Eborthil Ideas

Traditions
-15% Naval Maintenance Modifier
+10% Morale of Navies

Between Three EmpiresOur Island has always been the meeting point of powerful realms, surrounded by treacherous waters both physical and political. Though we owe our historic prosperity to our friendships with all around us and our multilingual, diverse nature to traders settling upon our beautiful shores, we have always had a need to be cautious of those around us. From Castanor, to the Damerian Republic, to Khetarata and various Bulwari powers, many have occupied our island and many more beyond have coveted Tef for its riches and its prime location to control traffic throughout the Divenhal. As such it has ever been necessary for the rulers of Tef to not just be able to steer physical vessels but also the ship of state. As such we have also offered ourselves as the host for many treaties and diplomatic summits.\n\nAfter all, wars between friends are bad for business.
+1 Monarch Diplomatic Skill

Multilingual GoldOften called ‘the Golden Isle’ our home has always owed to gold its continued prosperity, but also its defence. No more was this true than during the period of the Tef Republic, which made extensive use of Crodamic, Kheteratan, Akasi, Tretunic and even Bulwari Mercenaries to secure its independence and protect its interest in Akasik, Businor and beyond.\n\nOur reputation of wealth, fair dealing and acceptance of foreign customs have always made us an attractive place for mercenaries to find work, and given how comparatively few we Tefori are, their service is always welcomed. After all, as the Tefori say ‘Gold speaks every language’.
+25% Mercenary Manpower

Reavers of TefAfter the death of Henrik Divenscourge, his second son, Halfdal ‘the Hoarder’ Henriksson, assembled thousands of reaver veterans and second sons appealing to their greed and desire for glory and adventure. Under his banner and after months of preparations, he struck at the last heir of the Damerian Republic: the Republic of Tef.\n\nThus, in the latter half of the year 891, the Republic fell, giving way to the Reaver Kingdom of the Divenhal. This kingdom would at its height control nearly every Island in the Eastern Divenhal and even threaten Brasan, and though the kingdom would not survive the death of Halfdal ‘the Hoarder’, the Reaver Kingdom in Tef continued to wax and wane through the next hundred years until it eventually fell to a usurper under Black Castanorian control.\n\nThe blood of the northmen flows through many Tefori to this day and though the modern Tefori reject insinuations of kinship with other ‘reaver realms’ (especially Pearlsedge and Deranne), the legacy of the Reavers of Tef still lives on, in their overpowering drive to adventure across the seas, skill with the axe and ferocity in battle.
+10% Infantry Combat Ability
+25% Colonial Range

Legacy of Eborian GoldwterWhile Eborthíl has always had a respectable seafaring tradition, its famous near-unbeatable navy would only come about thanks to reforms of Eborian Goldwaters. Eborian was arguably the greatest Elven naval commander who made landfall with the Remnant Fleet. It was Eborian that would drive the forces of Nichmer off of the island and, through marriage to Halfdall III’s daughter Clara, founded the house of Silebor.\n\nHe would go on to synthesise the best naval traditions of the Elves, Reavers, Tefori, and Damerians into what would become known as ‘The Goldwater Squadrons’. The principles of this early navy would continue to be refined throughout much of his life and once he passed away, his descendants made sure to continue his work. Doctrines and methods pioneered under his rule would go on to become the basis of modern successful naval militaries, even long past the age of sail, and ensured Eborthíli primacy in naval warfare for not just decades but centuries.
-1% Yearly Naval Tradition Decay

The Heart of the DivenhalEborthil holds a strategic position like no other, the home islands sit at the central point of the Divenhal Sea, dividing it between east and west, with winds and currents favourable to naval power projection into the Divengate. This also means that no trade fleet of significant size can traverse it without our knowledge and, due to our naval superiority, our approval. Our shrewd merchants act as middleman and have much influence in markets both close and far, openly supported in their endeavours by the ruling nobility and the crown.
+15% Global Trade Power

Expansion of the TradathílThe Tradathíl is a heavily fortified position under protection of the Eborthíli crown, which acts as a trade post and warehouse for merchants away from home, while also helping the State receive its due taxes and monopolise local goods. Faced with a lack of manpower and resources compared to prime colonisers such as Lorent and the Pearlsedger Emperors, Eborthíl would expand their Tradathíl system over multiple continents and would go on to create a vast trade empire, kept together by this series of fortified markets. They were so successful, others would go on to copy the Tradathíl, and when Eborthíl eventually came under the rule of Busilar, the Tradathíl system endured.
-5% Trade Company Investment Cost
+10% Trade Steering

Roaring DragonsAs technological advancement made ships increasingly larger and capable of fitting more weapons, Eborthíli ships, always at the cutting edge of naval advancement, would soon become the terror of any opposing coastal town or fleet. Carrying dozens upon dozens of specially constructed naval cannons, and relentlessly drilled gun crews, foes of the Goldwater Armada both onshore and water would learn to fear the relentless and thunderous naval bombardments, said to be as loud and hot as the roar of a dragon. Nowhere was this exemplified in more dramatic fashion than the Battle of Crooked Island, where an octet of Eborthíli Galleons successfully subdued, sunk or captured twenty Lorentish ships off the coast of what would become Minaria.
+10% Number of Cannons Modifier
+1 Blockade Impact on Siege

Ambition
+33% Naval Force Limit Modifier