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| name = | | name = Tilrestan | ||
| official_name = | | official_name = Kingdom of Tilrestan | ||
| image = | | image = | ||
| capital = | | capital = | ||
| government = | | government = Absolute Monarchy | ||
| ruling_house = | | ruling_house = House Islabi | ||
| region = | | region = Southern and Southeastern Central Continent | ||
| area = | | area = | ||
| founded = | | founded = IY 735 | ||
| dissolved = | | dissolved = | ||
| race = | | race = Human | ||
| religion = | | religion = Rahislabi | ||
| language = | | language = English (Tilrestan dialect) | ||
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== Overview == | |||
One of the three great powers of the Central Continent. Tilrestan surpasses all rival states in military strength, economic output, and population, and is widely regarded as the preeminent kingdom of the known world. | |||
== Details == | |||
Tilrestan is a kingdom spanning the southern and southeastern regions of the Central Continent. Founded in IY 735 by the Islabi dynasty, it stands as the earliest of the three great powers to emerge following the Mana Cataclysm. All governing authority — military, domestic, and diplomatic — is held exclusively by the Islabi royal house, with the king exercising absolute power over every domain of the state. | |||
Tilrestan formally claims to be the rightful successor of the Yalta Empire, grounding this assertion in House Islabi's record as the most enduring regental house of the empire's final generations. The claim, however, finds little acceptance beyond the kingdom's borders. The prevailing view — formally settled at the first Three Powers Summit — holds that the legacy of the fallen empire belongs to all of humanity, and that no single house may lay exclusive claim to it. | |||
== Founding == | |||
In the wake of the Mana Cataclysm, the scattered peoples of the fallen Yalta Empire fled in every direction, forming small settlements wherever they could. Among them was House Islabi, one of the empire's most enduring noble houses, having held the regency more often than any other family in Yalta's final generations. Even amid the chaos, the house retained enough inherited standing, wealth, and loyal followers to avoid starting from nothing. | |||
Over the following years, the Islabi settlement grew rapidly, drawing in nearby villages, displaced commoners, and local peoples through the trust the house had already earned. As their numbers swelled, they came to face a shortage of arable land and living space of their own. | |||
It was then that House Islabi learned of a conflict among the servants of Sha-Called — a civil war between two branches of the ancient being's children that had raged for generations. Rather than wait to be approached, the Islabi chose to act first, offering aid to Sha-Called's cause. Their support proved decisive: together, they drove the corrupted Lycan from the fertile grainlands of the southeast. The land that followed was not granted to House Islabi as charity, but shared with them as comrades in victory. | |||
The following year, House Islabi declared the founding of Tilrestan — completed roughly thirteen years after the Cataclysm, the earliest of the three great powers to take shape. | |||
=== Geography === | |||
The vast majority of Tilrestan's territory — estimated at between seventy and eighty percent — consists of desert. The kingdom's capital lies within this arid expanse. In stark contrast, the southeastern reaches of the kingdom encompass one of the most fertile stretches of land in the known world, a breadbasket won alongside Sha-Called in the war that gave rise to the kingdom itself. Agricultural output from this region far exceeds the kingdom's own consumption, making Tilrestan one of the world's foremost exporters of food. It is this abundance that underpins the kingdom's extraordinary power despite the harsh nature of most of its terrain. | |||
=== Later History === | === Later History === | ||
At the first Three Powers Summit, convened in IY 745, Tilrestan argued for the continuation of the old imperial calendar — or, failing that, the adoption of its own founding year as a new era's starting point. Both proposals were rejected in favor of a new calendar shared by all three powers. In the same summit, Tilrestan ceded a share of the disputed border plains to Krossen and accepted the terms of a mutual non-aggression pact, later coming to see the arrangement as compatible with its own values of compassion and peace, its hard-won stability, and its position as the wealthiest of the three powers. | |||
Roughly a century after the Summit, Sinbad returned from his expedition beyond the Southern Limit and established his trading fortune in a port city on Tilrestan's southern coast, cementing the kingdom's status as the economic center of the known world. | |||
Tilrestan was drawn into deep involvement in the Three-Year War, fought on the distant Wendigo Continent from AY 149 to AY 152 — like Krossen, it possessed no mana stone industry of its own, making the war's stakes a matter of direct strategic concern. | |||
== Government & Politics == | == Government & Politics == | ||
Tilrestan is an absolute monarchy in the fullest sense of the term. The king holds supreme authority over the state and simultaneously serves as the highest religious authority of Rahislabi, the kingdom's official faith. This dual role renders the separation of political and religious power not merely absent, but structurally impossible — the king is the state, and the king is the faith. | Tilrestan is an absolute monarchy in the fullest sense of the term. The king holds supreme authority over the state and simultaneously serves as the highest religious authority of Rahislabi, the kingdom's official faith. This dual role renders the separation of political and religious power not merely absent, but structurally impossible — the king is the state, and the king is the faith. | ||
