Sceledarian Empire

The Sceledarian Empire, otherwise known as the Kingdom of Southern Merianan, Imperium Sceledarianum and Sceledaria, is one of three continuations-turned-successors of the Kingdom of Meriana in its southern territories before and after the Crisis of the 13th Eon, when its capital world was Sceledaria. It survived the fragmentation, collapse and transformation of the Kingdom of Northern Meriana (otherwise known as the Northern Merianan Empire) in early Eon-U 13 and has since then existed as one of three successor-states of the fallen Merianan kingdom, with the others being the Sazarlian Empire and the Holy Kingdom of Meriana. After its reorganization and reformation during the crisis, the Sceledarian empire has alongside the Sazarlians become one of two most powerful cultural, economic, political and military forces in the Void, and the only ones to hold the line against Death Cults of Meriana. The terms "Sceledarian Empire" and "Southern Merianan Kingdom" were coined after the kingdom's fall before both terms became legal names; Sceledarians refer to their empire as the Merianan Empire, and to themselves as Merianans—a term which were used for thirty eons-u before they refer to themselves as Sceledarians. 
Ever since the fall of the old kingdom, the Southern Merianan regions which survived had been reorganized into the Kingdom of Southern Meriana, which was later by Emperor Ignaeus I and the thaumaturges, bishops, priests, cultists and clerics "reformed" the kingdom into an empire, renaming their capital world's name to "Sceledaria" - from the Merianan word "sceladaerinus", a type of unholy sword - as a reminder of the wickedness that brought Meriana down. During the Crisis of the 13th Eon, the thaumaturges, bishops, cultists, mystics, priests, clerics and oracles had organized a Death Cult, which hold absolute reverence for the Dead and the Laws of Death, seeking to hold back the Reanimated Merianan specters with strict control over their own and then mass-produced corpses. By the time the reanimated armies and Death Cults of Meriana has been shattered and reorganized into the Holy Kingdom of Meriana under the Knights of Meriana, the people of Sceleria have faded their fears of the undead, and after an uprising almost toppled the Ignaean dynasty for ceasing mass-production of the dead and for allowing the dead to finally die off the Sceledarian thaumaturges decided to settle the situation by utilizing the produced dead for menial labors and military purposes. The construction of Dread Temples - temples dedicated to the thaumo-alchemical creation of reanimated skeletons - helped. Token, then extensively token reforms were made to allow Sceledarians to acquire jobs many eons-u later; despite this, almost much of the Sceledarian populace have become used to using the reanimated skeletons as menial laborers and combat forces. Only several Sceledarians worked hard to acquire their jobs and, in turn, boost the imperial economy.
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===Hearts of Iron IV===
Ideology 	Proponents	Factions
Despotism (Absolute Monarchy)	
*Constantina I Demetrius Caesarus	
*Augustarus Dynasty
Despotism (Theocracy) 	
*Thaumaturgus Demetrius Caesarus	
*Sceledarian Death Cult
===Stellaris===
Sceledarian Empire 	Sceledarian Empire
Star Empire/Fallen Empire	Militant Isolationists/Hegemonic Imperialists
*Remnants of Meriana
*Imperial
*Reanimators
*Feudal Society
*Exalted Priesthood
*Spiritualist
*Fanatic Militarist
*Sceledaria IVa, Sceledaria IV, Sceledaria	
*Continental (Sceledaria IVa)
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