Name:Kingdom of Cor
Flag:tba
Quick description of your nation:The Kingdom of Cor is a vast landscape comprised of diverse territories. From the Low Wood of the south to the vast plains of Erien of the north. Scattered throughout the kingdom are the scattered fiefdoms and territories of the Cor, presided over by ancient families whose fiefs hold as few as seventy to as much as several thousand or more. And too betwixt those the stalwart free domains of peasant enclaves who have managed to resist the interest of nobles and merchant alike with their even more ancient ways. Along their coasts and through the rivers run a thriving trade from the coastal guild cities to the interior merchant middleman.
The side your nation was on during the 3th rebellion:The Throne
Population/races:The dominant race in the Kingdom of Cor are the Avan, a race of half-man and half-bird, although they were never blessed with the ability of their wild peer's ability to fly. Some would say it was a joke by their ancient gods, or a blessing, or a curse for some past sin that they as a whole have been cast with the burden of having a bird's head and feathers growing where they may else have hair.
But besides them are scattered populations of the other races shifted into the territories since the time of the empire and through the realm's old loyalty to the imperial crown.
Culture/society:It is said an Avan never forgets. Whether that be a slight or a gift. For that reason powerful rivalries and impenetrable alliances have been formed between communities within the Kingdom of Cor and abroad that has lasted for centuries. It is said the worst of wedding massacres have been carried out because of some long ago minor theft between two peasants or because of some mis-management of a few sacks of grain. Likewise, enduring and unshattering alliances have been formed on the mere presentation of gifts.
In fact, among the Avan and the peoples of the Cor who have long settled there, gifting is an important ritual. It is unspoken of to ever visit anyone without a small token of gratitude or generosity. What is often not obtained by gold, is often obtained by a complex relationship built on gift-fiving or having a debt of a gift or a favor between not just individuals but sometimes entire communities. The behavior has not just been a fluke of Avan behavior, but has enveloped the entire social make up of the Cor holding it in strict relationships of blood feud and blood brotherhood.
If there was any moderation to any of this that keeps the region for slipping into complete chaos until one coalition or the other purges the entire country it is the double institution of The King Who Walks The Low Forest The Falcon Mountains And Wades The River, or the Walking King and the All Council, an annual gathering of all the residents of the Cor – in theory – who issue judicial indictments and to legislate on matters of public policy every autumn before the first snow.
Religion:The people of the Cor follow an ancient pagan religion, where-in the land itself is held as sacred and the whole of the world as far as they can see is home to any number of spirits as there are people to populate it. Their relationship to the world urges a reverent respect for it, as well as fear and even passion for it. They believe nothing should be at odds with the harmony of that world, least they bring out of the dark holes of the Low Forest the monstrous creatures that lurk there, and devour children in their crib.
In a more metropolitan setting, due to the nature of empire there can be found communities still practicing a number of other religions and often their practices have been grafted into the practices of the traditional belief, often transforming it and distorting the native orthodox and orthoprax. But this has been a long process, as in the Avan's long cultural memory: they know. But in such a way entirely new relationships to their metaphysical world have opened to them and whole communities have adopted to their entirely new and unique worldviews readily through acknowledgment of this “divine weathering and erosion of the world”.
History:The history of the Avan and of the Cor at large has been as maddening as the history of the continent itself with thousands of independent threads of stories woven between dynasties, villages, town, and castle. The mountains run flush with it and it lurks in the shadows of the ancient trees of the Low Forest. In this confusion, the origins of even the Avan have been obscured by the distortion of location and participation in such events with some saying the Avan sprung from the mountains, or the low forest, or from the ground itself one warm night and stormed across the land.
Writing itself never came to the Avan until the arrival of the Empire who impressed the old kings with their gifts, inadvertently sealing a strong alliance, although the early errors of the empire to not keep facilitating the respectful ritual of gift giving has often strained the relationship and threatened to take it out of the realm of confident friendship and into colder waters, if not straight betrayal.
Many in the Cor believe that with the end of the last rebellion the relationship will remain as it has. However with the death of the king, and the inability for his son to ascend to the throne doubt besets the realm if it will. Some whisper that perhaps the unthinkable must happen: the Avan must be the ones to break off a relationship if court intrigues run afoul. Others insist that they need only wait and see before passing judgment. A third party insists on no matter the change: a friend is a friend, and the Arkron have been a friend.
Government:Monarchy
Economy:Agrarian
Military:Many, though not all nobles in the Cor are capable of maintaining at least a small retinue of trained and dedicated professional warriors, like those of knights. Often paid out of their master's pocket for their arms and armor some are sometimes permitted to take work on the side whose revenues they use to arm themselves. These make up a small body of generally well armed and armored men at arms or noble soldiers who follow their leige-lords and high chiefs off into battle as his house guard. The most successful of this corp or those who belong to even wealthier lords can themselves afford men at arms of their own and often head into battle with their own personal guard at their side, as dedicated to the art of war if not as well equipped for it.
For larger engagements or campaigns mass levees are not unheard of in the country side. Many in the Cor are skilled with the bow, particularly in the country side to protect their homes, crops, and livestock from beasts or bandits. Otherwise, the spear and the pike is easy enough to drill with in mass. Though they are not armed much beyond that and the burdens of acquiring armor and protection is on the shoulders of the levees themselves. Long serving veterans of numerous conscriptions or descendants of such may be in the possession of heirloom armor or loot once taken from the corpses of the dead if chance and inheritance allows.
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