Anzorii Imperium

Pre-Imperium
The Anzorii cities were built nearly six thousand years after the creation of the world. In the times prior to the building of the cities the Anzorii as a race were splitered living in small strong tribes or family bonds. When the strongest tibes began to build walled enclosures to better advance themselves it began a power struggle among the tribes. The first cities were built on Anzii but due to the close proximity of the other islands the idea quickly spread and soon the strongest tribes each had walled villages that soon began expanding as other tribes floated towards the strenght and power of that these villages were accumlating.

Not every tribe decided to join the growing villages perferring to live a tribal existance on the land. Soon the villages with their wooden palisades became cities with stone walls and with the invention of smelting ninety years earlier metal weapons and leather armours were introducted into the tribal soecities and the cities quickly formed militia and spread out across each of their islands looking to quickly secure resources to grow and expand. A racial civil war broke out among the different cities of the Anzorii as they fought each other for power and resources.

With the introduction of deep sea shipping two hundred years later the Anzorii civil war moved onto the high seas as they began trading with the Free Cities on Janthea and the Riverland Realms and Griffin Kingdom of Rhodedras. Each Anzorii city would look to sabotage the others trading ships and steal their cargos. The civil war lasted between the Anzorii cities for thirteen hundred years before the Imperium was formed.

Imperium: Pre-Schism
The Imperium was formed nearly thirteen hundred years after the first Anzorii cities were built. The cities on the isle of Anzii managed to beat the other islands into submission through conventional and economic warfare. They conquered the Islands of Nezh and Imozuha through warfare over a period of two hundred years. Anzii was scoring big in trade with the Free Cities and the Riverlands Relams. They strangeled the trade from north to south forcing all the other islands and indeed the merchants from Janthea and Rhodedras to forcing them to pass through the ports of Aziz and Ain where they would exact taxes on the merchant vessels which allowed them to bolster their coffers with large amounts of gold.

With large amounts of gold in their coffers they could afford to buy the metal weapons and leather armour that would outfit their legions and conquer their sister islands. The islands of Ebeko and Ugop had run up huge debts importing good that they couldn't pay for. Due to the large gold in the coffers of Anzii it allowed them to buy the debt of Ebeko and Ugop from the debt holders. Anzii agreed to forgive the newly acquired debt if the two islands agreed to join under the banner of Anzii. The islands of Awomeh and Omne were brought under the banner through diplomacy with both island leaders not wanting to suffer the same fate as Nezh and Imozuha.

With all the islands united under one banner it allowed the Anzorii to progress as a whole rather than holding each other back with infighting. After a brief power struggle at the Anzii leadership the Empire was born being led by the first Empress. Under the leadership of the Imperial Family and Government the Anzorii Empire began booming, controlling trade both north and south and using the taxes they were able to build formidable legions which at first was used to consoildate the power of the Anzii Emperors on the other islands. Then it was to protect Anzorii shipments travelling overseas and to steal shipments from other merchants and traders.

A united Anzorii race however posed a problem. They lived on seven islands in the middle of an ocean (where the Stormy Seas met the Azure Seas) and their biology means that they give birth to litters of children and the lack of space was becoming an issue. Eight hundred years after the empire was formed they launched the first of five divine conquests with the intention of spreading the borders of the empire and conquer new lands for the Anzorii to live in. Over the next two thousand years or so the second and third divine conquests were launched as the Anzii Emperors expanded the Anzorii holdings on the the continent of Janthea. With control of much of the northern coast of Janthea the Anzorii had a direct line into the exotic goods that the newly conquered free cities were trading and it allowed them to grow and swelled their coffers even more allowing them to build vast naval fleets to control the seas.

The Fourth and Fifth divine conquests were launched over the next six hundred years expanding the Anzorii borders further along northern Janthea and bringing their culture to the northern continent of Rhodedras. Seeking to emulate his ancestors Emperor Anzi the Twelfth launched at an attack on the Seven Grand Dukes of Duhcy land in the year 10,079 of the world, the year 2763 of the Anzorii Calender. The war against the Dukes was the first disaster in an otherwise grand history of the empire. While they outnumbered the Duchy forces many times the legions were lightly armed and armoured and they were decimated by the heavily armed Duchy force. However before the schism ripped the empire apart they managed to help one of the grand dukes defeat his rivals and the Duchy lands began a protectorate of the empire.

