RubyDiam
Dumbass Dwelf
Because @BillyTheScroofy wanted it
Say, hypothetically speaking, an end is brought to the Regalian Empire. In one massive event, the entire leading parts of the government and the Imperial seat are wiped out in one go. It is the wet dream of any would be revolutionary, equal rights for all races, no more nobility and a true democracy in Regalia without the Violet or Vigilant or Crimsons to enforce the government's law. But is such a Utopia really possible? What could hypothetically occur if the government is assassinated? Let's find out!
305 AC Spring
An unnamed rebellion strikes at the heart of the Empire, blowing up the entire Imperial Palace and the conference diet held there. With one explosion, the Emperor, the Holy Ministry of the Sancella of Union, the Bureacracy, the Judiciary and the law apparatus of the Regalian Empire are wiped out.
305 AC Summer
After attempting (by what shreds of government remain) to suppress information of the utter collapse of the government is no longer possible, news becomes public that the government has utterly disintegrated. There is not enough time to properly educate successors for all the bureaucratic offices and judiciaries to have functional replacements. Without the Bureaucratic office of Regalia and the Judiciary, the first victims of the collapse of Government are the Tax collectors, tax records and the Regalian court houses. With the collapse of law, an effective state of lawlessness exists in Regalia. No money comes into the treasury anymore, and what remnants of government exist are bleeding money attempting to hold everything peacefully together.
305 AC Autumn
With the complete break down of law, military orders have started forming their own consensus on how to run the Empire. The Vigilant Shield, led by Percy Ravenstad, Edward Dertycia and the Coen family, becomes far more ruthless and aggressive, blaming the 11th creed on the destruction of the now headless Regalian government. With this more hardliner approach, summary arrests and executions are performed in the street without right to trial or fair representation, after all, the courts no longer exist. The first racial riots start overwhelming various parts of the Regalian Crown Isle, though the outlying lands seem relatively peaceful and self sufficient.
305 AC Winter
Large rebellions and assassination attacks have wiped out large parts of the previous Vigilant Shield and Crimson Inquisition, which after the death of William Coen and Anton Viraine, have completely fallen to radical elements believing the end of the Empire is at hand. The remnants chase from district to district, performing an ethnic cleansing of all undesirable races. Tens of thousands of Elves, Dwarves, Tigrans, Ur, Thylans, Maiar and particularly Kleinfolk, die. In fact, the Kleinfolk race is utterly eradicated as the lack of a functional law system to prevent rampant experimentation results in Philip Bancroft creating a spliced disease that wipes out the Kleinfolk race within weeks.
306 AC Summer
The last remnants of the Vigilant and Crimsons have evaporated as the guards are well aware that the situation is no longer tenable. Many noble cities have fled the Regal city back to their homeland, shutting the borders with loyalist elements in their lands. Nobles who continue to cling to the Regalian city are slaughtered in the streets purely for being noble. The Black family is one of the first to be eradicated, always having prided themselves as "one of the people". Unfortunately, they still owned money, which made them a prime target. The Du Polignac family flees all the way to their native island and shut themselves off from the world.
306 AC Winter
Regalia's grain supplies are running dangerously low. The country went bankrupt at the beginning of the year already and was unable to pay for more shipments from Anglia or beyond in New Ceardia. Other nations are starting to take note of the collapse of government. The full year of mourning for the Emperor's death is also over, what remnants of the Church remained have proclaimed Alexander's son, Reynaud Alltmeister, the new Emperor of Regalia. Reynaud is a cruel man however, and crushes revolts with mercenaries which he cannot pay for.