All significant offices within the kingdom are reserved exclusively for members of the royal house. No individual outside the Islabi bloodline may occupy a position of meaningful authority. Within Tilrestan, this arrangement is not regarded as nepotism. It is understood as a matter of sacred order — the blood of the royal house is held to be the only blood fit to govern. | All significant offices within the kingdom are reserved exclusively for members of the royal house. No individual outside the Islabi bloodline may occupy a position of meaningful authority. Within Tilrestan, this arrangement is not regarded as nepotism. It is understood as a matter of sacred order — the blood of the royal house is held to be the only blood fit to govern. | ||
== Royal Succession == | == Royal Succession == | ||
The throne of Tilrestan does not pass by direct hereditary succession. When the kingship falls vacant, any member of the Islabi royal house — regardless of their proximity to the previous monarch — is eligible to compete in a succession trial. The trial tests the full breadth of a candidate's capabilities: martial skill, intellect, administrative judgment, and more. Its underlying principle is absolute. The king must be without flaw, embodying a standard of perfection that approaches the divine. | The throne of Tilrestan does not pass by direct hereditary succession. When the kingship falls vacant, any member of the Islabi royal house — regardless of their proximity to the previous monarch — is eligible to compete in a succession trial. The trial tests the full breadth of a candidate's capabilities: martial skill, intellect, administrative judgment, and more. Its underlying principle is absolute. The king must be without flaw, embodying a standard of perfection that approaches the divine. | ||
The candidate who prevails ascends to the throne. Those who compete but do not win are not cast aside — each is appointed to lead one of the kingdom's major institutions, ensuring that the royal house remains the governing body at every level of the state. | The candidate who prevails ascends to the throne. Those who compete but do not win are not cast aside — each is appointed to lead one of the kingdom's major institutions, ensuring that the royal house remains the governing body at every level of the state. | ||
== Society & Culture == | == Society & Culture == | ||
=== Faith — Rahislabi === | === Faith — Rahislabi === | ||
The official faith of Tilrestan is Rahislabi, a religion centered on the veneration of the sun and the moon. Within Rahislabi doctrine, the Islabi royal house is not merely favored by the celestial bodies — it embodies them. The sun and the moon are understood as divine expressions of the Islabi bloodline itself, rendering the sanctity of the royal house not a matter of appointment, but of nature. | The official faith of Tilrestan is Rahislabi, a religion centered on the veneration of the sun and the moon. Within Rahislabi doctrine, the Islabi royal house is not merely favored by the celestial bodies — it embodies them. The sun and the moon are understood as divine expressions of the Islabi bloodline itself, rendering the sanctity of the royal house not a matter of appointment, but of nature. | ||
The king holds the highest clerical office of Rahislabi simultaneously with the throne. Faith and governance are not parallel systems within Tilrestan — they are a single unified structure, with the king at its apex. | The king holds the highest clerical office of Rahislabi simultaneously with the throne. Faith and governance are not parallel systems within Tilrestan — they are a single unified structure, with the king at its apex. | ||
== Relations == | == Relations == | ||
Tilrestan is a signatory to the mutual non-aggression treaty concluded at the first Three Powers Summit in IY 745, binding it to Krossen and Tragon. The treaty remains in effect to this day. | |||
Relations with Krossen carry the weight of the border plains ceded at that same Summit — a settlement Tilrestan negotiated from a position of strength, though not without lasting friction among the displaced communities on Krossen's side of the new line. | |||
Relations with Tragon are distant but untroubled, the two kingdoms separated by geography rather than drawn together or apart by history. | |||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
[[Category:Nations]] | [[Category:Nations]] | ||
Revision as of 03:49, 10 July 2026
| Tilrestan | |
|---|---|
| Basic Information | |
| Official | Kingdom of Tilrestan |
| Government | Absolute Monarchy |
| Ruling House | House Islabi |
| Geography | |
| Region | Southern and Southeastern Central Continent |
| History | |
| Founded | IY 735 |
| Society | |
| Race | Human |
| Religion | Rahislabi |
| Language | English (Tilrestan dialect) |
Overview
One of the three great powers of the Central Continent. Tilrestan surpasses all rival states in military strength, economic output, and population, and is widely regarded as the preeminent kingdom of the known world.
Details
Tilrestan is a kingdom spanning the southern and southeastern regions of the Central Continent. Founded in IY 735 by the Islabi dynasty, it stands as the earliest of the three great powers to emerge following the Mana Cataclysm. All governing authority — military, domestic, and diplomatic — is held exclusively by the Islabi royal house, with the king exercising absolute power over every domain of the state.
Tilrestan formally claims to be the rightful successor of the Yalta Empire, grounding this assertion in House Islabi's record as the most enduring regental house of the empire's final generations. The claim, however, finds little acceptance beyond the kingdom's borders. The prevailing view — formally settled at the first Three Powers Summit — holds that the legacy of the fallen empire belongs to all of humanity, and that no single house may lay exclusive claim to it.
