The Empire-
Official
Name: The Manifest Empire of Divine Providence
The
Empire was, at one time, a vast continent spanning entity; at the
time of the Apocalypse the Empire was essentially destroyed and
devolved into numerous small successor states. The heir to the old
Empire that is considered the most legitimate is the one that still
bears it’s name and it’s original title; even the
other"mini-empires" that make up the bulk of the
continental land-mass will grudgingly admit that “The Empire” is
the one with it’s capitol at Whitehall and controls the great city
of Neopolis. The Empire, for it’s part, still puts on airs like it
is an immense entity, but in it’s darkest moments will admit that
it is a shabby version of it’s ancestral self, unable to exert real
control any further than the reach of it’s armies.
Despite
having once been a republic, most positions within the empire have
become hereditary – at both ends of the socio-economic spectrum.
The powerful have become Dukes, Counts and Imperial Electors, the
peasantry are attempting, without much success, to stave off the
steady encroachment of hereditary serfdom.
The
society of the empire has evolved to have a distinct split between
it’s urban and rural components, with power largely residing in the
rural and prestige with the urban. The urban citizens of the empire
consider their rural brethren to be uncultured, uneducated, rude
hicks. The rural folk consider the urbanites to be effete, lazy,
corrupt fools. They are both essentially right.
Think of it like a cross between the late Roman empire and any decadent bit of Hyboria, only with extra-dimensional and cross-time pockets leaking in and the elder gods starting to sleep less deeply. I also had recently supported the Kickstarter for Silent Legions just prior to starting on this and my wife was diagnosed with cancer, so it is a bit dark.
I have a lot more, I just thought I'd float this tiny bit to see if it was of any interest.
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