Tide

> We shall not let ourselves be swept away, like a tide, the Empire shall rise from any fall.
>
> - Bisima von Rosen & Briar Tadius

The **Tide**, officially known as the **Empire of the Rising Tide**, is a country encompassing much of the southeastern Baalian continent. It was initially formed by the union of the former **Impero Kingdom, Rosen Kingdom** and **Tadius Kingdom**, and has since then aggressively expanded to include the former countries of the **Zonian Republic**, **Urolban Monarchy**, **Martodon Stratocracy**, and the **Elkian Republic**.

## History

### Fires of War: (1784 - 1838)

Back when the continent of Baalian was still bathed in the fires of war, two kingdoms would form an alliance, these kingdoms would be the **Rosen Kingdom** and **Tadius Kingdom**, led by **King Briar Tadius** and **Queen Bisima von Rosen**.

Both kingdoms started out rather small, and with the many states warring for domination in this part of the continent, both kingdoms were caught in the middle of the crossfire and to secure their existence and future, formed an alliance to strengthen one another, and defend one another from foreign threats. Rosen would declare war on **Ramail, Chenze, Maikyo, Hogunate, Bayalad and Klomakhi** to their west and south, while Tadius would declare war on **Bukonse, Zeimler, Chuwoffa and Polmland** around them. Due to the length of the frontline this would have, Rosen would declare war first, supported by Tadius joining them, with the goal of conquering the south to secure borders and effectively reducing the frontline to the north and west. The **Impero Kingdom**, having a rivalry with **Hogunate**, would offer their assistance to the alliance, in exchange for membership in the future. After the successful campaign, all forces moved north in order to assist in Tadius' upcoming war. Tadius would begin its war, supported this time by Rosen. Bukonse, Zeimler and Chuwoffa swiftly fell thanks to superior tactics and planning, which would be owed by Impero's intel. Polmland held out with stiff resistance, but eventually fell.

This rapid chain of success by this alliance would not go unnoticed, as three powers to the west formed an alliance, alongside other minor states. **Elkia, Urolban and Martodon** formed the **Wistelian alliance**, intending to remove the eastern powers and fix the power balance. By this time, the war support and war drive in the Rosen-Tadius alliance was at an all-time high, and war was inevitable. Morale and support in the west was not the greatest as the three powers used to be at war and still had sour relationships, with infighting occurring, while the Rosen-Tadius alliance was geared up and ready for war, ready to sweep their foes in the tides of war.

The war begins with Urolban taking the initiative, initially having the upper hand due to their naval supremacy, bombarding the Rosen-Tadius alliance from afar. Martodon and Elkia brought their focus to the ground. The alliance would find themselves pushed back, which was a surprise considering the Wistelian alliance was infighting and wasn't tightly-knit. The alliance would begin losing its territory, but will fight to the end, for every inch taken, one of the Wistelians would die for it. In the midst of the war, the Impero Kingdom, having secretly moved its naval force to the **Velarian islands**, declared a surprise war, and would do a daring and bold move to sink the entire Urolban navy. The Urolban navy was caught by surprise as they had not expected Impero would join in the war. Their navy was cut-off from supply routes, many ships sunk, and eventually their fleets are routed. The Wistelian naval supremacy was gone, and the alliance would once more bring the war to enemy soil. The tides of war have changed in favor of the alliance, now renamed as the **Tribalian Pact**.

Impero began landing on Urolban beaches, taking key cities and cutting off supply routes to the frontline. Urolban would be the first to capitulate, and Martodon would follow soon after, with the high priest officials eventually executed by their own people, whom were promised their God with ensured victory. With their many defeats, the people were disillusioned, their beliefs shattered; with feelings of abandonment, Martodon willingly surrendered to the alliance, leaving Elkia as the last one standing.

Compared to the rest, Elkia had the highest tech level and magical affinity, and would use this advantage to hold out for a long time, hopefully bringing this war to a stalemate and settle with a status quo. To their surprise, the **Morze Dictatorship** began invading without a declaration of war; with most of their forces stationed at the south and eastern frontlines, there was nothing they could do to the Morze invasion. The fall of Elkia eventually happened, and the Morze would mysteriously stop their invasion after taking a specific amount of territory, they simply stopped without any declaration or justification.

The war ended in complete Tribalian victory, and followed by a long period of peace after, keeping a watchful eye on the Morze Dictatorship in case of another war breaking out, the alliance will be ready.

### Unification: (1839 - 1842)

After a period of peace, the relationships between the three kingdoms strengthened, until the time came where their interests aligned very much, they desired a single unified entity. A series of reforms took place, preparing the alliance to be unified into one single body, there were some rebellions but they would be quelled. In the year 1885, the **Empire of the Rising Tide** is born, led by the former Rosen Kingdom.

In the following years, everything is finalized, and stability would be restored following the massive reformation. However, the drive for war is still high, and the Empire needed to quench its thirst after tasting its victorious campaigns against its former enemies, they simply needed more. They have set their sights on Morze and began drafting a future war against them, but with the Morze's power, they put this aside and set their sights elsewhere first. The **Zonian Republic** was a candidate as well but they too possess a sizeable military.

