Loodon Empire

Loodon was a country that existed from about 1900 SR to the 560s TR. Founded by the Aylis family, Loodon grew from a small locality into an influential Empire that dominated Continent warfare and politics for several centuries.

Loodon Empire
Political details
Capital	Tlax
Government	Absolute monarchy
Language	Kefan Nalarli Bukkni
Religion	Gods of Mercy
Historical details
Established	c. 1900 SR
Disestablished	560 TR

Loodon was ruled by Masuts until 180 TR, when Rondal Drofal, also known as the First Emperor, created the Loodon Empire and reduced the role of religion in country politics.

Early history

The Aylis family

By the beginning of the 20th century SR Loodon Jani Aylis organized a cooperative right outside Oyangaltans, taxing anyone who needed access to the river. Joining the cooperative would stop the need for payments and instead provide income from payments received from non-members. By 1910 SR the cooperative grew to thousands of members and hundreds of households. Jani Aylis assumed the role of "chief organizer".

Since this was Mamkoon territory, this was only possible because Jani was in a relationship with the Kareden tax collector. When the tax collector was reassigned, the cooperative began to be under threat of being overtaken by the new tax collector, who accepted bribes, but was asking for more.

In 1917 Jani sent several hundred men, led by her son Vantral, up the Loodon river in order to find new lands for the cooperative, to migrate away from Mamkoon. Unexpectedly, Vantral was able to secure Tlax. Having tasted power, instead of letting Jani and other senior members of the cooperative join him in Tlax, he orchestrated their assassination.

Vantral's reign came to an end in 1936 SR, when his younger brother Tavol, who at the time was the chief of the assassins squad, ordered his murder. Vantral was beheaded in his sleep with an axe.

Tavol assumed the position of ruler and expanded Loodon in several successful campaigns, first to the west against Nator, then to the east conquering the Overpol Expanse. Line Overpol unexpectedly betrayed her own court and had her family and generals executed for treason by Tavol when she had alerted him to their plans. They then both led a campaign against the fortified city of Noral and left it in ruins.

Tavol established somewhat separate theocratic governments in Tlax and then in Dav, but became unpopular among his own court in Tlax due to his lavish spending and lack of interest in further conquest. He also turned out to be a poor organizer and most of the Overpol Region became more or less independent, at least as far as taxes were concerned.

Eventually, Line conspired with one of the tlaxian factions and Tavol was beheaded in his sleep, the same way he killed his older brother almost a decade ago.

Line Aylis then declared herself the ruler of Loodon, but her reign was dominated by a civil war, since Dav's religious leader Potus Aylis, Tavol's cousin, claimed the throne. He was able to unite the Overpol Region under his banner and eventually defeated Line Aylis in a series of battles a decade later. Line's exact fate is unknown, but she was probably killed in battle or executed. Records clearly indicate that when Potus assumed power in Tlax in 1953 SR, Line Aylis was already dead.

Potus' reign marks the beginning of Loodon as a major country. The civil war united the Overpol Region with the lands around the Loodon river and the country now stretched from Macham river in the west to Taverda river in the east.

During the first decade of his reign, Potus dispatched several campaigns led by General Ynorie Trunt against the troubled Kingdom of Afanyu, expanding Loodon further west. The second decade marks a campaign against Mamkoon, as well as formal contact with Western Dantria, which solidified Loodon's status as world power, while decreasing Yammoe's influence in the north and in the whole of Eastern Dantrian Civilization.

Kvean rule

Kvean, Kvean II, Kvean III.

Tivean

Tivean.

The Dark Era

Era of warlords and autocracy: Cyblys and Koreyal.

Loodon Empire

Rondal Drofal and the birth of the Empire.