Ancient Alousian Empire

The decision to give up their nomadic way of life was made by the followers of a half-elf chieftain named Alousa. Within a few generations, her followers had begun to found settlements up and down the river valleys in the west.

Chieftain Alousa and the Founding of Cinri

After ten thousand years of nomadic life, some of the ausrani decided to form permanent villages. Five thousand years ago, the tiny settlement of Cinri was founded. Modeled on the oldest cities in the world - the gnomes’ Tanatra and the fey capital of Mathghamein in Cernoa, a small number of ausrani settled on the western coast in certain river deltas. The lush wetlands surrounded by forest and the nearby rivers provided bountiful game, while druidic magic made gardens and crops ripen overnight.
The decision to give up her peoples' traditionally nomadic way of life was made by the followers of a half-elf chieftain named Alousa. For generations, Chieftain Alousa's people had been spending more and more time in what would be Cinri, so it was in the end an easy decision to lead her people into putting down roots where they spent much of the year anyway. Within a few generations of Chieftain Alousa's founding of Cinri, her followers and descendants had founded other settlements up and down the river valleys of the west.

Durenna and the Ancient Alousian Empire

Four hundred fifty years after the founding of Cinri, Alousa's granddaughter Durenna gathered the chiefs and leaders of all the Alousian lands and proclaimed herself Empress. Leader of the greatest military power in the region, and a gifted warrior herself, no one challenged Durenna's I claim.

The Fall of Alousia and the Second Alousian Empire

Twelve hundred years ago a massive invasion from a rift to the Nine Hells tore the Alousian Empire apart. While the Alousian armies (aided by the Godosseans, Tanatrans and Cernoan fey) ultimately destroyed the infernal forces and closed the rift, the empire never fully recovered. The Rape of Alousia resulted in thousands of tieflings. Eventually, the Alousians rebuilt. Today, Alousia still calls itself an empire, though it is now a fraction of its former size and power, and ruled by a different dynasty.
Several kingdoms seceded from the Old Empire in the centuries after Alousia’s destruction. The present day Second Alousian Empire controls the historic heartland in the northern delta and the oldest cities. The Kingdom of Shan arose around the great southern delta, and the small Kingdom of Baatherys was founded in the eastern mountain valleys by noble Alousian refugees. The legendary bardic Principality of Madhwira declared its independence nearly as soon as Alousia fell.

Chieftain Alousa

Cínri at its founding

Cínri today

Type

Geopolitical, Empire

Demonym

Alousian

Government System

Monarchy, Absolute

Economic System

Mixed economy

Official Languages

• Alousian
• Carentan Sylvan
• Old Alousian