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SPELF-HEKY CAPHIRIA AND SARPEDON GENERAL THEORIZING
==History==
{{main|History of Caphiria}}
While the history of Caphiria spans two millennia, archaeology has revealed the land that it was founded on, has been inhabited for much longer. The area, Latium, covered most of the northern part of Sarpedon and the southern tip of Levantia. The traditional date for the founding of Caphiria is 480 BC by one of the local tribes, the Latinic people, who would eventually be known as the Latins. Because of the amount of consistent preserved information available throughout its existence, Caphirian history is traditionally divided into 9 distinct historical eras although modern historians choose to omit the Prehistory Era from future historiography because of the lack of substantial historical evidence.
===Prehistory===
{{further|Ancient Caphiria}}
The Prehistoric era covers time earlier than the founding of Caphiria. This would include the earliest inhabitants of the region and the establishment of the Latinic people and other associated tribes such as the Adonerii civilization, Cheylians, and Hebreinias. This era traditionally covers the formation of the Adonerii League in the 9th century BC up to the 6th century BC.
===Kingdom===
{{further|Kingdom of Caphiria}}
The first definitive historical epoch - the Kingdom Era - begins in 480 BC with the formation of Caphiria. The early city-state was characterized by a monarchical form of government in which according to tradition, Lanintius was the first of five Regis (kings). The kings were elected by group of elders called the senex (senate) and people of Caphiria served for life. The Kingdom of Caphiria lasted 110 years, falling after a series of invasions from rival kingdoms.
===Republic===
{{further|Republic of Caphiria}}
In 370 BC, the Republic of Caphiria commenced with the overthrow of its last king Admoneptis, replacing the monarchy with elected individuals representing the citizens, calling themselves the Senate. Through constant conquest and assimilation, the Republic had already conquered rival city-states like Chimoche and Despouso. During this period, which lasted an astonishing 783 years, vast expansion of territory such as Cartadania, and Pelaxia occurred and regional dominance over north Sarpedon would eventually take over the entire Ecinis Sea and parts of the Sea of Canete and Great Lakes. Part of Caphiria's ambition was derived from similarly ambitious leaders, such as Luccino Capontinus and Iscallio Maristo. The Republic would eventually face internal pressure from this, as contention for leadership caused a number of small fights among the ambitious youth and the elder aristocracy. The fighting would culminate with a five year civil war, known now as the War of the Republic, that left 120,000 people dead. The war was in such a frenzy that by the time it had ended, there was no decisive victor and as a consequence, the Republic was on the verge of total collapse.
===Principate===
{{further|Principate of Caphiria}}
In 414 AD, in an effort to establish the political stability desperately needed after the exhausting War of the Republic, an ambitious man called Bacchis Pavo Rahla seized the opportunity to consolidate power. Rahla reorganized the state into a Principate, a form of government characterized by the reign of the princeps, the "first among equals". Because the Caphirian people had a particular historical disdain for monarchy, the preservation of certain Republician instruments such as the Senate and Consul was kept. Although dynastic pretenses crept in from the start, formalizing this in a monarchic style remained politically unthinkable. Rahla's reign was marked by decades of peace and stability; he was was so popular and well-received that he was given the title Augustus (Venerated One) by the people and eventually Rahla would legally change his name to Augustus Rahla. The latter half of the Principate era marks the early stages of the city-state of Caphiria evolving into a proper empire, with vast territorial holdings, hegemony over Latium, and was among the most powerful economic, cultural, political and military forces in the world of its time. The Principate lasted 656 years, almost as long as the Republic before it, but it would eventually succumb to a similar fate: The Second Civil War, also known as the Great Civil War for its ferocity.
===The Civil War===
{{further|Great Civil War of Caphiria}}
This period of time, from 1070 - 1115 is known as the Civil War Era due to the dozen or so civil wars that took place over a period of four decades as contention for leadership and political groups vied for control over the massive and wealthy state. The most famous of these was between Marius Oratonius and Quinus Sator Alercius and the subsequent war between their successors and die hard loyalists. The Civil War Era began as a series of political and military confrontations between Marius Oratonius and Quinus Sator Alercius, both of whom were looking to shift Caphiria in opposite directions. Oratonius wanted to continue to become an empire and spread Latin culture to the known world where Alercius wanted to bring back the politically conservative and socially traditionalist Republic. This led to the state splitting into two: a monarchy in the north and a republic in the south. To complicate things further, the spread and dominance of Christianity could no longer be shunned; up until this time, the official policy towards Christianity was negative, and at some points, simply being a Christian could be punishable by death. Oratonius used this to his advantage, officially converting to Christianity in 1079. While he isn't recognized as the first Imperator to convert to Christianity due to the circumstances, he is recognized as the first person to give it legitimacy within the Imperium. Oratonius was then seen as a man of God, a man on the right side of the war. This helped him win the minds of many who did not initially support him and ultimately gave him an edge that the elder Alercius did not have on his side, the side of the old guard. The Great Civil War was a fifteen-year-long politico-military struggle that was fought over most of Caphiria, Cartadania, Pelaxia, Talionia, and even Audonia. The culmination of the Great Civil War was the Battle of Silanus, where Oratonius' army defeated Alercius'. Oratonius himself sustained heavy injuries in the battle and died shortly before victory but told his general Lucius Legarus Pius to spare Alercius if they were to capture him since he had deserted from battle after surveying the landscape and figuring he was going to lose. Pius assumed command and took over the army and wasted little time in searching for Alercius. After several months of searching, they found him hiding in the Cimisi-Extressio region of Abderia, a city-state bordering the Lacio mountains. Abderia wanted no part in the war, quickly giving Alercius to Pius and true to his word, after bringing him back to Venceia, spared Alercius' life. He did however, strip him of his power, status, and class; an effective neutering if there ever was one. Pius then exiled Alercius in 1110 and spend the next five years putting Caphiria back together after the last several decades of disarray and borderline anarchy. Pius was as intelligent in politics as he was on the battlefield, and knew that the only way to solve the issues once and for all was a compromise. The stresses and strains of those years (chronic usurpations, military insurrections, simultaneous military conflicts across multiple frontiers) exposed the weaknesses in the Caphirian Republic and the Principate, forcing a radically different approach to governance.
===The Reformation===
<nowiki>{{further|1115 Reformation of Caphiria]]</nowiki>


