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Imperial Empire of Matron
Imperial Empire of Matron
France - Empire of Matron
Goverment
Hurdin
Type of Goverment Theocracy
Head of State Emperor of Matron
Secondary Leaders High Bishop of Matron
Geography
Location Northern France
Capital Karak Matron
Population
Languages Dwarven, Frankish
Demonym Matrons
Religion Christianity
Races, and Ethnicity Dwarves, Franks
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The Imperiul Empire of Matron is a large Rof-Dwarven Empire located in Northwestern France. The last bastion of Civilization outside of the Elves in a destroyed France, the Empire is fighting a constant battle against the Orcs, but the Orcs have found the Holds of Matron to be nearly impossible to take, and so a stalemate has arisen.

The Dwarves live in the mountains of Matron and in these mountains they rule over an Empire which stretches north west and where a large number of almost surface Dwarves live, alongside Frankish refugees and citizens. The population is also very homogenuous in the fact that almost one hundred percent of the mountains are lived in by the Rof-Dwarves, while the land north of Brest is dominated by the Franks of whom are the humans that have lived with the Dwarves for centuries, while many others of the Franks are men who have fled the ravages of the War in France.

Its capital lies in Karak Matron, but alongside Karak Matron there are numerous other Holds, and mines that make up the vast majority of the mountains of the north west. These Holds are very numerous in population, and they grew faster then the overall Dwarven population due to the Chrisianity followed by the Dwarves of Matron.

Karak Matron was founded during the Dwarven Exodus from Finland and during this rise it was a regular Hold of Karak Ankor, and in this way the early Dwarven settlers of Karak Matron would become the western most colony of Karak Ankor. Karak Matron begin to drift from regular Dwarves when the regions around them became dominated by the humans and they lost an easy route to Karak Ankor because of the humans in their way and the Trollocs dominating the roads. The Dwarves of Karak Matron would take part in the War of Vengeance where they lost further connection to the Dwarves of Karak Ankor when the Dwarven colonies in France were either destroyed or abandoned leaving the closest major hold being Karak Izor of whom Karak Matron would have frosty relations with due to events that happened during the War of Vengeance. They would instigate the rise of the Kingdom of Bretonia through their funding of the growth of the Franks of France which became a massive Kingdom that begin to rival The Empire in the form of the Kingdom of Bretonia. During the rise of the Kingdom of Bretonia the capital Hold was visited by Frankish missionaries of whom begin to spread the belief of Jesus on the Dwarves of the mountains, and this religious change of the Dwarves of Matron would end the Matron Dwarves as Sof-Dwarves bringing them completely to the Rof-Dwarven side of things.

Geography[]

History[]

Early History[]

Karak Matron was founded during the Dwarven Exodus from Finland and during this rise it was a regular Hold of Karak Ankor, and in this way the early Dwarven settlers of Karak Matron would become the western most colony of Karak Ankor.

Leaving Karak Ankor[]

Main Article : Karak Ankor

Karak Matron begin to drift from regular Dwarves when the regions around them became dominated by the humans and they lost an easy route to Karak Ankor because of the humans in their way and the Trollocs dominating the roads.

War of Vengeance[]

Main Article : War of Vengeance

The Dwarves of Karak Matron would take part in the War of Vengeance where they lost further connection to the Dwarves of Karak Ankor when the Dwarven colonies in France were either destroyed or abandoned leaving the closest major hold being Karak Izor of whom Karak Matron would have frosty relations with due to events that happened during the War of Vengeance.

