Fact box for Romorea

Here is the fact box for the Kingdom of Romorea, which is the penultimate nation that needed completing in the Sea of Orrida Region. The next one is the Barrier Lands, which I'll be working on soon.

This will be the focus of the next high-res and textless atlas map that will be published next week, exclusively for Acolyte patrons and higher followed by the normal version the week after that.

The Encyclopaedia Elyden is already updated with all the relevant entries related to the regions and their history, so you can check them out there!

Thanks all for your support :)

As always, feel free to point out typos in the comments :)

Also, sorry for the history on this one. I went a bit overboard (again!), so it's quite long... though it does include a general history of the continent of Bror, and not just the region of Grest. Let me know what you think!

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Romorea

Nation in Northern Sammaea, just south of the Surrach, to the south east of the Sea of Eschata. It is of a hot semi-arid climate and received little rainfall – with most water coming from oases, aquifers, aqueducts, conversion from seawater, or trapped condensation.

It was founded in 3669 RM by the Gaapi prince Raffin Baraq who claimed most of the Romorea and surrounding lands as his own, attracting followers and others from the south east of the Surrach, as well as various natives. He settled the oasis of Ionol where he founded his capital. A few years later members of his household unearthed coal deposits south east of Ionol, a fortuitous find that brought great wealth to the region.

The kingdom went on to become a totalitarian state, with all mines owned by the monarchy. Lords are given tracts of land, and they in turn work them through slave labour, this slave-based industry is considered by most foreign states to be even worse than even that of the Korachani empire, and has become the backbone of the kingdom. The ruling dynasty has grown depraved and degenerate on the backbreaking labour of its people, with its members deeply ingrained in their excesses, largely unaware of the suffering of the people who live beneath them, whom they force to worship them in a twisted cult of personality. The dynasty makes use of technarcane golems to guard its mines and palaces, and these have become infamous in surrounding regions.

Most slaves work in the mines, hauling minerals, ore and coal, using buckets and spades, hauling them up ladders along the sides of deep tiered pits.

Of note is the Sea of Hasaaz Araat, which was created in 3821 RM by flooding the northern most expanse of the Romorean rift alley. A sea once existed in the region earlier in the Fifth Age though it dried up as Elyden’s seas waned, millennia before the arrival of Raffin Baraq to the region. The seas rebirth brought lie to Romorea, and many new settlements appeared on its shores, though others were flooded by its creation, in some cases without the evacuation of their residents. Today many ports thrive along the coast of this artificial sea, exporting raw coal and iron to other nations.

The west of Romorea always lied along the course of the Ivory Road and the city of Echea had existed there for centuries, and though it initially resisted the cultural growth of Ionol, it eventually became a part of the surrounding kingdom in around 3750 RM, bringing much wealth and trade into the new kingdom.