This marks the start of the Reformation Era in 1115, which is divided into two unequal parts, beginning with the reunification of the state into the Imperium, a hybrid political system that solved the crisis of the civil war. This new government retained Republic era bodies such as the Senate, but separated it into two distinct representative bodies, the Curiate Assembly and the Consular Congress. Conversely, the powers of the Imperator were increased even more from the Principate, but Pius, now Imperator Legarus, introduced the first version of the Constitution of Caphiria. This document was intended to be the solution to every problem past, present, and future. In it, he outlined what he felt were the three most critical ideas of the state: delineating the national frame of government, establishing the social contract between the citizen and state, and protecting its people. There had always been some form of this throughout Caphiria's history, but it was an uncodified set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent; it wasn't formal or even official, largely unwritten and changing at the discretion of whoever had control. The constitution sought to eliminate the constant power struggles as every constitutional proclamation is inviolable. Neither the Senate, nor the people, nor the military, nor the Imperator can break them. The combination of these political reforms ushered in Caphiria's Golden Age.
The dates are no longer up to date. Heky must refresh. I will endeavor to add maps. Many of these are the underlying concepts for what has been half implemented on His of Caph and elsewhere
===The Dominate===
 
{{further|Dominate of Caphiria}}
=IMPERIUM GENERAL HISTORY=
Caphiria's golden age is called the Dominate, derived from the Latin dominus, which translates into English as lord or master. Beginning in the mid-15th century, Caphiria went through a phase of rediscovery of classical Latin philosophy which encouraged a new thinking that became manifested in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. This led to cultural and political achievement, with Caphiria becoming a symbol of artistic and cultural influence as it produced dozens of world-renowned artists whose literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and music have profound impact on the evolution of the arts. This era is usually marked as the transition from the Middle Ages to modern Caphiria as the development of capitalism, banking, mercantilism and accounting began and the Age of discovery was ushered in during the latter half of the era. Another interesting development of this golden age was the succession of ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes between the Levantine "north" and Caphiric "south", which had been gradually building up in the 16th and 17th centuries. The rulers of Caphiria began to look for new ways to explore and expand their power and influence and looked to religion as one of the final destinations. Historically, Caphiria had no official state religion and sought to foster a healthy religious tolerance by using a portion of its tax revenue to fund different types of churches. This would come to a head in the 17th century as the Papacy also sought to increase its influence and showed its disapproval and disdain for Caphiric politics.
 