307 AC Summer
Reynaud's younger brother, being a military prince, has had enough of his brother's misuse of the soldiers and ignoring attitude towards pleas to give them a proper pay, as the country has been bankrupt for over a year. He seizes the opportunity together with various military noble families who have had enough of their unsafe livelihood in Regalia to start a military rebellion, staging a coup-d'etat with the army. While the army succeeds in seizing the remnants of the government, Reynaud's youngest brother Frederick teams up with Charlotte Moselberg with the ideal to counter coup again with the Republican element, intent on turning the Regalian Empire into a federal republic with the Emperor as a head of state religious figure. Reynaud is all the while content to kick it back at the Imperial palace, wasting Kade gold like there is no end. The Bancroft cadet branch of the Kade family is eventually fed up, empties the Kade banks and flees back to Anglia. Asserting their father's authority, they convince the old Kade council to accept the Bancroft as new overlords and shut off Anglia.
308 AC Summer
A year after the closing of Anglia's ports and seclusion, Noble families secede from the Regalian Empire one by one as the government had descended into a three way civil war between the princes. The military element is the largest, but the Republican guard are sizable, mostly relying on non-Humans to bolster their forces. Meanwhile the de-facto Emperor Reynaud is supported by foreign nations like The Qadir sultanate which continues to hope to accelerate the collapse of the Empire. The first noble family (beyond those who thought they had allies and died in Regalia) that formally falls is the Coen family. Their lands revolt against what little remains of their family, not having the advantage of blue blood or long loyal lineage in country lands. The remnants flee north into Ravenstad and Bancroft lands which work more closely together to guard their southern borders.
308 AC Winter
Regalia suffers a crippling famine followed by various plague outbreaks. As much as one fourth of city's population would die at an exponential rate for the next five years. Birth rates plummet, graveyards are overworked and dead pile up in the streets or the crown river.
315 AC Summer
The Fong family flees back to Yang-tzu after a series of explosions destroys nearly the entirety of the Eastern Rim Isles. Similarly the Drixagh lands split away and return back to a barbaric nomadic state. The Regalian civil war endures and has gained a new fourth contestant, the son of Princess Adelheid Ivrae has taken up the banner with his newly wed wife, Andrea Anahera, to invade the north. Forced to push into Dragenthal, desperate for the food excess that Anglia is hoarding, Anahera and Ivrae troops clash with Ravenstad and Kade troops. Dragenthal turns into a complete war zone as whole cities are leveled due to the rampant use of magic in the desperation to capture the grain barns of Anglia.
318 AC
Regalia suffers massive exoduses where ships are used in large quantities to levy people from the Regalian Isle to New Ceardia and Fendarfell, hoping the colonial lands offer a better future. The famine and disease in Regalia continues where the effective lawlessness has split the city into competing districts. Due to the ongoing civil war that is also fought largely in the Regalian underground and Palatial districts now, hundreds of soldiers dying over small meters of gains, the city of Regalia has truly descended into anarchy.
321 AC
Frederick Kade and Charlotte Moselberg are killed when the republican movement is crushed and all ring leaders are executed. The republican movement had lost traction recently either way, the concept of democracy was completely out of the window when the city ran out of food and citizens attacked one another just for scraps of bread.
326 AC
The war between Anahera-Ivrae and Ravenstad-Bancroft grinds to a winter halt after both armies are too exhausted to continue. Large bands of criminals rove all over the countryside of Anglia and Dragenthal, smuggling food back to Regalia. While this alleviates the constant food shortage in Regalia, it results in the collapse of Anglian production. Cedric Bancroft eventually sticks the middle finger to everything and sails off into the sunset with the Laridae. Percy Ravenstad is stubborn and stays to defend his family's precious assets in Michellons, but is eventually overrun by criminal elements as Andrea Anahera has shifted to bribing criminals to engage in a thuggish guerrilla warfare.
331 AC
The colonial realms like Ithania and Nordskag have long since left the Regalian commonwealth, though only now have they officially announced their independence. Despite the utter collapse of Regalia itself, the colonial realms are doing relatively fine. Ithania is largely protected by Nordskag which gains a huge population boost after refugees mostly from Northerne populations flee to join this nation.