The Schism
The Schism occured in the Anzorii Empire during the Enlightenment Age. With the invention of the printing press ideas and knowledge became accessable to a great many more citizens than before. One ideal that suddenly became accessable to a great many more peoples was atheism. With the advancements of science the belief that there were no gods took sway with people. This posed a problem for the temples, if people were not worshipping the gods then their donations and collections would go down. They tried to silence the printing presses and publishers and distrubators of the atheist material but they did not have the backing of the government or the imperial family.

Things turned worse for the temples when the son of the Empress turned to atheism and it sparked a boom in atheism and over time he convinced his mother that there should be a seperate church and state because if there were not any gods then what right did the old men of the churches have to influence the rights of the people. Although by this stage the power of the Imperial Family was greatly reduced with ancestors giving most power to a civilian government they still retained the ability to issue several Imperial Decrees a year. He convincing his mother that the churches had no rule over the common man and people would rise against the churches should they continue to rule. The Empress passed an Imperial Decree, unchallengeable by the government that the churches should be seperated from the governmental process and banned them from participaction in politics.

This caused a great rift in the empire. The southern provinces, which had been established for a long time were very religious being that there were established in the aftermath of Divine Conquest were outraged that the churches were no longer afford the high place in soceity that they felt was deserved.

Imperium: Post-Schism
In the direct aftermath of the Imperial Decree banning the churches from politics the southern provinces declared independance from the "atheist" north splitting the empire in two. The south had control of all the exotic goods and a large portion of trade from the continent of Janthea as well as four of the five provinces. The Anzorii Empire was crippled. The "north" was actually the remains of the empire with the "south" the Janthea Provinces establishing a confederation of allied nations. The Empire raised its remaining legions from the Anzorii Islands and the Baduii province on Rhodedras. Along with the aid of their protectorate the Duchy Lands they launched attacks into the southern provinces hoping to link up with legions style loyal to the Empress.

If it wasnt for the forces that were provided by the Duchy Lands, namely the horsemen who were able to quickly move across the lands then the remaining legions would have been resoundly beaten not only by the legions who had switched alligence but by the citizenry themselves. After thirty one long years of warfare both sides decided to call a truce and end the war which had devestated the northern coast of Janthea and killed a generation of young Anzorii and Human soldiers. Under the terms of the truce the Imperial forces would leave the confederation lands and the empire would legitmately grant independance for those provinces. In return the confederation would grant huge trade rights and concessions to the empire.

Just under nine hundred years after the truce that ended the First Great Anzorii Civil War the Second Great Anzorii Civil War was started. With the advancements in technology computers and digital items were becoming more and more commonplace and the invention of the Atomic Bomb only twenty years before the Confederation of Allied Anzorii Nations (CoAAN) decided that it was time that the secluarist north was brought into their fold and reminded again of their religious heritage. Under the cover of night they launched quick strike maritime attacks taking the islands of Imozuha, Ebeko and Nezh capturing the naval facilities and submarines there crippling the empire's ability to strike them back at sea.

They prepared a full time invasion hoping that if the islands fell quickly then the empire would surrender and the rest of the world wouldnt or couldnt do anything about it. However they were unlike their Anzorii ancestors who originally came from these islands and unlike their modern day island counterparts they were out matched in this type of warfare and although they managed to hold the naval bases on Nezh, Imozuha and Ebeko their invasion fleet suffered heavy losses and was forced to turn back. This gave the empire enough time to call on their allies such as the former protectorate the Duchy Lands and other allies such as the Kingdom Isles and The Riverland Republic and the Coalition was created. The CoAAN quickly turned it into a world war when the Coalition formed beach heads on CoAAN soil they made treaties and pacts with The Republic of Northern Janthea (formerly the Free Cities) who had ancient bad blood with the empire and the Veldlands who had designs on the Maktaba Confederacy and this set off a chain reaction of alliances and treaties which resulted in the entire world being in a state of war.

The war was ended five bloody years after it started when the Anzorii Imperium dropped three atomic bombs upon the cities on the Draki Nation (formerly the Draki Province) forcing the CoAAN and their allies into a surrender under threat of more nuclear weapons being dropped.