in 1114AD. Roger Celestine II now had complete control of the Cattalian islands.