Caranthea

Caranthea was a nation, located in the far north of Abexilas, on the Norvinian continent unofficially founded on Febuary 12th, 2024. And officially founded on March 30th 2024.
It was founded by immigrants from Rathnir and Eldham nations such as New Azad and Kryvonea with the hopes of building a powerful nation focused around building peace. It was succeeded by a merge with Jarazeh into Sahriya.
Caranthea's architecture is focused around a vibrant desert theme, with a strong love for mega builds. However, they feature other architectural styles in it's other towns that fall under their flag.
== History ==
=== Early History ===
Following the freezing of the worlds of Ratham, two groups in steady decline facing cultural extinction, namely Kryvonean and New Azadian, no longer wanting anything to do with their former identities, would intermix upon landing in Abexilas and would form a new ethnicity of peoples; early texts indicate that these people called themselves Karansei, which loosely translates into "new beginnings."
Leaders such as Cao_Sung told of prophecies from the old world of Eldham regarding the promised mythical land where The Karansei would establish a rich, towering, grand city filled with wealth, architecture, and able fighters. On a voyage, the Karansei peoples found and assimilated countless other cultures, before eventually they followed a majestic golden falcon, described to be "as bright as the sun." This falcon led them to a desert peninsula with sand that was claimed to be shining just as brightly. It was decided, that there the Karansei would set up. The golden falcon was later deemed as the mythical deity Shabaaz by religious scholars.
The city of Ahurane, meaning "the glorious winds" in the ancient Karansei dialect, was founded on Winter of the year 3 VE (4/13/24), Later in the same year, the cities of Kuva and eventually Bravadere, a state made of separate peoples under vassalage to the Karansei, were also founded. 3 years later, around Spring of 6 VE (4/26/24), Darius Imvi and Cyrus El Cabo announced the state of Caranthea with its capital Ahurane onto the world stage. 
That same year, the Carantheans encountered a runaway group from the continent of Cathramis landing on the same peninsula as the city of Kuva. This caused some issues, however upon discovering their leader was facing persecution, Caranthea decided to instead take them under vassalage protections, and they would found the city of Azuthereal.
Another ethnicity that had also been travelling with the early Karansei, the knights of Aquamare, would set up on the same island as Bravadere.
=== Bravadere Succession and Kuva Island Crisis ===
Immediately after the establishment of Caranthea, the nation ran into some troubles.
For starters, a culture the Karansei encountered and failed to assimilate on the peninsula was the Asperii tribes. Due to Ahurane gradually annexing the entire peninsula, the Asperii tribes instead relocated onto another peninsula that Karansei groups had also landed on, particularly Kuva. There they would set up their own country of Magna Asperia. This troubled many of the Kuvan inhabitants, for they dreamt of uniting the whole peninsula under Caranthean rule, and Magna Asperia was a massive roadblock to such.
Additionally, only one year following its inception, the leader of Bravadere, Elrosionath, made a sudden diplomatic announcement that he would be terminating the vassalage contract between Caranthea and Bravadere, without paying the necessary dues. This breached multiple terms of the contract, and while most of the Caranthean upper government was more than ready to draw arms, many were afraid of kickstarting a militarist culture so early in Caranthean history. (the real reason a war didn't happen was because wars weren't out yet smh) 
In rapid response to this, the Caranthean diplomat, Darius Imvi, instead made a warning to all nations within the region to cease diplomatic ties with Bravadere. Since Caranthea had grown considerably immense at this point, many nations took this as warning seriously, which diplomatically sanctioned and choked Bravadere. Elrosionath played the shift in rhetoric by ordering a military fort to be set up next to Ahurane, from which countless raids were performed on the city, although Caranthean militias usually had no trouble fending them off. Still, this rapid aggression was a great source of concern for Cyrus El Cabo. 
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everything below is just for reference, i will be deleting it after I'm done polishing up the wiki
Upon discovering that the worlds of Eldham and Rathnir were nearing their end, player Cao_sung decided to take this opportunity to create a nation that's focused around PVP and building. With the help of players El Cabo (Solonius__) and Epsri (Esellipion) the idea of Caranthea was born. 
Cao invited his friends, who were immigrants from the fallen nation of Kryvonea, whilst El Cabo invited his from New Azad. It was at this point that players such as Cross (The_cross), Mystica (Mystical_Coder05), Imvi, Kenniv (KNricecrisi5), Agentreaper180, Shojiro, Citizen joined, who would later become influential government officials upon arriving to the new world. 
It was also at this time that Caranthea began to witness a slow but steady population growth, with refugees from all over Ratham agreeing to join Caranthea in the new world.
The initial plan was for Cao to act as the nations monarch, however during preparations for the journey, Cao went missing. El Cabo was proclaimed the new leader as he was Cao's chosen successor. 
=== Arrival to Abexilas ===
Upon arriving to the new world, the Carantheans found themselves in a desert on the continent of Norvinia where the city of Ahurâne was founded under El Cabo which was the first settlement of Caranthea and would act as its capital. 
Ahurâne was established on March 31st, 2024 and acted as the Capital of the newly established nation of Caranthea
Buildings were quickly erected, surprising neighboring nations over the speed at which the Carantheans were working, especially regarding the attention to detail which gone into the design of the city. Under the direction of Framadār of Infrastructure, Mystical_Coder05, Ahurâne was carefully designed to ensure that it fit seamlessly into it's surroundings.
