The Maaniskaar Empire
The dominant power of the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. world, founded in AC 1 on the ruins of the fallen Inarin Empire Faction The Inarin Empire The great predecessor civilisation of Elshore, built by the Iru across thousands of years and ended by the servant-race rebellion known as the Chaos.. Its formal name, the Maaniskaar Empire, is used in official proclamations and priestly speech; in common usage it is simply called the Maan empire. Absolute in authority and theological in self-image, it frames its rule as a necessary correction of everything the Inarin civilisation built without permission. By the 64th Year of the New Order it governs from the capital Goldenhold under Emperor Theodelf Vissor, with Randenism Faith Randenism The Flame Doctrine, dominant faith of the Maan and state religion of the Maan Empire. declared its state religion.
Key traits
- Founded AC 1 by the Maan war council under Rokhir Savil, following the servant-race rebellion that overthrew the Inarin Empire.
- Governs through an Emperor whose mandate flows from the twin suns Namii Cosmology The Binary Suns Two stars share the sky of Elshore: Uhiel, the warmer and steadier light, and Namii, the smaller and more ominous companion. and Uhiel; only Maan may hold noble titles or imperial office.
- Maintains a tiered medical system, mandatory identity checks, and a public-debt framework enforced by the Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb... as an unofficial arm.
- Official doctrine calls for the phase-out of all Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore.-legacy technology and scripts, while the state simultaneously depends on surviving Inarin infrastructure.
- The Maan empire treats Vaparium Place Vaparium The Sovereign Arcology of Vaparium, the Meir homeland in the south and the most technologically advanced structure on Elshore. as an obsession it has not yet dared to conquer, and Iruel as a neighbour to undermine quietly.
- A 250-year Throne War beginning in AC 50 eventually fractures the empire into two realms; it reunifies under a single ruler by the New Order era.