North Erzebus

**North Erzebus**, officially known as **"The Resistance of Erzebus"**, is a country located in the Erzebus Continent. It is neighbors to the only other country within the continent: **South Erzebus**.

North Erzebus is the last remaining remnant of the ancient times of Lurra, and is in a neverending war with South Erzebus. This country works with other countries in fighting back South Erzebus, though significantly smaller than South Erzebus due to the rapid spread of its curse.

## History

### Ancient Pre-history

Information recovered from **Ecleciastic Chronicles 5759-BZY, Vol. 14**

During ancient times, before Empyrea, before the 0th year, the continent of Erzebus used to be called the continent of Eclecia, with a nation ruling over the entire continent. The nation of Eclecia used to be the most advanced nation during this Era being the Crownhead, and have made many different inventions and creations, incorporating the best of both worlds of magic and science.

#### **Beheading of the Crownhead**

The prophecy of alignment is something Eclecia has been aware of, and have a way to reflect the leak of the otherworldly energies. Unfortunately, they were not aware of where the leak will occur, only that it occurs deep in mainland according to stored history, until the prophecy came. Their general plan was to find out where the leak occurs, setup the defense there, and provide relief to the inhabitants unfortunate enough to be at the site. The leak occurred south-east of the continent, where their continent-wide distribution systems are located. The purpose of these systems were to allow even distribution of magic energies, fast transportation, information dissemination and more throughout the continent. The unexpected arrival of the leak in this location was a dark prelude to what would happen throughout the continent. The leak has distributed soul energies throughout the continent, in just one day, majority of its inhabitants have lost themselves, many physically changed to monsters. The survivors were those who were able to retain themselves long enough to erect their own barriers to repulse the soul energies. Killings were rampant all throughout, radical cults were born, terrorism was skyrocketing, the commonfolk were even mutilating each other and creating stitched monsters off of each other, perhaps the most horrifying of all was the top scholar of the nation creating a virus and manipulating the land. The virus fed off the magic of its surroundings to grow, and in less than a week, the land itself had died, turning a sickly purple. Throughout all the events happening, what remains of the government had been trying to control the situation, however for as long as the system was running or the leak was occurring, this would go on indefinitely.

#### **Fall of Eclecia**

Eclecia had called for support from the world, of which majority responded to their relief. Supplies came in, military forces would begin in helping retake the continent. One day, progress was stalled much to Eclecian confusion. Eventually it was found out that they were being exploited by the world, behind their backs the world had discussions what to do with the dying Eclecia, with their riches being swindled and knowledge being stolen. At the military capital, the leader of Eclecia at this point had lost all hope, tuning their barrier off, they let themselves succumb to the leak. Perhaps in a final act of vengeance, made the firing of their superweapons, the world on that day froze, its lands became barren, civilizations all died out, everything reset to the ground, with the only surviving civilization being Eclecia.

The few of Eclecia still alive now had to burden these sins, evacuating to the relatively still-safe north, they made haste. Discovering the viral curse eating the land cannot spread without magic, they drew the line at what little land remained north, preventing, if not, drastically slowing down the virus from spreading north, since then, attacks from the south would regularly assail the north. Recuperating themselves to survive, they did all they could.

This would continue 1000 years later until present time, they have regressed much and lost most of their knowledge and history, being unaware of the sins of their forefathers. On the other hand, life began to thrive on other continents, as civilizations were slowly rising back up, and the frost that covered much of the world began to thaw out.

## Politics

### Relations

**Ancrel Continent**

North Erzebus is in good relations with the countries of this Continent, namely Demiurge and Yorselania due to their connections from the ancient times. North Erzebus is still in neutral grounds with Trestkania, but they provide insights and support in advancing Erzebus technology to fight back against South Erzebus here and then.

**Celibus**

Although North Erzebus is neutral with Celibus, with Celibus being in close proximity, they do attempt to contact Celibus for support at times.

**Morze**

North Erzebus strongly dislikes Morze, as Morze is only interested in harvesting the power of its curse to weaponize their efforts in taking over the world. North Erzebus often suffers attacks from Morze as a result, at least once a month, alongside South Erzebus. Yorselania and Celibus does help North Erzebus out, however, whenever Morze comes to attack.

## Relics of Ancient Eclecia

Since North Erzebus is in close proximity with South Erzebus, they do attempt to establish trade between nations for artifacts left behind inside South Erzebus. This is often suicide missions, however. If you do happen to venture into South Erzebus, and come back with an artifact and live long enough to tell the tale, you are immediately risen to a prestigious status within Eclecia, and given an option to become one of the leaders within it's military.

Artifacts from Ancient Eclecia tells of Lurra's past, and therefore highly sought after by other nations for the hidden history behind the continent and the world.