Official Roskanan History

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Auran and the Foundations of Roskana

Section 1. Auranites to the Tsardom's founding

 In the bay of Auran, would be built the great city of Auranapolis, the capital of an ancient empire who's history stretches back almost two thousand years. Built on the ancient ruins of an older society from which the Auranites sprang, the people of Auran were hemmed in on one side by mountains, and the other, the oceans of Ouhiri, and a narrow strip of land leading out to the most habitable Eastern edge of Reseria, and then away further to the mainland itself. The Auranites built ships made of wood and sail, and crossed the shallow waters, building a early empire of city states in the shallows of what would be the Roskanan coastline, colonizing the vast collection of islands and establishing a maritime society that as well, grew over land. As they expanded, they brought with them their science, their knowledge, and their trade - but with it as well they brought their swords.

They would encounter first the Kithium in the north, and across the mountains, where they built the first tunnels and bridges to facilitate trade with this nearby society. Kin under their eyes and that of Razina, the Kithium and Auranites would eventually merge into a Great League, and form the first Auranite League. The Kithium cities along this northern frontier were gradually integrated into this expansive union, until the Auranites encountered the Kiralians, a near-human species of Goat People, or just called at the time, The Rammen. Similarly so they believed in a religion that referred to a mythical figure, 'Raz'. Their religion and the Auranites own, which placed Razina as a creator figure, were virtually identical.

The Kiralians were integrated peacefully into the expanding Auranite empire, though this peaceful integration was often contested. Small skirmishes and revolts eventually led to a more unhappy occupation, before the Auranites fully conquered the Kiralians, and their distant colonies on the Island of Kiras.

To the south, the Auranites encountered a league of Barbarian tribes simply called 'The Barrabans', of which had begun to form a more stable society in the wake of a war of secession. Similarly religious and carrying that belief in Razina of whom they called 'Asuryon', their Clan-Lord, chief of the many clans of the Barraban Royals, negotiated their entry into the Auranite League, and formalized it in a notable way - by marrying the Auranite Queen Avoneta. The name 'Rosa' would be adopted in the years after as the empire would become a early, semi-feudal confederacy under the Auranites and Barrabans, to which would intermingle heavily. Barraban princes married Auran Princesses, vice versa, and notably - Princes married princes, Princesses married Princesses, though this was notably rare. Similarly so the same happened to Kithium and others.

The Auranite Confederacy continued to expand west - encountering the Feudal Confederacy of Ald, a kingdom ruled by the Festria warlord Carious. And it'd be here, that the mortal enemy of Auran would be met, having been at war with the Aldenites for centuries by then. In exchange for joining the Auranite Confederacy, they wanted military protection. And they received it.

The first battle between the Auranites, and the Grinvelians, was a bloody affair, and a definitive victory for Auran.
Ald joined them not long after. The Festria similarly so to the Barrabans grew out in a prolific intermingling as the Auranites brought their culture, their science, their architecture and took lessons in the same topics from Ald in turn, like they had all the others, creating a strengthening bond between them all. And in the south, they would encounter the Karrashi.

The Karrashi were a noble people of farmers and warriors, to which had been ruled traditionally by three distinct Queendoms, of which the strongest was the Queendom of Clan Karshkan. The other two, Feralden and Avuraun. All three were together, integrated into the Confederacy as part of a peace deal between each Queendom, mediated by Auran. Finally, the Auranite Confederacy had solidified into a more firm base.
The Rosark League. 

The Rosark League was still headed by the Auranites, though Auranite had become distinctly multicultural in nature.
Auranapolis, a vast city now sprawling with ancient and new quarters, vast harbors and monuments made from the wealth of their trade and conquest, had come to be home to every member of the League. A beating heart to a powerful empire. In the past it had simply been 'Auranite Humans', peoples descended from the ancient Rombardan Humans who they had built their homes atop the ruins of. Now they were a people of many races, but one culture.
Kithium, Kiralians, Humans, Festria, Karrashi. And before long it'd soon be others.

