General information (Pre-Great war):
Demonym: Drabhi
Capital: Corriegop
Key cities: Luscanglon, Grugra-Lorch and Talosc-Tack
Official language: Thary-Seldru
Total population: 84,186,753
Total land area: 492,874 km² (201,024.861 sq mi)
Currency: Glon
First-level administrative division: Tober
Government: High Synod of the True Illumination
The Presidential Relic (IGNORANCE IS BLISS):
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At the end of it all, we are all smart. We are so smart that we are the ones who define what intelligence even means. We are smarter than wild animals, and although we share many similarities with them, that does not mean our intelligence is equal to theirs. Yes, that is right - who said we are stupid? We are the smartest species on this planet, if not in the entire universe!
Ontological status (Post-Great war): The entity has provided no indication as to whether any survivors remain. Further investigation will be conducted before any official conclusion is reached.
Addendum 1: A vessel carrying survivors has been detected within the mist surrounding the entity. A method for safely transferring the survivors into physical reality has been developed and is currently being prepared for implementation.
Overview:
Drabh Tara, officially known as Drabh Tara Technarchic Enlightenment Elysium, is located in the southeastern region of Vunai Island, within Eldervale. Bordering Chav Rav to the north, the Clover Basin Sea to the east, the Endless Silver Sea to the south, and Sumaltuq to the west.
No one knows who she is. She doesn't even know who she is.
Whenever she asks, everyone gives her a different answer. She loves simple things, just like a normal person - doing what normal people do, finding happiness in ordinary moments like a normal person. Yet none of those things are enough to tell her who she truly is.
Sometimes, she wonders if she is merely a copy of someone else. She fears that she is unrecognizable when standing among others, that she might be nobody at all. She looks into her own reflection and cannot recognize the person staring back. She has never known who is standing beyond the mirror.
At the end of the day, she still doesn't know who she is - and she might never know. And she realizes, knowing nothing might be the best way possible. Because when she knows nothing, she realizes that she is happy.
About Drabh Tara:
ඞා Every year, Drabh Tara would choose a person to be sacrificed through the Loch-Greb ritual, a tradition believed to bring prosperity to the nation.
ඞා The Drabhi religion, Luman (worshipping an entity known as the "True Light"), is one of the oldest religions in the world, with thousands of doctrines developed over thousands of years.
ඞා Much of Drabh Tara's terrain consists of canyon-like basins, where the environment naturally produces a constant, ethereal glow. For most of its history, artificial lighting was simply unnecessary.
ඞා The origins of the Drabhi remain a mystery. No official records or clear fossil evidence have ever revealed where their ancestors came from.
ඞා Despite having a weaker navy than its neighbors, Drabh Tara possesses incredibly resource-rich waters, making its seas a constant target for foreign powers.
ඞා One of Drabh Tara's main exports is salt, traditionally believed to grant superhuman strength to anyone who eats it. In reality, it simply has a very unique taste.
ඞා In Drabh Tara, there is a dish called Salan-Gred, made with nothing but salt and lemon juice. It is infamous for being absolutely devastating to the kidneys.
Brief modern history:
I. ANARCHY AND THE ASCENDANCY OF DRABH TARA (1239–1249)
In the devastating wake of the calamitous First Lock War (1212–1239), Drabh Tara was thrust into an existential crucible. The beleaguered populace endured profound psychological trauma, while the fractured state grappled simultaneously with an influx of displaced refugees, crippling economic stagnation, and pervasive environmental degradation. For nearly a decade, this multitude of unresolved afflictions festered, cultivating deep-seated societal pessimism and a systematic eradication of civic trust in the ruling power. This tenuous veneer of stability finally disintegrated in 1245 following the demise of Subli Corcor, the provisional government's architect of order. Bereft of his stabilizing governance, the institutional structure precipitously collapsed, plunging Drabh Tara into a perilous era characterized by rampant criminality and highly porous, illicit border transgressions.
Amidst a chaotic societal vacuum, an eccentric architect named Feen Cunning formalized the Righteous Order of the True Light on December 18, 1245. Exploiting the institutional void, his magnetic proselytization galvanized a disenfranchised populace, establishing a nascent theocratic regime: the Blessed Dominion of Drabh Tara, predicated upon the ritualistic theology of Luman, an emergent state theology wholly consecrated to the ritualistic worship of their divine, metaphysical illumination.
