Ci Azurrei

Ansverren rider.

## ALL EQUAL BEFORE THE EYES OF GOD

The legacy of the Antarii Ansverras- the Ansverren peace. Land of the conqueror himself, Annas Akri, he whose riders thundered across the world in limitless ambition, he who subjugated *tens of millions*.

The Antarii Ansverras was an uneasy peace. It was what followed in the aftermath of his conquests, in the aftermath of his death. His successors had taken it upon themselves to hold together his impossibly huge state; a state built by a conqueror, but one that could not be held together by one.

*"You can conquer the peaceful by the sword, but you cannot rule them by it."*

It didn't survive forever. Following the sudden death of Dolores II, his four sons were left without a will. By then, his great-grandfather Artjiom I -son of the Conqueror- had already established the Ornamentalis, in which the firstborn son of the Annas was entitled to the empire as a whole. Under this Ornamentalis, the Electorate had been dismantled, which had previously been the traditional crowner of kings.

The law though, had its legal bearing stripped by an emergency diet of the state's newly developed aristocratic backbone; supported by the three younger sons which had been legally entitled to nothing under the Ornamentalis. What ensued was predictable; a war between brothers, and the result was the complete partition of the state, and the disintegration of the hundred-and-seventy-two year old Antarii Ansverras. Three states were carved out of it's corpse- provided with ceremonial, titular names. The Kingdom of Spring -ci Seqiuerrei- north of the Janilho river, the Kingdom of Calm -ci Lasurrei- in the west, and the Kingdom of Love -ci Azurrei- between them both.

What happened then is not important nor particularly unexpected. The newfound partition of peace didn't even last two years before royal armies were being assembled again. It's been four-hundred and eighty-three years since, and only one of the three Ansverren kingdoms has remained.

The Kingdom of Love already made up most of the cultural center of the Ansverren ethnolinguistic group when it was formed, and now makes up the entirety of it; encompassing the western Janilho river plain through the entire southern coast of the Berlon channel, and onto the southern mountain chain. It is called the Kingdom of Love -ci Azurrei- only ceremonially and technically; and is mostly referred to as ci Ansverrei- the Kingdom of the Ansverrens. In its contemporary form, the Azurrei is now just past the immobilizing forces of feudalist manorialism and powerful barons, with consolidation and centralization efforts painstakingly conducted over the course of two centuries by their Angel-Kings (a moniker for the monarchs of the Azurrei, named so as a result of the religious and cultural reverence of the white-winged figures). It is a self-declared "modern state", unimpeded by the inefficiencies of its past, feudalist self. This is not entirely false, but definitely not entirely true. In actuality, feudalistic authority remains much the same in large swathes of the country; now under "suzerainties" and "lieutenancies" rather than in the archaic form of duchies, counties, and baronies.