>>6088231>Lore FluffIt has been 100 years since the Battle of the Four Leagues, and 200 years since the disappearances of The Four Branches. In the fallout of these catastrophes, it the Adenni were shaken to their very core.
The balance of powers amongst The Twigs (Aristocratic Dynasties) became tilted, first in favor of the Dyne Isle Twigs, for their leading oligarchs were all left standing after the League Wars. They brought the Confederacy into a period of isolation, reducing the influence of the City in the surrounding countryside to almost nothing, and then truly nothing.
Decades of stagnation weighed heavily on the city of Adenai, rotting the power base of the Dynes, giving room for the ambitious Esphi Isle Twigs to swing back a majority control. They used their power to invert the economic downturn of the city-state, investing in and invigorating the local fishing, lumber, and production industries, ensuring the survival of the Adenni people.
Bitter from being sidelined and humiliated by the pragmatic and altruistic policies of the Esphi Twigs, the Dyne Twigs agreed to hold a minority position in a coalition with the Peninsular Twigs to nullify the majority minority the Esphi Twigs held for close to a century.
Now holding the reigns of government, the Peninsular Twigs mobilized their houses for expeditions back into the continent, supported financially by the Dyne Twigs.
>Action 1: Expansion (See Attachment)>Action 2: Military Reform, The Ashkeni CompanyThe wealthiest Penninsular Twig, the Ashkeni, spearheaded the anti-isolationist policies, pouring vast sums of wealth from their own coffers (as well as those coerced from the Dyne Twigs) into the outward expeditions, as well as leading them. While not necessarily a deliberate attempt to create a military force, these expeditions evolved into well trained, equipped, and armored arms of the Ashkeni, backed by the force of law by the current majority in the Confederacy.