To consolidate sovereign legitimacy, the Dominion promulgated the Restorashan Nedias-Thoir Policy in March 1246, ameliorating socioeconomic exigencies and restoring pre-bellum prosperity. However, technological progression remained tethered to 1210s paradigms. Concurrently, the regime instituted an idiosyncratic nomenclatural edict prohibiting pre-war municipal monikers, mandating convoluted sequential designations like "Where [Former Edifice Name] Stood".
By 1248, the state launched the Mending-Gloch-Beor-Nidiya initiative to resuscitate defunct maritime infrastructure and construct monumental ecclesiastical facilities, rapidly revitalizing naval logistics. To rectify technological inertia, the Dominion established the Innic-Nid-Mina on October 22, 1249. Composed of gifted youth operating outside orthodox academia, this vanguard pioneered fringe, highly unorthodox innovations that charted a compelling trajectory for the nation's intellectual modernization.
II. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION AND THE SLENDER TOOTHPICK INCURSION (1252–1262)
In May 1252, Drabh Tara executed the strategic assimilation of Luborshore and Sunkycrue via sophisticated diplomatic statecraft, effectively consolidating polities previously splintered by the First Lock War. Following an ephemeral period of geopolitical equilibrium, this precarious détente disintegrated on April 16, 1255. Consequent to the acrimonious dissolution of bilateral diplomacy, the state formally initiated overt hostilities against the adjacent sovereignty of Mislicura, catalyzing the protracted martial engagement codified as the Slender Toothpick Incursion.
Battle of Lura-Shed (Mislicura), 9 June – 13 September, 1255: Drabh Tara's incapacity to subjugate this critical geostrategic bastion relegated the offensive to a grueling attritional quagmire, exponentially protracting the theater of operations.
Battle of Gammyfeen (Mislicura), 27 October – 7 December, 1257: An ephemeral operational breakthrough materialized as Drabhi forces finally fractured the adversary's northwestern defensive perimeter. However, this nascent momentum - following twenty-four months of paralyzing inertia - was swiftly countermanded by Mislicuran garrisons heavily augmenting their defensive architecture.
Concurrently, the regime executed a proactive thalassocratic doctrine. In January 1258, Drabh Tara expropriated the Zyrin and Oloria archipelagos within the Endless Silver Sea, immediately re-designating them Noil and Leano to consolidate their pelagic supremacy. Conversely, overland engagements remained catastrophically ruinous.
Battle of Slumrinsa (Mislicura), 18 March – 10 August, 1259: Stood as the most temporally extensive and fiscally paralyzing confrontation of the conflict. Drabh Tara expended irreplaceable, high-yield materiel for negligible geospatial gains, precipitating acute macroeconomic destabilization and formidable domestic socio-political subversion. Ultimately, a formal armistice was promulgated on February 11, 1260, yielding the nation a merely marginal topographical concession in Mislicura's northwest.
Unabated by overland gridlock, Drabh Tara aggressively proliferated its maritime imperialism, subordinating three supplementary islands in the Endless Silver Sea by November 1261. This belligerent pelagic expansionism inevitably stimulated kinetic conflicts with the hegemonic adversary, Sumaltuq. The geostrategic friction culminated in 1262 through a succession of indeterminate, high-intensity engagements over the strategic Kravok Island, ultimately relegating the territorial contestation to an intractable and combustible geopolitical equilibrium.
III. THE CHAV RAV INVASION AND THE ASCENSION OF THE TRUE LIGHT (1264–1270)
On 15 November 1264, the adversarial sovereignty of Chav Rav formally declared hostilities against Drabh Tara, instigating an uncompromising martial offensive engineered to secure absolute geopolitical hegemony across Vunai Island.
Battle of Avari (Drabh Tara), 7 December – 10 January: Drabh Tara executed an imposing frontier defense. Nevertheless, chronically overextended and severely resource-deprived for an engagement of this magnitude, Drabh Tara's fortified perimeters ultimately ruptured, enabling Chav Rav battalions to infiltrate and commandeer the pivotal eastern ports.
Battle of Gathren (Drabh Tara),18 January – 18 February 1264: Acknowledging the futility of sustained attrition, the theocratic autocracy capitulated shortly thereafter, enduring its initial martial subjugation by Chav Rav in sixty years. While this ignominious capitulation miraculously exacted negligible domestic political ramifications, it comprehensively eradicated Drabh Tara's suzerainty across the Close Basin Sea and systematically eviscerated the national economy.
Desperate to counterbalance these crippling territorial and financial hemorrhages, Drabh Tara recalibrated its strategic focus, aggressively accelerating its maritime proliferation across the Endless Silver Sea. This unchecked imperialism instantaneously precipitated a volatile collision trajectory with Sumaltuq, an adversarial nation executing an identical expansionist doctrine.
