Sovereign Maan Republic
Born of exile and imperial fracture during the 250-year Throne War, the Sovereign Maan Republic, also known as Khaldaara Place Khaldaara The southern continent of Elshore, called Southland in common speech, where forests give way to sands and then to stonebound frost at the world's edge., occupies the frozen south and governs as a stratified elective oligarchy from the capital Iceborrow. It claims to be the last light of civic order but delivers survival to refugees rather than sanctuary. Randenism Faith Randenism The Flame Doctrine, dominant faith of the Maan and state religion of the Maan Empire. here has been severed from its ecclesiastical roots and converted into state bureaucracy: ritual calendars issued by decree, labour quotas tracked as moral fulfilment.
Key traits
- Government: stratified elective oligarchy, with City Elders, the House of Appointees, the Senate of Elders, and a Directorate of two masked figures who never speak publicly.
- The Gendarmerie Corps in blue and crimson acts as both internal police and border force, dissolving assemblies without warning and quarantining dissent.
- The Republic severed ties with the Vigilant Eye in Fivebrook, denouncing it as a monarchist relic and reinterpreting sacred law through collective legislation.
- Millions of Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. refugees from Maaniskaar are penned in frozen camps outside Icehold's walls; rations are quietly cut each month.
- Claims strict neutrality, supplies both the Maan empire and Maaniskaar with aid, and binds itself in true friendship with neither.
- The High Chancellor no longer walks in daylight; the High Marshal sharpens every new sword personally.