World Governments (disorganized as it may be)

[Red Dawn]

I am interested in making sure I have everything right when I'm looking at Althanas as a whole:

Corone

The Corone Empire has sway over the Northern portion of the continent, the Comb Mountains are technically a DMZ type area and the Concordia Forest is the border of their control. They use the Corone Armed Forced (CAF) as their military. There is only a few Viceroys remaining. The assault by the Ixian Knights did not destroy them outright. Government style is Despotism based on Viceroy's complete control?

The Corone Rangers are their own military as well as governing body. They hold sway in Concordia alone, their capitol being Underwood - which was razed during the war but has since been rebuilt. They lost Gisela during the war, but aren't destroyed yet. Government style is Stratocracy.

Ixian Knights control Gisela and their castle in the South, but otherwise the South portion of Corone is self governing and left alone?

Scara Brae

Absolute Monarchy with Queen Valeena at it's head. The Scara Scourge is more active and has a stronger base than ever before (Duffy, right?)

Salvar

With the king dead, and the church in shambles and almost a taboo to openly accept or believe in, the nation has been reduced to a feudal society. There are plenty of fiefdoms, run by self-appointed Dukes, Barons, Princes, and Kings (none of which had to prove their lineage due to their still present positions of power in their small regions).

Alerar

An industrial community based on the government style of Monarchy, with social representation in the form of a noble input akin to Aristocracy?

Raiaera

What cities remain are without a direct leader, same as the ones being rebuilt. As such, there is no direct government in control. Instead, the still living members of the Bladesingers and Bards form a Kritocracy in which they rule over disputes and issues based on their knowledge of elven lore, custom, and history.

[Mordelain]

The Scara Scourge is currently the most active 'criminal' element in Scara Brae - it has been reformed, with Arden Janelle as it's second command. It has destroyed the Thieves Guild (through amalgamation), and is making it's preparations to take on the Bandit Brotherhood to claim oligarchy over the Black Market.

Valeena's rule is as strong as ever, stronger still with Corone's position weakened.

[Silence Sei]

As far as Corone goes, the country is pretty much under Ixian Knights control at this point, save for Radasanth, controlled still by the 3 viceroys, and Akashima, which is forever neutural in the Coroe conflicts.

The Rangers mostly integrated into the Knights during the war, though.

[Zook Murnig]

I'm curious, Sei. When did this happen?

[Silence Sei]

Last PG war.

[Zook Murnig]

By "Radasanth" do you mean the city of Radasanth? Or do you mean Radasanthia, the city and the plains surrounding it all the way to the northern border of Concordia. The latter seems more likely, and more canonically interesting. For the Empire to exist as only the city of Radasanth, they would have to be getting significant support from the other governing bodies of Althanas, financially, militarily, diplomatically, and otherwise.

[Red Dawn]

Agreed. It's the area of Radasanthia as far as I was concerned. Seemed to be that it covered the Jagged mountains to the North and East, and cut off at the Comb mountains to the South. From the Comb in the West all the way to the Eastern shore, which is the mountains north of Akashima, is the area of influence for the Corone Empire.

Also:

"Now that Gisela is in the hand of the Ixian Knights, the Rangers have no more forward base to run out of. Their fate at the current moment is unknown to the forces of Corone, but it is far to much a dreaming thought to think they will remain silent for long."

That is what is mentioned regarding the Rangers in Corone after the war. It said nothing about the IK absorbing them. When did that happen?

[Silence Sei]

Just the city. Not the surrounding countryside.

And they don't need the support of other governing bodies, as the IK isn't going to let a city full of innocent people starve out/go bankrupt. Radasanth is still getting the supplies they need from the other cities, with whatever some of the other countries wish to aid in.

[Red Dawn]

http://www.althanas.com/world/showth...rone-Civil-War

That's before the war. What happened to Jadet and Serenti. I get that Gisela fell to the IK, booting the Rangers. But there is no mention of Jadet and Serenti in the synopsis of the PG war. How do you control everything except the capitol city?

[Zook Murnig]

That doesn't make any sense, and beyond that isn't an interesting premise for the canon. Also, looking at the PG War results, it looks like the Ixian Knights are in a similar position to the Empire, only having a single city as claimed territory. Perhaps both sides have claims in the intervening "contested territory?" Because if the Empire has only the city of Radasanth, the IK has only Gisela, and the Rangers are gone, with no other major organizations in the area, who's in control of Radasanthia? Concordia? Jadet? The Comb and Jagged Mountains? Is it just completely lawless, with brigands roaming the countryside? Or are we assuming that people will be perfectly decent to one another without the law of the land being enforced, or indeed without any "law of the land?"