Prademar's Requiem: The State of Prademar

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The Next Age Dawns, Nigh Upon Prademar,
The Rarity of Peace and Prosperity Achieved,
Without
Death and Destruction having brought it.
Let the tally begin as Spider Islands last dawn approaches.
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State of Prademar: The Outsiders​

The Fae Wild is at peace as the stone table sits resolute; chaining them with the yoke of law. Three courts each with monarchs three provide stability for the Fae to function far into the future and keeps them outside of mortal machinations. This is a far cry from the mess of games, meddling, and one true King that they for far too long functioned under.

The Foundation Planes sit in balance with each other.

The Magisterium Planes sit in balance with each other.

Void sits caged by the power of Eltanin and Order manifested for time incalculable.

The many myriad of Quasi Planes, the Light-Dark Fulcrum, and the Aether itself sit stable each fully formed and with leadership that is no longer mad with power but simply pursuant to their natures. Having weathered the many storms of the First Djinn, First Elemental, Igneo Hex, The Founder, and so many others, the future is bright.

Strife may take place between the outsiders and skirmishes may take place with the Prime Material but no great threat remains.

State of Prademar: Eternal Empire​

Times have certainly changed faster than the Eternal Empire has been used to. For generations peace came about the Eternal Empire but recent events have changed the country, just as a heavy rain can change a landscape. The Eternal Empire split into 2 Kingdoms. King Ractor Hook leads some of the ancient elven families to the site of the First Forest where the First Tree resides. With a blessing from Lolindier and Maia they head across the seas to Anret to start a new chapter of Elven culture. While this new Kingdom, The Golden Leaf Crown has left with ideals, culture, and history, it has not forgotten the Eternal Empire. The Golden Leaf crown is a sister nation and as such an extension of the Empire; like a new branch on a tree, both will grow together throughout the years.

The Elves, the Dryads and the Hybrids are at peace. The country has taken some licks in the past years, but it remains an ally in the Kingdoms of Good and a protector of the forest. From the Corrupt poisoning the mind of the Eternal Leaf Crown and the Wardancers, to the Cromwell sister’s betrayal, to Lord Jaboran Waquin’s attempt at destabilizing the nation, to the effects of Bliss by Kazzik and with the most recent raid by Vorg the nation has seen despair. However, the nation still stands. Each time stronger than before. With peace achieved this will remain for the Eternal Empire for years to come.

State of Prademar: The Golden Leaf Crown​

King Ractor Hook and the scions and scioness of the original seven families who have banded with him across the seas in Anret thrive. Fallingstar is represented in friendship and spirit, while the other six families form the foundation: Nyima, Durvos, Siba, Peldras, Anduin, and of course Hook. These families work together to bring prosperity to the First Forest while their sister Kingdom remains rooted in Terna.

The First Tree heals and grows into the future guarded well by the Golden Leaf Crown and its allies. The dryads of the region, the beekin, and even the now civilized brood who serve as defenders of the new realm.

 

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State of Prademar: The Northlunds​

The lands to the North have been deeply troubled. Lennox and the crow nearly ending reality as it is known, Virox Stonecutter and the Great Shroom leading the nation to ruin, and broken oaths which lead to the civil war and the Bloody Handed taking the throne.

Irony is that the Bloody Handed is a good King who has united a people fractured by wars and now brings them towards a glorious future. May hearth fires burn eternal and your tankards always endless is now the words the Kingdom lives for, all who would honor their oaths find themselves equal.

Baby Grim Dell the child of both the Northlunds and Wayside has been born and will one day lead the nation. Unity and understanding the words of the future.

State of Prademar: The Ternian Empire​

The Ternian Empire has perhaps faced the most challenging recent history of any nation in Prademar. It all started over a decade ago with the Spellstitched and shortly after High Chancellor Lucretia Serranus, also known as the dragon Echidna, plotted to overthrow the Emperor. Less than a year ago it was completely overrun by undead and within the grasp of the lich, Viktor Hook.

Even now with Viktor Hook defeated, and the people of the Empire returned to life, the future still remains uncertain to some. Emperor Padishah Ternius ruled the Empire before the ascent of Hook and ruled it after his fall, at least for a while. In the fourth month of the year 322 he abdicated the throne and left in secret to parts unknown. Some might think this would spell disaster for the Empire but in truth, he was unpopular and he knew it. He was far from the best at managing his kingdom and everyone knew it. In the following days, Councilor Anton Kirk was named emergency dictator with the promise that he would only serve long enough for the new Emperor to be elected by the Councilors. Now Councilors are jockeying for position and power to secure enough votes to be elected Emperor and secure that title for their family line.

