Godly Auslan Empire

The Godly Auslan Empire or the Godly Empire or Empire of the Auslans is one of the strong powers out there. Though the empire is not as old as Orea or Valyria the Auslans do maintain a long and strenuous history. Most of which is filled with wars with the Auslans' eternal enemy the Po Qi. Those wars of aggression finally came to a halt with Po Qi's downfall in 440 AD. Even with their downfall though the Auslans' bellicose nature continues on. That nature has soured relations with the once friendly Gyrs and the Kingdom of Rufu.

Geography
look at a map, I'm lazy

People
will go into detail later

South = militaristic

North = merchants and farms

Western exclave = filled with foreigners

The Ascendancy
The Douchy of Kyi was one of many constantly feuding Douchies. The douches of Kyi long aspired to become the dominant power on the Danunsk River. However the Douchy of Ublik, the dominant power of the region at the time, stood in the way of that. Then in 1492 BD a new douch came to the head of Kyi. This young man, Feodor Shchek, was a genius in all aspects. Being a master of many things he was quite good at intrigue and began to engineer the defeat of Ublik, whilst his martial skill was put to use in building the Godly Auslan Army. Following a decade of masterful diplomacy, brilliant stewardship, devious subterfuge, and impressive training Feodor was finally executed his plot. His agents poisoned Douch Ivas and many other members of Irko family. Meanwhile his diplomats stirred up rebellion against Ublik and support for Feodor. Within a month the entire Douchy was in chaos and Feodor's army quick marched itself across the border and to the rebel camp where the two forces combined strength. Meanwhile the Irko's gathered their army.

Determined to quickly win the war Feodor decided to march off before the rebels had reached full strength. The famous march would quickly cross the land and come upon the loyalists. Feodor's astonishing speed had shocked the Irkos. Nonetheless they had prepared to fight the Douch of Kyi. Standing at the ready the loyalist army awaited the Auslan assault. Yet to their surprise instead of a massive assault the Kyins simply sat. They would realize several days later as they began to choke on their own blood. It seemed that Feodor had chosen to save his strength and instead poison his foe's water supply. With that victory the road to the enemy stronghold, Irko Castle, was wide open. With all haste Feodor approached the castle. Upon reaching it he engaged in a siege. This siege would last a short two months before the walls came tumbling down and the Kyi-Rebel army took the castle from the remaining Irkos. Now with all of Ublik under his control Feodor decided to take minimal land and instead give most of it to the rebel leader, Yotr Boreckyi.

The reason for the strange turn of events, was that Feodor cared not for Ublik. Instead Feodor's ambitions weren't the Danunsk River but the Auslan people. It appeared that he intended to unite the Auslan people. To meet this goal he recognized that allegiance was far more important than annexations, and so that is what he extracted from Yotr. But with a vassal of the same title as Feodor a new title was needed. Aware that claiming to be King of the Auslans so soon would cause the other powerful Auslans to attack him he instead proclaimed himself Karol (King) of the Danunsk. Under this title he would turn on the other nations of Danunsk, Druhka, Palne, Lovol, Perevaltovsky, and Kollin. One by one Feodor and Yotr would defeat these nations and force their to submit whilst incorporating their armies into the Godly Auslan Army. Finally after a baker's dozen years the nations of the Danunsk were under Feodor's control. What followed was much needed respite.

War of Bears
Following three years of solace after the Danunsk Wars a very opportune chance to unite the Auslans appeared. The giants of Zamoysk, Canolyvsk, and Ashcov had engaged themselves in a three way war. And the other strong power of Kamin had just allied itself to Feodor. With absolutely everything in order Feodor had his spies throw in some more chaos before he and the Godly Auslan Army engaged. After two years of this all three giants were facing some sort of resistance at home and were dealing with massive casualties on the front. Noticing that Zamoysk was winning the war Feodor targeted them first. This gave the other two belligerents ideas that Feodor might be coming to help them. Yet Feodor would dismiss their emissaries and focus himself on defeating the Douchy of Zamoysk. Which would be accomplished the stunning Battle of Ursk.