Rise of the Kingdom of Bretonia[]

Main Article : Frankish Crusade

The Rise of France
France was a battleground between more then just the Franks and Trolloc. The Dwarves instigated the whole thing wanting to help the humans. The Elves sent forces into the fray to support the humans. Even the Vampires of Weerhousen joined the fray on the side of the humans. Then there was the gods. Chaos sent forces under Flemeth's dark men to stop the humans. When that turned out to be not enough Chaos sent the Vampires leading to Vampire on Vampire fighting. As it spread out of control the only Noble Titan willing to do anything in Odin sent his daughters to help. It was called the Frankish Crusade, but in truth it was a world war.
France was this strange place. Humans and Trolloc in equal number, but they were both defined by one major weakeness. The Trolloc, and the humans were leaderless, and savage in comparison to the rest of the continent. I believed we could change that.
Karlun Goldbeard II.

The region of France had been the site of the major racial conflict in the form of the War of Vengeance and following this conflict the entire region of France had become dominated by the Trolloc and isolated elements of other order but the Trollocs were basically the dominant power. This changed when the Empire of Matron begin to attempt to uplift the Frankish of the region in an attempt to create a buffer between themselves and the ravaging tribes of Trolloc infesting the land. This experiment begin with the simple goal of expanding the human presence by giving equipment and in the proper places financing to Frankish tribes so that they would expand into regions dominated by the Trollocs. In this way the Dwarves sent caravans throughout the human controlled parts of France and found tribal leaders that they believed had competent leadership and a foundation of popularity that would allow them to expand quickly. The Dwarves would come to empower many houses but the following were the most important and in the end the only houses to matter much during the rise of the Frankish in France.

House Eisenburg[]

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It was a peaceful life here. My world moved and swayed like the wind. I knew there were monsters in the forest, but something about the way my father led us made me feel safe. I could have lived forever in that forest with the monsters all around me if only my father could have known about the monsters in the closet.
Lisiana Eisenburg

The Dwarves would send out dozens of scouting parties into France which they had been isolated with for many years, and these groups looked for different powers among the Franks, and it would be House Eisenburg that would be one of the first of a series of tribes that was met by the Dwarves. In this case the Dwarves arrived at Paris with a force of some fifty Dwarves led by Johanan Craghand of whom was a relatively young Dwarf but believed in the Dwarven cause with everything he had and was also notably an extremely devout Christian joining the increasingly numerous Dwarven-Christian naming system. Arriving at Paris his lieutenants would believe that there was little chances of success as their proximity to the vast Orleans region which was a stronghold of the Trollocs and was causing serious problems for House Naeniss who was far larger. House Eisenburg though was controlled and led by a brilliant leader named Charlemagne of whom was perhaps the most intelligent of the leaders rising at this point, and it was this leadership that would be the one thing that gave the Dwarven commander hope for their victory. Johanan Craghand would knight many warriors of the Eisenburg region, and also the Dwarven Christian Priest Zachary of Mathias would preach the word of Jesus, and his words struck a cord with Charlemagne of whom would command his men to listen to these words and convert to Christianity. Alongside these knighting ceremonies and the mass conversion of the region to Christianity they would also would give them promises of resources and it was in this giving of resources that the brilliant Charlemagne would find his true hope equiping his most loyal soldiers in armor, and equipping them with the best weapons he could get Johanan to get for him. During the start of his rise Charlemagne would come to rely on his children to a great extent with all of his children taking heavy roles in the movement of House Eisenburg including most prominently Lisiana Eisenburg, and Pepin Eisenburg.

House Liolen[]

Jansten Liolen
When we and the Elves were done fighting France was nothing but a ruin. A ruin that got filled in with the monsters of our nightmares. It was our duty to make right what we had done
Karlun Goldbeard II.

