The New Order

Leader; Unknown

Sacred Figurehead; The Great Imperator

"It is futile to continue our path of the past, our world is still an infant, we must grow up to jump into the future and to do this we must abandon the old and bring in the new with large reformation." - New Order propaganda poster "The Great Imperator"

The New Order (shortened: TNO) commonly known as **"The Empire"** by partisans, is a total slave state that spans over all of Western Faerun. It is the largest state to ever exist in the recorded history of Faerun, it also has multiple disputed territories in the Shining Planes and Frozenfar, it is also the most populated state to ever exist with a population of over 40,000,000 people living with its borders, with most of this population under total subjugation. Its capital and largest city is Imperia, a great megapolis which encompasses the western coast of Faerun, a combination of cities such as Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter and Waterdeep.

## Overview

### Introduction

The New Order is incredibely powerful compared to the kingdoms, they have an incredibely large army and have spread influence throughout Faerun to the edges of the continent, they control a giant part of the continent with a total population of ~40,000,000 with most of that population enslaved. They have many resources and incredibely far ahead technology. Little is known about what The New Order wants but it is known what they desire "full continental control," and to bring the "New Golden Age" or there "New Order" over the world. It is not known what there "New Order" over the continent is but it is assumed they want full slave control over the continent and to be the absolute rulers over continent for eternity with what they call an "imperium."

There government structure is very mysterious, being run by the "The Great Imperator" who is the personification of The New Order, being a red knight with gold plating. There economy is also very mysterious but it is known they have abolished all forms of currency as The New Order does not seem to need currency. Generals of The New Order lead the occupation of there districts and they lead the enslavement of the people.

The New Order has all species of Faerun under it, most notably but not limited to humans, elves, orcs dwarves and halflings. It seems like The New Order does not prefer any race and treats them all the same, most people believe humans rule The New Order but this does not seem to be true as humans also seem to be enslaved aswell as the mentioned, orcs, elves and other races.

The New Order seems to mostly use there technology for there army with musketmen and the advanced armor plating to stop all attacks, it is unknown how this armor plating is made but it seems to use a special material and some sort of tablet.

New Order Soldiers use a special tablet inside of there waist which has a wire which connects to there head. This tablet seems to make them far deadlier, making it so they do not need to sleep, eat, or use the bathroom. The tablet also seems to stop all desertions and it seems to be controlled by the New Order directly, it has been tested that if this tablet catches a deserter or a rebelling soldier, or even if it is disconnected, a special reaction goes off where it seems to detonate something. This person faces a gruesome punishment, with there body rotting away and they eventually die.

The name "The New Order," which is the offical name of the New Order, refers to them being a radical state coming to start a reformed world and bring humans into there "New Golden Age" or else bring the world into a "New Order." They believe they are destroying the past and ending the horrible regimes of Absolutism and they believe they are ending conservatism of the old world, they believe everyone should be one working for one state, one world government, some say there are even trying to bring "utopia." Though it is not known of there true it is not known what there true intentions are as said before, it is assumed it is just some form of imperalism or what people called "Empire."

As powerful and huge as the New Order is, they do not seem to invincible or almigty as they believe they are. They have now been stopped multiple times by mostly magic and terrain. There army also seems to be going down as it needs to occupy its giant amount of land and it needs to spread its forces to every border as almost all at war with them. Coupled with partisans everywhere and guerilla warfare caused by said partisans, they seem to have cracks in there system.

"The New Order is

a cracking tower with a strong base, once the base is destroyed, the whole tower collapse."

-Commander Vlad-Mer

### Magic

The New Order has extremely negative views on magic as they believe it is only just a non-renewable resource that will "run out" or be "cut off" like a water source, and once it does, the world will fall into the dark age. They say it must be cut out and replaced by technology. They ban all use of it and non military use of magic is punishable (assumptions by people) by death. There goal is once they have achieved New Order, they will destroy magic entirely and replace it with there desire of technology.

