Republic of New Arendur

## History

The Republic of New Arendur was founded when Tolumvire pushed the ruins of Old Arendur back into the prime material plane. The Illuminated placed their headquarters there, and many survivors from the old empire returned home. They expanded, building a city around the Tower of the Illuminated, retaking the old settlements, and conquering the local wood elf lands.

## Districts

* Dock Yards
* Gate District
* Slums
* Market District
* Lion District
* Tower District
* Forum

## Government (Sovereign Republic)

### **Senate**

The senate consists of two houses, the College of Pontiffs and the College of Tribunes, with seven members each.

**Pontifex Maximus**

The Pontifex Maximus picks his successor and must confirm the election of all pontiffs. During times of war, the Pontifex Maximus can be declared Dictator by a majority from both the College of Pontiffs and the Council of Tribunes. In this role the Pontifex has absolute power.

**College of Pontiffs**

 The seven colleges are divided into the three major colleges (trivium majores) and the four minor colleges (quadrium minores), representing the schools of magic (barring necromancy, which is illegal). Each Pontiff is elected by the congregation of of the professors and students of that college, and must themselves be a mage. The pontiffs must confirm candidates in the elections for the senate. The college represented by the Pontifex Maximus remains temporarily separate from the trivium and quadrium.

**Trivium Majores**

* College of Evocation
* College of Divination
* College of Transmutation

**Quadrium Minores**

* College of Abjuration
* College of Conjuration
* College of Enchantment
* College of Illusion

**College of Tribunes**

The College of Tribunes controls the military, foreign affairs, and the appointment of certain municipal officials. They have the power to propose edicts and levy taxes. If the Tribunes vote on an edict it passes to the College of Pontiffs to confirm or deny the bill. Members of the College of Tribunes were typically not mages, not by law, but due to the fact that members of the Illuminated considered it shameful to occupy a "lower office."

### **Bureaucratic Offices**

* Magistrates: The Magistrates pass judgement and sentence criminals. They are appointed by the College of Pontiffs and selected from members of the College. They do not have authority over members of the Academy of the Illuminated. If a member of the academy is accused of a crime, they are tried by a committee of members of their respective college.
* Questors: Control the cities treasury and the collection of taxes.
* Adiles: Supervise events, holidays and ceremonies.

**Warmaster**

In the last days of New Arendur, the Senate brought back the imperial rank of Warmaster, who served as commander-in-chief of the Arendurian armed forces, and had the authority to commander civilian constitutions. The Warmaster had the right to sit in on Senate sessions.

## Members of the Senate during the War of the Philosopher-Kings

### College of Pontiffs

* Pontiff (School of Evocation): Quintus Ko Lau, a human war mage
* Pontiff (School of Divination): Panion Postumus, elf
* Pontiff (School of Transmutation): Priscilla Helvia Cealia, human alchemist
* Pontiff (School of Abjuration): Astor Innocent, human who made the wards on the city
* Pontiff (School of Conjuration): Jotunheim, Pontifex Maximus and Grand Master of the Illuminated
* Pontiff (School of Enchantment): Secundus, changeling
* Pontiff (School of Illusion): Atilius Lanvyn Quirinus Orrick Quintilianus Vorcorin, gnome

### College of Tribunes

* Tribune (Slums): Ophelia Octavia
## Government (Colony of the Reich)

Limited self-government by the Church of Transcendental Theosophy. The Church must submit a yearly report to the Office of the Gauleiter, which is an extension of the Hexenjäger Corps.

**Hierarchy**

* Pontifex Maximus: Head of Church, Bishop of New Arendur. Currently Flavius Luteus Scaevola.
* College of Cardinals: A group of bishops appointed by the Pontifex. Cardinals occupy the highest positions in the dicastries.
* Bishops: Head of a diocese, regional governor.
* Priest: In charge of a parish/small towns.
* Deacons: Civil servants, laymen.