In this search the first and most prominent house was House Liolen of whom was located north of Karak Matron, and south of Corone Hold. Led by Jamten Liolen the house was already quite powerful in the region and they had a large force with which to expand themselves outwards. House Liolen expanded well in their region and they in turn begin asking for more and more equipment for their expansion to the point that they had to go to the Dwarf Hold of Corone which they were told about through a series of Dwarven scouts. This would be the site of the first betrayal the Dwarves of Karak Ankor would suffer when the Humans of Liolen decided that the power of Corone was too much for them to ignore and they decided to sack the Hold and take the land for themselves. They talked to the Dwarves of Corone and got them to agree to a massive supply run and said that they themselves would pick up the goods and when the Dwarves went out to meet with them the Dwarves were ambushed and killed to the last. With the Dwarves dead the humans put on their clothing and equipment and used these disguises to get inside the Dwarven defenses and as part of the humans infiltrated in this way the other part moved aggressively against the Dwarves who were shocked by this attack and put up little resistance. As the Dwarves begin to mount a defense they found their Thane slain and most of their commands killed as the infiltrating humans burned them from the inside. What few Dwarves managed to escape fled north to the small Dwarven port of Hekbrund where they boarded ships and fled westward towards Best where they would be safer.

House Aslan[]

Marian Aslan
When we and the Elves were done fighting France was nothing but a ruin. A ruin that got filled in with the monsters of our nightmares. It was our duty to make right what we had done
Karlun Goldbeard II.

House Aslan controlled one of the few major towns of the human controlled region in Reims of which had nearly a fifty thousand people of which were all dominated by House Aslan. This alone meant that House Aslan was someone who was in great demand by the Dwarves and they were provided heavily with supplies and weapons which the Dwarves hoped would allow them to expand southward into the heart of the Trolloc controlled provinces. House Aslan would be noticed by Charlagamne when his scouts begin to expand into villages north of his territories and so he sent his oldest son on a dangerous mission to visit Reims in the hopes that his son could barter an agreement between the two growing nations. This trip would become famous as his son Pepin travelled with a few of his closest men through hundreds of miles of Trolloc dominated landscape and by the time they reached Reims there were only a handful of the numerous force that had left but he arrived to see the splender of Reims and knew that his father was right in sending him. He and his force were greeted on the doorsteps of the city by Marian Aslan the heir to House Aslan and a wise young man for his age. The two would discuss things and over the course of several weeks of talking became shockingly close to the point that Marian begin to listen to the words of Pepin when it came to the alliance he wanted between the two forces.

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House Naeniss[]

House Naeniss was much in the same as House Aslan in that they too were a house that once the Dwarven scouts approached the region and asked for leaders they were all pushed towards the village controlled by House Naeniss. When they got close the forces of House Naeniss nearly attacked the Dwarves as they were extremely barbaric in comparison to much of the other tribes of the Franks that were nearby and the Dwarves quickly learned that House Naeniss was in fact Burgundian and the major Burgundian House in the region. House Naeniss attempted to expand but found their movement and attacks thwarted by a massive number of Trollocs in the region and thus they stalemated in their advance into the lands of the Trolloc. House Naeniss in this stalemate would be greeted by the second of Charlamagne's children in the form of Charlamagne III. or as he was called Charles the lesser as he was deemed by many to be the weakest of Charle's children, but during his time in the realm of Naeniss he would change this image completely. He would first arrive in Naeniss on the invite of Petter Naeniss the Lord of Naeniss and this had been after a series of offers has finally been accepted in order to facilitate the meeting. When he arrived he was laughed at by many in the higher rankings but his tenacity soon grew on Petter who took him with him when he led his force against a massive horde of Trollocs. During the battle Petter would lose two sons and his daughter would nearly die but she would be saved by the intervention of Chalie of whome after the battle was given to Petter's daughter as a reward and because she had fallen for him during this act. His marriage to Petria made him the heir to House Naeitriss a fact that didn't sit well with many in Naetriss but was perfect for House Eisenburg.

"It would be folly, I think, to write a word concerning Charles' birth and infancy, or even his boyhood, for nothing has ever been written on the subject, and there is no one alive now who can give information on it. Accordingly, I determined to pass that by as unknown, and to proceed at once to treat of his character, his deed, and such other facts of his life as are worth telling and setting forth, and shall first give an account of his deed at home and abroad, then of his character and pursuits, and lastly of his administration and death, omitting nothing worth knowing or necessary to know."

