The Reddegan Empire

The Reddegan empire wasn't actually as big as I actually thought, stretching across the entire continent, but rather is simply just over represented in Eastern culture and history as it controlled pretty much the entirety of the East Coast. The Easterners encountered them wherever they landed and just assumed that they controlled the whole continent, and the most successful empire in human history.

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## The Ietem Dynasty

* Mir the Pious - in the citystate of Reddega, Mir was already on the city council but he was thrust into stardom and benevolent kinghood after having a religious experience. He named his new religion, inspired by visions and all, Reddeganism to muse the people. Either that or it acquired the name after constantly being associated with the spread of the Reddegan Empire. He managed to turn a moderately sized city into a power and a destination.
* Gore the Vigilant - eldest daughter of Mir Ietem who generally furthered the city's influence religiously, culturally and imperially. Something about a city watch
* Sarch the Joker - didn't do much. Probably slightly insane, so slip in something to do with incest and probably a longer bloodline. Squandered resources and influence in favour of making other people look foolish, leading to pissing off other countries. Walking around Comics style. Got drunk and died in a fire.
* Grei the Allied - primarily raised by Gore, who acted as leader in the stead of Sarch (Reddegan tradition for rulers needing to be a certain age) and used his reign to mostly repair any damage done by his father and to expand the empire, turning it into an economic powerhouse.
* Rean the Slayer - Turned from his father's diplomatic and pacific tendencies into violent and unprovoked warmongering. However, he was wildly successful in his campaigns, investing heavily in military technology and building armies. Despite his success in spreading the empire and thus religion, the religious council was not very pleased with Rean's violent attitudes.
* Adrean the Yerzlat - Adrean was completely useless as a leader. Rean was glad to continue his fighting whilst Adrean partook in pleasures of the flesh. Most notable was his personal harem of enslaved princesses and squadron of Sharoki Phantoms. His attitudes to life betrayed the core beliefs of Reddeganism so the religious council eventually tired of him and blatantly had him carted off for reeducation, ending accidentally with his death. Upon his son's disappearance, Rean flew into a rage and declared war on the religious council. A civil war raged for several months before Rean had his throat cut by his daughter, Tyra, who snapped. Perhaps insanity or at least oddness is intrinsic to the family.
* Tyra the Deserter - after killing her father, she fled into the wilderness and was lost from history. Although praised by the authorities for her dutiful actions, not much else is known about her except that she was very quiet and introverted.

And with that, the Ietem dynasty ended with a bang and the religious council installed a more loyal dynasty, the Dryels. Rumours of the sex dungeon were spread in order to further tarnish Adrean's reputation - the West took it as expected but for the East, it became a lewd, sexy but well known story to every coming of age boy and girl.

* Ietem
* Dryel (Dryek??)
* Renerud
* Qisto
* Elderean
* Neo-Elderean

The Qisto dynasty was engaged in war with the East when there was a coup, idiotically timed by Idor Ovat, who claimed he was the legitimate ancestor of Tyra Ietem and had the right to the throne. His forces ruined the army and slaughtered the royal family before they were destroyed by the remainder of the religious council. The coup sparked a decline in the fighting power of the West around the same time social unrest decimated the power of the East, leading to the ceasefire. After the throne of the emperor was removed by the religious council, the Elders took sole power for the rest of the war. During the negotiations, the nation-state of Clare was created, ruled by a softer version of the Elders (Neo-Reddeganism for the new state of the world) and democracy.

Don't worry, Tyra had her own male sex slaves too, just to promote gender equality

Reddeganism is not anthropocentric.

The Equal Elders. Since the universe is full of good and evil, evil deeds must be just(?)

Mir the Pious or whatever his name is, is noted for being the catalyst for modern gender equality. I think that he is actually an immigrant. His mother belonged to a nomadic tribe under the yoke of the Kasper culture group. The Ewaserg (placeholder) had the practice of having suitors race their prospective brides on moa-back and married the girl if they managed to beat her in the race. The other sub-tribes would just have suitors race each other. Over the years, the need to train young women in skillful riding resulted in greater social mobility and rights whereas the regular Kaspers just made their women do wifely duties and ride with their husbands. A dispute led to Mir's family fleeing to Reddega to escape persecution, thus bringing their values with them. Mir experienced his vision/enlightenment and rose into power, spreading his views. As the Reddegan empire and religion spread throughout the continent to its heights briefly before the Great War, these values spread and more significantly, spread to the East as the Reddegan female soldiers represented a substantial proportion of the attacking force. When the empire fell and occupied cities reverted to their previous cultures, gender equality subsequently dropped in the West, but is now rising again as a result of globalisation.

The main concept in Reddeganism is focused on the unique connectedness of all beings in the universe that permeates the planet and grants free will to the inhabitants. Death Arms. Like a more aggressive Buddhism.