Demiurgate of Aymia

The **Demiurgate of Aymia** was a theocratic kingdom that established in the Aymian Peninsula, and one of the Six Kingdoms of humanity west of the Eastern Mountains. A nation based on religion and archery, the nation has a long history of archery and religious tensions.

## History

It is unknown when humanity first came to the Aymian Peninsula but it is supposed to have been early in their history. It is known that early humans established first states there and had cultural domination over there, serving as a border between the Eldar Empire and the rest of the Human lands.

In 2453BF, the Human Empire was established, conquering a vast region over all of the modern Six Kingdoms. The Aymian Peninsula was at the time a kingdom, ruled by a family of kings claiming descent from Naseus. At the time of the conquest, the king was Mannus himself. The local language was unified as Common and the Church of Aym was made the main religion of the Human Empire. The region was ruled by the Emperors themselves. However, the Emperors chose a leader among the Archons to help them, and advise their children.

As the Human Empire collapsed after the disastrous First Divine War, the Aymian Peninsula got divided into many petty kingdoms, with the City of Aymia remaining under the control of the Demiurge Sabaoth I the Pure. Sabaoth fought against and unified the cities, founding a theocratic kingdom. As such, the Demiurgate remained the main and most important religious authority and started to build its power back, mostly by having all the countries put Demiurgal investiture. Eventually, as the countries became more and more devout, the Demiurge Thiudimir II, proclaimed a Second Divine War, attacking the Eldar lands, although Atheria argued against attacking the City of Elv'elda. As the war came to a paroxysm of violence, Aslan came and fought against Aym, gaining peace at the cost of his life. The Flood started.

The Aymian Demiurgate suffered much from the Flood, losing most of its coastal lands, including Aymia, its main religious city. Eventually, they managed to regain the strengths they had lost, although they lost a lot of religious powers, even building New Aymia. Currently, the Demiurge of Aymia is Thiudimir VII, known as "the Devout", for his great faith and religious zeal.

## Government and Politics

### Power Structure

The Aymian Demiurgate's government is ruled by a single absolute monarch who held the totality of the power within the government, this monarch residing in New Aymia. Below the monarch are the Archons who are the religious authorities of each human country. The Archons reunite at the death of a Demiurge to elect their new one. Below Archons are Bishops, who act as local chieftains.

Each position within the government is an elective function. Although women can achieve some positions of power, it is a highly masculine society and the position of Demiurge, although not officially forbidden to women, has only be held by men. However, some women did rise to the status of Archon.

### Military

Aymia's military, despite still being a strong one, is among the low powers of the Six Kingdoms. It is mainly composed of devout soldiers and religious warriors, meaning that they are extremely loyal and zealous, obeying to any order the Demiurge tells them. Their military commanders are usually charismatic, zealous and strong, and it is an army trained as much in attack as in defense. Aymian soldiers, no matter the rank, were taught to fight with swords, and bows, Aymia proving to be a main player at archery. The most commonly used material for weapons was steel and wood.

Trained in weaponry, the army is used for self defense, due to Aymia not wanting to risk another Divine War.

### Economy

After its formation, Aymia adopted a theocratic feudal system, with peasants of a province required to farm the fields for the nation's agriculture. In exchange, the peasants can keep a portion of what they farmed, and the aristocracy were tasked to make law and justice prevail, as well as pray for the peasants to Aym. Among its primary crops were the Aym's Hands, a plant, looking like two hands conjoined, that had a bitter yet good taste.

Coinciding with its agricultural aspects, the demiurgate's economy is open to trade, with all of their neighbours. Aymia also has the advantage of having steel in their mountains, as well as a monthly fee from religious authorities. Currency in the Northerian Principalities is called Amal, and is divided in steel Amal and gold Amal. A gold Amal is worth sixty steel Amal.

## Society and Culture

The people of Northeria are a proud and religious people, focused on faith. They tend to be very zealous and agressive. They have a very bad view of Eldars and Orcs , that they view as impious abominations.

As part of their cultures, Aymians typically did not adopt a unique surname to coincide with their first name, using nicknames such as "the elder" if there are more than one person with said first name. This even applicated to Archons and Demiurges.

As the country most devouted to its official religion, the Demiurge of Aymia is the head of the Church of Aym, and so the spiritual head of the whole human race. It is an extremely faithful attachment to Aym, to the point of bigotry.

## Geography and Climate

Aymia is a country, in the Aymian Peninsula, located directly below the Kingdom of Atheria, west of the Kingdom of Dreolia and east to the Principalities of Northeria. Most of the region is composed of fields, with forests and hills. The northern region is full of mountains, separating it from the rest of the continent. After the Flood, the south of the peninsula became mostly marshy. Steel were mined in these mountains.

## Trivia

* Aymia is loosely inspired by the Papal States and by the Ostrogoth Kingdom. Other inspirations include Odoacer's Kingdom and the Starry Sept from ASoIaF.