Southern Novayan Empire

The Southern Novayan Empire (Latin: Imperium Novayanum Australe; German: Südnovayanisches Reich; Filipino: Katimugang Imperyo ng Novayan), also known simply as Southern Novaya, is the name for a semi-independent state and is used in modern historiography to refer to the southern provinces of the Novayan Empire, collectively, in any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern and western (to Southern Novayans, northern) provinces by a separate, independent Imperial court—and particularly after the civil war period starting from 1004 IS, in which there were separate, coequal courts dividing the governance of the empire in the Southern provinces from that of the Western and Eastern provinces, with a distinct imperial succession in the separate courts.
Following the disastrous civil wars and aftermath of the bloodied reign of the infamous Megas Alexandros (Alexander the Great), the view that it was impossible for a single emperor to govern the entire Empire was institutionalized with reforms to Novayan law by emperor Damocletianus after the Imperial Civil War. Through this he re/established the system of the tetrarchy wherein there existed two senior emperors titled Augustus, one in the east and one in the west, each with an appointed Caesar (junior emperor and designated successor). Revamps to the tetrarchic system was made to include another appointed Caesar to rule Western Novaya while the Western Augustus administers Central Novaya; it was Southern Novaya that was granted the leverage of its Caesar also holding the title of Augustus, though this was only optional.
==History==
The Southern Novayan Empire rooted back to the largely-suppressed Southern Novayan culture, which was beginning to diverge from social norms that dominate Novayan society as a whole. Attempts at suppressing it by the cult of Sol Invictus had only further strengthened the southerners' resolve, resulting in several rebellions that forced the cult of Sol Invictus to either placate or put the rebels down. The actions of Alexander the Great, disparagingly known as Megas Alexander even during the civil war, before and during the civil war and his attempts at enforcing his godhood and worship of himself upon the Novayans, Bloodlanders and Sagittarians and forcing his cult upon the Concordians and Empyreans had resulted in a civil war of devastating proportions that paralyzed the empire to its very foundations.
Rebellions in Southern Novaya backed by Meridian forces saw Megas Alexandros losing territory there, and several self-appointed emperors rose to challenge his authority. Damocles, renamed Damocletianus, rallied the southern Novayans to war against the sun emperor and, with the backing of the Great Duxes, won battles before defeating Megas Alexandros at the battle of Morales. After the civil war, Emperor Damocletianus instilled a number of reforms aimed at restoring the empire. On IS 1004, Emperor Damocletianus established the tetrarchic system and appointed the 20-year-old Borealis III as emperor (caesar) of Southern Novaya. A change in the system by Damocletianus saw him appointing a Western Novayan soldier-priestess as caesarina, and granted caesar Borealis III full authority over Southern Novaya.
The Peace of Atoradas saw the introduction of Bloodlander goods and culture into Southern Novaya, followed by those from Sagittarius, the Meridian Colonies, and later Concordia and the Black Islands, which fostered the Southern Novayan identity to prosper, grow and develop. The adoption of foreign innovations and ideas strengthened the identity more until the empire was able to establish its Southern imperial court.
==Organization and society==
===Administration===
The Southern Empire is still formed and administered, operated and based upon classical Novayan imperial principles, incorporating elements of both the Western Novayan and Labarintine bureaucracies; amendments allow it to be administered still upon classical Novayan imperial principles, albeit in the form of a civil-military bureaucracy. Alongside this was the Southern imperial cult, whose priests also help in administering the state. Unlike its mainstream brethren, the Southern imperial cult is more lenient towards other religions and had allowed them to thrive and prosper so long as they don't cause any trouble. In spite of this, the Southern imperial cult is also involved in the social state of affairs as it was more concerned with the spread of immorality, degeneracy and corruption, so much so that it has no qualms rallying the other religions to war against such things.
===Economy===
===Society and culture===
Culture in Southern Novaya is known to be monolithic, but its society AND culture can be best described as multicultural, multireligious and multiracial. The result of the Imperial Civil War, the Southern Empire became a hotspot/melting pot of cultures, religions and races after the war against the infamous Megas Alexandros. Negotiations between Caesar Borealis III and the rulers of the Bloodlands had resulted in the first Novayan-Bloodlander cultural exchange that, as a result, expanded to include the Sagittarians and Meridians, and recently Concordians and Empyreans.
While Novayan society and culture in the south were militaristic and monolithic, the nascent Southern Novayan identity already saw its birth in the 800s, during the final days of the Chaos of the Seventh Century. Near the end of the Imperial Civil War the introduction of foreign cultures into southern Novayan society had led to the formation of the distinct Southern Novayan identity that had been suppressed by the cult of Sol Invictus. And it was such introductions of foreign cultures that led to Southern Novaya becoming its own nation within an empire, and led to the incorporation of innovations and ideas that were considered too barbaric. Among the foreign innovations and ideas were the Bloodlanders' advanced sanitation system copied after the Veins of the Tower of Atoradas, the adoption of the Sagittarians' astronomical models, the Meridian double-entry bookkeeping methods and the Ayubbidan numerals. One particular innovation Southern Novaya has, however, is a civil-military bureaucratic system wherein the commanders administer territories.
===Military===
The Southern Novayan military is the standing military force of the Southern Empire, divided into the Southern army and navy.
The Southern army is the principal land force of the Imperial military, having evolved to its current state. The legions, which it inherited from the Imperial army, was adapted into the comitatensis, the mobile field armies also inherited from the Novayan Empire prior to the Chaos of the Seventh Century and during/after the Imperial Civil War. The flow of foreign innovations, ideas and goods had drastically changed the Southern armies. Whereas the Imperial army used the legions as heavy infantry to patrol, the Southern army adapted its Western Empire-style legions to use different equipment and magics. The incorporation of Bloodlander soldier-magi and Sagittarian horse cavalry, as well as the adoption of foreign and West and East Novayan military strategies, doctrines and tactics improved the Southern army's capabilities.
The Southern navy is the principal sea force of the Imperial military, also having evolved to its current state. The adoption of galleys, galleons and carracks helped improve the transportation of goods between nations as well as allow for the transportation of additional troops.