The Auranite's would expand their empire to the south, past the border of the Three Karrashi Kingdoms, and soon to another.
The Marrish Kingdom would be encountered by the Rosarks, and expeditions eventually lead to the establishment of formal relations. This eventually results in trade, and a cultural exchange by proxy, as Rosark technology and merchant practices make inroads into the Marrish Kingdom. Though soon they as well meet the Shazzak Joint Kingdoms and similarly begin trade. 

When the Coastal Marrelak Dominion would be formed, after the raising of Nellrae, they would eventually secure the integration of the CMD by providing them in turn with direct military aid and sustained trade, as well - Rosark concrete, to build their roads and cities, repaired by the rain over time. Their war with the Boorish Kingdom would eventually end with Rosark forces directly assisting in their subjugation, whilst as well beginning to build a new city on the border of the Marrish, Shazzack, and Karrashi quarter of the Rosark nation, founding Agraia.

The Rosark League would in the century after, become a vassal empire to the larger Veraki empire in the south with an arranged Imperial marriage between the at the time King Hasrun, and the Veraki Princess Athame. This marriage however ends with the Veraki Princess assuming the throne when her husband and the king die. She takes a number of Kithium Concubines and rules for almost sixty years before she would meet her end from natural causes, with her daughters inheriting the newly minted Rosarka Principality.

Numerous rebellions, particularly prominently in the Marrish regions, make communication and control of the Rosark lands difficult, and very nearly succeed in throwing off the yolk of Veraki oppression - however their failure continues to keep them subjugated. But as the Veraki empire would several centuries later enter a steep decline, another rebellion would give way, lasting decades and beginning in the Karrashi kingdom of the Queendom of Karshkan, though the Barrabans would similarly rise in revolt.

The queen at the time, was not a pureblood Veraki and infact, the dynasty had long since ceased to be Veraki - referring to itself only ceremonially as such. Still, it would be slaughtered as the first Barraban prince to enter the throne room in centuries, and the first Tsar, would throw the last princess down the steps of the Ziggurat of Auran, and claim the throne - Tsar Akarious Vantera of Bara'Varrashia.
Or simply, Tsar Vantera.

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Section 2. The Greater Imperial Tsardom of Roskana

 As the body of the last Princess was thrown down the steps, and tumbled down the marble, the Tsar stood and watched the rolling corpse stop, blood pooling beneath the body as its brains covered the steps.
As the lifeless corpse was gauked at by an army of his own loyal soldiers and rebelious auranites, he would proclaim himself to be such, the First Tsar of the Rosark - of Roskana. The Barraban word for Rosark. 
He would within days, organize a purge, surging through the nation with a tidal wave of brutal executions and military takeovers. As well, the last Veraki holdouts would be purged, and left in unmarked mass graves from which only their corpses lay - weapons and armor taken by the Tsar of whom would consolidate his rule through the use of force. 

 However he would as well, begin to form a new government and a new founding document with the help of his closest advisors, and his wife, a Festria queen to whom he had married in the aftermath of the conflict, that had been a scholar previously. Lady Vantera, of whom would be effectively the highest administrator in the newly founded Tsardom. The Tsar himself swept the Imperial Army south, and would repress all resurgent rebellions through both creative diplomacy and the forging of a number of new critical pacts within the nation, especially the south where they had to integrate the Marrish. Eventually, when things had stabilized within the empire's core, the might of its army turned to the West - where it brutally destroyed a encroaching Grinvelian horde, reducing it to merely a few dozen men and women of whom were captured. 