The escalating belligerence ignited the Battle of Oama (Endless Silver Sea), fought from 4 October – 19 December, 1264. This ferociously vehement confrontation was characterized by an unprecedented mobilization of martial personnel alongside calamitous meteorological phenomena, as colossal tsunamis continually battered the contested island.
Battle of Drax (Endless Silver Sea), 10 March – 16 May 1265: This ferocious engagement fundamentally revolutionized the state tactical doctrine through the inaugural deployment of the Lickan - a pioneering, handheld luminescent armament. Radiating an agonizingly resplendent illumination that induced spontaneous amaurosis and disorienting transient hallucinations, this weaponry decisively shattered adversary formations, ultimately cementing a monumental and imperative triumph for Drabh Tara.
In 1267, the nation's navigators chronicled an ephemeral, miraculous manifestation of the Muggiue-Scaur (A marine organism featuring an elongated rostrum, highly adapted to protrude its buccal cavity into a cylindrical tube) amidst the treacherous swells - a mythical biological oddity ostensibly extinct for a millennium. Notwithstanding exhaustive maritime reconnaissance, this leviathan was never subsequently documented, rendering the transitory encounter obscured in impenetrable enigma. Two years subsequently, exploiting an abrupt epoch of acute political destabilization within the adversarial autocracy of Chav Rav, Drabh Tara orchestrated an expeditious, opportunistic naval offensive. On 30 June, 1269, confronting virtually negligible adversarial opposition, Drabh Tara decisively reclaimed their forfeited suzerainty across the Closer Basin Sea, rehabilitating their economic and geopolitical prestige.
Shortly thereafter, a profound metaphysical phenomenon thoroughly captivated the convalescing nation. On 6 June, 1270, an incandescent phosphorescence spontaneously detonated across the nocturnal firmament of Drabh Tara. This overpowering luminescence comprehensively obliterated the obscurity, submerging the entire sovereign territory in resplendent, ethereal daylight for five momentous minutes prior to abruptly dissipating. To the zealous disciples of Luman, this celestial manifestation was reverentially deciphered and officially promulgated as the prophesied ascension of the "True Light," inextricably consolidating the theocratic autocracy's divine mandate.
IV. THE SECOND LOCK WAR AND THE CAPITULATION OF DRABH TARA (1271-1279)
Concomitant with the proliferation of the First Great War of Eldervale, Drabh Tara found itself inexorably subjugated to a recrudescence of hostilities against its inveterate adversary, Chav Rav, commencing on 21 November 1271. This cataclysmic diplomatic sundering formally instigated the advent of the ruinous Second Lock War.
Battle of Subli-Strady (Drabh Tara), 29 January – 11 May 1272: Drabh Tara orchestrated a preternaturally resolute and efficacious preliminary bastion of resistance. Against insurmountable eventualities, they effectuated a cessation of Chav Rav's superlative Operation Baaro Yoag, enduring eschatological, synthetically propagated atmospheric disturbances manifested by the adversary's climatological munitions.
Nevertheless, this initial tactical obstinacy experienced a systemic degradation via protracted attritional warfare.
Battle of Binnshorag (Drabh Tara), 14 April – 9 November 1274: The battle engendered a profound enervation of Drabh Tara's logistical and martial scaffolding. This cumulative debilitation ultimately facilitated the adversarial legions' decisive circumvention and subsequent severing of the northwestern defensive cordons.
Consequently, the state was necessitated to espouse a rigidly reactionary, fortification-centric stratagem. In a fervent maneuver engineered to counteract their precipitous geopolitical deceleration, the theocratic apparatus promulgated Operation Gami-Lurk in April 1278 - an audacious, penetrative foray mandated to pierce the enemies's inviolate sovereign heartland. This precipitous machination devolved into an unadulterated catastrophe during the Battle of Yaggag (Chav Rav). Therein, opposing phalanxes organized a meticulous double-envelopment, sequestering and besieging a staggering complement exceeding 600,000 Drabhi combatants. Assailed by diluvian precipitation and excruciating physiological privation, the ensnared expeditionary armada suffered absolute annihilation, delineating one of the most abysmal strategic debacles chronicled within the nation's historical corpus.
Exploiting the opportunity of this culmination, Chav Rav's mechanized and infantry echelons prosecuted a subjugation of sovereign Drabhi hinterlands.