### Colonization of Fereid: (1842 - 1903)

After witnessing firsthand the naval power of the Urolbans, as well as Impero's, they saw the potential of naval warfare. The small period of peace would be used to muster their military strength once more, with a deeper emphasis on naval power. All shipyards began to push out warships, with plans and tech incorporated from various conquered nations, old, mothballed and outdated warships brought back for retrofit, desiring the perfect navy.

After deeming the navy fit, they began to sail south, first conquering the islands of **Hugin** and **Maynilad**, and then proceeding further south to the Fereid continent. They landed on the island of **Nagato** with little resistance where the people would welcome them as esteemed guests. They discovered the locals look similar to them and having a similar culture and tradition. The island is split up into clans, with this current clan being led by the Nagato clan. The Empire would declare the island to be brought under their control, and the other warring clans shall soon follow after. The Nagato clan, already seeing the power of the Empire, would accept this vassalization, some small sections rebelled but the Empire would show their iron fist; there were no further rebellions in the clan after their display of power. With information from the Nagato clan, the Empire began pushing west and bringing the island under their control. More information from Nagato shows more countries that they have encountered and did trade with.

Heading south, the Empire discovered **Durug** and **Makto**, where they are forcefully brought to their knees and conquered, they discover and have skirmishes with the **Tiragale kingdom**, whom also had a sizeable navy and numerous overseas territories. They find **Gerdulm**, **Declan**, **Peimpob**, **Wotan**, **Harida**, and **Hachken** and swiftly conquers them. They begin invading Sanjiel territories with difficulty due to being in the mainland where their naval supremacy cannot shine; they cannot have the fleets go around west as it lies in Morze waters, and they cannot go southeast as it is filled with many icebergs and a dangerous weather. The war against Sanjiel continued while the Empire would focus on matters elsewhere; Nagato had major developments under the Empire, a huge canal was built that connects the Great Olga River to the south, other conquered nations would be treated harshly and slavery was enacted, they begin drafting plans for a war against Zonian, which is just a prelude to perhaps their most ambitious expansion yet, the invasion of the **Union of Zelkovania Republics**.

### The Menace of the North: (1935 - 1949)

The invasion of the Zonian Republic begins, there is resistance but are taken care of rather quick. During this time, Zelkovania is at war with the **Federation of Celibus States**, and as such a lot of their forces are not stationed near the Empires borders. The Zonian Republic was not a member of the Zelkovania Union at the time and they had no pacts neither, a perfect opportunity to secure the gap to the right.

Zelkovania, seeing the developments, began strengthening their frontline borders. They had actually kept an eye on the canal being built some years ago and responded in kind by constructing naval cannons along the Great Olga River and the strait to the east. They expect a naval invasion via the strait and the river as they believed the Empire relies too much on its Navy.

The invasion of the Union begins, charging a ground spearhead through the east between the river and the strait heading to Altobania, contrary to what the Union thought. At the same time, the invasion of **Einzufer**, **Avrobania** and **Coltax** begins. The Empire has received victory after victory, and believed themselves invincible.

Zelkovanian forces along the river began moving eastwards to reinforce the frontline in Altobania. The Empire took this opportunity and began the landings along the river, accompanied by naval support, and with less manpower, the naval defenses Zelkovania made were less effective. The divisions sent to the right become encircled, and the incursion through Union lands becomes deeper. Altobania is taken over, landings begin taking place in Mykonos and Zelkovania territory. Sometime later, the war between Zelkovania and Celibus abruptly ends unbeknownst to the Empire, and with this turn of events, the Union begins moving their full might to the frontlines. During the course of the war, Einzufer would fall, Avrobania loses half its territory and Coltax would hold out.

The Empire has reached the doorsteps of **Zelkova**, the Unions capital, and began laying siege, with the defenders not taking one step back. If the Empire can take the capital, Union morale would plummet and the entirety of the continent would be theirs to take, leaving only the Morze left. As all hope is lost in the Zelkovan capital, a large platoon of soldiers, tanks and walkers, larger numbers than any armies the Empire nor their former enemies have mustered, have appeared to retake the capital. This concerning turn of events led to an all-out mobilization to counter this. The Union begins pushing back, and the Empire begins to feel the strain of their ambitions; colonies begin to desire independence with most having violent riots, the invasion of Coltax is stopped, Sanjiel begins to take Wotan, Harida and Hachken, The Empire abandons Declan, Gerdulm and Peimpob to try and reduce the strain as those territories had little benefit.