===The Pontificate===
==EVOLUTION OF IMPERIUM==
{{further|Caphirian caesaropapism}}
===Ancient times(Heky musing)===
The culmination of theological and political differences between the Christian north and south was the Great Schism of 1615, where a break of communion between what are now the Levantine Catholic Church and the Imperial Church of Caphiria occurred. Over the previous centuries during the Dominate era, the role of religion was under heavy scrutiny and skepticism. Ecclesiastical papers began being published condemning the Catholic Church over a number of issues in the late 16th century, with the Catholic Church producing its own propaganda condemning Caphiria's rise of imperialism and heretical ways. The Latin Christian community was being split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographical lines, with each side sometimes accusing the other of having fallen into heresy and of having initiated the division. In 1615, the formal break occurred when Imperator Pius XII formally announced that the Basilicæ Magni, the cathedral and home of the Caphirian Church would be breaking communion to form the Caphiric Catholic Church. This led to the combination of the secular and religious authorities and a new form of government, the caesaropapacy. The caesaropapacy meant emperors were regarded as greater than other mortals, though not quite as deities in their own right, further playing into the concept of princeps. For many years after, pro-Catholic factions continued to challenge the leadership of the new Caphiric Church. These factions, and the people that supported the Catholic Church still, were known as Traditionalists and were heavily persecuted and executed under heresy laws. This period is known as the Months of Bloody Sundays as it was common practice for the Imperator to simply execute any people who were not coming to church in protest. Traditionalists were executed under legislation that punished anyone judged guilty of heresy against the Caphiric Church. Ultimately, the Caphiric Church went through a series of reformations (The Reformations of 1627) and the church was renamed to the Imperial Catholic Church. There were only a handful of modifications, namely that the Imperator of Caphiria was given a number of ecclesiastical titles: Episcopus Caphiria ("Bishop of Caphiria"), Pius Felix ("Pious and Blessed"), Santissimus Pater ("Most Holy Father"), Vicarius Christi ("Vicar of God") and was named Pontifex Maximus, giving him the ultimate authority of presiding over the Imperial Church. This was codified in the Constitution of Caphiria as well as constitutionally establishing the Imperial Church by the state with the Head of State as its Pope. As time went on, the identity of the marriage of the Imperatorship with the papacy became less clear and eventually the emperor became recognized more for his legal authority, rather than his religious one.
- As an aside i figured the 500-1000 period for caphiria is kind of a heky under siege period because
===The Mandatum===
a. significantly cut off trade from levantia hurts overall food supply and economic activity in northern cities, both leading people to go and try farming or being feudal types
{{further|Modern Caphiria}}
b. end of trade with the istroyans, cutting off huge source of state wealth
As Caphiria entered the modern era of the 18th century to present day, its role began to shift from regional hegemon to that of a superpower. Many of its conquered territories gained their independence, it began to foster positive relations with Levantia, and began to pull back its imperialistic tendencies in favor of becoming a global leader. Caphiria played a major role in the Great War, notably as the first nation to develop nuclear weaponry and is still the only sovereign nation to have deployed them on another country. This confirmed and solidified Caphiria's place as a superpower and gave it a global platform. Caphiria would go on to become a founding member of the League of Nations and has permanent status on its Security Council. In more recent times, Caphiria has made great strides to try to improve its international reputation by signing the Assumption Accords with Urcea, settling longstanding disputes with its historic neighbor who has had several centuries of animosity with each other. Additionally, it has been in favor of multiple free trade agreements with nations across the world and there has been speculation that Caphiria may even be exploring the thought of ending the 400-year old schism between the Imperial Church and the Levantine Catholic Church.
c. unending muslim raiding from the new caliphate causing further strain
d. more uppity/problematic slavics in the south as the state just plain doesn't have the trinkets and coins to pay them off as they did a century or two ago the first being a result of the end of the levantine empire and the middle 2 resulting from rise of caliphate
 
===Classical imperium===
lasts from whenever until 1040 when crisis of the 3rd century type event shatters the empire. the classic imperium i would guess fell under the combined weight of increased muslim raids and the establishment of more organized better armed slavic groups combined with typical internal pressures of disease, famine, debasement, etc.
 
 
===Second imperium===
[[File:SecondImperiumCP.png|500px]]<br>
900-1172 The "siege" imperium, lots of threats from Slavs, retreat to Latin core regions with lots of tributaries, basically Byzantium 10th century. Big defeats by Muslims; This would be the logical reason for the crusades to occur a few decades later. ostensibly called to help protect Venceia but becoming a whole other thing. Cartadania is more settled during this period.
 
===dark period===
[[File:DarkPeriodCP.png|500px]]<br>
Empire entirely fragments under internal political disorder and external military disasters. the caphirian "core" region - that coastal bit around Venceia north of the mountains - is basically ruled as a classical republic by the senate. Most provinces become pseudo independent warlord states. Eventually a latino-slavic warlord marches north and conquers the republic but rather than sacking Venceia he stands outside of it and accepts, under force of arms, the imperial title from the senate. The Pope recognizing the new dynasties after both dark periods would be good to legitimize continuity of government. There is probably an air of romance in some political quarters about the second dark period when the senate ruled the capital/core region but the majority recognize it for what it was - an oligarchical period where the Empire was at its lowest.
The latino-slavic dynasty lore could intermix nicely with Romanian border NPCs. I also think that dynasty could create some fresh institutions for you historically or even just like random slavic loanwords for assistants of magistrates, some officers, etc.
 
===Third imperium===
[[File:ThirdImperiumCP.png|500px]]<br>
1283-1782
this is a somewhat stable version of the empire reunified under the latinized slavic dynasty (Obricci) but with a lot of breakaways. The schism happens here. Plebeian assembly meets for the last time although it became popular during an attempted coup against the main ruling dynasty of the time. During this time the first concepts of a rotating imperial office - which we discussed - came about after the end of the slavic dynasty. The veltorine uprising occurs and cleaves the empire in two.
====Great schism====
everything in [[Template:Caphiric Catholicism sidebar]] needs to be discussed
 
===Fourth imperium===
1783-present - major reform efforts are launched after the loss of the veltorine war. No discontinuity of government but a new Imperium is proclaimed anyway on the back of reforms and return to wholly caphiric ruling dynasties and families. Most lasting slavic dynasty traces are removed. the fourth imperium would give rise to the national assembly.
 
