Borealis

**Borealis** was a terrestrial planet covered entirely with castles, home to a multitude of royal and noble houses, such as House Stone and House Lafayette, which together formed the powerful Borealan Aristocracy. As one of the Human Worlds, Borealis was one of the thousands of exclusively human civilizations in the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

The Borealans fought for the Ascendancy during the Artifice Wars, and alongside the Cassiopeian Republic during the Cassiopeian Civil Wars.

## Description

Borealis was located in the southwestern reaches of the Human Worlds, a region of the eastern Outer Core that was home to many human-inhabited planets and moons. Borealis orbited a single star and had one natural satellite: the estuary moon of Pisces.

While the planet was once covered in natural fields of grass, Borealis was quickly urbanized as massive cities with castle-like structures were built across the entirety of the planet's surface. These dense cities came to grow culturally and economically distinct levels, with the working and lower classes situated at the bottom of these cities and the aristocracy situated at the top. This made for an intense disparity and divide between the ruling aristocracy and the lowly peasantry. A world of knights and noble houses, Borealis was recognized as a powerful planet throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

### Government

→ *Main articles: Borealan Noble Houses, Republic of Borealis*

Up until the years that followed the Artifice Wars, Borealis was ruled by a **monarchy**. This monarchy was headed by a member of the Borealan noble houses. Before the start of the Artifice Wars, the title of Monarch of Borealis was held by Alphonse Lafayette. While the title of monarch was typically passed down through a right of primogeniture, there were instances in history where the ruling monarch appointed an heir that was not a biological descendant. An example of this is King Charles Raleigh, who was considered almost like an adoptive son to King Alphonse V, but was not his biological son.

When the monarchy was dismantled, the **Borealan Noble Houses** collectively ruled over their home planet as an aristocratic entity known as the **Borealan Aristocracy**. This did not make for equal standing between all houses, of course, as different noble houses held varying degrees of power throughout history. During the Cassiopeian Civil Wars, House Turing was formed and established itself as the most powerful noble house on Borealis. In the last few centuries of the sixth millennium, House Stone dominated the aristocracy and ruled over all of Borealis.

When the peoples' revolution was successful, a new government was established to replace the old aristocratically-ruled order: the **Republic of Borealis**. While the growing pains of this new planetary government were evident, the Republic of Borealis attempted to fairly incorporate all members of Borealan society into its system of governance.

## History

### Ancient History/The First King

It was said that the first King of Borealis was a member of House Hayes. This ancient king built a castle that eventually became known as the First King's Fortress, which stood during the beginning of the Artifice Wars.

In the time that the first King of Borealis sat on the throne, many different royal houses laid claim to the Borealan crown. By the last century BSA, House Lafayette controlled Borealis as monarchs.

### The Artifice Wars

#### Prelude to War

Weeks before the start of the Artifice Wars, King Alphonse V brought together the different noble houses of Borealis in order to address the growing tensions regarding magic usage throughout the galaxy. In his speech, Alphonse V cements his belief of war as a possibility in the near future. Alphonse brings to mind the plundering of Wishian cargo ships and strikes against outlying Human colonies, claiming all to be connected to a singular group of Cassiopeians using what he called "unsavory magics". With the noble houses of Borealis informed of the severity of these rising galactic tensions, King Alphonse V asked that this news not reach the common people of Borealis so as to prevent panic from destabilizing them all.

Alphonse, together with Demi, the Oracle of Unoculus, relay private information to two individuals: Charles Raleigh of House Raleigh and Theia Antares of the Grand Order of Magic. Oracle Demi had a premonition regarding the start of war. A conflict would reach humanity soon, and Borealis would not participate in the conflict until a tragedy befell Alphonse. The Borealan king had Charles and Theia promise to him that should anything happen to him, they would not intervene, to which the two guests of the king reluctantly accepted.

#### The Assassination of Alphonse V

In order to have a civilized discussion between the different leaders of the Human Worlds, given the rising tensions regarding magic usage throughout the galaxy, a Human Summit was held on Borealis at the First King's Fortress.

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## Inhabitants

The main inhabitants of Borealis were Humans that called themselves Borealans. The life of a Borealan was either one of nobility or one of poverty, depending on where one was born on the class structure.

### Sentinels

Sentinel Borealis was gifted with the ability to create illusionary armies. King Alphonse V manifested these abilities as creating faceless and nameless projections of knights. Lord Danton Stone manifested these abilities as creating clones of himself comprised of smoke.

### Notable Figures

* **Amber Lafayette** - a member of House Lafayette, as well as a member of a freedom fighter group called the Dawns.
* **Oswald Rosewood** - the patriarch and Lord of House Rosewood.

## Locations

### First King's Fortress

The **First King's Fortress** was an ancient castle that was built during the reign of the first king of Borealis. The castle was used as the meeting location for the Human Summit that took placed shortly before the start of the Artifice Wars.

### Polaris Citadel

This section of the article is about **a Borealan castle**. You may be looking for **the Daughter of Utility**.
**Polaris Citadel**, unofficially referred to as **Polaris Station** by some Borealans, was a floating, massive, castle-like structure that acted as the home of the Borealan Sentinels and their immediate families. In the 60th century ASA, the citadel was the residence of Danton Stone, his wife, his daughter, and his granddaughter.