Battle of Luscanglon (Drabh Tara), 8 October 1278 – 20 May 1279: In a galvanic stand, the theocracy amalgamated its thoroughly extenuated residual levies to garrison this indispensable strategic juncture. Notwithstanding their defiance, the nation's defenders were systematically and comprehensively extirpated. Rendered impotent to muster subsequent armed mobilization or logistical regeneration, Drabh Tara enacted a formal capitulation precipitously thereafter. As the punitive exaction for this subjugation, Drabh Tara was coercively mandated to abdicate the preponderance of its geopolitical influence over the Closer Basin Sea, thereby irreparably fracturing its maritime paramountcy.
V. THE ASSASSINATION OF FEEN CUNNING AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT LICKAN-GRAWN (1279-1285)
The successive martial capitulations to Chav Rav precipitated an epochal and ubiquitous civil insurgency throughout Drabh Tara. This omnipresent civic indignation culminated in a sanguinary apogee on June 17, 1279, when Feen Cunning, was publicly dispatched by a disaffected partisan amidst a futile conciliatory oration. Notwithstanding the precipitous investiture of Graidin Grawn Scaurin as the exigent head of state, the central directorate's mandate swiftly dissipated. A profusion of formidable socio-theological syndicates mobilized to vehemently abjure the orthodox Luman dogma. While the nominal state apparatus persisted in a vestigial capacity, de facto hegemonic dominion over the polity devolved entirely to heterodox, charismatic ecclesiastics.
The ensuing decennium of the 1280s was distinguished by a mercurial proliferation of ideological pluralism, engendering myriad radical doctrines that would irrevocably contour the nation's tumultuous trajectory. This unbridled theological radicalization reached its crescendo on September 20, 1285, in the middle of the national jubilee observances. Roughly 50,000 fervent proselytes of a militant denomination arranged a monumental, quintuple-day mobilization across the capital's arteries. As this gargantuan demonstration proliferated immensely, the immobilized state mechanism endeavored to scatter the multitude via coercive martial deployment.
What began as a perfunctory deterrent metastasized into an unmitigated pogrom as state security battalions immolating three hundred defenseless dissidents point-blank. This fatal fusillade ignited a conflagration, galvanizing an inexorable pan-national insurrection. Hitherto schismatic sectarian cults forged an indomitable coalition against the beleaguered regime, sequestering central authority solely within the blockaded metropolis. This disastrous schism heralded the Great Lickan-Grawn, plunging Drabh Tara into an age of unparalleled extremity and unleashing one of the most ghoulish, sanguinary internecine conflicts in the nation's brutal annals.
VI. THE GREAT LICKAN-GRAWN AND THE FRACTURED COALITION (1285-1289)
The internecine brutality was crystallized during the Battle of Munyashkib (October – December 1285) - the eponymous "War of the Blind." Zealous insurgents voluntarily extirpated their ocular faculties via phototoxic luminescence relying upon a "True Light" for tactical navigation. This macabre stalemate saw the zealots' martial frailty counterbalanced by the state's enervation from the rebels' radiogenic armaments. Concurrently, the insurgency inaugurated Munya Gria, a vivarium leveraging expropriated Kelpiekerk biotechnology. Through grotesque bio-modifications, the facility industrialized a disposable martial caste, mixed-sex samples endured gestational velocities - averaging bi-daily parturition - though these engineered progenies rarely exceeded a biennial lifespan.
As logistical collapse and acute famine proliferated by 1287, the insurgency descended into unfathomable depravity. Militant factions systematically repurposed Munya Gria's ephemeral subjects for [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] exigencies to underwrite their campaign.
Battle of Tobermisli, 19 August – 26 January, 1287: The insurgent syndicate achieved a paramount breakthrough at the battle, subjugating the capital redoubt. Eschewing capitulation, Graidin's beleaguered regime pivoted to a protracted, asymmetric guerrilla campaign across the Drabh Tara hinterlands.
This decentralized attrition persisted until the pivotal battle of Gropetorp on May 31, 1289. An incursion culminated in Graidin's apprehension, liquidating the vestigial state apparatus and formally terminating the Great Lickan-Grawn. Yet, this dominance proved ephemeral. Bereft of a unifying antagonist, profound ideological schisms immediately fractured the triumphant coalition. Rampant sectarianism and volatile secessionist impulses proliferated across the disparate factions, inexorably driving the splintered polity toward the precipice of renewed cataclysm.
