United Federations of Holyrose

The United Federations of Holyrose is a broken nation. Since the year 267 it was ruled by the Rosean Empire until the 1272 Civil War when war broke out between the Empire and rebel forces.

## History

### The Rosean Empire

The Rosean Empire, also called the Thousand-Year Empire, was a despotic monarchy. Though the monarchy was beloved and adored by the masses during the Empire's infancy, it was a very cruel regime with very theocratic tendencies. Education and information was scarce due to its Feudal system so it maintained a grip on power for many centuries and dynasties.

### Relationship with Maryanism

Maryanism was central to the Rosean Empire and it was used to justify many of their political decisions. The monarchy was appointed by Maryrose to bring about order and union, though in practice they went against its teachings. Maryanism is still very popular to this day and though many still respect the religion and its teachings, some may look at it with bitter-sweet feelings, as the religion was used as a weapon againt their fellow citizens.

### Sea Trade Companies

Sea trade began to boom at the start of the second millenium. Many trade routes were established between the Rosean Empire and surrounding regions. Incredible wealth and progress was brought to the nation and the heart of the trade routes was the largest port, Moui Bay. The Rosean Empire began to outsource its trade efforts to Sea Trade Companies in exhange for riches and exotic items, giving essentially a enormous amount of power to the Companies. Despite the grotesque amounts of wealth made by the Companies, the workers' lives didn't improve substantially, poverty was like a sickness and it spread, crime lords ruled the ever increasing slums and workers were exploited until they collapsed from exhaustion.

### Marshall Hjung and the Sea Trade Union

Marshall Hjung was a scholar and philosopher that was one of the most influencial figures during the 13th century. Born poor, he began resenting the monarchy and the Sea Trade Companies who despite all the misery around him still seemed to grow ever richer.

He began working at a dockyard, amongst other sailors, where he experienced incredible violence by the dockyards' higher up and royal police that made sure the workers weren't doing anything "illegal".

He wrote multiple texts on the failures of the monarchy and their greed and distributing amongst his coworkers. Some respected the Emperor and did not like Hjung's treasonous texts, some agreed that the Emperor was lazy and greedy but did not agree with his characterization of the sea trade, but others listened to him and they felt anger.

They formed "The Sea Trade Union" and started protesting, demanding higher wages and the redistribution of the Emperor's wealth. They called the Emperor lazy who did nothing but use people as pawns in a game.

### Protests and Repression

The Emperor did not like the unrest rising up in Muoi Bay and promptly sent the army to stop the protest that spread like wildfire within the city, these became known as the Montag Riots (having started in Montag the 96th, 1st Quarter of 1274). People were beat and maimed to stay quiet, but instead of staying quiet the protests spread beyond Muoi Bay, to cities like Elfstedt and Traeíz. Fights broke out constantly within the cities, people fought against the royal army and amongst themselves, some because they still defended the Emperor and others did not, some because they though Marshall Hjung was a psychopath and others did not.

### The Splinters and the Fall of Gwyn

During the height of the riots (38 days since the first riots began) , the splinters fell and a large chunk of the comet fell on the capital Gwyn, destroying it. The Emperor was away from his royal home so he did not get killed during the crash but he was struck by a splinter and earned powers.

The splinters were fuel to the fire and because of the chaos it caused the people grew desperate and started forming rebel groups, some aligned with Hjungs ideals and others with completely different ideals.

The Emperor saw no other choice to maintain his power so he gathered his loyal supporters and launched an invasion of Muoi Bay, hoping to uproot the revolution. A bloody battle between Empire and workers who barely knew how to fight broke out and thousands were killed. The other cities joined forces and were able to defeat the Empire's forces, who had started pointing their weapons at the other cities, but the damage was already done. Gwyn was completely destroyed and all of the nation suffered casualties in the millions.

There is a common saying among those sailors who survived the invasion "All the good sailors died in the war.", meaning all the "true hjungians" died on that battle.

### The Gwyn Treatise and the creation of the United Federations of Holyrose

After the defeat of the Emperor's forces, the various cities gathered at Traeíz in order to come up with a solution. Although many were sympathetic with Muoi Bay, they did not completely agree with Hjungian philosophy. A few more religious cities took the opportunity to suggest a division of the land according to its cities wishes and to create harmony and beauty in their own way, as Maryrose would have inteded. Although the suggestion was strange the cities agreed and the land was divided into Sectors, but although divided they were all United under one banner, one flag, one nation.

With the help of The Landscaper, walls were raised between sectors and cities and there The United Federations of Holyrose was born.

## Sectors

Gwyn (Sector 1)

Sixxon (Sector 6)

Elfstedt (Sector 11)

Traeíz (Sector 13)

Muoi Bay (Sector 17)