The Tristeadian Empire

The Tristeadian Empire is a nation that rose up out of the collapse of the Seven Kingdoms. At its peak; it covered most of the old Adakai Kingdom and into Sunft territory. Southguard stands as the capitol, a large city located between the Steppe Lakes and the Ophos Sea.

History
The empire has its humble roots in Southguard's civil war, where a man named Mazrim Underfoot rose to power after five bloody years of unrest. He was the first in a long line of pureblood humans to hold the throne. Fifty years later, his grandson Fitz Tristead launched the first campaign to extending his rule beyond the river's edge, a quest that reached fulfillment under his daughter Austice Tristead. It was on the eve of the Winter's Festival, during the celebration of the conquest of 'Eyr Dovik on the River Rhyne, that Austice announced the beginning of a new age, the age of the Tristeadian Empire; that day marked the first day of the year 1 o.E.D. (of the Empire's Dominion).

The empire's monarchy only lasted another two hundred year; in the year 201 o.E.D., Elys Tristead died with no heir to claim the throne. Many feared that the new Empire was on the brink of collapse, as there were three contenders; Celiun and Melak, cousins of Elys, and Beau, Elys' stepsister with no royal blood. Celiun and Melak were at each others throats, and it was only Beau's diplomatic intervention that stopped them from sending the city of Southguard into another civil war. Two years later, the three of them formed an oliogarchy, which remained the Empire's form of government until its eventual decline.

See also:


 * Southguard (capitol)
 * Strance (city)