Attre

Attre is a duchy and vassal state to the Northern Kingdom of Cintra, just south of the capital city of Cintra. Even after Cintra was conquered by Nilfgaard, Attre remained Cintra's vassal.

Geography and climate

Attre borders the sea. The landscape is characterised by many dunes, which may suggest arid climate.

History

Early history

Attre existed as principality as early as the first half of the 9th century. During the Six Years' War it sided with King Abdank of Temeria, which eventually forced its contemporary ruler or heir, Prince Venger, to abandon his realm after the peace was achieved in 836.^[2]

Vassal of Cintra

COA Attre — Attre's arms during Cintran period.

The next ruling dynasty fell under Cintran influence and mantained that state of affairs until the rule of Duke Windhalm. He was a suitor to both Pavetta and Cirilla, princesses of Cintra, in hope to strengthen the bonds between the two realms, though both attempts failed.

Northern Wars and nilfgaardization of Attre

Windhalm managed to survive the Northern War I, when both Attre and Cintra fell under Nilfgaardian conguest. He led a rebellion encompassing the two states, at the end however it was crushed in early 1267 and the last Nordling ruler of the Duchy was publicly (and spectacularly) executed. Few rebels who neither escaped to Verden or were captured continued the fight to at least 1st July with Skelliger aid, but were eventually supressed.

Most of the Attre's nobility on the other hand sided with Nilfgaard after Windhalm's execution,^[3] with Sir Rainfarn as the prime example.^[4] The upper classes of Attrean society appearently adopted the Nilfgaardian culture. It is unknown whether the current var Attre dynasty, consisting of Duke var Attre and his relatives,^[1] is Nilfgaardian or nilfgaardized Attrean.

National Emblems

Two distinctive of Attre were originally created by Stanislav Komárek, Sapkowski's associate and Czech translator, and Mboro, heraldist and creator of several homebrew Continent emblems. The Mboro's Nilfgaardian variant was made official in TW3's Gwent, Blood and Wine expansion and The Witcher Role-Playing Game.

Emblems visible in the infobox were adopted after nilfgaardization of Attre. The ones above were used in different periods of the history of the Duchy.