Post by numberhawk44 on Mar 7, 2017 20:56:15 GMT -5
Kingdom of Prodani Vital Stats:
Government Type: Feudal Monarchy
Economic Activity: Farming inland, trading and fishing on the coasts
Races: Humans mostly, some elves, a little of everything in the trading cities
Military: Conscription mostly, some warrior elites known as Paladai
Political Views: Aggressively expansionist
Current Monarch: King Daran II of the Hiks Dynasty
Current Political Factions: Tigers: mostly warrior noblemen, pro-expansionism. Elephants: Mostly merchants, pro-trade and colonialism. Current dominant faction. Boars: Mostly small landholders. Focus on scientific advancement.
The Kingdom of Prodani has existed since men have had letters. The first mention of a state on the little peninsula that juts out into the Sea of Prodani was many thousands of years ago, when some small farming settlements united under a local warlord to throw back an invading horde of ocs, possibly remnants from one of the long-forgotten great empires. They stayed united after the threat passed, and gradually the peninsula and the coastline around it were settled by Prodanites. The Prodanites tended to avoid conflict wherever possible, instead wooing natives with their civilized, elegant way of living and their strange religion. As centuries passed, dynasties rose and fell along with the kingdoms fortunes, but the state itself held together. Remaining small until the last few decades, it was content to dominate the coastline until King Powan I Hiks, the first of his dynasty, raised an army and subjugated a number of tribes further inland. To finance this war, he forced smallholders off their land, selling it wealthy merchants and creating an entrenched upper class called the Phorachoi. Faced with a discontented army of smallholders with no more smallholdings, Powan was shaky on his throne until he found a solution: create a Royal Fleet and staff it with smallholders as officers. The regular seamen came from the subjugated tribes, and the land vacated by them, usually far larger than the plots within the old kingdom, was given to the remaining smallholders. This satisfied the Prodanites and created a new, outlying upper class called the Doachoi. These two aristocracies would come into great conflict in the future, but for now the situation satisfied everyone except, perhaps, the tribesmen. But they were defeated enemies, and this was the way of things.
Starting around 50 years ago, under the reign of Powan's sun Sorgha, Prodanite settlers began pushing further to the north and east, into land still held by the tribes. The tribes joined into a grand nation called the Coalition to combat this threat, and the Prodanites quickly found themselves facing an enemy that was far larger than themselves. At this time, the Prodanite army numbered around 15,000 men, including conscripts. At its height, the Coalition likely had closer to 100,000. Outlying Prodanite towns were sacked and their inhabitants dragged into slavery, farms and trading posts were pillaged, and the capital itself, Sanska, was besieged. All seemed lost for Prodani, but a young man of the Doachoi had managed to rally some disgruntled tribesmen to his side. Combining this with a few hundred Prodanite regulars left in the wake of the Coalition, he managed to surprise and defeat the Coalition's host at the gates of Sanska. The Doachite, by the name of Daran, we wedded to a princess for his reward and was given control of the Prodanite forces. Rallying his scattered and disorganized countrymen, he drove the Coalition out of the Prodani Peninsula and back into the borderlands. There, he was fought to a stalemate for many months. However, he made use of the superior Prodanite fleet to launch surprise raids on the Coalition's rear. The damage these caused, combined with the shame of many defeats and the natural animosity between the tribesmen led the the implosion of the Coalition 33 years before the present. Daran, a wildly ambitious and charismatic man, quickly seized nearly half of the Coalition's total land. This was a great victory, but at first nearly the entire Prodanite army was tied down patrolling all this new land, leaving little to suppress unrest at home. And there was lots of it.
Porandi had been devastated by enemy raids and the strain of nearly a decade of total war. Now, with victory in their hands, the Prodanites had to figure out who got what out of the spoils, and who footed the bill. the Phorachoi argued that they were the original leaders of the country and deserved to have their status upheld, while the Doachoi argued that they were the saviors of the realm and should be rewarded for it. While Sorgha argued for the Phorachoi, it was clear that public opinion, as well as Daran, were on the side of the Doachoi. 29 years ago, matters came to a head when a mob, possibly incited by Daran himself, rose in Sanska and marched on the royal palace, demanding the king's head and the institution of a republic. The situation looked hopeless, but Daran, who was supposedly still governing the occupied territory in the king's name, appeared with a detachment of Paladai to whisk the king to safety. Following a week of tense negotiations, Sorgha was "persuaded" to step down, while the mob was contented with Daran being proclaimed as the new king, with his princess as his claim to legitimacy. While the public was whipped up, he seized the oppourtunity to strip the Phorachoi of their riches to pay down the kingdom's debts and being much-needed repairs.
Daran died 11 years ago, succeeded without protest by his son, Daran II, who has proven to be an excellent administrator. The occupied territories are almost totally pacified, and the kingdom is calm and prosperous again. But the tribes are still out there, and the Phorachoi, reduced to rags and memories of past glories, are restless...
