Kingdom of Avalon
Gold boar on an emerald field. The symbol of Avalon. It is strange to think that a kingdom that has spread its wings across the known world, and sunk hooks into almost every nation on the map would be represented by a creature so...humble. Or perhaps it is just as it should be. After all, Avalon got its start in the dirt, just as the boar digs through the dirt for truffles. Perhaps the metaphor can continue, as just as the boar is territorial, so is Avalon. When threatened, the boar gores wildly. And so does Avalon.
Structure
- King: Evaved Addalwas
- The Table of Lords: The most loyal lords of Avalon, hand-selected by the king for reasons that are entirely his own.
- The Gold Thread Parlament: The collection of lords that encompasses the nobles that are not on the Table. Intended to counterbalance the Table of Lords, though the debate continues about if it actually does so.
Assets
- West Wind Trading Company
- The Merchant Mariners Guild
- Bruenor Fortifications
- 1.3 million Bristlebacks
- 680,000 Royal Marines
- 20,000 Boar Hide Knights
- 2.4 million Foreign Auxiliaries
- 400 Arcane Constructs
- 200 Military Constructs
- 120 combat airships
- 3400 naval-combat ships
History
For a nation that prides itself on its imperial majesty, the Kingdom of Avalon has humble beginnings, though that description holds some contention between the historians of Avalon and Tir Na Nog. Avalon tells it's history like this, in the Age of the Divine, the Tuatha De Dannan crafted two races. The first served them directly as their priests and retainers and who make up the people of Tir Na Nog to this day. The second was created to serve them as laborers. To clean the cities and sewers, toil in the fields, and die by the droves in war. Slaves, though Tir Na Nog argues that isn't the truth.
Whatever the truth may be, the Avalonians rebelled and fled west from Tir Na Nog and over the next decade they built their capital of Bruenor. Tir Na Nog did not simply let them go, however, and on the dawn of their eleventh year of freedom marched against the nascent city of Bruenor. The battle of Bruenor is a story for another time but in the end Addalwas, his golden boar-skin cloak, and his closest knights broke the Tuatha host and ensured himself the crown and the future of Avalon. From there, he attributed his power and authority to Cadfael, the lord of light, and built him a church. Since then, Avalon has painstakingly built its power throughout the world. Unable to build much of an economy in the rocky soil that suffuses their home, they looked to the sea and then to the shores beyond. Using their fleet to strike out across the waves of the Sea of Whispers and beyond, they plundered the riches of the undiscovered lands they found. And the discovered ones. Founding many colonies, they have woven an international web of commerce that is the system of veins that carry the lifeblood of Avalon. While a few colonies have managed to achieve their independence, such as the The Iron Republic, they are on the whole the exception and not the rule. That's not to say that they haven't tried, of course.
Demography and Population
- 99% Avalonian
- 1% Assorted Foreign
Territories
Military
Royal Marines: The more numerous armed soldiers of the Kingdom, stationed on each and every ship the kingdom has sailing.
Boar-Hide Heavy Infantry: Shock Troops equipped with magical talismans intended to increase their effectiveness.
Foreign Auxiliaries: Though not technically a division in and unto themselves these make up a bulk of the armed forces of Avalon.
The Royal Navy: Broken up into further sub-divisions as needed, encompasses both oceanic and aerial naval forces
The Royal Cabal Corps: the formal institution of the militaries magicians
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