333 AC
Daendroc completely collapses as Daenshore becomes so over packed with refugees and citizens that a single disease kills nearly half the population in a few months. Many conclude this disease was actually magical of origin and made by the Elves. The Elves mostly benefit from the collapse of the Empire as they were able to grow uninhibited. Many technologies left behind by the collapsing Empire were used against the Orcs who start tethering on the edge of annihilation at the hands of the Elves.
340 AC
The Qadir Sultan finally invades the Regalian crown Isle with an army after decades of waiting. The people in the city welcome him with open arms in the hopes that he will free them of lawless existence, though he instead starts enslaving tens of thousands of citizens and selling them back to Farahdeen. The Orcs in Daensdroc meanwhile have gone underground into the caves of the northern half of the continent, a new Elven Empire is proclaimed and goes to war with Lusits and Ithanian in an attempt to reclaim the old Elven lands.
350 AC
New nations arise in Fendarfell and New Ceardia, the colonial realms having widened so much with population influx from migration that new kingdoms and republics form in the wake of the Regalian Empire's collapse.
370 AC
The Elven Empire completely overruns Ithania and Daenshore, eventually deciding to avoid Nordskag to avoid a protracted winter war. Fendarfell is up next as one by one smaller Human kingdoms fall to the Elven Empire which now stretches almost the entire length between Hyarroc and upper Fendarfell.
390 AC
The Cold war that previously existed between the various Empire has been replaced with the Qadir sultanate and the Elven Empire. While some races enjoyed equal rights in Regalia before, everything has generally gone backwards. Tigrans as a race have gone nearly extinct or were re-enslaved by the Elves. Dwarves, without the support of the Humans in Ellador and the Regalian Empire's technological support, have dwindled in numbers. In Grebor only about 30,000 pure Dwarves remain, it is believed they will all go extinct within 20 years.
420 AC
A 10 year war has been raging between the Elven Empire and the Qadir Sultanate over the Regalian Archipelago. These lands are now utterly scarred from constant conflict between Regalian nobles who sought to declare independence and then turned on one another. Both the Qadir and Elves, relying heavily on Magic, use the force of the Void so rampant that in one particular battle, it completely tears open the veil between the Void and the Alorian realm, signalling another Void Invasion.
421 AC
The Qadir and Elves completely powerless without their magic and exhausted from fighting one another, utterly collapse as the Void Invasion consumes their lands. One by one continents go dark as demonically twisted beings eradicate all life.
423 AC
The Isles of Yang-Tzu are shielded from the Void invasion by some hybrid form of magic between Primal and Vice magic. The Ch'ien-ji ride out the void invasion.
591 AC
With the void invasion in a distant memory, the Yang-Tzu isles open to the world again and colonize the remnants of the destroyed world. All former races are gone, missing from the world. Some Dakkar still remain deep within the crusts of Gana-Isha. Some Isldar still remain deep in the frosty mountains, but the Ch'ien-ji thrived after the Wulong war ended when mind magic was developed. With their enthralled Wulong Slaves, the Ch'ien-ji build a massive Empire over the course of two millennial which eventually also collapses at the hands of the Void infestations as rampant magic use unleashes yet another Void Invasion. And so the cycle continues on and on, forever.
It is unlikely to ever happen. But what would your character do if the government collapsed? Would they see the dangers coming? How would they act if bread was suddenly no longer available. Would they seize the sword to fight for food? Would they flee to the colonies? How far is your character willing to go to ensure survival? These are all cool things to think about in an almost apocalyptic sense. Never has a radical government transition gone over peacefully. The idea that rebels could just kill a few politicians and re-vitalize Regalia as a democracy without a hitch is a fairy tale. Be challenged to write how you think the collapse of government and ensuing anarchy will affect your character!
My Mu-Allar, Alaza, would most likely stay in Regalia, not seeing the dangers, she'd most likely also result to cannibalism if she had too, and would try to help with the rebellion against all the guards killing Tigrans, Ur, Maiar, ect.