Government Type: Feudal Monarchy
Economic Activity: Farming inland, trading and fishing on the coasts
Races: Humans mostly, some elves, a little of everything in the trading cities
Military: Conscription mostly, some warrior elites known as Paladai
Political Views: Aggressively expansionist
Current Monarch: King Daran II of the Hiks Dynasty
Current Political Factions: Tigers: mostly warrior noblemen, pro-expansionism. Elephants: Mostly merchants, pro-trade and colonialism. Current dominant faction. Boars: Mostly small landholders. Focus on scientific advancement.
The Kingdom of Prodani has existed since men have had letters. The first mention of a state on the little peninsula that juts out into the Sea of Prodani was many thousands of years ago, when some small farming settlements united under a local warlord to throw back an invading horde of ocs, possibly remnants from one of the long-forgotten great empires. They stayed united after the threat passed, and gradually the peninsula and the coastline around it were settled by Prodanites. The Prodanites tended to avoid conflict wherever possible, instead wooing natives with their civilized, elegant way of living and their strange religion. As centuries passed, dynasties rose and fell along with the kingdoms fortunes, but the state itself held together. Remaining small until the last few decades, it was content to dominate the coastline until King Powan I Hiks, the first of his dynasty, raised an army and subjugated a number of tribes further inland. To finance this war, he forced smallholders off their land, selling it wealthy merchants and creating an entrenched upper class called the Phorachoi. Faced with a discontented army of smallholders with no more smallholdings, Powan was shaky on his throne until he found a solution: create a Royal Fleet and staff it with smallholders as officers. The regular seamen came from the subjugated tribes, and the land vacated by them, usually far larger than the plots within the old kingdom, was given to the remaining smallholders. This satisfied the Prodanites and created a new, outlying upper class called the Doachoi. These two aristocracies would come into great conflict in the future, but for now the situation satisfied everyone except, perhaps, the tribesmen. But they were defeated enemies, and this was the way of things.
Starting around 50 years ago, under the reign of Powan's sun Sorgha, Prodanite settlers began pushing further to the north and east, into land still held by the tribes. The tribes joined into a grand nation called the Coalition to combat this threat, and the Prodanites quickly found themselves facing an enemy that was far larger than themselves. At this time, the Prodanite army numbered around 15,000 men, including conscripts. At its height, the Coalition likely had closer to 100,000. Outlying Prodanite towns were sacked and their inhabitants dragged into slavery, farms and trading posts were pillaged, and the capital itself, Sanska, was besieged. All seemed lost for Prodani, but a young man of the Doachoi had managed to rally some disgruntled tribesmen to his side. Combining this with a few hundred Prodanite regulars left in the wake of the Coalition, he managed to surprise and defeat the Coalition's host at the gates of Sanska. The Doachite, by the name of Daran, we wedded to a princess for his reward and was given control of the Prodanite forces. Rallying his scattered and disorganized countrymen, he drove the Coalition out of the Prodani Peninsula and back into the borderlands. There, he was fought to a stalemate for many months. However, he made use of the superior Prodanite fleet to launch surprise raids on the Coalition's rear. The damage these caused, combined with the shame of many defeats and the natural animosity between the tribesmen led the the implosion of the Coalition 33 years before the present. Daran, a wildly ambitious and charismatic man, quickly seized nearly half of the Coalition's total land. This was a great victory, but at first nearly the entire Prodanite army was tied down patrolling all this new land, leaving little to suppress unrest at home. And there was lots of it.
Porandi had been devastated by enemy raids and the strain of nearly a decade of total war. Now, with victory in their hands, the Prodanites had to figure out who got what out of the spoils, and who footed the bill. the Phorachoi argued that they were the original leaders of the country and deserved to have their status upheld, while the Doachoi argued that they were the saviors of the realm and should be rewarded for it. While Sorgha argued for the Phorachoi, it was clear that public opinion, as well as Daran, were on the side of the Doachoi. 29 years ago, matters came to a head when a mob, possibly incited by Daran himself, rose in Sanska and marched on the royal palace, demanding the king's head and the institution of a republic. The situation looked hopeless, but Daran, who was supposedly still governing the occupied territory in the king's name, appeared with a detachment of Paladai to whisk the king to safety. Following a week of tense negotiations, Sorgha was "persuaded" to step down, while the mob was contented with Daran being proclaimed as the new king, with his princess as his claim to legitimacy. While the public was whipped up, he seized the oppourtunity to strip the Phorachoi of their riches to pay down the kingdom's debts and being much-needed repairs.
Daran died 11 years ago, succeeded without protest by his son, Daran II, who has proven to be an excellent administrator. The occupied territories are almost totally pacified, and the kingdom is calm and prosperous again. But the tribes are still out there, and the Phorachoi, reduced to rags and memories of past glories, are restless...