The Union pushes rapidly towards Altobania and the river line. The Empire, not expecting the Unions full ground military to arrive so soon, had come to the conclusion that the Celibus-Zelkovanian war had ended without their knowing, and all the forces that were at the frontline against Celibus had now come to them. Most of their colonies have successfully severed with the Empire, being absorbed by Sanjiel, retaken by Tiragale, and Nagato was given independence to avoid further manpower waste. They now had to focus on bringing this war to a stalemate at least. They abandon Altobania and begin reinforcing along the river, their naval supremacy preventing the Union from crossing the river, and their consolidated defense between the river and the strait acting as a choke point with provided naval support. Both countries felt the strain, the Union from their very recent war against the Celibus, and the Empire from all their military campaigns, and have come to a conference meeting to hopefully end the war and cut losses. A status quo was settled, the Empire keeps all currently owned territories, including the southern provinces of Altobania, something the Union would be extremely bitter about for years to come.

### Stains of Retribution: (2082-2089)

After an era of peace lasting for more than a century, the Empire has underwent through many changes. Their forefathers wanted the ideology of land and riches, but the ruler today says otherwise. Yet that all changes when Zelkovania who remained tense towards them ever since 1925 started to attack the Empire alongside with Morze. Knowing their strength, the opponents they were fighting against were extraordinarily strong, they could make a fair fight with at least one of them, but if they're going against two superpower nations, then from the start, they stood no chance. So as the ruler of the empire, they decided to surrender before any more casualties will be made. The ruler of Tide Empire today, **Ivan Teritas** forfeited and swallowed his pride to stop the nonsense called war. But before Ivan Teritas publicly announced their defeat, a Morze cultist brainwashed him disguised as a diplomat of Tide and suddenly turned the ruler to be driven by war. Thus truly starts the inevitable war between The Tide Empire against Zelkovania Union and Morze.

Seven years later after the stains of retribution, exactly like how Ivan Teritas predicted, they lost the war and a quarter of land to Morze, not Zelkovania themselves. This left both the Empire and the Union confused, since both of them knew that their agreement was to give the entire land to Zelkovania and not give Morze anything in return. What they didn't know is that the real bloodbath starts from now on while the two nations were completely unaware of Morze's true intentions. Just a week after the aftermaths of war, Morze immediately begins to attack Zelkovania, not with their regular troops, but monsters beyond the realm of humans.

### Participation in The Morze War: (2091-2108)

After finding out that it was Morze who manipulated everything behind the scene starting with the abrupt appearance of Morze soldiers back in 1837, their nation's leader declared war despite knowing they will lose, and many more theories that signifies their involvement. So Ivan Teritas, still the leader of the Tide Empire ever since they found out that Ivan Teritas was controlled by a small insect behind his neck, decided to squeeze out all of their resources after finding out the truth and unified with most nations, that goes along with Zelkovania too, though they both are still sour from the stains of retribution, they kept their differences to themselves and started an all out war against Morze with other nations the level of a powerhouse or a superpower. It was what Tide's ruler had always dreamed off about, a united nation consisted of the entire world against the greater evil, it left him in awe and made him dedicated his life to bring this world an era of true peace.

## Geography

Located in the Baalian continent, The Empire has a large ocean coastline surrounding its southern territories and the Great Gaia River from the north. Its mainland consists of a mostly tropical climate, with territories further north having a savannah and mountains. To the west is the Majinrera desert in the midst of the former territories of Elkia, Martodon and Urolban having large oil deposits.

## Economy

The Empire has large deposits of resources, majority of which originate in the Majinrera Desert and the rich undersea caves along the Himawari coastline, allowing them to essentially self sustain. They have much trade with other nations. Their currency is Roz (℟).

## Military

The Empire has a large naval background and as such, their military focuses on naval supremacy. Their ground forces will mostly have amphibious capabilities and serving personnel will be trained in water combat as well.

#### Ground Forces

Due to the Empire favoring the seas, most of their ground forces are capable of traversing shallow waters, if not, outright fully amphibious. All serving personnel are required and trained to be able to operate in waters as well. The Rosen branch would be in charge of the ground forces.* Infantry Equipment
* Motor/Mecha Vehicles
* Tanks
* Walkers
* Robots
* Hover

#### Aerial Forces

Owing to their desire for the seas, the Empires aircraft are carrier capable, with most having the ability to float, land and even take off on water. The Impero branch would be in charge of the air forces, with the navy handed off to the Tadius, whom had a great fixation on naval supremacy.* Fighters
* Bombers
* Attackers
* Multirole

 AgaKaze 2/01

#### Naval Forces

The pride of the Empires armed forces is their navy. They possess the largest and most powerful navy in the world. The navy is handled by the Tadius branch.* Destroyers
* Light Cruisers
* Heavy Cruisers
* Carriers
* Battleships
* Submarines

 IRNS Agilichi
 IRNS Abeichi
 IRNS Araichi

 IRNS Kuruzu

 IRNS Kuroarma
 Umihime-class Battle Carrier
 IRNS Shiohime
 IRNS Namihime

 Baiko-class Battleship

#### Scorpio Storm (Sasoriza Arashi)

Scorpio Storm is a program planned by the Tide following the conclusion of the war against Zelkovania in 1949. To address their problems of not being able to bring their naval ship supremacy in deep enemy territory, as well as flexibility to move such massive warships in a fast manner, the program would be in full swing by 1972.