Aucleria

**Queendom of Aucleria** is federation of 4 Margraviate that lie to the south of Daxia. Famous for its Mediterranean climate, beautiful scenery and best wines in the whole world. Its ruled by Queen and 4 of Marquises, Aucleria is also known as " Vineyards of Dominus " as it's under protectorate of Dominion. Its capital is Veilesse. Aucleria covers green, fertile pastures and hills as well as shallow creeks and foamy beaches.

## Resources

Aucleria is world famous for its wines, brandy and cognac. The land is barely used for planting other cultures, however animal husbandry is fairly distributed in the more mountainous North. North has a few silver mines too. Once they were discovered, Old Queen ordered a company of Dwarves from the East to be brought to Aucleria and teach her people the crafts of mining. They later established Aucleria's Mint, where official coinage of Queendom is produced, the silver tiaras.

Shores are rich with fish, oysters some pearls can be found too. Perfumes. Good marble and stone from quarries near coast.

## Religion and Customs

Auclerians are fairly religious. Their lands were populated by elves before and are rich with shrines and temples of bygone age. Auclerians build their own marvelous temples and houses of holy, for their architecture is well respected and known through entire Daxia.

Night - Mist-Bravery

Auclerians view night as time when hard decisions should be made and deeds be done. Whether that means visit your mistress or making a contract or carrying out rebellion or challenging someone to duel. Day is full with chores and obligations to family/queen/your vineyard. At night, a man has time to finally express and be himself.

Family/Duty

Auclerians value given word above everything else. While they respect family and hold it dear to heart, marriage is more of a sacred duty to Auclerian, notion of marriage from romantic reasons was relatively unknown till now, and its bizare. Sole purpose of marriage is joining houses/estates and accumulating wealth.

Chivalry – Heroism

Knights and Knight Orders are heavily romantized in Aucleria. Knight is sworn to protect the weak, guard the poor and above else Queen and auclerian maidens. " Individual cannot be brave or heroic in group or company " Auclerians glorify knights going on quests to save or prove themselves to their mistress or

Queen, bring criminal to justice, slay a foul beast, win a prestigious tournment. " Knight without manners is worse than knight without armor. "

Sun – Life – Wine

Major Goddess. " Without Sun, theres no wine and is there any life to be had without wine? " Auclerians love sunbathing and spending their time out there in the sun, just relaxing.

Warfare

Mutated Dwarven God that miners and smith brought to Aucleria. Warfare is seen as barbaric and uncivilized to Auclerians. Aucleria has no standing army, just knights errands.

Treachery

While Auclerians love to enrich and embelish every story they tell, lying in other purposes or simply deceiving someone is seen as primal and unworthy behavior. No mercy for traitors or backstabbers.

Rain – Wind – Mercy

" A man is truly great when he posses the gift of forgiving. " As grapes love the ever warm sun, they need rain and wind too. To Auclerian, theres nothing as satisfying as showing mercy to your enemy. Queen's custom is to proclaim hyperbolic judgements only so she can then show her " mercy " and actually give out real punishment. Similar it is with ordinary Auclerians. " I should cut your head now and go ahead and burn your wineyards and sell your children to slaves, but let it be known that X has been merciful! You will lose only your tongue instead! "

Mistress

While Auclerian has little to no say in his/her choice of spouse, every noble or rich Auclerian has a mistress. It is seen as flattering thing for a woman to be a mistress of one or more men. By Tradition, Four marquises don’t have a mistress, for their one is Queen. A man will try to keep identity of his mistress a secret, unless he is noble.

Earth – Death – Cycle

Auclerians don’t glorify death, but they aren't afraid of it either. Death for them is just something that awaits all of us, and can't be escaped. Everyone dies. But they don’t think its end. As earth is dark and grim place, it feeds our grapes and helps them grow and keeps the firmly on the ground. The same way older generation help younger ones. " After death, one becomes Aucleria himself. "