Addendum RE: 4th Imperium: Caphiria casually being referred to - both at home and abroad - as the Fourth Imperium in the modern era
 
=MUSINGS ON THE NATURE OF THE CAPHIRIAN IMPERATOR AND IMPERIAL SUCCESSION=
A less formal dynastic arrangement, guys coming and going, serving multiple non contiguous times as Imperator. I would assume like Rome you already like adopt people, uncles succeed nephews and vice versa etc. Clique guys passing power between each other in order to protect supposed Republican institutions
 
Former Imperators remain in the senate and just become corporate oligarchs or up until modernity that you either die in office, are killed in office, or are usurped and exiled. A corporate-imperial revolving door couldn’t hurt for the culture.
 
Most legal political parties are just supporters of different individuals within the same ruling clique, they’re not supporters of usurpation. Just the organized allies of individual dynasty members of whichever family branch is in power
 
An imperator can rule for life for sure but so long as his allies are around he can also pass on the throne to someone else safely and maybe come back later. Of course a former imperator is basically guaranteed to be showered in gifts by the corporate oligarchs in hopes one becomes a mega lobbyist for them. Some of the less successful ones, even long reigning ones, do end up in their pocket.
 
I figure this all works nonviolently because if an Imperator is forced out by military and dynastic dynamics it’s kind of mutually assured destruction. An Imperator knows the rules of the game and usually knows to step aside when beaten since he knows his life is secure afterwards. In Caphiria a military coup ala Rome is probably vanishingly rare in the modern era.
This precedent could be set in the medieval period with several successive overthrown Imperators pardoned. Paving the way for a semi rotational imperial office. Not common rotation but you’ll maybe see a very successful Imperator rule for 40 years, hand it off to a younger brother for a few years, try to forge a corporate oligarchs position for his own, maybe to hand off to one of his younger sons, then return to office after a few years. For this to work you would also need some kind of social dynamic of individual gravitas which would make it socially unthinkable for the younger brother to deny the elder and his allies when coming back for example.
 
Changes from one dynasty or even cliques within a large dynasty to another clique (ala Cadet branches) are still done violently
I think an Imperator might also step aside for a few years as a political play, he can yield to a man who would not be able to sustain it in his own right without his say so and build a key ally. A distantly related minor oligarch that the clique needs.
In the phony Republican virtue of Caphiria it not only demonstrates his personal virtue but also signals the stability of the dynasty and the state
The key to pulling this all off though is the older man becoming so influential and rich that it’s enticing to the new one lol. And the personalist political parties play a role in this since a major oligarch like an old emperor and the Imperator himself hold sway over elections in Caphiria.
The driving force of any caphirian politician is long lasting and far reaching influence, and i think there are enough interesting paths and positions to obtain to make the entire rat race worth it
especially since imperator's roles and duties are delegated so much that you could orchestrate a pretty big web of strategic allies/lucrative positions. Aged and accomplished Imperators could just step aside into retirement without fear of reprisal, keeping state leadership robust.
 
=TERRITORIAL EVOLUTION AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE CAPHIRIAN BORDERS=
Most productive lands are probably in the south-central part of the country, in the past I would assume defensive strategy basically left these areas to be raided by enemy forces while pulling back behind the northern range. I would do some reading about byzantine defensive strategy in the 700s-900s to get the broad parts of the concept but basically, while productive farmland, in any point when Caphiria doesn't have overwhelming force to project beyond its boundaries, the south central plains of the country are basically going to be kind of a soft borderland between the caphirian core and the slavs. From that you can probably create a strong warrior/guerilla culture among the farmers of the central plain or at least their ancestors, rugged frontier life and all that.  
'''Spelfer September Note: I have included this area as Ranaella'''
 
Which also fits considering the Venceia northern coastal area was settled much earlier by the latins, with the interior being settled later by pioneering types under the auspices of the regime.
The problem is the central plain is basically open to invasion from multiple directions, as for the southern part of the country I presume that is probably a relatively late addition. Its Slavic inhabitants would have been able to more actively resist incursions from the latinic people accordingly I would think that many of the people in the south are latinized Slavs which could be a good source of lore creation for that culture.
 
Climatically i think the heartland is actually cooler than it should be for a multitude of reasons but the heartland-urban area transition over the mountains is going to be pretty steep
accordingly the urban area is basically tropical and not good for farming.
Even today, long after the period of migratory peoples and raiding, infrastructure connections between the resource and agricultural rich interior and urban north remains a top national security priority. Based on the mountains in Dorhaven I assume that the same situation is largely true of Veltorina, I suppose the topography could also be a factor in why caphiria wanted to conquer the entire northern half of the continent.
 
=ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL CONCEPTS=
==CAPHIRIA WITH EGYPTIAN CHARACTERISTICS (Largely outdated)==
'''Spelfer September Note: These concepts were worked into what eventually became the multiple imperium model described above'''
Rather than Caphiria as Rome I'm actually thinking what might work as a conceptual political history is Caphiria as Egypt.
A few concepts would be like you know, the "Empire" being reduced to like a third of modern caphiria with a bunch of pseudo-emperors in their own little domains. Another period being the Empire is basically vanquished as a geopolitical entity by some slavic tribal king ruling in Venceia but the institutions remain and is reestablished by a latin general leading an uprising and is hailed as augustus by the senate.
 