The Douch of Zamoysk reeling back from his march on Canolyvsk stumbled into the advance guard of the Godly Army. This mistake was taken by Feodor as an organized and planned ambush. This belief nearly got him to retreat and sacrifice his vanguard. Luckily Yotr, who was to honorable to allow any soldiers to be sacrificed, convinced Feodor to throw everything at the Zamoysk army. Doing just that Feodor lead a daring charge of a mass of infnatry and cavalry. This attack collided into the Zamoysk army with such a force that it caused the entire army to waver. Yet that waver was brief and what ensued was a bloodbath. Horsemen were grabbed from their seats and pulled down where they were stabbed to death and foot soldiers murdered eachother with whatever object they held in their hands or even their hands themselves. It would only be Feodor's capture of the Douch of Zamoysk and his subsequent surrender that would bring to a halt. Still the battle was quite a bloodly one.

As a result of the battle the Douch of Zamoysk agreed to give some of his land to Feodor, to give independence to the rebellous Ostka family, swear himself to Feodor, and most importantly to support Feodor's bid for supremacy. Yet most modern historians agree that the Douch was probably going to conspire against Feodor and maybe even usurp him. Instead historians point to the Douch of Canolyvsk's swearing of fealty and the Pact of Vertsygorod. It was following weeks of the Battle of Ursk that the Douch of Canolyvsk, Egor Ondar, decided it was in his best interests to join Feodor's kingdom. He negotiated the Pact of Vertsygorod that estbalished the Electoral System by which the Empire runs on to this day. Under the terms of the Pact he agreed to swear fealty to Feodor and that Feodor should be Impieratar of the Auslans (Egor believed the title more fitting then Karol of the Auslans). This turn of events meant that there was no possible way the the Douch of Zamoysk could rebel without fighting a two front war, which as proven he couldn't. In contrast to Egor the Douch of Ashcov intended to keep fighting on.

The Ashcov campaign would be incredibly complex as the Ashcov army used their forests geniusly. All the while the Godly Auslan Army was denied a pitched battle. Even when the Godly Army approached the Ashcov Castle the Douch refused battle and abandoned his home. It would only be after nine years of fighting throughout the country that Ashcov was thrown from his horse and split his head on a rock. His death combined with the threatened execution of thousands of the soldiers' families caused the exhausted Ashcov army to surrender. The terms however were severe. Over two thirds of the Douchy was taken away and formed into numerous new nations. In fact the only reason that Ashcov was granted an electorship was because the new Douch of Ashcov gave his heir as a hostage and had begged personally at Feodor's feet for hours.

Coronation
Following years of warfare in 1464 BD Feodor finally decided to have himself coronated. In a grand ceremony the Biskup of Vovk crowned the old Feodor Impieratar of the Auslans and the Godly Auslan Empire was founded.

Politics
The Empire runs off the Electoral System by which the thirteen electors choose the next Impieratar from amongst Feodor's blood.

Ivas I has only been ruling on his own for two years now and is still trying to win the respect of his vassals. What keeps tose vassals from rebellion is the powerful Douch of Canolyvsk, Aexey VI, who is also the Impiertar's foremost advisor. Wielding his vast influence he has maintained the peace. The young Markhraf of Doyko is eager to channel the martial nature of the Auslan people against the Gyrs and the Kingdom of Rufu, for the Markhraf intends to make huge land gains akin to those of the Douch of Canolyvsk did after the Po Qi collapse. His petition for this is well supported and the Markhraf cites his lack of territorial gains for his efforts against the Poqise as good reason for war. Meanwhile the Douchy of Ashcov and Douchy of Canolyvsk stand in opposition. And because of the latter the powerful Douchy of Zamoysk and Douchy of Ublik have thrown their support to the Markhraf. The Impieratar is expected to decide whether the petition is adopted or not soon.

Military
The Godly Auslan Empire boasts a large army of 500,000. The army continues to uphold the same high standards as the Godly Auslan Army did under Feodor I. For this reason the Auslan soldiers are well equipped and well trained. That how the Auslans have managed to win a number of wars against the more numerous Poqise.