Aquimore Empire
How does a society so dedicated to tradition thrive in its constant chaos?
Simple. Chaos is their tradition.
Structure
The Aquimore call themselves an Empire, though it's not clear whether they truly are or not. The task of asking them if they know what an Empire is, though, is meaningless as they seem perfectly fine with the name. Even if they weren't, nothing changes in Aquimore. It is a land mired in tradition, even as their manors regularly burn and their barons regularly hang, to be replaced with other, odder manors and barons. Whether or not they truly grasp the bizarre scope of their contradictions is a question their many scholars and philosophers put to the test hourly. --Jestonan noble in an explanation of their original home to a suitor
Head Council
The ruling group, varying from 3 to 9 members, each from a different class and occupation. They create the new sets of laws and choose what imports they will accept, and where their exports may go.
Public Agenda
To keep our tradition and history alive, living within our ancestors' wills.
To claim land long lost, bringing home the ones long forgotten.
History
First Settlements
Originally the people of Aquimore were a scattered conglomerate of huts and villages, slowly moving outward and grouping together. Unlike their peers across the ocean, they did not originally fall to fighting over the resources scattered across their rocky forested mountains and deep valleys. Instead they formed alliances to push the monstrous beasts prowling their wilds back across the hills, moving constantly outward in shockingly precise military movements. They did split eventually, returning to each other each year in a celebration of their alliances and conquests, forming the beginnings of a society rooted in strict tradition.
Government Formations
As the centuries picked up, they were the first to begin designating leaders and rulers, creating an elaborate system of nobility and vassals, the latter of which would soon die out in favor of an underclass of the less privileged. During this, they worked towards industrial breakthroughs, their burgeoning class of scholars and scientists working to push their society into their place as the strongest of the controlling powers. At the beginning of the 13th century, they began to form the first true Empire
The Monarchy Experiment
The 1300s held advances in all things, most notably for history proper, the experiment with a monarchy heading the network of nobility. This became a deadly failure, beginning when the first monarch of the family was murdered in his bed, his son becoming the one to take the throne. Up until 1370 when Empress April was murdered by her uncle, none of the deaths could be tied to the successors. Emperor March became the emperor with the shortest reign, as he held the throne for ten minutes before the rest of his family skinned him alive and hung his corpse from the battlements. It went on from there until 1381 when the Month of the Red Throne occurred, after December was shot with a cannon. The Month seated four different emperors, each dying to the next until Empress June stood the sole heir, having decapitated her father with a shield bearing their crest. Her rule was relatively short and violently tyrannical, until her people began their next tradition:
Violent uprisings.
The citizens and soldiers of Aquimore stormed her throne room, hanging her from the chandelier after a fast fight. As a people, they elected to move away from the mistakes of their 'Hanging Twelve', instead forming the first democracy. Their council was elected via popular vote backed by subtle threats of riots.
The first Council
The first Council overseeing the Empire consisted of a candlemaker, a prostitute, a sea captain, a tavern owner and a farmer, chosen for their wildly different occupations and roles in society. Together they worked to push forward the advances other nations would struggle to find years later, again becoming the leader of the seas technologically.
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