The empire being tiny again at some point and conquered entirely by some Istroyan petty king, but he decides to move to Venceia and is hailed as Augustus, giving the whole empire some new juice. It's not like the empire is destroyed since, as i say, the senate is still there and the tribunes and stuff aka Odoacer’s Italian kingdom.
 
Otherwise the empire is small, and then it's big, and then it's fractured, etc.
until INSERT EVENT ends the turmoil and establishes a relatively stable and consistent state
which reaches its zenith in the 16th century
 
Border wise it'll all be fluid since when Caphiria always pops back up onto the scene, it just easily wipes away random pseudo-latin successor states, previously loosely occupied tribal lands without much in the way of organized defenses, or like former provinces with petty governors ruling independently. Obviously with each caphirian dynasty conquering new lands and losing old ones along the way, etc. You could even go with the "1st Dynasty", "2nd Dynasty" nomenclature as well as "Old Empire" and "New Empire".
 
=CAPHIRIA GREAT WAR 1&2 BITS AND PIECES (ANY/ALL OF THIS SUBJECT TO BEING SUPERSEDED BY COHESIVE GW NARRATIVE MATERIAL)=
==GREAT WAR 1 RELATED:==
This GW is a spiraling Sarpedon based conflict where Caphiria invades Veltorina which is presumably alllied with or otherwise guaranteed by a few different countries. Pretext: Veltorina did only become independent of Caphiria in 1782 and is a socialist country by this point (1890s), the world's first.
1. Background; Veltorina becomes independent (1782) and Socialist (1860s); Caphiria seeks repatriation, tensions elevate on Sarpedon, Pelaxia and Cartadania guarantee/ally Veltorina (1880s) Caphiria invades Veltorina (1896)
2. Sarpedon War main theater rages beginning in 1896. Caphiria calls in Kiravia for their naval resources/manpower/etc due to preexisting ties with promise of Cartadanian islands etc. Burgundie jumps in on the allied side as a result of this in order to prevent themselves from being locked out of Crona. If Burg or Kir have better lore to explain their involvement, that will be used instead
3. After plotting and various stuff, the uprising in Urcea starts (1897) launching the Red Interregnum. Caphiria and the FitzRexist regime ally (they are already close) and FitzRex promises Talioinia to Caphiria if he wins if Caphiria helps.
 
GW1 ends with Caphiria basically as continental hegemon and everyone else chafing looking for overseas allies
i'm thinking it will also include a Burg vs Kir colonial war component
with kir on the "allied" side and burg on the caphirian side
 
 
 
==GREAT WAR 2 RELATED:==
===Original(and outdated) GW2 timeline:===
Caphiria wants territory and hates Levantines
Caphiria manipulates natural tensions in the HLE to start a war
Caphiria surrounds itself with Allies at home and makes common cause with anti colonialist factions abroad
Caphiria, believing table to be set, invades Veltorina
That’s your involvement in the war
You lose mostly on the western and southern fronts but prevent invasions in the Caphirian heartland while knocking out Velts
That’s about it
 
===Current timeline:===
My current 2GW theory is a better-making-sense version of the current version
Caphiria funds and starts the Diversion in Dericania as a way of distracting Urcea et al and ability to conquer Dorhaven(now named Talionia)
this makes sense for a more direct reason of why Levantia is involved at all and fits with Heky's overall IC and OOC modus operandi
 
The original version of this was caphiria doing this to conquer veltorina
however a pre-war Veltorina/Urcea alliance never made a ton of sense imo
and Urceans committing to fight another 18 yrs of war on their behalf after the extant 8 years of levantine war stretches credibility
here's an idea though
what if
1. Caphirian allied Arcer invades the Cape
2. the mainland powers (Pelaxia and Cartadania) say "shit, here we go again" like 15-20 yrs after getting their asses kicked by Caphiria, creates an alliance with Urcea
3. Caphiria says "creep!" and triggers the levantine war and also declares war on Urcea, allied powers declare war in exchange
the formation of the alliance being Caphiria's direct casus belli amidst a larger anti-levantine engagement strategy
GW2 ends with a significantly chastened but not destroyed Caphiria; the allied inability to get the job done leads to the Cold War
Maybe once against Heky is doing the nuking in Crona to bring the allies to the table
 
The tldr version is that Imperial policymakers going up to the imperator himself devised and began implementation of a Ten Year Plan in 1928 which envisioned the full incorporation of Talionia by 1938, calling for rearmament and mobilization and increased support for Faneria and the Derian rebels, envisioning a general Derian uprising by no later than 1935 accompanied by an invasion of Talionia, which Urcea would have accept as a fait accompli. In 1925-27, Caphiria secretly sparked a number of socialist uprisings in the Deric states as a proof of concept to see if Urcea was willing to commit forces to put it down, and it does.
The next year Cartadanian intelligence picks up on a non specific mobilization plan and forms a mutual defense alliance with Burgundie, forming the nucleus for LOTA.
 