Caranthea expanded from their initial city of Ahurâne, founding various towns in the surrounding area.
===== Territorial expansion =====
On April 19th, 2024, Aquamare was vassalized by Caranthea and given land East of Ahurâne. They would later leave this land on June 14th, in favor of constructing an artificial island, however would remain a vassal. On April 24th, 2024, The Voidspire Imperium was vassalized by Caranthea.
On April 27th, 2024, the initial nation of Canthrea (which coincidentally has a similar name to Caranthea) and it's only town, Geolopol, peacefully joined Caranthea following the decisions of their government and the referendum. Later on that exact day, the name Geolopol was changed to Karane Se'tape to fully adopt the Caranthean culture. 
On June 28th, 2024, the Kingdom of Nova Stellare joined Caranthea under a single banner, after the Interim Union of Oldann and Barakor Stasrikos Lhah threatened Nova Stellare with war, following of a series of raids perpetuated by new joinees. The Caranthean people and government welcomed the Stellare region with open arms.
Bravadere had launched a raid against Caranthea on May 4th, 2024, with Bravadere forces invading Ahurâne. They were successfully repelled by defending Carantheans.
== Reigns ==
=== Cao_Sung ===
Cao's reign is relatively undocumented, however it is believed it was spent purely preparing for the new world and making plans for a strong pvp and building culture. However Cao's reign would be cut short as he would go missing without explanation.
What is known about Cao is that he was a wealthy businessman, as well as a devote Voclaranist. 
=== El Cabo ===
The current leader of Caranthea, Cyrus El Cabo is the nations second leader who took over after the first leader Cao had gone missing. El Cabo quickly sprung into action, taking control of preparations and salvaging the Carantheans escape to the new world. Without him, the nation would have likely been abandoned upon Cao's disappearance.
Upon arriving in Abexilas, El Cabo established the capital city of Ahurâne and set up a provisional government. The construction of the Capital began with a large city center, impressing many other nations with the speed at which Caranthea had set up under the command of their new Cyrus, rapidly getting the nation up to speed with its neighbors.
It was early on into El Cabo's reign that the people of Caranthea began to love and support him wholeheartedly as he successfully proved himself as a competent Cyrus.
=== Second Reign of Cao_Sung ===
On July 29th, 2024, due to El Cabo's personal situations, he resigned from the position of Cyrus and handed over the leadership of the nation to Cao (alongside Shojiro, who was the Amiir, the Shura, and the Senate). In El Cabo's announcement, he stated that it was unclear when he would be returning to the nation.
Cao's second reign was short-lived due to the merger of Sahriya that occurred on the 8th of August, which was 10 days after the start of his reign. However, his position remained after the merger, indicating that his power continued following the unification.
== Government ==
=== Provisional government ===
Near the start of his reign as Cyrus, El Cabo had established a provisional government. Although The Judiciary and The Darius are depicted as being equal to The Cyrus, in reality The Cyrus still holds absolute power.
=== New Constitution ===
On June 5th, 2024, El Cabo established a new constitution for Caranthea, which re-organized the government. It added 5 different Magistries (Infastructure, Finance, Interior, Development, and Recruitment), as well as starting elections for senator positions in government. It also established a citizen hierarchy, which allowed for certain citizens to have more of a say in the nations politics.
On July 19th, 2024, the Magistry of Development was repurposed as the Magistry of Fine Arts, gaining the duty of creating propaganda and handling other artwork within the server. The handling of medals (Determining citizen hierarchy) was given to a separate position, however managements of courts remained within the magistry.
=== Law ===
Caranthea has at least two levels of law: National and local. National laws would be handled by the Caranthean Supreme Courts, whilst local laws may vary between provinces and towns. National law would still be able, of course, to overrule local law.
=== Policies ===
It was at this point, under El Cabo, that many people heard of the success of the great nation, and decided to check it out for themselves. Many of these visitors wounded up deciding not to leave at all, embracing the Caranthean way of life, leading to the start of a population boom and even a temporary housing shortage.
== Geography ==
A majority of Caranthea's territory is desert, however it does have towns in biomes such as oak and birch forests, mesa plains, mangrove swamps and jungles. Caranthea is primarily made up of humans, most notably those from Rathnir and Eldham, however other races and cultures have found their way into the melting pot.
== Sahriyan Unification ==
On the 8th of August, 2024, Caranthea and the nation of Jazareh, which both had very similar cultures and shared values alongside a history of cooperation and mutual benefit pacts, unified and merged with each other to form the Holy Empire of Sahriya. Vassals of Caranthea, such as Voidspire Imperium, also joined the empire, but their vassal status remained.
It was announced that there would be two new monarchs (Shahs), one of them being Cao, who was the Cyrus of Caranthea, and the other being Skinnyee, who was the Shah of Jazareh. Due to the merger and the creation of a new identity, all existing agreements, pacts, and partnerships that the government of Caranthea had became void and ceased to exist. 
The unification marked the end of Caranthea (& Jazareh) and the beginning of a new era, that of Sahriya.
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