-Tanlian Eisenburg

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Charlamagne would take the supplies and finances that had been given to him and use them to massively expand his personal army which he would then use to take control over the region around him to the point that he controlled a land and population similar to the other four houses. On top of this he would use his children to attempt to broker arrangements with the other leaders, of which was a plan that brought great rewards to his relationships in all regards except for with House Liolen of whome refused to even respond to his ravens. This became an even greater concern when news filtered to the humans through the Dwarves that the Kingdom of Liolen had sacked Corone and was brutally massacring entire villaged of humans as it expanded westward, and to make matters even worse they had ambushed and killed a force of the Kingdom of Aslan which was on gaurd in the rear of the lines. All of this was a huge distraction that could have been avoided as the Trollocs of the Orleans regions were attacking all along the human borders in an increasingly coordinated fashion that wasn't something anyone had seen them capable of before.
Vampires near Paris[]
Sonja Dammak
You were caught in the middle of this boy. You fought well here, and for that I honor you with a choice. Die here and now in the knowledge that you fought well and honored your family. Or. Live forever as a knight of my lord. Fight forever. Honor your family forever
Soren

It would be at this time as the Dwarves were sending out their forces that the Vampires of Weerhousen would become intertwined in the Frankish Crusade as the Dwarven involvmenet became discovered by elements of Chaos. These Chaos elements in the form of Flemeth, and Velevia Silivia would command their servents to move into the region of France in order to work against the forces of

Corruption of Lisiana Eisenburg[]
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Nothing you do will ever change what they think of me father. You are the greatest man I know, and what you must do is far more important then losing everything protecting me from a truth we can no longer escape. Know that I love you father. Know that everything I have ever done has been to uplift this family. Know that in the place I go now I am in a far better place. I love you father. Long live House Eisenburg. Long live the Franks.
Lisiana Eisenburg
The Frankish Crusade was expanding and with the Trollocs continuing to lose ground Flemeth would intervene even further then just sending her daughters as foot soldiers, and in this increased role she sent the Dark Men to corupt the family that everyone believed would be responsible for the most damage against the Trollocs in the form of House Eisenburg. The major problem became that Odin had anticipated this and sent his daughters Helgi, and Durova Kirur in order to support Roswita of whom had been doing her best but would not be able to defend the inner family of House Eisenburg.
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. Flemeth's agent in the form of Fuh-Theirin, and Elessar that she was in fact a witch who was using her powers to control the minds of the people in the region, and that this was the reason her House was gaining so much power. This sent shockwaves through the tribes of the region, and forced the House to go on the defensive against such attacks. But no matter what they did the rumors just got worse and worse until eventually their were people openely gossiping about her in her home town. There was now beggining to be talk about removing House Eisenburg and this was the final straw for Lisiana.

Preaching to Western Europe[]

Mathew the Apostle would following the death of Jesus leave Nehekhara for a time travelling to Constantinople where he would found the Roman Catholic Church converting the population there to its belief before travelling to Italy where he was able to convert the population there as well thereby converting the Roman Empire to Christianity.

Conversion of the Bretonians[]

Following his conversion of the Romans he would travel with a large grouping of these Romans to the expanding rapidly Kingdom of Bretonia and would be able to convert the monarchy of Bretonia to the worship of the Christian Church of which the Romans would form the Roman Catholic Church, while the Bretonians would form the Fraticelli Church both of which swiftly became the state religion of both nations.

Conversion of the Dwarves[]

Departing the Kingdom of Bretonia he would attempt to make his way eastward into the region of Alcase, and Lorraine but was forced to move north and then west by large numbers of Trollocs who blocked his path eventually making him enter the Dwarven Holds of Matron where he remained for almost fifteen years preaching to the Dwarves eventually converting there King of whom renamed their lands the Imperial Empire of Matron and joined the Roman Catholic Church.