 
=RANDOM BITS=
==TENTATIVE? CURSUS HONORUM==
1. join the military
2. run for national assembly
3. make friends and connections
4. no matter your current rank/merit in the army your connections will now fast track you to a flag officer rank
5. join the military assembly
6. be conferred Senatorial rank individually for your military service
7. continue to serve in the assembly until you get conferred Senatorial rank for your family
8. resign your commission and from the national assembly and just sit in the Senate
 
==POST-COLD WAR ECONOMICS==
the last few years of economic prosperity were supported at least in part by the end of the cold war/the assumption accords, leading to huge confidence in the occidental economy as a whole and the prospects of urceo-caphirian cooperation being basically good for business everywhere
eventually cooling off this year with the minor recession we are currently in
==FONT CRISIS (Outdated)==
'''Spelfer September Note: Font no longer exists so this is truncated'''
The Panic of '95 as a direct result of the font annexation leading to basically the closest the cold war came to getting hot
leading to an epic sell-off in urcea/caphiria with random gold hoarding beginning. only lasts for a month or two but it's so severe it kicks off a recession

Latest revision as of 11:16, 26 September 2022

SPELF-HEKY CAPHIRIA AND SARPEDON GENERAL THEORIZING

The dates are no longer up to date. Heky must refresh. I will endeavor to add maps. Many of these are the underlying concepts for what has been half implemented on His of Caph and elsewhere

IMPERIUM GENERAL HISTORY

EVOLUTION OF IMPERIUM

Ancient times(Heky musing)

- As an aside i figured the 500-1000 period for caphiria is kind of a heky under siege period because a. significantly cut off trade from levantia hurts overall food supply and economic activity in northern cities, both leading people to go and try farming or being feudal types b. end of trade with the istroyans, cutting off huge source of state wealth c. unending muslim raiding from the new caliphate causing further strain d. more uppity/problematic slavics in the south as the state just plain doesn't have the trinkets and coins to pay them off as they did a century or two ago the first being a result of the end of the levantine empire and the middle 2 resulting from rise of caliphate

Classical imperium

lasts from whenever until 1040 when crisis of the 3rd century type event shatters the empire. the classic imperium i would guess fell under the combined weight of increased muslim raids and the establishment of more organized better armed slavic groups combined with typical internal pressures of disease, famine, debasement, etc.


Second imperium


900-1172 The "siege" imperium, lots of threats from Slavs, retreat to Latin core regions with lots of tributaries, basically Byzantium 10th century. Big defeats by Muslims; This would be the logical reason for the crusades to occur a few decades later. ostensibly called to help protect Venceia but becoming a whole other thing. Cartadania is more settled during this period.

dark period


Empire entirely fragments under internal political disorder and external military disasters. the caphirian "core" region - that coastal bit around Venceia north of the mountains - is basically ruled as a classical republic by the senate. Most provinces become pseudo independent warlord states. Eventually a latino-slavic warlord marches north and conquers the republic but rather than sacking Venceia he stands outside of it and accepts, under force of arms, the imperial title from the senate. The Pope recognizing the new dynasties after both dark periods would be good to legitimize continuity of government. There is probably an air of romance in some political quarters about the second dark period when the senate ruled the capital/core region but the majority recognize it for what it was - an oligarchical period where the Empire was at its lowest. The latino-slavic dynasty lore could intermix nicely with Romanian border NPCs. I also think that dynasty could create some fresh institutions for you historically or even just like random slavic loanwords for assistants of magistrates, some officers, etc.

Third imperium


1283-1782 this is a somewhat stable version of the empire reunified under the latinized slavic dynasty (Obricci) but with a lot of breakaways. The schism happens here. Plebeian assembly meets for the last time although it became popular during an attempted coup against the main ruling dynasty of the time. During this time the first concepts of a rotating imperial office - which we discussed - came about after the end of the slavic dynasty. The veltorine uprising occurs and cleaves the empire in two.

Great schism

everything in Template:Caphiric Catholicism sidebar needs to be discussed

Fourth imperium

1783-present - major reform efforts are launched after the loss of the veltorine war. No discontinuity of government but a new Imperium is proclaimed anyway on the back of reforms and return to wholly caphiric ruling dynasties and families. Most lasting slavic dynasty traces are removed. the fourth imperium would give rise to the national assembly.

Addendum RE: 4th Imperium: Caphiria casually being referred to - both at home and abroad - as the Fourth Imperium in the modern era

MUSINGS ON THE NATURE OF THE CAPHIRIAN IMPERATOR AND IMPERIAL SUCCESSION

A less formal dynastic arrangement, guys coming and going, serving multiple non contiguous times as Imperator. I would assume like Rome you already like adopt people, uncles succeed nephews and vice versa etc. Clique guys passing power between each other in order to protect supposed Republican institutions

Former Imperators remain in the senate and just become corporate oligarchs or up until modernity that you either die in office, are killed in office, or are usurped and exiled. A corporate-imperial revolving door couldn’t hurt for the culture.