VII. THE THIRD LOCK WAR AND THE PAX OF SERAPHIC (1291-1294)
The burgeoning global theater of the Second Great War of Eldervale abruptly suspended this internal fragmentation . On September 22, 1291, Drabh Tara initiated preemptive hostilities against Chav Rav to cement absolute maritime predominance over the Clover Basin Sea, thereby catalyzing the Third Lock War. Concurrently, Sumaltuq's declaration of war precipitated a severe two-front exigency, compelling the atomized domestic factions into an exigent, pragmatic reunification.
Battle of Tholusk (Drabh Tara), 29 September – 8 November: Drabh Tara successfully repulsed Chav Rav's counter-offensive, compeled the northern theater into a strategic deadlock.
Battle of Corib-Glin (Drabh Tara), 9 May 11 – July 19, 1292: Arrested Sumaltuq's eastern incursions, ossifying the front into an impregnable defensive bulwark. This battle immortalized the legend of Maelcor Sheenar, a national hero who offered himself as a decoy to draw the enemy's focus, affording the defenders crucial time to fortify their lines.
Pivoting its strategic vector, Drabh Tara accelerated its naval expansionism across the Endless Silver Sea.
Battle of Rtovan (Drabh Tara), 3 October 1292 – 11 September, 1293: Drabhi forces deployed the Kam-Slany - an photogenic weapon that entirely abolished the nocturnal cycle. Subjected to acute circadian deprivation and photic overexposure, enemy combatants experienced catastrophic cognitive dissociation. Afflicted by mass delusions of being marine fauna, entire battalions committed collective aquatic suicide. While this macabre psychological warfare secured the contested island, subsequent meteorological disasters arrested further naval projection.
Seeking a decisive terrestrial resolution, Drabh Tara orchestrated Operation Gloken Lura (Chav Rav), July 1293 – April 1294. Despite salient tactical victories, this subjugation campaign foundered upon failing to breach the pivotal citadel of Cloudeskrogaw. By 1294, the Sumaltuq front had similarly degenerated into exhausted attrition. Drabh Tara's final offensives yielded devastating mortalities, as fanatical tacticians eschewed orthodox operational doctrine in favor of the metaphysical dictums of the "True Light." This grueling geopolitical stalemate was ultimately dissolved by the promulgation of the Pax of Seraphic on 29 June 1294. Ratifying the accord on 5 July, Drabh Tara formally conceded the designation of both the Clover Basin and Endless Silver Seas as demilitarized zones of cooperation.
VIII. THE COLLAPSE OF THE COALITION AND THE RISE OF SUID TARPA (1296-1298)
Bereft of a unifying geopolitical antagonist following the Third Lock War, the pan-sectarian coalition swiftly fractionated. Drabh Tara devolved into a decentralized patchwork of entrenched fiefdoms across its constituent tobers. Paralyzed by martial enervation and infrastructural ruination, these atomized factions shunned macro-level engagements, settling into a volatile, fragmented stasis - a fragility the contiguous state of Mislicura aggressively exploited via opportunistic depredations along the southern frontier.
Amidst this systemic power vacuum, the Innic-Nid-Mina emerged as a paramount forefront of supremacy. Exploiting endemic societal malaise, the organization galvanized a demographic base through fervent proselytization, propagating an unprecedented synthesis of metaphysical transcendence and rigorous empirical advancement. On July 17, 1296, its charismatic chairman, Tobar Shelag, engineered a meticulously synchronized insurgency. The ideological zeal of this techno-theological uprising was so absolute that incumbent martial regimes disintegrated within a mere two months.
By late 1296, having consolidated absolute dominion over northern Drabh Tara, the movement initiated the "Great Unification" campaign. To expedite sociopolitical assimilation, they promulgated the Munya Thari edict - a pragmatic legislative framework tolerating localized spiritual idiosyncrasies, contingent upon strict adherence to the state-defined orthodoxy of the "True Light." Conversely, a reactionary austral coalition of surviving warlords briefly coalesced, only to implode under incapacitating command dissonance and internal schisms. Prompting mass defections to the ascendant technocracy, the Innic-Nid-Mina's southern projection encountered negligible martial friction, precipitating widespread, preemptive capitulations. By January 1298, the polity was reconstituted; Tobar Shelag was invested as the sovereign, and the triumphant forefront formally rebranded its institutional apparatus as Suid Tarpa.
