Emicara

Over one thousand years ago, Emicara was only a small part of a vast human empire, stretching across nearly the whole of the known world. The other races either had not yet been brought into existence or remained hidden and isolated in the face of oppression. This empire had enemies throughout the wider world, well across the Unending Ocean. War came to the entire world, and this empire was slowly yet surely brought to its knees as its centers of culture and trade were brought into ruin. Every possible weapon was unleashed upon the empire’s enemies, forever and irrevocably changing the world, and not for the better. A cataclysm was unleashed and the empire toppled, and is now only referred to in stories and histories as the Nameless Empire, as it had so very nearly brought an end to all life.   Through a quirk of fate and geography, the region that became known as Emicara was able to rebuild itself, though only in a shadow of its former glory under the Nameless Empire. Families merged to create clans, clans formed tribes, and tribes formed nations. As nations returned to the world, so did war and conflict. Eight centuries ago, the nation of Jakonia set out to conquer the known world, all of Emicara. They crushed city state and nation alike, unifying their peninsula, and pushing further inland and into the Apps Mountains. Their advance was slow but efficient, building new roads and infrastructure and spreading an organized religion and system of government for the first time since the Empire’s fall.   Two hundred years ago, at long last, Jakonia sought to conquer the rest of the Shin Empire, which had long been their enemies since the start of the Jakonian Empire. They were met by the combined armies of the Shin Empire and the Sypi Confederacy. In a clash of tens of thousands on the frozen Conecuh Lake in the dead of winter, the Jakonian army was shattered and destroyed, leaving them routed and their ambitions of expansion at an end. The best of Jakonia were killed that day, causing a quick decline of an empire that had lasted for centuries.   Now, the Jakonian Empire has fallen, and other players have begun to step up. Revolutionaries, rebels, and reactionaries are all plotting for the next move. Meanwhile, in the shadows, thrones tremble and threats lurk far beyond those of the world of politics.