**The Curia: Administrative body of the church.**

* Secretariat of State: Political and diplomatic functions of the church. Headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State. Currently Lucille Montgomery. Previous holders of the rank were Pharamond Newcomb, Clara Sawyer, and Saul Preston.
* Council of Dogma: Inquisition/secret police in charge of enforcing orthodoxy. Headed by the Prefect of the Council of Dogma. Currently Leo Calixte Desjardins. Previous holders of the rank were Roland Richard.
* Magisterium: Judicial body of the church. Headed by the Prefect of the Magisterium. Currently Gloria Landry. Previous holders of the rank were Carla Burgess, Sarah Starkweather, Marie-Laure Senft, and Harcourt Delmar.

## Leaders (chronological)

* Jotunheim (as Pontifex Maximus and Grand Master of the Illuminated)
* Tan Blackhand (as Pontifex Maximus and Acting Grand Master of the Illuminated)
* Flavius Luteus Scaevola (as Pontifex Maximus and Pontiff of the Church of Transcendental Theosophy)
* Leo Calixtus (as Pontiff of the Church of Transcendental Theosophy)/Helga Answith (as Warmaster)

* Isaac Icarus (as Warmaster)

## The Great Awakening

Upon the Great Awakening, the Arendurians would see the return of the Tower of the Illuminated, as well as regain the memories suppressed by the *damnatio memoriae.*Many individuals would regain access to magic they had lost.

In response to the disappearance of Flavius Luteus Scaevola and the dissolution of the Reich, the Arendurian Army would stage a coup, installing Cardinal Leo Calixte Desjardins as Pontiff. Under the Army's direction, the newly christened Pontiff Leo Calixtus would formally declare New Arendur to be an independent nation, and appoint Helga Answith as Warmaster.

Helga Answith would pass a series of decrees later known as the Answith Reforms, which mainly served to create the framework of an administrative state that had no existed since the fall of the First Republic. The position of Pontifex Maximus was abolished, with the Pontiff of the Church of Transcendental Theosophy remaining as the head of the state religion, as well as a head of state with ceremonial powers. The spheres in which the Pontiff held temporal were in his appointments in the curia. The Secretariat of State would oversee the state's foreign policy, the Magisterium would continue to serve as the nation's highest judicial authority, and the Council of Dogma would retain its authority to enforce religious orthodoxy.

As a final decree, Answith would dispense with the anti-mage laws, and open up an Arcane Magic Division within the Arendurian Army. The Hexenjägers remaining in New Arendur, led by Dietrich Stoppelbein, would split into factions. Many would pledge loyal to Colonel Albrecht Kurz, who would swear fealty to the Warmaster. Many others would join the New Arendurian Colonial Legion, led by Robert Patenaude, while others would desert and try to return to Utgard, commandeering the IMS *Bolgar der Zerstörer*, or to the Reich Nördlich. Those still loyal to Dietrich Stoppelbein would commandeer the IMS *Prinz Baraddin*, and fly to exile in Gandoral.

During the darkest days of the Long War, the forces of humanity would strike a great coup. The rebuilt train, containing a ghost in the machine created by Isaac Icarus, hurled itself into the sea between New Arendur and Forester's Town with Pontiff Leo Calixtus and Warmaster Helga Answith onboard. Both drowned, and Isaac Icarus would sweep into power as the Warmaster of New Arendur. Icarus would restore the institution of the Senate by staging sham elections, and forcing the new Senators to appoint him as Warmaster of the Long War. Though he would disband the College of Cardinals, the remaining priests would meet in secret and elect Isaac Outterridge as Pontiff Constantius I. No one ever bothered to call this so-called Pontiff by his regnal name, for the battle of the two Isaac's was too amusing to pass up. Icarus was quick to replace the leadership of the Arendurian Army, clean out the worst of Answith's political appointees, but he did shock his colleagues by retaining the mage Forbin Acorda, on the grounds that he was too powerful to ignore.