IX. TECHNOLOGICAL RENAISSANCE AND THE LEGACY OF TOBAR SHELAG (1300-1311)
Notwithstanding Suid Tarpa's putative designation as a progressive empiricist state, its macro-technological infrastructure had endured a protracted epoch of developmental stagnation since the mid-13th century. To rupture this persistent inertia, the government ratified the Gobar-Pesh, a sweeping legislative decree engineered to aggressively precipitate empirical breakthroughs, albeit yielding distinctly anomalous innovations. Synchronously, in 1300, the central directorate executed a macroscopic infrastructural rehabilitation of the austral and occidental littoral harbors. This pivotal renaissance revitalized the lucrative maritime commercial sector, previously decimated by the depredations of the Third Lock War.
Institutionalizing this epistemological reawakening, the state consecrated the venerable Peshkenn Research Institution in Talosc-Tack on September 22, 1304. Constituting the polity's most sophisticated scholastic nexus, the facility rapidly emerged as the premier epicenter of state-subsidized inquiry. Subsequently, the citizenry was enraptured by a luminous cosmological anomaly. On May 7, 1305, a torrential photic luminescence spontaneously fractured the nocturnal firmament, eradicating the darkness for ten sublime minutes before abruptly attenuating. Lumanist ecclesiastics instantaneously canonized this celestial phenomenon as an auspicious, divine mandate from the "True Light."
The age of rigorous intellectual empiricism culminated in a seminal triumph in 1309 with the fabrication of the Gravitational Tides Balancer. A pioneering benthic propulsion mechanism synthesized to mitigate oceanic encroachment, this formidable apparatus was subsequently deployed extensively across ambitious naval operations. However, this halcyon era was poignantly truncated. On June 27, 1311, Tobar Shelag was pathologically diagnosed with severe diabetes mellitus. Esoteric historiography postulates she undertook a sustained, tri-diurnal metaphysical communion with the True Light preceding her expiration on July 10. As her terminal bequest, she endowed the state with the Soobli-Cam - an encyclopedic, visionary codex delineating hundreds of speculative innovations. This extraordinary schematic fundamentally dictated the polity's technological trajectory, with a myriad of its abstruse theoretical models meticulously actualized throughout the subsequent decenniums.
X. THE DIMMING, AGNOSTIC ILLUMINISM, AND THE CLIMATIC CATACLYSMS (1311-1331)
In late December of 1311, a enormity meteorological deviation designated "The Dimming" entirely obfuscated the celestial sphere, submerging the nation into a condition of perpetual, stifling obscurity. This inexorable solar deprivation precipitated systemic physiological trauma as the populace endured incapacitating spatial disorientation and acute emesis, frequently devolving into protracted comatose lethargies spanning a full septenary. Concurrently, the ambient thermal baseline plummeted to a cryogenic -74.3°C (-101.74°F). Paradoxically, this glacial penumbra expedited a vibrant nocturnal renaissance. Avant-garde theatricalities, idiosyncratic aesthetic paradigms, and radical theological recalibrations concerning the ontological nature of the "True Light" proliferated. Nevertheless, this period was equally blighted by insidious "night lurkers" - imperceptible predatory entities that abducted individuals traversing the absolute void, compelling the central directorate to strictly mandate the perpetual carriage of personal illuminant tethers.
Amidst this cryospheric gloom, a cynical epistemological doctrine termed Agnostic Illuminism rapidly disseminated. Predicated upon the axiomatic premise that humanity is intrinsically and irreparably cognitively deficient, the ideology amassed unprecedented sociopolitical traction. On May 8, 1314, succeeding the abrupt abdication of the incumbent sovereign due to acute psychological attrition, Agnostic Illuminism was formally canonized as the overarching state dogma under the newly inaugurated administration of Naisin Cantan. Notwithstanding this fatalistic ideological paradigm, the polity realized staggering empirical breakthroughs in 1316. State empiricists successfully actualized the Sensory Tele-Emulation Protocol (STEP), a sophisticated haptic neural network encoding holistic multisensory profiles, parallel to the Quantum Entangled Synesthesia Chat - a revolutionary telecommunications matrix that meticulously transmuted conventional linguistic inputs into abstract chromatic spectrums and acoustic frequencies.
On June 20, 1318, the state instituted the Principle of Beautiful Stupidity, a doctrine positing that cognitive imperfection stimulated creativity, spontaneity, and wonder. Concurrently, the administration upheld the Eternal Child Policy - a mandate decreeing that civilization must preserve its epistemological innocence, willfully embracing the ineffable without the compulsion to empirically demystify the universe. Together, these decrees established the primordial cornerstone for the paradigm of Agnostic Illuminism.
