The frontier kingdom
The smallest region of the verainberg empire. It fights the frontier war with the principality of setercha
Structure
The king of the frontier is the verainberg emperor and he first elected the Ban of the Keroi clan to be his lord commander of the frontier and he was in turn made Raven prince. under the lord commander there are three Bans who rule over the three main adminstrative division of the frontier. these men are elected from the nobility and act as Victroys (these titles evolved over the years into more civilian rather than milliatry roles) . under them are the local lords and clan chief who hold a vast amount of infunce within there own lands.
Culture
Carniolans are similar to other slavs, a culture based around strenght and loyalty at any coast. frontiermen are know to be very loyal to there own at any coast. as a result of there location on the boarder with there slavic cousins in the principality of setercha a martial culture was built up and all families in the frontier have small armied forces and that lasted into after The great crisis where the nobles of the froniter could still boast personal armies of up to 1000 men each.
due to the story of the first keroi being lead to these lands by a raven a strong emphisis is put on the raven as a symbol.
Assets
The frontier kingdom is home to a large army of frontier men. These men are possibly the most battle hardened units in the verainberg empire.
due to the fact that the area is densely forested lumber is a large industry in the empire. the forest are also home to deer, wolves, bears, boars and wild cats
History
early history-formed by the von anerians after the events of The war of Men and the 'Old' races. it was given to the slav commander of his southern forces chief franjo keroi was made the first raven prince after the war. the people he took with him where the carneoilan slavs whe came during the great migration. he took with him around 20 other clans each with there own chiefs. he took the raven as his sigil as he said a raven had led him through the forest to defeat the elves and goblins. they soon occupied these new lands and the frontier kingdom was created. the kerois ruled the frontier as the raven princes. The verainberg empire needed a state through which they could use to fight an indirect war with the twin sultanates which would become know as The setrchan frontier kingdom war.
a land of warriors- the kerois where the embodiment of the northern slav warrior culture. and they went into there new take of waging war against there southern kin with great zeal. under the rule of the house of von anerian the new frontier saw its first road which ran from the new franjograd to walchindorf. this saw the first marriage between the kerois and a non slav family. the 17 year old Peter Keroi 1st to Konstantina walchak. the marriage started an alliance which would last until the walchak families extinction in the 18 years war. for its early existence the frontier was mostly independent. however they soon fell into the sphere of influence of house De Nab and became part of there slavick kingdom of bron. at this time they where bound by marriage to the De nabs and so the kerois went to war with there imperial masters when Charles 3rd de nab went to war in . they however where the first to switch sided and under lord commander franjo 3rd the frontier army marched west into bron. after this war all three of the rebel states where forced to pay a massive amount of money franjo 3rd was forced to bankrupt his kingdom and this turned many of his lords against him
the frontier civil war- the lord commander was forced to exact more and more taxes and this turned house vorovic, house Terezija and house Jelačić went against it and marched there forces south. as there houses mostly lived in the north they made there southward march towards franjograd. lord commander franjo gathered an army of 3000 men and marched north to put down the rebellion. the rebels lead by his sister husband lord trezija was marching with host of 3500 men. the rebels first beat them at stony ruin (an old elven fortress) then franjo retreated with his son. 1500 troops from the emperor lead by archduke Gebhardt Hallsberg 2nd the steward of the realm. next at the battle of franjograd the rebels where humbled and forced to surrender.
anton keroi and the rebellion of the red raven- lord commander anton keroi was bron in 1810YBCW. he became lord commander at 14 when his father died fighting the seterchans. it was said they carved a raven into his forehead and anton swore that he would repay the seterchans in blood and it was from this that he staried dying his hair red. when he was 15 he gathered an army of 7000 frontiersmen and raided deep into setercha. this was in 1795YBCW. the raid was devistating and reached all the way to Belgrodna. only hear was it stopped when an army under Hamza ali iban-al-hamed (a distant relative of the sultan born 1830YBCW) arrived outside the city perimiter. during Harald and Ivar's first invasion he was able to become Lord justice and in its aftermath became chancellor of the empire. the frontier saw a boom in trade, it population also incresed due to the fact anton skillfuly kept frontier soldiers and money away from the fighting, the forniter also becmae one of the most important parts of the empire.
the rule of the raven under the twin headed eagle - the keroi's ruled over there land with an iron fist. when Charles 1st came to power they didn't chose to fight on either side but declared there loyalty to the emperor. they stayed out of the affairs of the empire and didn't empire onto either side of the first haysyrax war. the raven prince once held there capital and franjograd (the capital of prince franjo 1st) however the raven princes wanted an new capital and over the next 100 years after the first haysyrax war. when the city was finished it was called the city of ravens.. the kingdom was part of the empire of the great lakeCharles
Demography and Population
The small population is manually located in the out lining area. Only the upper class live in the capital. many small nobles live in the country side as well. a small verainbergur population lives on the nations boarder in the north.
Military
The frontier army is made up of battle hardened men who the regular army look down upon. These men have served a soliders all there lives and live in massive army camps.
Agriculture & Industry
The frontier kingdom lacks the ability and funds to build factors. Instead most of the land is used for farming.
Trade & Transport
The only way around the country is on the dirt tracks. There is also very little trade there only commodities being live stock.
Type
Geopolitical, Kingdom
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Professional
Veterancy Level
Veteran
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Government System
Monarchy, Absolute
Power Structure
Semi-autonomous area
Major Imports
In order to fund the constant war efforts against aeterchanthe frontier kingdom must reliy on arms and food imports from the rest of the empire.
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