 When the borders of the Tsardom were secure, the consolidation finished, and the nation would eventually discover gunpowder, though at the time it was merely called 'firebright.' Used more so to create the first siege cannons, they were put to great effect against Grinvel, and as well, to a number of bandit kingdoms and fiefs that were eventually driven off or destroyed as the Tsardom asserted itself as the dominant power of the region. Roskana would become a increasingly powerful state as, towards the endof the first Tsar's life, they'd found what would be the Roskanan Diamid in Auran, and the Imperia-Republicia - The Imperial Republic. While the official name of the nation was the Tsardom, and the next Tsar, his wife, would maintain such - the Imperial Republic brought the core territories together in a new government from which each would be able to represent the interests and needs of its peoples and as well, hold voting power on national legislation, though it held little control over the military and in fact, it was moreso the other way around. 
 
 The Tsardom began to re-establish old institutions and a number of powerful colleges were re-opened. Reaching out across the world within its reach the Tsardom sought to bring the educated peoples of its own nation and that of others together within its borders to create the necessary base from which it would be able to build the infrastructure of a new, powerful country, and the war machine from which Roskana would project both its mighty influence, and defend its territories from rival powers. The Roskana military would establish many of the forts to which remain to this day, but as well quickly the Roskanan government began a massive infrastructure revamp. New roads, new government buildings, and modernization of ports and everything inbetween. Information from many cultures was taken to newly founded Scholar's Guilds, and means from which then they would be able to improve were then derived, leading to a revolution in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing that saw Roskana's economy experience a meteoric rise in the generations after as the common worker would have better working conditions, and as well, a charter of 'Artisan's Entitlements and Safety Considerations' would be drafted by the Tsar herself. 

 As she would soon come to die, a state funeral would follow, with her soon being laid to rest next to her husband. 
As Roskana advanced, the next Tsar, their son, would reflect the skill and power of their mother but with a ruthless streak far more like that of their dad - and he showed it. He would proclaim himself Emperor, and such would come to be a fitting title. 

When Grinvelian soldiers crossed the border into Ald, the brutal assault he launched would leave a great Grinvelian city in utter ruins, further adding fuel to an ancient feud. But as well, he would further expand on Roskana's growing infrastructure, and as well reach it into the Marrish territories from which he would establish a more dedicated local government to handle the largely Separate Marrish people, as well affording them their own militias - though he would in turn integrate their own defensive forces into the greater Imperial Army, intent on building an empire through both the force of arms and cultural and economic might. 

 The Roskanan Navy would in this time, come to be - as the Roskanans developed cannons that were perfectly suited to use on boats, and as well, developed the first flintlock weaponry. The vessels surged out into the sea first to explore, and then later, to carry the wealth of Roskana and other countries to and from, before this evolved into two branches - The Merchant Marine, and the proper Navy. The Navy ferried troops - the Marine, goods. Roskana's trade expanded exponentially as they followed the coast and spread their influence further afield. 

 This continued, as the Roskanans built ever more sophisticated warships, maintained a strong trade relationship with much of the known world in Granuras and Reseria, and as well would come to soon find themselves engaged in exploration towards the Areman territories after longboats of missionaries returned telling the empire of a nation known as 'Eflus'. The conquest that would follow in the decades later would see the Roskanan empire expand into Arema, and the first Roskanan 'Metal-Ship' to be built later as the Tsardom continued on in its march, under a new Tsar, the son of the great Vantera the 3rd - Vantera the 4th. The Empire would soon come to encompass much of Arema, and eventually, when the 4th passed after he established the infrastructure necessary to maintain that colonial dominion, his son would rise to power. 

 His son was however, not a legitimate son, and had taken the throne through a blood feud between him and a more.. petty, proper prince and the backing the Republic. Once he was upon the throne, he began to institute changes to the government and institutions that would see him eventually outsted by his own son, of whom would continue this practice after some few years of relative peace. This would be the last Tsar in the history of Roskana, and as the first Ironclads were built, he sought to establish his name as one to be feared, through conquest - though as he did, he would attempt veinly to strip the rights of his peoples from them bit by bit. 

 Eventually, this would end in the Overthrow - a civil war led by the Roskanan Imperial Army, that saw the Roskanan armed forces depose the wavering loyalist government and its remnant forces, exiling them to the island of Razgrina.