The Imperial Alliance

=== Overview ===
The Imperial Alliance is the strongest imperial power on Ferra since the fall of the Imperial Colonies. It unifies almost all major states of Ferra under one banner, with the notable exception of the rebel League of Yozstan and the lizardfolk of the Theocracy of Ngwih.
The Imperial Alliance was founded following the Godswrath over Badenbach. During the Imperial Council of Badenbach in the Shimmerhand Palace, the leader of the imperial states issued the Proclamation of the Imperial Alliance, creating the imperial alliance. It was designed to combat the many crisis' currently plaguing the continent, most notably the Emberot Crisis. The alliance has little formal control over its constituent states. Instead, a collective sense of honour and duty binds them.
While each state keeps control over their forces, greater military coordination and integration is continuously being pushed. Wailaian scouts might report to Laurian artillery crews defended by Setumian spearmen, with Haystanian knights crashing into the weakened enemy lines.
=== Goals ===
The proclamation stated five specific crisis' to be overcome.
==== The Emberot Crisis ====
The great phoenix Emberot has been laying ruin to large swaths of the continent, rasing the dead in his wake. The Imperial Alliance seeks to combat the phoenix, killing it and cleansing any undead roaming the land.
The crisis has sparked debate about the potential dangers of necromancy, and lawmakers and mages of the various states have assembled in a committee to create continent wide laws to regulate the use and research of necromantic magic.
==== The Yozstan Uprising ====
A radical cult has risen in eastern Ferra. They reject imperial orthodoxy and the Imperial Pantheon, instead empathising a so-called “divine spark” found within each mortal. A cult they call “the Divine Selves”. The Imperial Alliance seeks to crush the Leauge of Yozstan and put the instigators to death.
The uprising is the largest break from the Imperial Pantheon since the Cult of the Shattered Sky. Similarly to the committee discussing the regulation of necromancy, priests, clerics, and lawmakers from the various states have assembled in a separate committee to design new continent wide religious laws, guaranteeing imperial orthodoxy and suppressing any so-called “subversive beliefs”.
==== The Beastfolk Invasion of Flaria ====
A large horde of beastfolk warbands have descended from the Highlands and invaded the Flarian Diarchy, weakened by years of civil war. While the larger cities are still safe, many villages and smaller towns have been razed and pillaged. The Imperial Alliance seeks to crush the warbands and liberate any prisoners or loot they have taken. 
Further, many of the once small beastfolk tribes have grown into large tribal confederacies, alliances or in some cases whole kingdoms. Seeing this rasing prosperity as a direct threat, the imperial alliance has assembled a small group of airships and mages to travel into the Highlands to utterly raze and destroy any kind of beastfolk settlement or infrastructure they can find.
==== The Occupation of the Barian Kingdom ====
Since the Sunset Invasion of the Barian Kingdom, the lands of Baria have been occupied by the lizardfolk of Ngwih. They have organized the region into the Sphere of Krugwih. The Imperial Alliance seeks to push the lizardfolk out, abolish Krugwih, free the citizens of Baria and recreate the Kingdom of Baria.
==== The Lizardfolk Threat ====
The lizardfolk's last safe haven on the island of Deruvou, where the Theocracy of Ngwih resides. The Imperial Alliance seeks to end the 1'500-year-old conflict between the imperials and the lizardfolk by invading the island and destroying Ngwih and their deamons and exterminating all remaining lizardfolk.
=== Future ===
While the proclamation simply stated that the Imperial Alliance will persist until all outlined threats have been dealt with. What happens afterwards, however, is unclear. While the general course of action seems to suggest that the alliance might stay in place for some time as a sort of pan-imperial concert, there are some on the fringes calling for change.
There are the pan-imperialist who call for the alliance to be transformed into a proper state, reunifying the imperials of Ferra under one banner. They appeal to the ideals that they are all members of the Old Empire and that they would do well to end their squabbling lest a new crisis comes to exploit their division again in the future. The pan-imperialists generally enjoy support for their ideals, but most question the lack of a concrete plan to overcome the existing divisions and create such a state.