It has been nearly 12 years since the fire of revolution claimed the old Rorrio empire, plagued by political instability and inept leadership it fell at the hands of two revolutionary ideologies. from the core of the old empire, Altegnia rose an ideology shaped by its industry and the avant-garde of revolutionary art. The old empire was replaced by society of progress, the cult of speed and revolt, the army of the future bringing the modern world to the backwards and slow. An extremely militaristic, imperial, authoritarian society. Yet a socially progressive one, the center of its ideology was its unique art style that emphasized youth, technology, dynamism, modern social progress, and violence. The empire that has once prospered for a millennia controlled nearly the entire continent, fell and transformed radically within the span of the decade.
"The dark enlightenment" as it was called a century ago saw a new wave of ideological thinking and philosophy, unique in that it drastically went against the status quo of the royalty and noble families. A philosophy predicated on the strength of the collective, how Society should pursue a rapid advancement of Technology and social progress, how the state should be run by a might makes right approach. How the reliance of bloodline leadership and subservience to a false religion that only serves for the justification of those bloodlines crippling Humanity's potential for technological development.
A Century After the Dark enlightenment and after the development of the combustion engine gave rise to a new ideology that embraced those ideals. It was and ideology born from a artistic and social movement that grew into a major political force that evolved over time. The emperor was deposed by an artistic/ militaristic political group steadily growing and gaining momentum as the king's power started to dissipate. the last of the nobility and the royal family were purged and made into public displays of humiliation. Members of the nobility ether joined the new revolutionary movement, seceded their holdings as independent kingdoms or were purged.
Taking over nearly the entire core of the old Empire, it is a regime built on the avant-garde as well as a totalitarian and autocratic structure, believing in the strength of the collective but also a cult of the strongman. Artistic as well as militaristic. Strives to redefine how art, sound, and even taste is preserved to men, but is callus in its method to expand its ideology believing in the unification of the entire human race, by constant warfare as the ultimate spice to be consumed.
To the east another Ideology rose during the fall of the old empire, The religion of the old Empire while the largest organization its members were cynical about its core beliefs, corruption and sexual perversion plagued the church just like nobility.
A priest of a modest Church in a Backwater provenance, took note at this he became heartbroken at the sight of his faith he held so dearly be mocked and blasphemed by the very people he was taught to idolize. At first he started with protests and writing books criticizing the Central Church. It didn't take long for his ideals to spread however. His version of the Faith was one predicated on the masses, the honest peasant, the noble craftsman all equal under God. He attacked the aristocracy for being decadent, materialistic, engaged in sexual perversions and parasitic capitalism all while trampling the lower classes under foot.The central Authority in the church called his teachings heresy but they could do little about it since they too were being attacked by the machavantists. However to the masses he was seen as a voice of reason during the decade of Chaos. His teachings even went so far as to attack the machavantists ideology itself While his teachings went unnoticed by the old Empire, the machavantists caught wind of his criticisms towards the ideology nearly towards the end of the decade of Chaos. He was arrested, put to trial and sentenced to death as a political criminal.
His hands and feet were nailed to a wheel of wood and all of his limbs broken and left to die, made to be the most avant-garde and artistic way of execution. The news of his death made devout followers and Casual listeners alike deeply depressed and enraged, the most radical of his supporters the peasantry and lower class. Rising up adorning the wheel of their martyr atop Church Spires, banners, and hills.
The noble peasant, the innocent labor, and the honest Craftsman, with tears of sadness and anger turned their plowshares into swords and rifles. In their belief God will forever protect them and stand behind them.
In the span of less then a decade the largest empire in the world shattered, and in its place two revolutionary ideologies poised to destroy each other, and threatens to drag the world into a era of endless bloodshed, hatred and warfare on a scale unscene in all of human history.