Founding
In the wake of the Mana Cataclysm, the scattered peoples of the fallen Yalta Empire fled in every direction, forming small settlements wherever they could. Among them was House Islabi, one of the empire's most enduring noble houses, having held the regency more often than any other family in Yalta's final generations. Even amid the chaos, the house retained enough inherited standing, wealth, and loyal followers to avoid starting from nothing.
Over the following years, the Islabi settlement grew rapidly, drawing in nearby villages, displaced commoners, and local peoples through the trust the house had already earned. As their numbers swelled, they came to face a shortage of arable land and living space of their own.
It was then that House Islabi learned of a conflict among the servants of Sha-Called — a civil war between two branches of the ancient being's children that had raged for generations. Rather than wait to be approached, the Islabi chose to act first, offering aid to Sha-Called's cause. Their support proved decisive: together, they drove the corrupted Lycan from the fertile grainlands of the southeast. The land that followed was not granted to House Islabi as charity, but shared with them as comrades in victory.
The following year, House Islabi declared the founding of Tilrestan — completed roughly thirteen years after the Cataclysm, the earliest of the three great powers to take shape.
Geography
The vast majority of Tilrestan's territory — estimated at between seventy and eighty percent — consists of desert. The kingdom's capital lies within this arid expanse. In stark contrast, the southeastern reaches of the kingdom encompass one of the most fertile stretches of land in the known world, a breadbasket won alongside Sha-Called in the war that gave rise to the kingdom itself. Agricultural output from this region far exceeds the kingdom's own consumption, making Tilrestan one of the world's foremost exporters of food. It is this abundance that underpins the kingdom's extraordinary power despite the harsh nature of most of its terrain.
Later History
At the first Three Powers Summit, convened in IY 745, Tilrestan argued for the continuation of the old imperial calendar — or, failing that, the adoption of its own founding year as a new era's starting point. Both proposals were rejected in favor of a new calendar shared by all three powers. In the same summit, Tilrestan ceded a share of the disputed border plains to Krossen and accepted the terms of a mutual non-aggression pact, later coming to see the arrangement as compatible with its own values of compassion and peace, its hard-won stability, and its position as the wealthiest of the three powers.
Roughly a century after the Summit, Sinbad returned from his expedition beyond the Southern Limit and established his trading fortune in a port city on Tilrestan's southern coast, cementing the kingdom's status as the economic center of the known world.
Tilrestan was drawn into deep involvement in the Three-Year War, fought on the distant Wendigo Continent from AY 149 to AY 152 — like Krossen, it possessed no mana stone industry of its own, making the war's stakes a matter of direct strategic concern.
Government & Politics
Tilrestan is an absolute monarchy in the fullest sense of the term. The king holds supreme authority over the state and simultaneously serves as the highest religious authority of Rahislabi, the kingdom's official faith. This dual role renders the separation of political and religious power not merely absent, but structurally impossible — the king is the state, and the king is the faith.
All significant offices within the kingdom are reserved exclusively for members of the royal house. No individual outside the Islabi bloodline may occupy a position of meaningful authority. Within Tilrestan, this arrangement is not regarded as nepotism. It is understood as a matter of sacred order — the blood of the royal house is held to be the only blood fit to govern.
Royal Succession
The throne of Tilrestan does not pass by direct hereditary succession. When the kingship falls vacant, any member of the Islabi royal house — regardless of their proximity to the previous monarch — is eligible to compete in a succession trial. The trial tests the full breadth of a candidate's capabilities: martial skill, intellect, administrative judgment, and more. Its underlying principle is absolute. The king must be without flaw, embodying a standard of perfection that approaches the divine.
The candidate who prevails ascends to the throne. Those who compete but do not win are not cast aside — each is appointed to lead one of the kingdom's major institutions, ensuring that the royal house remains the governing body at every level of the state.
Society & Culture
Faith — Rahislabi
The official faith of Tilrestan is Rahislabi, a religion centered on the veneration of the sun and the moon. Within Rahislabi doctrine, the Islabi royal house is not merely favored by the celestial bodies — it embodies them. The sun and the moon are understood as divine expressions of the Islabi bloodline itself, rendering the sanctity of the royal house not a matter of appointment, but of nature.
The king holds the highest clerical office of Rahislabi simultaneously with the throne. Faith and governance are not parallel systems within Tilrestan — they are a single unified structure, with the king at its apex.
Relations
Tilrestan is a signatory to the mutual non-aggression treaty concluded at the first Three Powers Summit in IY 745, binding it to Krossen and Tragon. The treaty remains in effect to this day.
Relations with Krossen carry the weight of the border plains ceded at that same Summit — a settlement Tilrestan negotiated from a position of strength, though not without lasting friction among the displaced communities on Krossen's side of the new line.
Relations with Tragon are distant but untroubled, the two kingdoms separated by geography rather than drawn together or apart by history.