Interestingly, one of the most popular candidates isn’t one of the councilors, but rather the war hero, Thaddeus Maximus. Things are far from certain at the moment, but one way or another, the future is certainly looking bright for the Ternian Empire.

 

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State of Prademar: Twilight Dynasty​

Little is known about the Twilight Dynasty over the last few years as it has remained a great mystery to the people of Prademar. There is little on the surface except for plains and hills which make the land itself not as desired as the rest of the continent. However what lies below is vast and full of wonder. Caverns as large as the greatest cities in Prademar fill the gaps between miles of tunnels. Unlike the dangers that plague the Underdark of the Vornae houses, the tunnels and caverns of the Twilight Dynasty are in a sense of harmony.

The Gloam, a tiny mushroom-like people care for the various glowing lichen and Fungi that connect the towns and settlements of the Lunari Elves, the primary people of the Dynasty. The gnomes having not been influenced by the beyonder Glitterdoom’s domination but instead out of loyalty have been driven back deeper beyond the Lunari settlements. With the domination over the Lunari Elves cleansed, they have begun to fix the deterioration that has fallen upon their great cities.

With free will of their own once more they seek to understand the surface world once more. Once upon a time Lunari elves were common in the Sapphire Kingdom and the Dayspear Dynasty, and perhaps as trade and relations are opened once more, they may too find themselves on the shores of Terna.

With this new era it will take a lot of work to rebuild, but the Lunari people are excellent architects and builders. With the right leadership the nation is bound for a comeback and with one remaining member of the Royal Family alive, the people look to Princess Aeresi to push towards a new dawn.

State of Prademar: The Olothern Empire​

The Great Leader had ruled the myriad of monstrous races, downtrodden peoples, and the orc and ogre hordes for a span of time which can only be referred to as Wakiekka which is how his unique brand of hive mind manifested.

After his defeat well over a dozen small factions filled the vacuum left by him and his generals.

The Oni - the aberration that is an ogre who casts necromancy and willingly consumes a living dryad in a dark ritual and is forever changed to a blue creature of suffering and hate- found themselves in a position of leadership and would have certainly lead the factions down paths of darkness. However, the oni were executed by the blademasters of Vorg Du’vahl as he wanted to see the myriad peoples of the Empire set free to walk their own course; which they now do.
Stumble they may, but they walk a path towards hope and happiness now under their own powers of thought, word, and deed.

 

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State of Prademar: Sarkanda​

Once long ago the Sarr existed as a primal force. The Apex Predator amongst the nations. Then came Viktor Hook’s treachery, the war with the Elder Dragons, and millennia of history passing. Fractured and disparate, the Sarr existed as many factions each with its own agenda.

Now thanks to the First Spear of the Ice-cats a vision grew and united the Sarr once more. Sarkanda has been reborn; a united nation of cats working together for common goals. Compared to most nations it is still fractured and having many agendas amongst its members thus it is but a newborn cub however the apex predator is reborn.

State of Prademar: The Vornae Council​

The Vornae Nation has for living memory had inner conflict and cold, hot, and secret wars within. The clan system has left them at odds in an endless cycle of blood shed, poverty, and vengeance.

Dalliance with forbidden magic, dark artifacts, void, and all manners of schemes and machinations each damaging the health of the nation.

At long last enough was had. A reckoning brought by Blade Master Vorg Du’vahl of Clan Manticore and Lord Mahar Koshinari and so many others who negotiated with them in earnest honesty and with vigor until a new status was built.

Let the Vornae Council a system of equality amongst the Nation of Dark Elves and their allies rule for time immaterium.

State of Prademar: The Sapphire Kingdom​

A Nation with a proud heritage of women who served as wise monarchs on the Ruby Throne. A Nation built on the backs of its slaves, servants, and shackled people. People shackled by finance and military might in near equal measure.

Than came the murder of two Queens in rapid succession one by the Purelord Stahn Revahn and another by the King of Wayside in a moment of mental manipulation set in motion by the Great Leader’s Mime spies. This led to a time of civil war and instability.

Eventually a Squire of Wayside orchestrated a plan that brought the nation low and annexed it in full to the bosom of Wayside with its slaves free. Prademar is now free of the wretched thing that is slavery.

The Sapphire Kingdom is no more and now sits a territory of Wayside to be cultivated and developed into a protectorate and eventually a Duchy or three.

