Howt-Slovian relations began during the Fluffian Horde Western Exploration era. During their age of exploration, distant Howt explorers reported on a distinct, nomadic group of peoples, and called them “Westnomaden”, German for “Western Nomads”. Howt explorers cautiously navigated the terrain and eventually made contact with a distinct civilisation called Yugolania. The Fluffian Horde then began establishing informal relations and through Yugolania, learned about the Westnomaden.
The “Westnomaden” were a big minority within the Kingdom of Yugolania, and according to the latter, were known as Slovians. However, Yugolania was soon invaded by Murkatinnya and then fully annexed before Fluffian Horde could learn about these people further.
Murkatinnya invaded Fluffian Horde thinking they were a small kingdom, but the latter fought back, which ended in a truce. After they both approached Carneasia to mediate in the issue separately, they soon realised they were fighting against the empire they sought to establish contacts with, and ended the conflict with mutual respect. Though diplomatic relations were minimal, Fluffian Horde learns about the Slovians through old Yugolan records, and formally built established settlements to house the nomadic Slovians within their borders.
Initially, the Slovians detested the government of Fluffian Horde, but over the centuries have become a civilized ethnic group within both Murkatinnya and Fluffian Horde.
The Slovians were given quite the autonomy until the collapse of the Murk dynasty in the 1880s. After the independence of Yugolan, Fluffian Horde invaded it, and attacked the new Murk Republic, which ended in a stalemate. Fluffian Horde fully annexes the Slovian-majority lands. Initially, they were still given the same autonomy as before, but after the collapse of the Fluffian Horde’s monarchy, the new Flufflesian regime removed the autonomy from the Slovian people, leading to souring relations between the Howt people and the Slovians.
In Arc War 3, the Slovians led a small rebellion against the Flufflesian regime, but failed. In 1945, after Barkand and Eastern Flufflesian troops occupied the full western region to unite Flufflesia, Slovians, Howts and Yugo peoples led the largest civil war in history. During this civil war, the Slovians and Howts would come into reconciliation and would often help each other with supplies during the war. The friendliness between the two ethnic groups accelerated the process of the Slovo-Howt Compromise of 1954, which sought to split the Ravou region between them and recognise each other’s ethnic minorities in that region.
Slovia would also join the International Alliance following the civil war, together with Howlton, forming the alliance’s 5th member. In 1991, during the invasion of Slovia, Howt troops flooded in to hold a resistance against Barkand. Despite losing the battle of Slovia, Howlton hosted the escaped government in exile of Slovia, as well as Slovian refugees. In 1996, Howlton, together with other IA troops, freed the country.
Today, the two countries have signed a mutual defence pact, guaranteeing mutual defence in case of an invasion. Both countries are also part of a larger proposed confederation known as the Confederation of Southland, meant to unite several countries as one entity.**