## Government (Great Awakening)

### **The Curia**

* Pontifex Maximus: Head of Church, Bishop of New Arendur. Currently Leo Calixtus I. Previous holders of the rank were Flavius Luteus Scaevola.
* Secretariat of State: Political and diplomatic functions of the church. Headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State. Currently Christopher Harrell. Previous holders of the rank were Lucille Montgomery, Pharamond Newcomb, Clara Sawyer, and Saul Preston.
* Council of Dogma: Inquisition/secret police in charge of enforcing orthodoxy. Headed by the Prefect of the Council of Dogma. Currently Isaac Outterridge. Previous holders of the rank were Leo Calixte Desjardins and Roland Richard.
* Magisterium: Judicial body of the church. Headed by the Prefect of the Magisterium. Currently Gloria Landry. Previous holders of the rank were Carla Burgess, Sarah Starkweather, Marie-Laure Senft, and Harcourt Delmar.

### **The War Council**

* Permanent Members
	+ Helga Answith, Warmaster
	+ Tas'kin'ail Caimgar, Knight of Arendur
	+ Phineas Conrad, General of the Arendurian Army
	+ Mercedes Archer, First Captain of the Arendurian Army
	+ Forbin Acorda, Commander of the Division of the Damned
	+ Albrecht Kurz, Lodge Master of Maskerade
	+ Adrienne Orne, Provost of King's College
	+ Amand Perrault, Speaker for the Gypsy Territory
* Ex-Officio Members
	+ Leo Calixtus I, Pontiff of the Church of Transcendental Theosophy
	+ Christopher Harrell, Cardinal Secretary of State
	+ Isaac Outterridge, Prefect of the Council of Dogma
	+ Gloria Landry, Prefect of the Magisterium
	+ Tocryn Rashik, High Priest of Tsathoggua

## Government (Restoration)

### **The War Council**

* Permanent Members
	+ Isaac Icarus, Warmaster
	+ Caleb Carscallen, Knight of Arendur
	+ Julius Nepos Machel, General of the Arendurian Army
	+ Argastes Blackington, First Captain of the Arendurian Army
	+ Robert Patenaude, Lord Captain-Commander of the New Arendurian Colonial Legion
	+ Venom Sanu, Commander of the Order of Saint Tilani the Martyred
	+ Mogget, Grand Master of the Illuminated
	+ Forbin Acorda, Master of the Sword
	+ Hans-Günther Haase, Dean of King's College Department of Munitions
	+ Streck McGraph, Director of Icarus Industries
* Ex-officio members
	+ Amand Perrault, Speaker for the Gypsy Territory
	+ Alphonse Forester, Mayor of Forester's Town
	+ Astinus of Ansalon, Ambassador from World's End

## The Icarus Constitution

There was much speculation about what form of government Icarus - who had served in every administration in Arendur - envisioned for his people. Some thought he would return to the city's roots and bring back the council, with its members drawn at random, while others thought he would re-institute the senate. Others thought - not without reason - that Icarus would devalue all institutions in favor of free enterprise.

Ultimately, Icarus' proposed government resembled pre-Tolumvire Arendur, the system in which he had prospered, slightly tinkered with around the edges. Icarus was no utopian and thought that Arendur had truly fallen when a succession of rulers tried to create the city in speech. Icarus did indeed believe in a highly decentralized government, with the Illuminated and the Arendurian Army existing on par with private enterprise. The Council was restored as the primary organ of government.

And yet Icarus did not believe the New Arendurians possessed the spirit of free enterprise, and he thought they would squander freedom. For their sins in accepting the Church of Transcendental Theosophy, they would have to pay dearly for freedom. Icarus wanted to be overthrown, and for the people of Arendur to be plunged into tyranny so brutal they would rediscover their spirit. He knew who would do it, and he knew what would cause them to do it.

When Isaac Icarus began to rebuild the Tower of the Illuminated, he was swiftly deposed by Caleb Carscallen, the Knight of Arendur, with the help of Julius Nepos Machel, the General of the Arendurian Army. And so did Arendur's first military dictatorship begin. It would not last long.

Icarus' successors would split into two factions, the Illuminated and the Carcosai.

## Gods

During its free era, the people of Arendur followed a civil religion that venerated its founder, Tolumvire, as a saint and martyr. Currently, New Arendur is governed by the Church of Transcendental Theosophy and united in its worship of the King in Yellow. Its representative god on the Holy Council is the King in Yellow.