Ar'Tel'Quessir Empire

Ar'Tel'Quessir roughly translates to "People of the Sun". This Empire is the controlling government across Lawreth. Its capital city is Lawreth City. Currently, the ruler is Empress Vaeldora Dol Arrah.

The current dynasty is called the Dol Arrah Dynasty.

The Empress is the leader over all the Empire. Each individual City State in the empire is ruled by an appointed Noble, who is given Stewardship of it. The vast majority of people think the Empress appoints the Noble in charge of the City States, but in reality, the noble is “recommended” to the emperor by a panel of High Priest advisors who rose through the ranks of the Church.

The biggest city in the Ar’Tel’Quessir Empire is Lawreth City, where the Empress lives. There is an appointed Steward of Lawreth City. The steward is Lord Everae.

The High Priest advisors (called Fhaorn Council) are comprised of The Cor Faernaa (the Grand Master Mage, sometimes called the Grand Faernaa, he goes by the title of Master), and eight other Mages referred to as the Faerniir. These are typically life positions, unless if someone is expelled. They are Warlocks. All the priests of the Church of Dol Arrah are Warlocks. Their magic abilities directly correlate with their ranking within the church.

The Cor Faernaa is named Ess.

There is a much more bureaucratic branch of the imperial government. This comprised of several different ministries which in turn the individual stewards of a city state report to. In charge of these the Prime Minister, usually someone aspiring to be Faerniir. The current Prime Minister is Finead Altressan.

Then there are the different ministries: -Ministry of Economics (includes agriculture, transportation, treasury, arts, science etc) -Ministry of Justice (includes justice system, as well police) -Ministry of Defense (all military falls under).

Each has a Minister in charge, with the individual department within each Ministry lead by a Secretary.

The Sun Guard (AKA the Royal Guard) fall under the Ministry of Defense.

The world before the establishment of the modern Ar’Tel’Quessir Empire was fairly wartorn. There was no unifying nation to tie cities together, so many areas were under control of war lords. There were especially a few Warlord orc barbarian clans that controlled certain sectors, completely suffocating certain trade routes. After a 200 year long war, first Emperor Velahrn was able to unite Dwarf, Elf, Human and Halfling clans together to push the orcs out of Lawreth (or at least further into the mountains). Velahrn emerged the natural leader. In reality he did have to throw his elbow a bit to be able to rule, but no more than anyone else was trying to.

Nowadays, you very rarely see Orcs in any sort of numbers, excluding barbarian Orc clans in the mountains.