Avarasian Empire

Avarasia, also known as the Avarasian Empire and the Imperium of Avarasia, was the post-citystate period of ancient Avarasia. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings stretching from the Aradav Sea all the way to the Novayan archipelago and was ruled by emperors. From the accession of Flavius Augustus as the first Avarasian emperor to the Chaos of the Seventh Century, it was a principate with Avarasia as the metropolis of its provinces and Highgarde as its capital city. The Empire was later ruled by multiple emperors who share control over the Western Avarasian Empire and the Southern Avarasian Empire. However, the Avarasian Empire would eventually collapse after a civil war was started by the last emperor's brother, the Apostate Emperor, to put an end to the dark rituals taking place at Highgarde. In doing so, however, the Western augurs and bishops unleashed a cataclysmic event that razed the entirety of Avarasia and its remaining loyal provinces to the ground, culminating in the awakening of a dark god whose presence broke the boundaries between the land of the living and the land of the dead.
The fall of Avarasia had caused the empire to splinter into multiple remnant-states, rump states and kingdoms. Among the states resulted from its fall included:
*the Ashen Empire of Avarasia, whose dead population rise as ghouls and skeletons
*the Southern Avarasian Empire, which adopted the name of Sceledaria and practiced a much more stricter form of Death Magic
*the Sazarlian Empire, which splintered off from the Avarasian Empire before its collapsed and had established an imperial theocracy, initially led by an all-encompassing Imperial Cult and later led by the Serpent Cult
*the Governorate of Lemuria, which eventually collapsed after its thaumaturges opened up a gate to the underworld, culminating in its conquest by ghosts and spectral legions under a god of darkness
*the Military Governorate of the Novayan Archipelago, which reformed into a military governorial empire with the Governor-Militant as its pseudo-monarch and with the establishment of the Novayanas Aagiokratia and Nova Konstantinopolis Aagiokratia, two new faiths which worship the benevolent eldritch god known as the Worm-in-Waiting
*the Military Governorate of Kalaidis, which reformed into a military governorial empire with the Governor-Militant as the empress and temporal leader of the Cult of Idus
*the Governorate of Babylonia, which was conquered centuries ago and now restored under its goddess Ishtar
*the Governorate of Constantinople, which splintered off and transformed into a feudal monarchy with elements of Avarasian bureaucracy, led by the descendant of the goddess Sagittarius
*the Governorate of Seleucia, which was conquered by Avarasia and later restored after the fall
*the Hagian Empire, an ancient splinter empire that became victim to the stygian fumes of the Manis Lapalis, the gate leading to the realm of the dead, before a new god cured the Hagians of their afflictions.