Lucredia

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## Grafehalvar vin Lucredia

The County of Lucredia

Once a grand Kindom full of technology, rich culture and many riches, fallen thousands of years ago, now being rebuilt by a mysterious Person...

### Etymology

Grafehalvar is the Lucredian word of County. The Name Lucredia is made up of 'Lucre' (profaned) and 'edia' (syllable for land) being given that name by the major religions of that due to their heretical behaviour and weird culture.

The Capital Lucrona originated by using "Lucr" as a syllable for Lucredia and "crona" meaning Crown, thus Lucrona is the Crown of Lucredia.

### Government

Lucredia is a Senatorial Monarchy. The Liege has a majority of the power, but given enough reside within its borders, it has to be shared with the national senate and the Chancellor elected from the senators. Next to that Lucredia has a feudal society, meaning Nobles who own land have the right to go to war against each other or foreign nations, as long the liege doesn't intervene. This also means that an Aristocrat (landed noble) has near absolute control over his territory.

The current Ruler is writing a lawbook, clarifying many things and necessary measures citizens and foreigners have to do.

#### Grafehal | Count

The title of Count is currently the highest title within Lucredia, meaning its holder, Lukas Valentin Georg Johann Sebastian von Akuma Dominate is to be considered the Liege of Lucredia. He has absolute power in governing Lucredia and representing it on foreign occasions.

#### Secreventa | Right Hand Man

The Right Hand Man is the second in command of the Nation, if the Liege is absent or not able to attend events, it is his job to do so. He has similar rights as the Liege and may advise him in his ways of ruling. If the Liege dies without an heir or the heir's to young, the Right Hand Man will become the Regent of Lucredia until a new candidate is found

#### Senatorivar | Senate

The Senate is after the Liege and the Right Hand Man the next most powerful entity within Lucredia. it is comprised of Senators and the Chancellor. Its major job is representing the People and help the Liege on internal Matters aswell as helpin the local Aristocrat at its rule. If the Liege starts going against the Principles of Lucredia, the Senate is allowed to hold a vote on deposing the Liege, which goes through if a 4/5 Majority is achieved.

##### Kansaloris | Chancellor

This position stays empty, until Lucredia reaches a Population of 50 due to how it is gained. The Chancellor is an elected tertiary Ruler of Lucredia who should represent the People and help the Liege in diplomatic matters aswell as advising him in his way of ruling. To become Chancellor you first have to become a Senator and then get elected by the Citizens of Lucredia. a term goes of one Month.

##### Senatoris | Senator

Each region of Lucredia has to send one senator for every 5 citizen residing within their territory. The local Aristocrat has to select one or hold a vote on who should it be. The job of a Senator is leading interregional development projects, help on important internal decisions and represent the people of the region they've been sent from.

#### Aristocracy

The Aristocracy is in charge of the different territories under the Lucredian banner. Their job is to govern and given the Rank is high, help in external decisions like alliances. As Lucredia has a feudal Society, Aristocrats have full control over their territory and are allowed to declare war against other Aristocrats or (with allowance of the Liege) against a foreign Nation. This right will temporarily be removed in case of an upcoming conflict.

##### Bronehal | Baron

The Title of Baron is the lowest title you can have if you own a town within your Territory. He is in charge of a single town and its close surroundings

##### Kalvohal | Knight

The Title of Knight is the lowest noble rank possible to obtain. Usually a knight doesn't own land as the title is mainly decorative for great deeds within the nation, but some might get some undeveloped territory assigned to build roads, outposts and connect it that way to the world.

#### Minstrahal | Guilds

Lucredia also has a Guild based society, meaning that we aim to have a guild of every task you could do aswell allow foreign guilds to set up branches within major towns of Lucredia. Their main task is the development of Lucredia aswell as helping citizens getting tasks to do with rewards handed depending on what has been done. The main guilds are the Adventurer's Guild, Brewer's Guild, Builder's Guild, Merchant's Guild and the Government Guild. Each are led by a Minstrahal Maestro (Guildmaster) which usually is a member of the Senate.

##### Adventurer's Guild

The Job of this Guild is to help mercenaries get jobs, offer temporary residents, hand out jobs (grinding, monster killing, ...) and help keeping the roads of Lucredia safe. Everyone who wants to open a branch may have to talk to the Guildmaster for his approoval and has to be built by the person asking (or he needs to task the Builder's Guild)

##### Builder's Guild

If you wish to become a Architect, you first need to proove your skills by showing previous work to the Guildmaster. The job of this Guild is to help in the construction of the Towns and take on jobs from citizens or customers (for a payment). If you wish to build a house on your own, you first have to show it the Guild and get the approoval to build it. The only place this is not necessary are Freebuild zones assigned by Aristocrats or the Liege.

##### Brewer's Guild

This Guild is in charge of all inns, taverns and bars of Lucredia. If you wish to open one yourself, you first have to join the Guild. The only rules are a weekly fee and to share all new found recipes and methods of brewing.