By 1319, as the lethal atmospheric glaciation persisted, the administration orchestrated the macroscopic deployment of localized radiogenic thermal generators and ratified a critical geopolitical mutual-assistance pact with Senas Tuath to guarantee exogenous caloric subsidization. The climatological anomalies subsequently escalated into the preternatural. By October 1320, the citizenry commenced corroborating observations of incandescent, ethereal entities traversing the civic arteries. These photogenic apparitions materialized ephemerally before dissipating into the gelid ether, exhibiting zero capacity for corporeal interference. This metaphysical enigma achieved its apogee in 1325 during the annual state-sanctioned immolation. In a bewildering manifestation, the sacrificial proxy spontaneously levitated directly into the abyssal firmament, dematerializing completely. Fanatical ecclesiastics immediately consecrated this event as the inaugural miraculous "special" oblation in a century, consecrating the vanished proxy as a divinely elected transcendent.
To mitigate the inexorable obscurity, the state successfully engineered localized synthetic stellar arrays on August 16, 1327.
As these artificial luminaries lacked the radiometric capacity to irradiate the entire territorial expanse contemporaneously, individual tobers were apportioned their own discrete solar infrastructures. Because the incandescent apparitions enigmatically resurged during this interval, the directorate promulgated draconian edicts expressly prohibiting unilluminated nocturnal excursions. This ecological volatility culminated in a catastrophic climatic inversion in 1331. Ambient thermal metrics exponentially spiked to a blistering -94.8°C (-202.64°F), precipitating an acute, pan-national hydrological emergency. In a environmental quirk where specific littoral zones had previously cryo-congealed, a novel municipal vocation materialized: the Sloish-Kelper. These specialized laborers were exclusively commissioned to excavate and distill this anomalous, permafrost-bound ice, synthesizing required potable water to sustain the incinerated populace.
XI. THE CONQUEST OF MISLICURA AND THE METASTASIZING OBSCURITY (1333-1343)
On October 6, 1333, Drabh Tara promulgated a formal declaration of hostilities against Mislicura subsequent to futile negotiations, mobilizing its martial apparatus for a protracted geopolitical contestation.
Battle of Sloishaven , December 1333 – May 1334: Advancing Drabhi expeditionary echelons encountered unfiltered solar radiation for the inaugural time in decades. This profound psychological stimulus exponentially accelerated their western terrestrial projection into adversarial domains.
Battle of Nedacree (Mislicura), August–November 1335: The expeditionary forces failed to subjugate this antiquated ecclesiastical redoubt - the terminal metropolitan bulwark shielding the Mislicuran capital - precipitating a grueling, asymmetric war of attrition.
Domestically, a preternatural anomaly paralyzed the Drabhi homeland from April 1 to 10, 1337. An impenetrable obscurity enveloped the polity, spontaneously attenuating all synthetic and natural photometric emissions. As disoriented citizens documented anomalous acoustic frequencies resonating from the abyssal vacuum, the beleaguered central directorate enacted draconian localized quarantine protocols. This photic obliteration recurred quintuple times throughout 1338, devastating trans-regional logistical matrices. To circumvent this systemic paralysis, the state inaugurated an autonomous, forward-deployed centralized command in June 1338, ensuring uninterrupted martial operational continuity despite the blinding atmospheric aberrations.
Battle of Gamiskeo (Mislicura), February–August 1340: The decisive clash that fractured the standing deadlock and allowed Drabhi intelligence operatives exhumed incontrovertible archival evidence exposing Mislicura's cultural and sovereign autonomy as an elaborate, systemic fabrication - an epistemological revelation that precipitously atomized adversarial morale.
The Calamity (Mislicura), August 1342–July 1343: A harrowing urban crucible waged across the capital of Korish-Kar and dual peripheral municipalities. This ferocious, hyper-concentrated kinetic melee reduced the metropolitan infrastructure to pulverized detritus, inflicting mutual strategic paralysis and acute martial enervation.
Although Drabh Tara secured tactical primacy amidst the pulverized ruins of Korish-Kar, relentless expeditionary expenditure propelled the state toward the precipice of total systemic collapse. Catastrophe was marginally circumvented when the disillusioned Mislicuran proletariat coerced their delegitimized regime into unconditional capitulation. The geopolitical conflict formally terminated on August 31 with the Treaty of Corriegop, mandating the comprehensive annexation of the vanquished territory. Yet, immediately subsequent to regional integration, the impenetrable atmospheric obscuration metastasized, remorselessly enveloping the newly assimilated Mislicuran topography.
