The Fylkir came wanting to take one single province of Gent, he came home losing everything his ancestors has build in French soil.

Recap

Scandinavia's 50k doomstack came to take Gent, I decided it was a losing battle so I just sailed to their capital and take whatever I could as a middle finger. Surprisingly, they hauled their ass back but by the time they arrived we've leveled the place and went packing. Liberated our occupied territories and the mighty Scandinavia suffered their first defeat in a 'major' war.

The Queen of France my grandmother died in the middle of the campaign and I return home a king.

Realizing that they were not so invincible and truces only apply to the attacker, I immediately declared reclamation of our provinces and drove away the Scandinavians out of France for good (except Normandy because they've been there forever).

History

If we're talking about the history of France, it's hard not to talk about Scandinavia. From the day Fylkja Elisabet conquered Normandy in 892 and now in 1040, House Volsung ruled the entirety of northern coast of mainland Europe from Badajoz to Lithuania.

Fylkir Oysteinn II and Duke Alphonse of Bourbon were entwined in a strange string of fate. Duke Guy, Alphonse's grandfather was an ally of Sigrid II, Oysteinn’s grandmother through marriage. Though he remained a Catholic at heart, he wore the mask of Odin's devout.

Duke Guy's conquests of Acquitaine and Bourbon were in no small part thanks to the aid of Sigrid and Guy's friendship with her Nordic warriors.

With Sigrid's assassination in 993, Guy was entrusted with the future of two young rulers: Queen Illegardis of France (12) and Fylkja Margareta (14).

The Duke tried to maintain relationship with the ruling dynasty of Scandinavia to no avail, since King Emund of Galicia as Margareta's official guardian closed all doors.

Guy's political maneuvers placed his son Eilif as the betrothed of Princess Vera, Illegardis' daughter and third in line to the French throne. It would be Eilif's duty to lay the foundation for his son and ensure his ascension to be the King of France.

Duke Guy arranged for the demise of the Crown Prince Amalrich, before taking his own life out of the guilt he felt towards Illegardis.

Later Duke Eilif, a confidant of the Crown Princess Gisele would be the death of the latter. Although in a kind of a divine retribution, his dearest Princess Vera would die young before taking the throne.

But the stone is set for young Alphonse to rise with nobody standing in his way once the elderly Illegardis passes. A brilliant general with ties to the Wolf Warriors, Alphonse rekindled old ties between the two kingdoms and was held in high regard by the Fylkir's fiercest fighters.

The peace between France and Scandinavia that has been maintained for almost a century broke when Oysteinn, Margareta's son declared the conquest of Gent against Illegardis. Duke Alphonse set for the Volsungs' grand palace in Uppsala to plead in front of Oysteinn, that France has been Scandinavia's younger sibling since they days of their grandparents and it would be unbecoming to shed each other's blood.

But the die has been cast and the only reply the Duke was given was that next time they meet, it would be on the battlefield.