Faleron

Faleron is a republic of united city states and principalities. The current culture group came to the region in the Venya migration and are most similar to the people of Valdor in speech, religion, and customs. Three centuries after the migration into Faleron, one tribe emerged that would come to rule over the rest of the region. The Averni were a warlike culture and conquered most of their enemies around them in two centuries. The remaining Falya cities submitted to the Averni and the First Republic of Faleron was created. The republic remained a strong power on the continent for many years, though it had lost much of the aggressive qualities that had created it. Nonetheless, year by year, small gains were made against foreign tribes on the border of the republic against the petty tribes and kingdoms. Faleron was the most advanced culture of the time and became increasingly urbanized.

The next period in Faleron's history was the fall of the republic and the beginning of the empire. The change from republican government to imperial government was both gradual and violent. A series of invasions and civil wars led to the near destruction of the republic before it was saved by one family which in turn assumed all the power that was once held by the assembly, though keeping the assembly as a quasi ceremonial body. The merits of the change from republic to imperial can be debated, but what is certain is that shortly after becoming an autocracy, Faleron became more powerful globally than it ever had before. Just under a decade after the switch to autocracy, the empire began once again attacking surrounding regions and annexing weaker states. After years of stagnation, Faleron was once again a strong global power. After a century of imperial rule by several Averni dynasties, the empire was the largest cohesive nation that had ever existed.