Most legal political parties are just supporters of different individuals within the same ruling clique, they’re not supporters of usurpation. Just the organized allies of individual dynasty members of whichever family branch is in power

An imperator can rule for life for sure but so long as his allies are around he can also pass on the throne to someone else safely and maybe come back later. Of course a former imperator is basically guaranteed to be showered in gifts by the corporate oligarchs in hopes one becomes a mega lobbyist for them. Some of the less successful ones, even long reigning ones, do end up in their pocket.

I figure this all works nonviolently because if an Imperator is forced out by military and dynastic dynamics it’s kind of mutually assured destruction. An Imperator knows the rules of the game and usually knows to step aside when beaten since he knows his life is secure afterwards. In Caphiria a military coup ala Rome is probably vanishingly rare in the modern era. This precedent could be set in the medieval period with several successive overthrown Imperators pardoned. Paving the way for a semi rotational imperial office. Not common rotation but you’ll maybe see a very successful Imperator rule for 40 years, hand it off to a younger brother for a few years, try to forge a corporate oligarchs position for his own, maybe to hand off to one of his younger sons, then return to office after a few years. For this to work you would also need some kind of social dynamic of individual gravitas which would make it socially unthinkable for the younger brother to deny the elder and his allies when coming back for example.

Changes from one dynasty or even cliques within a large dynasty to another clique (ala Cadet branches) are still done violently I think an Imperator might also step aside for a few years as a political play, he can yield to a man who would not be able to sustain it in his own right without his say so and build a key ally. A distantly related minor oligarch that the clique needs. In the phony Republican virtue of Caphiria it not only demonstrates his personal virtue but also signals the stability of the dynasty and the state The key to pulling this all off though is the older man becoming so influential and rich that it’s enticing to the new one lol. And the personalist political parties play a role in this since a major oligarch like an old emperor and the Imperator himself hold sway over elections in Caphiria. The driving force of any caphirian politician is long lasting and far reaching influence, and i think there are enough interesting paths and positions to obtain to make the entire rat race worth it especially since imperator's roles and duties are delegated so much that you could orchestrate a pretty big web of strategic allies/lucrative positions. Aged and accomplished Imperators could just step aside into retirement without fear of reprisal, keeping state leadership robust.

TERRITORIAL EVOLUTION AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE CAPHIRIAN BORDERS

Most productive lands are probably in the south-central part of the country, in the past I would assume defensive strategy basically left these areas to be raided by enemy forces while pulling back behind the northern range. I would do some reading about byzantine defensive strategy in the 700s-900s to get the broad parts of the concept but basically, while productive farmland, in any point when Caphiria doesn't have overwhelming force to project beyond its boundaries, the south central plains of the country are basically going to be kind of a soft borderland between the caphirian core and the slavs. From that you can probably create a strong warrior/guerilla culture among the farmers of the central plain or at least their ancestors, rugged frontier life and all that. Spelfer September Note: I have included this area as Ranaella

Which also fits considering the Venceia northern coastal area was settled much earlier by the latins, with the interior being settled later by pioneering types under the auspices of the regime. The problem is the central plain is basically open to invasion from multiple directions, as for the southern part of the country I presume that is probably a relatively late addition. Its Slavic inhabitants would have been able to more actively resist incursions from the latinic people accordingly I would think that many of the people in the south are latinized Slavs which could be a good source of lore creation for that culture.

Climatically i think the heartland is actually cooler than it should be for a multitude of reasons but the heartland-urban area transition over the mountains is going to be pretty steep accordingly the urban area is basically tropical and not good for farming. Even today, long after the period of migratory peoples and raiding, infrastructure connections between the resource and agricultural rich interior and urban north remains a top national security priority. Based on the mountains in Dorhaven I assume that the same situation is largely true of Veltorina, I suppose the topography could also be a factor in why caphiria wanted to conquer the entire northern half of the continent.

ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL CONCEPTS

CAPHIRIA WITH EGYPTIAN CHARACTERISTICS (Largely outdated)

Spelfer September Note: These concepts were worked into what eventually became the multiple imperium model described above Rather than Caphiria as Rome I'm actually thinking what might work as a conceptual political history is Caphiria as Egypt. A few concepts would be like you know, the "Empire" being reduced to like a third of modern caphiria with a bunch of pseudo-emperors in their own little domains. Another period being the Empire is basically vanquished as a geopolitical entity by some slavic tribal king ruling in Venceia but the institutions remain and is reestablished by a latin general leading an uprising and is hailed as augustus by the senate.

The empire being tiny again at some point and conquered entirely by some Istroyan petty king, but he decides to move to Venceia and is hailed as Augustus, giving the whole empire some new juice. It's not like the empire is destroyed since, as i say, the senate is still there and the tribunes and stuff aka Odoacer’s Italian kingdom.

Otherwise the empire is small, and then it's big, and then it's fractured, etc. until INSERT EVENT ends the turmoil and establishes a relatively stable and consistent state which reaches its zenith in the 16th century

Border wise it'll all be fluid since when Caphiria always pops back up onto the scene, it just easily wipes away random pseudo-latin successor states, previously loosely occupied tribal lands without much in the way of organized defenses, or like former provinces with petty governors ruling independently. Obviously with each caphirian dynasty conquering new lands and losing old ones along the way, etc. You could even go with the "1st Dynasty", "2nd Dynasty" nomenclature as well as "Old Empire" and "New Empire".

