Middle Kingdoms

The Middle Kingdoms, known commonly also as the Middlelands, or occasionally in Sevicia as "neutral territory," is a collection of small duchies and kingdoms that occupy the central geographical strip of the continent of Truyea. Bordered by Erenna to the west, Sevicia to the east, and Duscador to the south, the Middle Kingdoms have been in a constant state of ever-changing warfare with both one another and their neighbours for hundreds of years.
== History ==
The Middle Kingdoms as a political entity date back centuries to the fall of the Kingdom of Cyon and the aftermath of the Middlelands War between the Kingdom of Erenna and the Empire of Sevicia in the early fifth century. A bloody and costly war on both sides, it led to a collapse of governance in the geographical Middlelands region which allowed for a number of warring lords and clans to fill the power vacuum. Over the next 300 years, the kingdoms have changed countless times, with many in a constant or near-constant state of war with one another.
The Middle Kingdoms are a political minefield; some, such as the Duchy of Belisar, enjoy a close alliance with larger realms such as Sevicia, while others continue to survive alone, isolated from friends on the continent. In the north, the coastal settlements of Nacia, Arteta, Seagate, and Lige banded together in the early seventh century to form the Nacian League of Free Cities, an economic trading bloc that controls most of the commerce from the Shimmering Sea. To the west, the kingdom of Portsville remains cut off from the rest of the Middle Kingdoms, surrounded on all sides by the Kingdom of Erenna. Others, such as the the Duchy of Grace in the east, continue to stoke tensions with larger kingdoms like Duscador.
== Current nations ==
As of the year 713, there are thirteen sovereign states that encompass the territory of the Middle Kingdoms, with some occasionally broken down into much smaller vassal houses and bannermen. They are:
=== Duchy of Belisar ===
=== Duchy of Thume ===
=== Duchy of Seham ===
=== Duchy of Grace ===
=== Kingdom of Henenbach ===
=== Kingdom of Highearth ===
=== Kingdom of Hillen ===
=== Imentium ===
=== Nacian League of Free Cities ===
=== Duchy of Newford ===
=== Duchy of Novo ===
=== Kingdom of Orosco ===
=== Duchy of Portsville ===
== See also ==
Empire of Sevicia
Duscador
Kingdom of Erenna
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