Shantaran Free State

The (also known as the Dominion or Domain of Shantara) was a nation of Shantaran dark elves that bordered the Fialta Confederacy, created in by the Third Treaty of Korinth at the end of the First Coalition War. It was reformed as the nation of Istomir in after the Second Coalition War.
== History ==
The Shantaran Free State was a product of the First Coalition War, in which Shantaran church agents made a secret bargain with Aeldrum to rise up against the Second Fialta Imperium and form a platform for Coalition influence into Fialta space. The Free State was thus seen by the Imperium as a black mark of treachery by the Shantarans (a large share of whom are elvish or of elvish heritage and hence associated in public imagination with Aeldrum) against the Fialta.
In , during the Alusian-Shantine War, the Shantaran Free State and part of the short-lived Fialta Union were incorporated into the newly-formed nation of Istomir, under Shantaran Archpriestess Diella Neverin.
== International Relations ==
The Shantaran Dominion lacked significant power projection, both due to its relatively paltry size and industrial base (the Dominion presided over a passel of relatively underdeveloped former frontier worlds) and because it had no navigationally important territories: the Dominion was confined to a single stretch of a single etheric lane (the Estonne Line), separating Alusia from the Fialta Imperium. In this position, the Dominion’s foreign policy had largely been to act as a modest player (through clandestine measures such as blackmail and infiltration) in Confederate politics and to do all it could to keep its status as a buffer state from dragging it into the next cosmic war.
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