 

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State of Prademar: The Dayspear Dynasty​

The Dayspear Dynasty is a land defined by its wealth. Wealth can be polarizing when some have it all and some have none, but the Dayspear has been recently defined by its universal prosperity. Citizens of the Dayspear tend not to be upset about the extreme wealth of leaders when they themselves already have far more than enough. Having joined the collective alliance for peace in Prademar, the Dayspear recently renewed their national vows renouncing slavery, necromancy, and other such evils. Perhaps in the past the Dayspear might have been accused of illegitimate trading, but in modern days of Prademar, such things have no place and are now quite bad for business. And business is what the Dayspear Dynasty is all about.

In a land ruled by coin, leadership tends to fall to the richest. Duke Oberon Sueswani is the richest person in Prademar and therefore the ruler of the Dayspear Dynasty. Duke Sueswani is a ruthless businessman to some, but his economic strategies certainly produce results and benefits each and every citizen of his Kingdom. It’s hard to believe that a nation already defined by its wealth can possibly get richer, but that's just what the most recent political marriage has done. Duke Sueswani’s oldest daughter, Sue-Swan Suswani is just as fierce a business woman as her father and has married a prominent trader from Wayside, Captain Gregory Renaldo Binks III. This trade union is poised to be one of the largest in the world and is set to line all the pockets of merchants across Prademar, but especially the pockets of the Dayspear Dynasty.

State of Prademar: Beacon, Port Town of Nex​

The twin islands of Nex and Us sit at the halfway point between the continents of Terna and Anret. Many of the historical events of the island are lost to time but in recent years, they have been a notable stage for many world events. The most notable of these events was the final battle of the war between the Olothan Empire and the Kingdom of Wayside, where the Great Leader was finally defeated. The battle that took place there left the island scared, especially by the colossal form of the great leader, said to have stood over a mile tall. Between his ruthless troops and his own colossal limbs, entire sections of the island have been changed.

But all is not lost. Recently, contact has been established with an ancient race unique to these islands. The Stone Born, as they call themselves, are few but powerful. They have used their power to mold stone like clay to rebuild much of the island and have entered into an alliance with the free people who now trade on the island.

It is said that in ancient times, the islands of Nexus were the trading hub of all of Prademar. Now, with Prademar united, they serve this function once again. Merchants from across Prademar have been settling and establishing the new town of Beacon to become a new giant in the world of trade. Merchants from the Dayspear Dynasty, The West Wayside Trade Organization, The Vineasy Trading Company, and many more have played a part in rebuilding the island, making it a neutral point for all people of Prademar and a place where trade flow freely and fairly.

State of Prademar: Wayside​

A young nation in the scheme of all things. But powerful.

Truly the history of Wayside is in the end the history of the Adventurers. A nation built upon high ideals backed by the force of nature that adventurers can when properly focused become.

Many local threats vanquished, many regional threats vanquished, and most importantly many world ending threats vanquished all the while the adventurers where based in Briarpass and eventually West Haven.

The Nation started as nothing more than a regency of fledgling nobles in a time of grave troubles. The Great Vampire Rheinous Targoatian prowled nearly every corner of the realm politically, militarily, economically, and beyond. The Vampire Wars which consumed the nation in its earliest days were bitter and life altering for all. However, eventually he was defeated and Wayside eventually found its way to a Kingdom under a Ducal Council led by a King Gregor Eisenhorn first of his name.

King Gregor Eisnhorn was led horribly astray by noble ambitions in which he forgot that the ends do not justify the means. This led to a horrific civil war which in the end would have ramifications for years to come. During the Ducal Council of 314 the nation would alter its course under the Grimlocke Dynasty who would foster and embrace a relationship with the adventures over the next several years.

The rebellion by Duke Basil Monteque and his monsters, the betrayal by Duke Robert Turnsen who had been Valamaeus the Worm of Kazik all along, the utter menace that Jonah Stone and his Human Supremacists would become, the war with Echidna and the Ternians, the war with the Northlunds over slavery, the endless waves of Ternian Undead during Viktor Hooks final days, and finally the raids by the Great Leader and his Olothen. Time and Time again the Kingdom would struggle against a foe and thanks to the aid of the adventures not only overcome them but become stronger in the end.

In the year 307 the Kingdom of Wayside did not exist; in the year 322 it became the leader of the Kingdoms of Good. It has become the centerpoint of an ideal.

The Kingdoms of Good whose heart is the nation of Wayside is a land of equality, inclusivity, and diversity. Far from perfection is this Alliance for it is many flawed lands working together but it is working together for Good.

When good men and women act, and do not sit ideally in the face of tyranny, hatred, and evil all things are possible. Wayside leads into a new age of Prademar, a golden age.

Together we are strong
Together we will strive
Together we are WAYSIDE