##### Merchant's Guild

If you want to open a shop you have to join this guild and pay a weekly fee. It is in charge of all mercantile activities like shops and stalls. As mentioned before, for Shops you need to join the guild and pay a weekly fee while for stalls it is not necessary to join the Guild, but you still have to ask it for allowance aswell as paying an a bit smaller fee and you're only allowed to sell up to 3 different items.

##### Government Guild

This Guild's job is to help Citizens in Questions concerning the Nation, it's Systems and Stay in contact with other Guilds and Senators to help Guide the Nation and fixing issues that Residents of Lucredia have noticed. They're to be considered the Head Guild, meaning that all other Guilds are Ranked below this one

### History

#### The Old Kingdom

##### The Empire of Emberosia

It all began with an ancient Empire that existed thousands of years ago, believed to be a myth. It's being told that it had highly developed culture and in technology far ahead of all the others. After the claimation of unsettled territory, a vassal Kingdom was formed to organise the area more easily. Said Kingdom quickly developed and picked up with the capital region, making it the most developed of all Vassals. But due to the high belief in technology in said Kingdom, the church deemed the Vassal as unholy, often arguing with the Emperors to enforce their Religion upon it, but it never happened, so they decided to name the Area profaned, which later gifted it its current name of Lucredia with the first King being known as Valent "the Dark" den Criel.

After hundrets of years of existence in Emberosia, the Empire rapidly started to decline after a succession crisis, giving its vassals to break free. The King of the time, Lenadea den Criel took this chance and cut ties with the Empire and made the Kingdom go independent. Not like many other Breakaway States, Lucredia had the economical capacities to keep most of the technology. This lead to a lot of Conflict with nearly all Neighbours which all wanted to have a share on the incredible things Lucredia owned and many crusades happened to enforce religion upon the region, but that all to no avail as Lucredia still owned 3 giant War machines which wiped out all enemies.

##### The long Golden Age

After hundrets of years of continuous conflicts, Lucredia reached it's peak by vassalizing all neighbouring Nations, filling the Power Gap left by Emberosia. some more conflicts might've occured over the next thousand years, but none as brutal as the ones that already passed. Culture and Technology of the Nation peaked, even exceeding the mighty Empire they got most things from. The only Location, where Lucredia never held Vassals, was the north as it stayed peaceful most of the time. But that would change fast as several small city states started fighting amongst eachother, creating the Empire of Uonchi. Both nations were on good temrs, trading goods and knowlegde of all kinds.

##### The Fall

Not long after the establishment of good relations with Uonchi, the first selfish and greedy King has come to power. Bahamuth den Criel-Leorel pushed to annex all Vassal states of Lucredia. The Senate was heavily against that as it would create instability to the region, but he ignored their comments and went forward anyway. But next to instability and unhappines, one of the Vassals was plagued by a cult praying to 7 Gods which fight against mystical beings named Primordial Demons. As the State has been annexed, the cult used the opportunity to spread within Lucredia. The King, blinded by greed couldn't see the danger ahead and ignored the Cult, while the Senators were aware of the arising problems. The Cult rapidly started burning down towns and started a charge against the Capital Lucrona. The Senate, not knowing what else to do, decided to hold a vote to remove the King and elect a new one. But as the vote has been concluded, the City already burned. Some Senators and high Ranking Aristocrats evacuated as many people as possible, while Uonchi marched into Lucredian territory to at least keep some Citizen from harm.

A duke named Sebastion Lenadea ven Akuma-Criel Dominate died at the frontlines, leading his son, Valentinus Sebastion ven Akuma-Criel-Kommandea Dominate who guided with the help of his mother the remainings of Lucredia to her homeplace beyond the today known world. There they stayed, being allowed to start a town and govern themselves. After roughly 1000 years, Knight Lucas Gerg Lenadea Sebastian vin Akuma-Criel Dominate decided to travel back to former Lucredia, looking if it's possible to return. As he arrived at the site of the former capital, all he saw were ruins and a shrine in the middle of it. He quickly got attacked from his back, dying at the spot, only with one member of his entourage managing to return unharmed and informing about the happenings. To prevent such a massacre from happening again, the others decided to forget about their origin.

##### Resurection

Another thousand years passed and a knight named Lukas Valentin Georg Johann Sebastian von Akuma Dominate got bored of his life in the town and decided to gather an entourage to venture out into the wide world. Crossing several Rivers and passing many Mountains over Several years they reached the first settlements since the start of the journey. After resting for a moment and gathering some information, they decided to continue the journey travelling further west, until at some point Lukas felt a weird presence, calling for him. In his dreams, he saw visions of a burning town, screaming people and many weird structures he has no idea of. He decided Lukas decided his goal will be to rebuild the nation and declare war on the gods that once destroyed the Nation.

#### The New Nation

Shortly after the reconstruction of the Capital started, Lukas resurected Lucredia as a County for now, claiming only a fraction of the former Kingdom with plans for large reclaimations. The first nations to get in contact with were the close by nations of Ilaros and the successor of Uonchi named Kasenhinto, formally joining the Descaran Council and somehow becoming the first host of the Alliance.