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When Germania fell, in the swampy lands of northern Germany many ritter, or powerful landowners, rose up in a feudal fashion. These ritter were rich men who were often from the upper class horse-riding nobility of the nomadic Germanic tribes, and when they settled down they quickly garnered power for themselves. They quickly dotted the countryside in their mostly agricultural estates, worked by the poorer Germanic peoples.

One of these ritter, a man by the name of von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck, was an ambitious man who saw potential in these squabbling lords. As time went on, through a series of political marriages, conflicts, assassinations, and outright conquering he was able to find himself with more and more power. Eventually, much of the northern regions came under his control, albeit loosely in the border areas. His dynasty became known as von Ribbeck, and his family took up the title of Landgrave of Havelland, the name granted to the northern region of Germany ruled over by the von Ribbecks.

Soon, the Ribbecks discovered that many of the other regions in old Germania had been united by other ambitious families, as the system always goes. The militaristic and fiercely Germanic Saxon people of Havelland peer over their borders with both excitement and fear as Slavs and Teutons and other Germanics peer into the borders of Havelland.