Roania

Roania

Flag of Roania
Motto: 'Amor Patriae Nostra Lex'
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Region	Fatal Terrain
Capital	The Holy City of Tarnaqin
Official Language(s)	Russian/French
Leader	Tsar Adrik Alexei Chyornyev
Population	2.916 billion
Currency	Imperial Mark
NS Sunset XML

First Empire

The Divine Imperium of Roania and the Sunset Isles was founded in the late 16th and early 17th centuries by Muscovite adventurers under the command of Ivan Drakharn. On the wrong side of a powerstruggle in the Grand Duchy, and supplemented by people fleeing from Novgorod and chaos back home, they crossed the channel between Siberia and Novar Ohan and founded what was then known as the Eastern Ruthenian Kingdom (in modern Agua). Later, more sparsely populated 'countries' formed on the rest of the island continent.

The ERK remained in isolation until the 18th century, when more Russian, joined by a large Franco-Spanish colonising fleet (in reality escaped mutineers and prisoners who had joined together to take control of a navy) arrived. Thus reinforced (after several wars of consolidation), the first Novaranian Empire was created by a 'Basil Drakharn', in reality Charles Dauphan, who later married a real descendant of Ivan in order to cement his claim to leadership.

While not much is remembered of this figure, what is known is that he was a strict moderniser. Devoutly Catholic, it was he who first founded the Order of Saint Michael, with the intention of making it clear to everyone that the Orthodox Religion would not be tolerated. With the creation of a Patriarchate by Rome, the Empire retreated from history until 1865.