Rezankand
Rezankand
Religion
Traditions
+5% Discipline
+2 Tolerance of Heathens
Orders with a StateFounded by members of the Order of Exemplars, Rezankand is a country dominated by its various Holy Orders, who work together in the fight against Darkness. Rezankand’s Ruler is the Herald of Light, elected by the Conclave of Dawn, an assembly composed of the most senior members from each order, regardless of race.\n\nRezankand has many civilian and military Holy Orders, some inherited from Bulwar, but the vast majority were established to fulfill the needs of the new country, filling the same role that secular institutions have in other countries.\n\nThe main civilian orders are the Order of Judges in charge of the judicial system, and the Servants of Surael which represent the interests of the many artisan guilds. The most influential military orders are the Order of Avengers, tasked with bringing war to the Effelai, and the Order of Sundancers, composed of engineers, artificiers, mages and soldiers who are in charge of the Migrant Ship Diranhriá.
+5% All Estates' Loyalty Equilibrium
-15% Establish Local Organization Cost
Dawn ElvesBelieving that purifying the Darkness of South Aelantir can protect the Garden of Surael, the Rezankandi are determined to triumph in Aelantir, and they are not alone in this endeavor. Contrary to other countries who make distinctions between Migrant Elves and Ruinborn Elves, in Rezankand they are all considered a member of the same race, and those who follow the Sun Cult are known as Dawn Elf. \n\nMost Elves make an effort to join one of the Holy Orders during the course of their long lives, of which the Exemplars is most prominent. They then go on to train and perfect their martial skills, even if they do not intend to take any of the vows. This also serves to fulfill the duty that all Elves feel, that one should always be prepared to fight back against the coming Darkness.
+1 Possible Advisors
+2 Max Promoted Cultures
Cult of ExemplaryWhile Bulwari temples converted to the Jadd and proclaimed the Divine-herald as head of the faith, Rezankand maintained the traditional autocephaly of the temples. In the mid-1500s, the Council of Jaherdin enacted multiple reforms within the Cult, the most important being that Jaher’s mission, and thus divinity, had been passed down to the Exemplars and the other Holy Orders of Rezankand. While understanding the logic of the founders of the New Sun Cult, the council decided that tasking the entire Sun Elven race with the duties of being a Chosen was unwise, and that from this moment, only those who want to protect and guide the Faithful by being paragons through example should bear the burden of Chosenhood.
+0% Yearly Army Professionalism
Darkness in the WestThe Rezankandi never forgave the Kalavendhi for the Betrayal of Urvand. Both groups had been allied against the Larankara, with the promise that the Kalavendhi would abandon slavery and give up lands in the south for the Exemplars to settle. This however was a vile deception, and after the alliance stormed the Larankara capital and installed Tasheladar as a puppet ruler, the Kalavendhi and the Larankara turned against the Exemplars, forcing them to retreat back to Katelperai.\n\nSince then, animosity has run rampant between Rezankand and the Taychendi, with Rezankand invading the region several times from their base in Katelperai. The Rezankandi believe that the rulers of Taychend are corrupted by the Darkness, and thus need to be eradicated in order to liberate their people from oppression.
-20% Unjustified Demands
Karodir's LegacyKarodir of Varamhar was the only Sun Elf king that survived the Jaddari conquest of the Suran Plain, fleeing with the Exemplars to Aelantir after being freed from Akalšes. He accompanied the Exemplar expedition to Katelperai and Nanru Nakar, where he learned from the Taychendi and from the Precursor ruins.\n\nIn the following decades, he focused on the study of magic and precursor knowledge, trying to decipher the relics and artifacts found in Taychend and the Diranhriá. To gain help in this endeavor, he established the House of Knowledge of Jaherdin, also known as the White Phoenix Academy, a center of learning and development, from where Karodir and his students managed to pioneer artificery in Rezankand and South Aelantir, using their knowledge to repair the systems of the Diranhriá, and even to recreate some of the Precursor Artifacts found in Taychend.
-10% Idea Cost
SundancerThe Diranhriá was Jaher’s precursor ship, a mighty dreadnought of the Precursor Empire, that, according to the few surviving records, fought in the war against the Dwarves, destroying half of old Ovdal Tungr’s fleet with a single barrage. When the Sun Elves fled from South Aelantir during the Day of Ashen Skies, they took the Sundancer with them, turning the dreadnought into a Migrant Ship.\n\nAfter the founding of the Phoenix Empire, the Diranhriá was retrofitted again into a battleship and became the flagship of the Sunset fleet, until the ship was damaged when Vulzin the Red charged with the ship against the sea monster Wanamur. The ship was never fully repaired, and once it was moved to Elizna, remained dry-docked there until the Exemplars made use of the vessel for their voyage to South Aelantir.\n\nKarodir managed to repair some of the ship’s intricate magic systems, restoring the Sundancer’s armament to half power, and that power was more than enough for the Dirhariá to decimate the Anbennarian fleet during the invasion of Malatel.
+1 Naval Combat Bonus off owned coast
The Western GardenWhen the Exemplars and the Bulwari settled the Dry Coast, they quickly started to transform the land. By constructing agricultural canals, roads, and securing their border with the Effelai, as the untamed jungle is considered tainted by Darkness, this was seen as restoring civilization and order by the Sun Cult. These new cities were decorated with magnificent gardens, and the Conclave of Dawn terraces filled with flora from Aelantir and Bulwar.\n\nThey built an unwalled garden of a country, as no one expected the Effelai to expand its influence, however during the Blooming, the jungle’s wrath was unleashed. It started with whispers and rumors about how the Darkness deep within the dense vines and foliage was against our presence in Aelantir, and when the Jungle took control of the wonderful Rezankandi gardens, the people suffered as they had to burn them in order to stop further spreading of the infestation. A tragedy that convinced the Rezankandi that if they wanted to stay in Aelantir, the Effelai had to be burned to the ground, and its Darkness purified from Aelantir.
-10% Development Cost
Ambition
-15% Shock Damage Received
History
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Strategy
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