Decline of the Mardin Empire

Political event

Plagued by centuries of draining their natural resources for arcane power and poor leadership, the Mardin Empire begins to collapse under its own weight. Its controlled provinces begin to rely more and more on their own governors than the authority of the emperor. The aristocracy turns to potent narcotics to supplement their arcane powers now that the Haunted Wasteland has been blighted to an arid desert.