Expansion[]

War of France[]

Main Article : War in France

Preparing for War[]

The Imperial Empire of Matron was one the closest allies of the Kingdom of Bretonia so when the Kingdom of Bretonia became entrapped in the War in France the Empire of Matron was one of the first to send forces into assist the Bretonians. As Andorra fell the Dwarves moved into position around the city of Orleans and worked heavily alongside the bretonians to make sure that the west flank of the battle front was held. As this happened a large percentage of the fleeing survivors of the fallen southern part of France were unable to make it the Paris region so they were being taken into the Brule region of Matron where they were heavily protected.

Battle of Orleans[]

Prelude[]

With the Orcs on the verge of overrunning the city of Orleans the Dwarven army in this region that had been holding against the Dwarves quickly disengaged from its current position and moved towards Orleans with the full strength of its 45,000 Dwarves. Messengers were sent ahead to the human forces and thus the two groups prepared to attack the large Orc force. When the Dwarven Army arrived they were suprised to see how many Orcs there were, with the orcish army well over a hundred thousand in stength. The Dwarves skirted around the southern end of the city and connected with the human force under Eomer Eadig. Now together the Dwarves and humans quickly mobilized and moved directly towards the Orcish force that was now half inside the city and half sitting outside the gates.

The Battle[]

The main stength of the human/Dwarven force was the fact that the hundred thousand plus force was devided by the fact that they had broken into the city and were now miled about around the outside as much of the army massacred inside the city. The Dwarves and humans devided themselves and the Dwarves attacked the forces in the southern part of the city, while the humans charged the eastern gateway. These attacks were a complete shock to the Orcish forces and led them have their forces nearly completely destoryed outside the city. After hours of tough fighting nealy half of the Orc force lay dead, and the orcs that were not completely lost in bloodlust begin fleeing out the gates where much of them were destroyed by the Dwarves, and humans that now blocked all the gates. With the Orcs destroyed the Dwarves and humans moved into the city and cleared the city of the remaining Orcs.

The Battle was a victory but the delay in waiting for the Dwarves to arrive had led to the Orcs destroying nearly 70% of the city, and a similar percent of the population with nothing but those who had reached the inner castle still alive. With this in mind the city was quickly evacuated with the survivors either going west to the safety of Matron or going north towards Paris.

Conflict with the Orcs[]

Present Day[]

Goverment[]

Emperor of Matron[]

The Empire of Matron is led by the Emperor. This is a dwarf who is said to be sanctioned by god himself, and thus his word is law, and their is no question about whether its a good idea or not. In this way the Emperor becomes the living embodiment of Jesus, and it is in this way his rule is sanctioned.

There are three men inside the goverment that make sure the Emperor is wise, and just in his deals and they are secretly operating in the Empire at all times. There existence is hidden, and they operate outside of the goverment for all intensive purposes.

Name Clan Reign
Hurdin Mordenbeard Clan Mordenbeard

Demographics[]

The Dwarves live in the mountains of Matron and in these mountains they rule over an Empire which stretches north west and where a large number of almost surface Dwarves live, alongside Frankish refugees and citizens. The population is also very homogenuous in the fact that almost one hundred percent of the mountains are lived in by the Rof-Dwarves, while the land north of Brest is dominated by the Franks of whom are the humans that have lived with the Dwarves for centuries, while many others of the Franks are men who have fled the ravages of the War in France.

Population[]

Population Centers[]

Name Population Clan Seat High Priest
Karak Matron

Culture[]

Naming[]

The Dwarves of the Imperial Empire of Matron have a very unique style of naming with a distinctly evolving element to how its people name themselves.

New Mathiaties : The first element are those Dwarves classified as New Mathiaties of which are those Dwarves of whom have changed their naming from the old Dwarven Ankor style of naming convention and have adopted the Christian elements completely in their naming (ex. Zachary of Mathias...).

Old Mathiaties : The second element are those Dwarves classified as Old Mathiaties and these are the Dwarves which while having fully adopting Christianity have not completely changed their naming system to the new Christian elements (ex. Johanan Craghand).

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