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<span style="line-height:15px;">Varantium is the largest province in the Dominion by scale and third-largest by population. </span>The province of '''Varantium''' was the capital of the [[Faloran Imperium]] before it became the seat of Radiant Lord under the Dominion, and has exerted strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence around the world. Classical Varantium's borders corresponds roughly to the regions Camperia, Retilis, and Senium; however, within the Holy Dominion Varantium is taken to be the same as the realm of Radiant Lord. Its capital city Falor - the Old Capital - is regarded as the cradle of Faloran civilization and the "Father" city of the Faloran peoples. It is claimed by both the Faloran Republic and Malvernian Imperium, and is the second largest centre of the Archonian cult in the Holy Dominion (after the Holy City itself). |
<span style="line-height:15px;">Varantium is the largest province in the Dominion by scale and third-largest by population. </span>The province of '''Varantium''' was the capital of the [[Faloran Imperium]] before it became the seat of Radiant Lord under the Dominion, and has exerted strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence around the world. Classical Varantium's borders corresponds roughly to the regions Camperia, Retilis, and Senium; however, within the Holy Dominion Varantium is taken to be the same as the realm of Radiant Lord. Its capital city Falor - the Old Capital - is regarded as the cradle of Faloran civilization and the "Father" city of the Faloran peoples. It is claimed by both the Faloran Republic and Malvernian Imperium, and is the second largest centre of the Archonian cult in the Holy Dominion (after the Holy City itself). |
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Varantium is one of the oldest developed countries in the world, and has considerable cultural, financial and religious importance internationally. While it for a long time was the most developed region in the world, divisions in its society are now creating one of the most unequal regions in the Holy Dominion in terms of wealth and security. |
Varantium is one of the oldest developed countries in the world, and has considerable cultural, financial and religious importance internationally. While it for a long time was the most developed region in the world, divisions in its society are now creating one of the most unequal regions in the Holy Dominion in terms of wealth and security. |
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Revision as of 02:44, 3 August 2013
Varantium is a country that is part of the Holy Dominion of Archanicus on the southeast of the Halim Peninsula , ruled by the archonRadiant Lord . It borders three of the Dominion's provinces and Nalbin , and is closely connected overseas to Jovinium and the Plutarian islands. It has a long coastline against both Inner Sea and Plutaran Sea, with warm subtropical climate.
Varantium is the largest province in the Dominion by scale and third-largest by population. The province of Varantium was the capital of the Faloran Imperium before it became the seat of Radiant Lord under the Dominion, and has exerted strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence around the world. Classical Varantium's borders corresponds roughly to the regions Camperia, Retilis, and Senium; however, within the Holy Dominion Varantium is taken to be the same as the realm of Radiant Lord. Its capital city Falor - the Old Capital - is regarded as the cradle of Faloran civilization and the "Father" city of the Faloran peoples. It is claimed by both the Faloran Republic and Malvernian Imperium, and is the second largest centre of the Archonian cult in the Holy Dominion (after the Holy City itself).
Varantium is one of the oldest developed countries in the world, and has considerable cultural, financial and religious importance internationally. While it for a long time was the most developed region in the world, divisions in its society are now creating one of the most unequal regions in the Holy Dominion in terms of wealth and security.
In the fifty years since the Battle of Shatterbridge - which severed, in several ways, the over twenty centuries long Faloran connection between Varantium and Juvinium - the region has met with steady decline. The southern coastal provinces have become ravaged by almost constant warfare while the rest are suffering heavy taxes to fund Radiant Lord's extravagances.
Recent events and situation
[game-time updates]
Etymology
Unknown, sharing origin with the name of the Varantian people.
History
Around year 0 the Faloran city-state had only just begun expanding a kingdom across the Camperian plain, fighting and subduing other such minor kingdoms in the process.
By the time archons began to form, around year 500, the Faloran Imperium had reached its classical "Golden Age". It had spread south over the Inner Sea and across Juvinium, east to the Abissian mountains and steppe peoples of the Kutandan plains, north to the great forests in the centre of the continent, and northwest towards Nalbin. The great bridge is constructed at this time.
