Savium

Savium is a burgeoning town that lies within the Empire of Ischanor. It is a free city within Lovvia and thus by extension Blómach. It is the center of the Cult of Xelia which is a part of the larger Court of Aldreda. It is ruled by a Patrician class of descendants from the ancient Savians who have largely assimilated a large amount of the surrounding Thondean population into the Savian culture.
== History ==
In this section sources from a number of Savian texts. For the purpose of sharing the knowledge prescribed within, a list of texts, annals and books have been taken out of the Savian state archives.
=== On the ancient Savians and their homeland ===
First and foremost, it is important to understand that the modern Savians (excluding the Patricians) are barely, if at all related to the ancient Savians. They spoke a different language, they had largely different religious and cultural practices, and in many ways can be considered totally aliens to our modern Savian society in Ischanor. The Saviana Antiqua came from the south-eastern Talasi coast. 
==== Their structure ====
With that understood, we shall begin our study on the way they have governed themselves throughout the ages.
The ancient Savians or as we will call them hencefort Saviana Antiqua were initially organised into a number of small disparate tribes. We don't know much about this era outside of the fact that the tribes recognised amongst each other an inate similarity qua language. In this tribal era there's a lot of evidence indicating hostility between the Savians and other collections of tribes. Less hostility is noticed between the Savian tribes but a fierce sense of independance can be noticed in the unwillingness to work together in war.Annals of Savian Chronology by Marcus Licinius Corvus
The Saviana Antiqua lived in this tribal state approximately 1500 years ago. Almost 1000 years ago these tribes began to evolve into petty fiefdoms. These ranged from highly centralised autocracies in which the former chief and his family took all control to proto-democratic systems where debate and a direct vote of all the citizens of the polity would decide the order of the day.An Archaeological Examination of Ancient Savians by Unknown In a period of 250 or so years, the Saviana Antiqua came under the sway of 3 large polities. The first was Vacca in the east, an autocracy in which the patriarch of the Gens Vallus reigned supreme. The second was Iliana, an oligarchy in which a council of wealthy mages (descendants from shamans) held all the power. Finally, in the west, there was Vicinum, a great polity in which the democratic principles layed out by Solonus' 5 principles of democracy dictated matters of state.Ancient Savian Politics by Decimus Mucius Capito
Over the next 500 or so years these three polities constantly fought against each other. Each time, one of the three would rise to preeminence, the other two would ally together to prevent the rise of a hegemon.