## New Order Knows No Borders

### Military expansion over the continent

in the wake after the Tethyrian New Order Revolution which is where the New Order overthrew Tethyr and was founded as a state, The New Order created its own doctrine known as "New Order Knows No Borders" which means they will not be stopped by an "invisible line" and they believe everything is the New Orders territory and it is only controlled by occupiers. After the Amnschluss, the annexation of Amn, they began the "Enlightnment," the massive industralization and expansion of technology and the fast fowarding into "The New Golden Age," which involved the 1490 DR beginning of New Order Knows No Borders, the beginning of the expansion into the kingdoms nearby, they overwhelmed every kingdom with there horse tactics, dragons and high technology using many things like there newly invented muskets, new advanced armor plating and of cousre very advanced tactics. They were only stopped when facing the Wizard University run by the highest level wizards in the continent but other than that minor pause they did not stop until they reached the very north, Frozenfar which is where they were finally stopped again, of course they are still much stronger than both but they have paused temporarily to find a special item known as "The Compass" and to reconstruct there military as most assume. It seems like after New Order Knows No Borders, everything within there borders just went silent, after this nothing came in or out and it seems this is when they truly started what they call "New Order.

### New Orders Occupation

After the "New Order Knows No Borders," they begun spreading there influence over there occupied territory, the wars were finished but there was no peace. A brutal occuaption began, The New Order's rule over what was left after the war was cruel, all races seemed to have been turned into cattle, ruled by a police state. Cities in the east may have been destroyed and people there relocated to a new megapolis known as "Imperia," or "The Eternal City Of Imperium." How this city was built so fast and how this city looks or even runs is unknown, but people who hate the Nwe Order presume its a big slave farm. Radicals and New Order supporters believe its a utopia where everyone is equal is a moneyless perfect society run by New Orderism. But what is known is that is most of its population is indeed most likely slaves. Imperia is the capital and is the combination of all coast cities, seen as a giant neverending city. It seems like one of The New Orders main goal may be to turn the whole continent into a city, but this fact is only speculation by the people of Faerun and may not be true as that would be absolutely insane and it is not known if there are even enough resources for such a project.

The New Order enforces itself by brutality, if anybody decides to run away they die, if somebody rebels they die, if anybody does anything they seem to die. As far all that it is truly unknown what happens within there borders, all that is known is that refugees and deserters have died the New Orders execution as stated earlier, the rotting and death of the person. It seems like the slaves farm that have been in Frozenfar, not currently connected to the main system of the New Order, therefore people do not die from escaping, are run by New Order generals and soldiers, they occupy and have musketmen for people who try to run. Food is scarce as New Order soldiers do not need to eat and it seems like civillians may not ethier, but that is not known. People speculate living in The New Order is horrendous as you barely eat anything and live in compact imperian cattle farms, but these are all just theories.

Before New Order Knows No Borders, everything seemed to be normal within there borders and life went on as usual. Letters, gifts and people went in and out, people even celebrated The New Order for there radical ideas, it seemed to have started slow with the beginning of there slavery, the banning of magic and eventualy New Order Knows No Borders and the start of there new economy of no currency, which it where it seems they turned into a total slave state. Imports and exports were cut off and since the beginning of New Order Knows No Borders, nothing is known about the interior of The New Order.

Although it seems horrible inside, some New Order supporters believe they are just setting up for utopia and the "advocated labour" is the building blocks is for utopia, New Order and the "New Golden Age." The New Order believes to be saying about how they will bring great power and infinite wealth to every race and that they are saving the world from absolutism and to evolve the world. It is not known if the so called supporters believe The New Order or wether The New Order are saying the truth or if its all just one giant propaganda machine.

##### Mind Manipulation

There have been vague reports within the interior of The New Order of monoliths, fueled by technology that control everyone like a zombie, it is unknown if this is true though it is known people seem to be brainwashed by many different things such as The New Orders promises, propaganda and the tablets may be brainwashing soldiers and slaves aswell. The New Order also may use substances to control the population through forced intake, but this is just another theory of many theories.

## Genocide

Mass killings seem to evident within the interior of The New Order, as mentioned previously soldiers have tablets that kill deserters once they decide to commit desertion and its also evident this can be applied to civillians. It also seems that people within The New Order who do not want to work get executed. Also it seems that The New Order burns down smaller villages that they burn down villages that they conquer such as ones in Frozenfar that have been ravaged by The New Order.

