Crune Empire

The **Crune Empire** was the most powerful Human realm of the Bronzeland continent during the Magical Era of Earth.

# Location

It was located at the south of the Bronzeland continent, and its possession of the southern coast meant that it dominated the trade in the area.

# History

## League of 13 Kingdoms

Originally, there were 13 Kingdoms that were preoccupied with being absorbed by the bigger ones. These 13 Kingdoms shared the southern coast and decided on a common military and commercial treaty that greatly benefited them in relation to the rest of the continent. Originally, the league took decisions collegially, with 13 equal votes.

## Formation of an Empire

As time passed, the members of the league came to share a common identity and disregard their original Kingdoms. The balance of power in effect stopped to be equal and the 13 realms were in effect led by two, forming two factions in the leadership of the league.

In order to prevent a civil war or an invasion from the outside, it was decided that one person would be crowned emperor, with the condition that this person would father at least 7 of the 13 votes of the original Kingdoms and consider their suggestions.

## Invasion of the Empire

One day, a Dwarven ship sank off the coast of the Empire. The leader of one of the old royal families welcomed them, with the condition of making a weapon for him, the Ancient Dwarven Cannon. The weapon required a key made of the blood of this person to be activated. Roki, Scarlett Talen and her son Ray Talen descended from this royal family, and Ray Talen held the key in the form of a pendant.

Meanwhile, one of the neighbouring Kingdoms exploited the small conflicts within the Empire and decided to invade at the same time. It was a real test for the Empire, as it was found coordinating 13 different armies was difficult. In the end, the leader of one of the royal families ended up winning the war with the Ancient Dwarven Cannon, gave to the imperial subjects revenge by occupying the invaders, and was also elected emperor.

## Halt to the Empire's ambitions

An emperor at some point decided to hide the key of the Ancient Dwarven Cannon, and the Empire did not feel safe to aggress its neighbours without it. It was the real reason of the Empire's cooperation with the truce with the other realms that was proposed due to the Shadow Plague, and not because it really felt threatened by it.

## Centralization under the Emperor Alexander

The Emperor Alexander secured the cooperation of the Celestial of war Sera Demi. With his invincible might, he defeated any and all of his political opponents, and even secured 9 of the 13 votes to be elected emperor, despite his initial impopularity. Due to Sera's personality, the electors were not simply coerced into supporting Alexander; Sera made sure to make their own families turn against, their own friends murder them, them just to foster his love for conflicts. All of this happened spontaneously, with supernatural means. Sera grew bored of his cooperation with Alexander, so he was about to begin unrest in his own faction. It explained why Alexander was obsessed to fight other countries: to diver Sera's attention on other battlefields.

In the final year of the Shadow Plague, Alexander discovered that the Ancient Dwarven Cannon did not require any key to be activated, only blood from the same lineage as the family for whom the weapon was built for. He did a test fire and destroyed the **Mindown fortress** of the Shadow Continent. The table was set to prepare a campaign of conquests to entertain Sera and drive conflicts away from the Empire.

Many years after the end of the Shadow Plague, Alexander planned to conquer the six Kingdoms west of the Redwings Kingdom in only a week. Using the Ancient Dwarven Cannon, the **Kingdom of Dunlock** was destroyed overnight. The Redwings Kingdom immediately offered support to the next target, the **Kingdom of Cylstenia** by sending an army of 5000 with a teleporter. The entire kingdom and the two armies were obliterated, and only the Red Wings commanders Gary Bluebird, Martha, Monk and Lenny Steel survived. It turned out the weapon was activated by continuously drawing blood from Ray Talen's mother, Scarlett Talen. Ray Talen destroyed the weapon, saved his mother, and in the process unlocked the last of his 1000 abilities and got back his dragon body. He chose this moment to disappear and abandon his Human identity.

# References

1. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 460
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5. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 460
6. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 464
7. ↑ My Dragon System, ch 529-531