As archons begin to carve out their spheres of influence, the expansion of the Imperium is slowed down. Over the centuries the Faloran Imperium frequently wars with archon-led neighbours, until by 1200 a new era of peace and expansion (the "Middle Kingdom") is ushered in by accepting archons into the (much-changed) Imperium's structure. Malvern becomes an integral part of the Imperium.
At the zenith of this resurrected kingdom, around 1500, Radiant Lord takes over the effective control of the capital region, centered across Camperia and Juvinium; Falor of old. Different archons continue expanding the formal boundaries of the Imperium north and east on the Halim peninsula, leaving Varantium behind as one province among several. Radiant Lord's taste for extravagance only grows, and human subservience to the archons becomes official with the formation of the Holy Dominion.
After the Malvernian rebellion (1721), Radiant Lord's mismanagement of the prosperous region eventually sparked the Faloran rebellion in 2427. This culminated in the Shatterbridge, 2435, breaking the almost two millennia-long connection between Camperia and Juvinium, and transforming Varantium for the first time in a thousand years into a border region.
Geography and subdivisions
Its area is almost twice that of France, its terrain and climate generally Mediterranean; Italian.
Varantium or, rather, Radiant Lord's sphere of influence, is traditionally and administratively divided into ten regions.
Region | Location | Description (keywords) | Capital | Area & Pop |
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Abissia | West | Mountainous, dry and sparse, distinct ethniticy, poor. Goats. | Abissus |
45,000 sq.km 0,5 million |
Camperia | Southeast | Fertile plain, temperate, capital region, schismed. Wheat and wine, arts. |
Falor ("Old Capital") |
180,000 sq.km 5 million |
Maycia | North | Hilly, mild, culturally distant, healthy. Education. | Maychenae |
60,000 sq.km 2,3 million |
Perchium | East | Plain, dry, backwaters, poor. Olives. | Baeduba |
60,000 sq.km 1 million |
Retilis | Centre, S. | Mixed temperate, wartorn. Fishing, wheat. | Cottaco |
90,000 sq.km 1,5 million |
Samana | Centre, N. | Mountainous and forested, isolated, healthy. Timber, fur. | Botros |
60,000 sq.km 0,75 million |
Senium | Southwest | Cliffy coast, hot-temperate, wartorn. Fishing, trading. | Senusa |
60,000 sq.km 1,3 million |
Transolum | West | Coastal focus, fertile bay, untouched, near Dominion. Fishing and fruit plantations. | Celia |
60,000 sq.km 1,9 million |
Vachea | Northwest | Great valley, windy, crossroads. Cattle, farming. | Trimaia |
75,000 sq.km 2 million |
Veorensis Borea | Northeast | Forested and large, northernmost march, independent. Technology, ironworks. | Myrnium |
120,000 sq.km 3,2 million |
Politics and government
Radiant Lord.
Central government near collapsed. Enormous corruption in the Old Capital, with little interest for directing the war effort.
Military
Lots of it, haphazardly organized.
Demographics
Demographics, urbanization, peoples and minority groups, languages, education, religion
Despite centuries of decline, the region's total population still makes it one of the largest in the Dominion, and larger than many other "free" nations. Varantian and Faloran natives make up a large portion of the population, but with recent years' displacement other inhabitants of the Dominion have come to form an increasing presence.
population is approximately 22500000 persons.
450000 residents are isolated or itinerant.
20025000 residents live in 44500 villages.
1350000 residents live in 270 towns.
562500 residents live in 47 cities.
112500 residents live in 2 big cities.
Culture
The arts, architecture, science and technology, holidays and festivals
The coastal regions have been devastated by the long, intermittent warfare against Malvern and then Falor, and the region is much declined from its former glorydays. Even so it remains - by its exposure to the "free" nations - a conduit of new technologies and ideas into the Dominion. While gunpowder is outlawed in the Dominion, it does have a presence in the lawless hinterlands of Varantium.
Notable people
Radiant Lord
See also, references, and external links
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Holy Dominion of Archanicus |
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Bhakhtar · Chakazia · Havsgard · Holy City · Kutanda · Nalbin · Otticia · Varantium |