## Resources

The New Order seems to have near infinite resources from there conquests even before New Order Knows No Borders as they were able to achieve enlightnment and new science fairly easily. After New Order Knows No Borders they immeditally began resource mining to extract all of Torils resources. They have giant boreholes that go deep to get rare minerals for there weapons. They also mine alot of coal and iron for other means such as production and fuel.

The New Order seems to have been creating a new resource so powerful that it can withstand any sort of attack. This resource is placed on the armor of New Order soldiers. It seems like they probably also put it on higher ranked personnal weapons though this isnt fully confirmed. They may be using these resources in Imperia to expand it quickly and to make new defenses such as stronger walls. These stronger walls are more made to keep people in as keeping people out isnt nessacary as theres nobody to keep out.

It is unknown what is going onto animals within The New Order but it seems like they are being hunted and exterminated for food and testing. They may be mass producing animals within tight farms. Horses have been fully domisticated for New Order Knows No Borders which involves the speed of horses to move quickly along flat plains to capture settlments fast. Horses and other animals may be also used for carrying stuff and other means of slave labor for The New Order, this is probably true as The New Order does everything for slave labor at max effiency.

## Propaganda

### Posters

The New Order heavily seems to rely on propaganda, mostly posters that are put throughout cities and even outside The New Orders borders to get support globally. These posters spread The New Orders might involving brainwashing people into fearing there massive army and there massive industry, other posters show off the Great Imperator, showing him as a true revolutionary in terms of technology and society. The most famous poster qoutes include "The Great Imperator is always watching" and "It is futile to continue our path of the past."

### The Great Imperator

The Great Imperator is a very mysterious figure, some say hes a great leader, others say he is a god, a few even say he doesn't even exist. He is shown to be the leader of The New Order government through propaganda, his personification is a Knight on a horse in red armor with gold plating. People who do not believe his existence suggest he is the enbodiment of The New Orders mysterious government. He is usually refered to as a Sacred Figurehead as it seems as people worship him within The New Order and some people even outside of The New Order.

## Technology of The New Order

### Military Technology

Technology is The New Orders strong suit. Within their army they use those special resources mentioned earlier for the armor they use that makes it practically indestructible. They also have a new invetion within Toril, muskets, which they use in line formation as anti cavalry. These musketmen make up a big part of The New Orders army and they make up for the lack of magic within its army.

It is also evident they have created logistics systems and have bred new types of horses, for carrying supplies. These logistics help them move faster as the logistics of the old kingdoms were slow and ineffiecent. Theres also rumours of a sort of ship that flys in the sky, powered by a bit of magic but mostly technology it seems, this has been used for transport and military purposes.

### Non-military Technology

One of the most noticable pieces of technology is Imperia which is considered, if real, a technological marval. Many people are impressed of such a city, it seems they used new construction methods and slaves to create Imperia. They've also created new medicines for many common diseases, ones that used to be only cured by magic. A more subtle but probably the most important thing they have created is a system of mass production and industralization. Within The New Order there have been reports of factories to mass produce goods run by slaves, they produce military goods and civillian goods. These factories seem to use new machinery that were not used before and are known to be extremly effiicent. These industries seem to be the reason why The New Order is so ahead of every other kingdom.

## New Order Architecture

Before New Order Knows No Borders, it was reported The New Order revamped architecture for faster construction, they seemed to switch from a medieval style look to Neo-Classical and modernist. There arcitecture is blocky and monolithic as its the most effiecent form for construction. They seem to use light and greyer colors for there buildings, though this is more bland, it costs far less resources. There seems to be a bit of decoration thought not much, mostly only carving within the building which it seems they are for a more sturdy design than for a nicer looking building.

The New Order also likes to build way higher than it did before as this uses far less land and they can build far more, this with city planning can make extremely effecient cities. There is also reports of the cities, especially the extended parts that connect cities to make Imperia are giant cattle farms made for the races of Faerun. This may be there homes where they are controlled and enslaved by The New Order.