Luthany (Medi Fantasmus)

The **Kingdom of Luthany** is a sovereign state on the Albion Isles that evolved from the Septennate, uniting under King Godwin after the successful albeit crippling victory against the Dark Lord Mograine.

## Politics

The Kingdom of Luthany is an absolute hereditary monarchy presiding over a decentralized unitary state. It retains a codified constitution known as Godwin's Law, which declares that "the monarch rules by divine right provided they do so in accordance with the teachings of, and remain in a state of grace with, the Communion of the Allfather." Therefore, the nation is constitutionally-defined as a faithful country. The monarch presides over a kingdom divided into several subdivisions: ten provinces, fourty-eight counties, seven royal cities and one capital district. Although this is emblematic of a federation, sovereignty still rests solely with the Crown and the monarch reserves the right to bind and loose the authority of the provinces at will. There is a parliament that convenes at the will of the monarch, which consists

### Parliament

The parliament of the Kingdom of Luthany is divided into two

### Lucian reforms

The Kingdom of Luthany functioned similar to a traditional feudal monarchy for most of its life, where an aristocracy of nobles held their lands in the name of the king in exchange for an oath of fealty and military service. King Godwin organized the fledgling kingdom as a unitary state subdivided into counties, with the king's laws (in theory) being enforced by the nobility and county sheriffs. However, the weakened state of Luthany immediately following the Usurpation War and the Overlordship Conflicts allowed for the barons to have a degree of independence so great that they quite often challenged royal power within their lands. Multiple conflicts would occur between Luthan's monarchs and the barons, and the barony's powers would wane overtime, but a relatively powerful nobility nonetheless subsisted until the Lucian Reforms.

In 531 K.C., the newly-crowned King Lucius II convened a committee to reform the governing landscape of Luthany. This was to address two issues: the relative difficulty of enforcing Crown laws in many of counties, and the increasing urbanization of the population (and those cities' increased calls for greater autonomy). Lucius had studied in Lutin during the Rebellion of Wellington and it influenced his negative view of the nobility, whom he believed held too much power and all too often rebelled against the Crown when they righteously attempted to uphold royal law. He studied the pre-Luthan Septennate and how the separate kingdoms functioned, as well researching the old Imperial regions and local governing customs.

King Lucian effectively turned the kingdom into a federation; Luthany would henceforth be administered by ten provinces, five royal cities and one capital district. Each province would be administered by a Lord-Lieutenant who would be appointed by the king to aid in the regional enforcement of royal laws as well as to serve as the head of the provincial militia in order for the monarchy to more effectively keep the nobility in check. The more populous and rapidly growing cities would be granted a royal charter giving them royal immediacy, relinquishing them of their loyalty and duties to their regional lords and instead being given greater autonomy of their own, answering directly to the king. These cities would be administered by a Lord-Mayor appointed by Luthan's monarch. The Lunden Capital District would be the incorporation of the twelve boroughs of Greater Lunden into one political district directly ruled by the king through the Lord Chancellor.

### Monarchy

At its core, the Kingdom of Luthany is characterized by its monarchy that rules the land by divine right.

### Royal cities

Royal cities are metropolitan areas with royal charters granting them royal immediacy; they are self-administrated cities subject only to the King himself, who appoints a Lord Mayor as his representative. By the 7th century of the King's Calendar, there were eight self-administrating royal cities.

## Relations with magical beings

### Elves

Scholarly knowledge of contact between elves and humans on Albion before the time of Merlin and King Godwin is rather spotty. Elves were part of the folklore of the native peoples of Albion before the Imperial conquest, which subsequent generations of Aesiran-born subjects adopted. There were many legends of contact with elves, and many fairytales which surrounded them, but actual historical sources of real interactions have not survived the centuries (if they existed at all). However, after King Godwin successfully contacted them with help from Merlin and enlisted them to defend Albion,

### Wizards

Relations between Luthany and the wizarding world have gone through several iterations over the centuries. Although it is unknown how long wizards have existed in Albion, the first documented relations between wizards and non-magical folk occurred during the arrival of Church missionaries in Charleston. The most prominent encounter occurred when St. James of Ellacia was martyred when stumbling upon a wizard town and attempting to evangelize to the population. Afterwards,

#### Ministry of Magic

The Ministry of Magic represents the governing body of the magical community of not only Luthany, but of every kingdom across the Albion Isles. It is the successor to the Old Wizengamot and preserves magical law throughout the Isles. Luthany's relations with the Ministry of Magic is one of general cooperation, where the King meets regularly with the Minister for Magic and discuss the preservation of each independent society. Although technically an extension of the Kingdom's government, the election of the Minister for Magic, the passing and execution of their laws, and the governance of the magical population occurs completely independently of the King; it is only when laws or events by one side affect the other that either the King or the Minister must be consulted. Both the King and Minister have a veto on laws affecting each other's communities. The Ministry's headquarters is located in Whitby Palace, but this knowledge is kept confidential from the general populace: only the King and his closest advisors know that the Ministry of Magic operates in the capital, and Whitby Palace is listed only as the official residence of the Prince of Laurentia on all official documents. The Ministry plays a big part in Luthan governance of magical creatures, and relations between them and the Luthan crown is usually relegated to the Ministry's Department of the Regulation of Magical Creatures to deal with, but some beings prefer dealing with the Crown directly, such as the Woodland Elves.

### Werewolves

Werewolves are required by law to register with the Ministry of Magic.