Maximillian Confederation

The Maximillian Confederation was a loose grouping of small villages, towns, and cities in the southeast that came into existence in UC 508, shortly after the Crusade defeated the Dark Cabal of Sephir. Before the Dark Cabal actually invaded the mainland from Sephir, a movement was in place to strengthen the many smaller settlements on the coast of the Southern Sea through alliance. After the Dark Cabal had been defeated by the the Knights of Maximillian, the knights stayed in the region to protect it from outsiders. Thus, the Maximillian Confederation was born.
The confederation existed smoothly for centuries. In UC 720, Roric the Bold, the leader of the Knights of Maximillian, was arrested by his fellow knights, and put on trial on charges of corruption, bribery, racketeering, and extortion. He was found guilty, stripped of all titles, and imprisoned in Ironfang Keep for the rest of his days. The political scandal that was created when news of his arrest and crimes serenely weakened the Maximillian Confederation. Two years later, in UC 722, member towns, villages and cities of the Maximillian Confederation- most notably, Memnon- began breaking apart from the loosely organized nation, in order to form their own confederation independent of the knights, who many viewed with distrust because of the scandal years earlier.
The Knights of Maximillian peacefully allowed the former Maximillian Confederation to crumble, and to spawn its successor, the Pelurian Alliance of Free-Cities.