Revision as of 15:49, 19 October 2005

Ambara is a continent on lying between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, although only its Pacific coastline is populated. It is a diverse region where religous and ethnic tensions have always run very high.

Physical features

Plate tectonics recognizes the vast majority of Ambara as being the surface of the Ambaran Plate. Part of Adoki is known for being the edge of the Pacific Plate, with the two plates meeting along the Saetsumi Fault.

Ambara can be divided into four main regions: the fertile and green lands to the northwest, including all seven Danaan principalities in Ambara, Marlund, and Pantocratorian Ambara; the beautiful but cold and rocky mountains of Adoki; the rugged mountainous area of Western Sahor, spilling over into Thorlund and Selinia; and the great plains of Eastern Sahor.

Abald, Marlund is the geographical center of Ambara. The exact center is marked by a sixty foot tall stone monument erected by a past government.

Regional and political divisions

The entire Eastern half of Ambara is a vast unclaimed expanse known as Sahor. This territory is legally considered to belong to know nation and contains the space necessary for up to four sizable colonies. By contrast, the West coast is populated by the lands and peoples of four nations.

In the far North, where, despite the proximity to the equator, high altitudes keep most of the land colder than many southern locations, the Resurgent Dream lays claim to seven principalities: Selinia, Thorlund, Zutern, Alekthos, Amalad, Amory and Carasia.

Just south of Danaan territory, Marlund is one of Ambara's oldest nations. Now a constitutional monarchy, Marlund has a long history as an ultra-racist, Protestant fundamentalist dictatorship. The northern part of Marlund is occuppied primarily by the previously dominant whites while southern Marlund is occuppied primarily by black freedmen and women. The government of Marlund, with substantial help from Pantocratoria, Adoki, and the Resurgent Dream is currently undertaking a massive reconstruction project to rebuild from the days of slavery.

Pantocratorian Ambara, just to the south of Marlund, is an essentially independent nation populated by settlers from Pantocratoria and claiming Emperor Andreus of Pantocratoria as their chief of state.

A large bay lies between Pantocratorian Ambara and Adoki, the southernmost of the Ambaran nations. Adoki is a culturally and ethnically Japanese nation which keeps a great cultural distance from other nations while maintaining alliances with some of her more powerful neighbors.

History

Marlund was once the dominant power in Ambara. Until the Marlund War, the Marlund government brutally persecuted Jews, Catholics, dissenters, and homosexuals, as well as keeping non-whites in chattel slavery. This racist attitude, matched by strong xenophobic attitudes on the part of Adoki, led the great hostility between Ambara's two nations. Marlund remained the dominant of the two powers though she was never able to conquer Adoki. Because most Adoki involved in conflicts with Marlund preferred death to captivity, very few persons of Adoki descent are found among Marlundish freedmen.

In 2005, Marlund supported terrorists who launched a massive attack on the city of Armonvale in the Resurgent Dream. Related terrorists purchased Pantocratorian Princess Theodora from Veganan forces who had kidnapped her from her home. Her Imperial Highness was subjected to rape and severe torture.

These two terrorist actions prompted the invasion of Marlund by the Resurgent Dream, the liberation of the slaves, and the prompt establishment of a constitutional monarchy under Prince Hermann, the heir of the ancient kings before the fascist revolution. The constitutional government swiftly invited Pantocratorian and Adoki forces to join Danaan and local forces in suppressing terrorism and the remnants of the old regime.