Estadoria

Vast, diverse and slow to modernize, Estadoria was nonetheless a grand and ancient empire, and not to be taken lightly.

### Languages

Sudbalveren
Florantian

Vallaci

Vasrovisk

Kolakiri

### Era

233 - 689 PA (As the Kingdom of Estadoria)
689 - 832 PA (As the Estadorian Empire)

832 - 1419 (As the Sovereignty of Estadoria, Vallacia and Bivenska)

1419 - (As the Sovereignty of Estadoria)

**Estadoria**, officially the **Sovereignty of Estadoria, Vallacia and Bivenska**, was an autocratic nation spanning much of southeastern Teceria and one of the Great Powers of Vaurithius. The Sovereignty was centered around the enormous Rurideas River, controlling nearly the entirety of its length from the river's mouth in the Florantian Sea to the Valinaskov mountain range in the far east of Teciria. Ruled by an absolutist line of monarchs titled Sovereign, it was in truth a union of several separate cultures under the semi-colonial rule of the ethnically Balverian Estadorian heartland. The Estadorian Sovereign held the crowns of Vallacia and Bivenska in personal union, as well as the title of Emperor of Valraniskova. As a result, the Sovereignty was deeply divided along ethnic lines, with many small kingdoms and principalities absorbed into the Estadorian dynasty in a complicated web of alliances, royal unions and conquered territories. While vast and extremely powerful, the Sovereignty was nonetheless a carefully balanced house of cards built upon the strength of the extensive royal family itself. This royal family, the Balverian Krondauer dynasty, held power in the Sovereignty for over seven centuries, beginning with their conquest of the Kingdom of Estadoria in 689 PA. By the dawn of the Age of Sail, much of the power of Estadoria had waned, its status as the preeminent nation of Teceria superseded first by Valenros, then by the Golden Monarchy of Eblia. The Sovereignty's prestige was also dealt a blow by its failure to halt the rise of the Balverian Empire, upending the continental status quo which had sustained Estadoria as the primary Balverian, and thus central Tecerian, power. This period of decline led to the violent secession of Valrovsk and Kolakova, the easternmost territories of the Sovereignty, as well as the strengthening and unification of the Florantian states against Estadorian aggression. By the dawn of the 15th century PA, the Sovereignty was considered a frail and second-hand power compared to those of western Teceria, but was nonetheless a Great Power and a force to be reckoned with. This fragile state of affairs would last until the year 1418 PA, when the Sovereignty was plunged deep into the abyss.

Varion III 'the Reformer' Krondauer, Sovereign of Estadoria, died suddenly from an aneurysm at the age of thirty-seven in August, leaving only his eleven-year-old son Johan II as a viable heir. The Sovereignty was instantly consumed in chaos, the absolutist tendencies of Varion III leaving the Krondauer realms without a functioning government upon his unexpected death. The nobility and clergy hastily sought to establish a Sovereign Regency, but deep political and ethnic divides paired with a burgeoning republican movement kneecapped Johan II's administration before it could even begin. The situation only grew worse over the following months, with worker's strikes and uprisings across Estadoria, while whispers among the nobility grew louder and louder, with some even conspiring to take the throne themselves. Despite attempted arbitration from the other Great Powers, the Regency was unable to remedy the Sovereignty's numerous problems - and even if it could have, it likely would not have mattered. On May 24, 1419, radical Vallacian republicans attacked the child Sovereign's motorcade with military-grade weapons during a diplomatic trip to Darudin. Johan II and several members of the Regency were killed in the attack, and all semblance of order in Estadoria was lost. As news of the young Sovereign's death spread, fifth columns across his empire sensed that the time to act had come. The Estadorian Civil War had begun. Republican uprisings broke out in earnest across Estadoria, while Bivenska declared its secession with the backing of Valrovsk and Kolakova, who moved in to secure their borders. While the remnants of the Regency desperately rallied around hastily-crowned Sovereign Xaver I, a distant cousin of the late Varion III, they were utterly unable to halt the spiralling state of collapse left in the child-emperor's wake. While the Estadorian Army struggled to put down the Republican revolt, Vallacia seceded from the Sovereignty in its entirety, followed by Darudin, the ruling nobles declaring independent Kingdoms. Cynically eyeing their collapsing neighbor, troops from the Florantian Republic and Rhegeion rapidly crossed their respective borders, siezing swathes of claimed territory and, in Rhegeion's case, the wealthy Vallacian isles of the Recesian Sea.

Though the initial Republican revolt was scattered, decentralized, and lacking in coherent ideology beyond anti-monarchism, its scale was such that the Estadorian Army was incapable of simultaneously retaking every hotspot of insurrection. As a result, though much of the revolt was short-lived and brutally repressed, the uprisings that escaped immediate reprisal were able to swiftly consolidate and organize. Namely, the Estadorian National Republican movement under Josef Essman found considerable success against the weak and undersupplied Estadorian Army units in the Tirada region of the eastern Estadoria heartland. From their foothold in Tirada, Essman's ENR forces quickly set about absorbing surrounding Republican groups and consolidating the rebelling workers into a coherent military force. As the Sovereignty reeled and Xaver I struggled to organize counterattacks in the first months of the Civil War, the ENR siezed much of the countryside between Bivenska and Venevia itself.