CAPHIRIA GREAT WAR 1&2 BITS AND PIECES (ANY/ALL OF THIS SUBJECT TO BEING SUPERSEDED BY COHESIVE GW NARRATIVE MATERIAL)

GREAT WAR 1 RELATED:

This GW is a spiraling Sarpedon based conflict where Caphiria invades Veltorina which is presumably alllied with or otherwise guaranteed by a few different countries. Pretext: Veltorina did only become independent of Caphiria in 1782 and is a socialist country by this point (1890s), the world's first. 1. Background; Veltorina becomes independent (1782) and Socialist (1860s); Caphiria seeks repatriation, tensions elevate on Sarpedon, Pelaxia and Cartadania guarantee/ally Veltorina (1880s) Caphiria invades Veltorina (1896) 2. Sarpedon War main theater rages beginning in 1896. Caphiria calls in Kiravia for their naval resources/manpower/etc due to preexisting ties with promise of Cartadanian islands etc. Burgundie jumps in on the allied side as a result of this in order to prevent themselves from being locked out of Crona. If Burg or Kir have better lore to explain their involvement, that will be used instead 3. After plotting and various stuff, the uprising in Urcea starts (1897) launching the Red Interregnum. Caphiria and the FitzRexist regime ally (they are already close) and FitzRex promises Talioinia to Caphiria if he wins if Caphiria helps.

GW1 ends with Caphiria basically as continental hegemon and everyone else chafing looking for overseas allies i'm thinking it will also include a Burg vs Kir colonial war component with kir on the "allied" side and burg on the caphirian side


GREAT WAR 2 RELATED:

Original(and outdated) GW2 timeline:

Caphiria wants territory and hates Levantines Caphiria manipulates natural tensions in the HLE to start a war Caphiria surrounds itself with Allies at home and makes common cause with anti colonialist factions abroad Caphiria, believing table to be set, invades Veltorina That’s your involvement in the war You lose mostly on the western and southern fronts but prevent invasions in the Caphirian heartland while knocking out Velts That’s about it

Current timeline:

My current 2GW theory is a better-making-sense version of the current version Caphiria funds and starts the Diversion in Dericania as a way of distracting Urcea et al and ability to conquer Dorhaven(now named Talionia) this makes sense for a more direct reason of why Levantia is involved at all and fits with Heky's overall IC and OOC modus operandi

The original version of this was caphiria doing this to conquer veltorina however a pre-war Veltorina/Urcea alliance never made a ton of sense imo and Urceans committing to fight another 18 yrs of war on their behalf after the extant 8 years of levantine war stretches credibility here's an idea though what if 1. Caphirian allied Arcer invades the Cape 2. the mainland powers (Pelaxia and Cartadania) say "shit, here we go again" like 15-20 yrs after getting their asses kicked by Caphiria, creates an alliance with Urcea 3. Caphiria says "creep!" and triggers the levantine war and also declares war on Urcea, allied powers declare war in exchange the formation of the alliance being Caphiria's direct casus belli amidst a larger anti-levantine engagement strategy GW2 ends with a significantly chastened but not destroyed Caphiria; the allied inability to get the job done leads to the Cold War Maybe once against Heky is doing the nuking in Crona to bring the allies to the table

The tldr version is that Imperial policymakers going up to the imperator himself devised and began implementation of a Ten Year Plan in 1928 which envisioned the full incorporation of Talionia by 1938, calling for rearmament and mobilization and increased support for Faneria and the Derian rebels, envisioning a general Derian uprising by no later than 1935 accompanied by an invasion of Talionia, which Urcea would have accept as a fait accompli. In 1925-27, Caphiria secretly sparked a number of socialist uprisings in the Deric states as a proof of concept to see if Urcea was willing to commit forces to put it down, and it does. The next year Cartadanian intelligence picks up on a non specific mobilization plan and forms a mutual defense alliance with Burgundie, forming the nucleus for LOTA.


RANDOM BITS

TENTATIVE? CURSUS HONORUM

1. join the military 2. run for national assembly 3. make friends and connections 4. no matter your current rank/merit in the army your connections will now fast track you to a flag officer rank 5. join the military assembly 6. be conferred Senatorial rank individually for your military service 7. continue to serve in the assembly until you get conferred Senatorial rank for your family 8. resign your commission and from the national assembly and just sit in the Senate

POST-COLD WAR ECONOMICS

the last few years of economic prosperity were supported at least in part by the end of the cold war/the assumption accords, leading to huge confidence in the occidental economy as a whole and the prospects of urceo-caphirian cooperation being basically good for business everywhere eventually cooling off this year with the minor recession we are currently in

FONT CRISIS (Outdated)

Spelfer September Note: Font no longer exists so this is truncated The Panic of '95 as a direct result of the font annexation leading to basically the closest the cold war came to getting hot leading to an epic sell-off in urcea/caphiria with random gold hoarding beginning. only lasts for a month or two but it's so severe it kicks off a recession

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