XII. THE END OF THE GREAT DARKNESS AND THE PANGEA-FLOURISH ERA (1348-1374)
In September 1348, adhering strictly to the cynical dogmas of Agnostic Illuminism, the state codified intellectual acuity as a severe biological pathology, endeavoring to impose absolute cognitive egalitarianism across the polity. On October 16, 1350, the decenniums of the Dimming terminated as solar radiation finally breached the atmospheric obscuration. Although this abrupt, incandescent inundation inflicted ubiquitous transient ocular trauma upon the unacclimated citizenry, the deeply ingrained nocturnal subcultures remained indelible fixtures of the national ethos. Synchronously, throughout the 1350s, geopolitical friction with Chav Rav and Sumaluq incrementally intensified via a succession of volatile provocations; while animosity was provisionally circumvented through fraught diplomatic mediation, the latent international hostilities continued to metastasize.
Preempting future climatological cataclysms, the administration consummated the architectural marvel of the inaugural "heat engine metropolis" in October 1356. This colossal civic infrastructure was meticulously engineered to function holistically as a macroscopic thermodynamic mechanism, synthesized to sustainably insulate the populace against subsequent solar privation. The political apparatus synchronously internalized the prevailing philosophy of mandated nescience; on August 8, 1361, Droghan Mirgan was invested as the paramount sovereign, an elevation secured exclusively by passing a rigorous examination of profound obtuseness to validate his cognitive inadequacy.
The biosphere concurrently manifested anomalous metaphysical deviations. In November 1367, gargantuan aquatic vortices materialized across the pelagic zones, generating localized aqueous abysses theoretically tethered to an alternate dimensional plane, however, the state strictly embargoed all subsequent empirical investigation of the phenomenon. Epistemological triumph swiftly ensued on November 25, 1370, when Drabhi navigators pinpointed the mythical Inis Lascun within the Clover Basin Sea. Replete with esoteric, ethereally infused saline, this lucrative territorial acquisition exponentially galvanized the national economy, generously underwriting increasingly radical empiricist endeavors. By October 1374, Drabh Tara had ascended to an unprecedented Pangea-Flourish condition of civilizational opulence, a state when society operating at the pinnacle of holistic human flourishing. Even a transient, meteorological blackout in December was reverently appropriated by ecclesiastics as a dual benediction from both the True Light and the True Darkness. This heterodox halcyon epoch proceeded unperturbed, propelling Drabh Tara forward until the ignition of the Third Great War of Eldervale.
Ideology: Agnostic Illuminism
Agnostic Illuminism is a religious ideology built upon the belief that humanity's greatest delusion is the assumption that the human mind is capable of fully comprehending the universe. Rather than promising wisdom, the doctrine teaches that true enlightenment begins with recognizing the limits of human understanding. The enlightened person does not become wise, but fully conscious of how impossible true wisdom may be.
Agnostic Illuminism is centered around two distinct concepts: the True Light and the True Dark.
The True Light represents absolute awareness of human ignorance. It does not illuminate the universe itself, but the darkness within the human mind, exposing humanity's endless capacity for self-deception, false certainty, and misunderstanding. To possess the True Light is therefore to recognize how easily one can be convinced that an answer is correct.
The True Dark, by contrast, represents everything that exists beyond human comprehension. It encompasses the unknown, the unknowable, and aspects of reality that may forever remain outside the limits of human perception. The True Dark makes existence larger, stranger, and more uncertain than the human mind can comfortably accept. Reality itself is therefore considered fundamentally dark. To pretend that everything can be understood is regarded as an act of intellectual arrogance.
One of the doctrine's most radical principles is that human stupidity is not merely an accident or temporary weakness; it is fundamental to being human. Every person experiences reality through an imperfect mind, shaped by limited senses, incomplete knowledge, assumptions, and cognitive biases. Thus, there are ultimately only two kinds of people: those who know they are ignorant, and those who have not yet realized it. The pursuit of enlightenment consequently destroys the belief that enlightenment is attainable. After exhausting the desire for certainty, the individual learns to consciously accept ignorance. Every belief must periodically be questioned, including the belief that questioning itself is sufficient. Unquestioned certainty is considered a form of spiritual sleep.
Agnostic Illuminism therefore teaches its followers to become comfortable with being wrong. Refusing to acknowledge error is considered a failure of enlightenment. No human being is intellectually complete, and therefore intellectual completion is itself an illusion. Finally, the doctrine embraces paradox. Contradiction does not necessarily prove that one side is wrong; sometimes it reveals the inadequacy of human categories when confronting something too complex to fit within them. Rather than forcing reality into a single answer, Agnostic Illuminism teaches humanity to tolerate uncertainty - and to stand peacefully before the darkness it cannot understand.