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===Overseas Operations Base Kezan===
 
===Overseas Operations Base Kezan===
  
During the Fifth Age, the Second Antican Republic took control over Eleutherios and Akis, giving them their modern names, and established an Overseas Operations Base (OOB) to serve as a forward position against Shireroth as part of the greater Shireroth-Elwynn conflict. OOB Kezan, named in honor of [[Operation Light Blue Octopus]], was placed in the western part of Eleutherios. While some civilians settled in the southeastern part of Eleutherios near a port town that they came to call Idassa, the much of the two islands were left to its indigenous inhabitants, a network of farming and fishing villages of Holzer extract.
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During the Fifth Age, the Second Antican Republic took control over Eleutherios and Akis, gave them their modern names, and established an Overseas Operations Base (OOB) to be as a forward position against Shireroth as part of the greater Shireroth-Elwynn conflict. OOB Kezan, named in honor of [[Operation Light Blue Octopus]], was placed in the western part of Eleutherios. While some Antican citizens did settle in the southeastern part of Eleutherios, clustered around the island's meager port town, the islands were mostly left to its indigenous inhabitants, who lived a simple life in a network of farming and fishing villages of Holzer extract.
  
In 4915 ASC, the Second Antican Republic abruptly collapsed when a series of nuclear detonations wiped out much of the power grid of its core territory, followed by a widespread hijacking of the frontier drone force. A large percentage of the Antican population perished or fled. The territory of Kaikias-Overseas attempted to maintain control over Kaikias and the outlying regions and became a protectorate of the Elwynnese Union.
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In 4915 ASC, the Second Antican Republic abruptly collapsed in a violent series of autonomous weapons hijacking which irradiated their mainland and massacred much of the population. Kaikias-Overseas attempted to maintain control over the outlying regions, including Eleutherios and Akis. By the end of the Fifth Age, the protracted conflict made it to Kaikias itself, adding to the existing Antican diaspora.
 
 
By the end of the Fifth Age, the drones made it to Kaikias itself, leading to a final battle which eliminated the last vestiges of stability there. At roughly the same time, the Elwynnese Union joined Shireroth as an [[Subdivision#Imperial States|Imperial State]].
 
  
 
===Founding of the County Palatine===
 
===Founding of the County Palatine===

Revision as of 20:48, 28 October 2016

County Palatine of Kezan
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Feudal Status: Imperial Dominion
Capital: Fort Kezan
Largest Cities: Idassa

Local Leadership Title: Count Palatine of Kezan
Local Government: Dynastic Autocracy
Technocratic State
Current leader: Mira Octavius-Aryani

Local language: Antican English
Local Religion: Holodomatic School, minor Antican sects, Christianity

Kezan, also known as the County Palatine of Kezan is an Imperial Dominion of Shireroth, consisting of two islands, Elutherios and Akis, as well as a number of islets, sandbars, and artificial structures going 24 nautical miles outward from the coastline of the two main islands.

Kezan is under the perpetual rule of House Octavius, in accordance with Imperial Decrees 637 and 658.

History of the Islands

Before Antica (First through Fourth Ages)

The Islands of Eleutherios and Akis have an extensive history, beginning as an island just outside of the southern frontier of the United Baronies of Treesia. During the Third Era it fell under the control of a succession of states: the Empire of Shenzhou, the Republic of Kappitolya, the Nation of Alteria (who became a member of the Grand Commonwealth), the Empire of Norona. During the Fourth Age, Norona became the Holzer Empire before a period of decline and finally joining the Bovic Empire of Natopia as Holzborg.

Overseas Operations Base Kezan

During the Fifth Age, the Second Antican Republic took control over Eleutherios and Akis, gave them their modern names, and established an Overseas Operations Base (OOB) to be as a forward position against Shireroth as part of the greater Shireroth-Elwynn conflict. OOB Kezan, named in honor of Operation Light Blue Octopus, was placed in the western part of Eleutherios. While some Antican citizens did settle in the southeastern part of Eleutherios, clustered around the island's meager port town, the islands were mostly left to its indigenous inhabitants, who lived a simple life in a network of farming and fishing villages of Holzer extract.

In 4915 ASC, the Second Antican Republic abruptly collapsed in a violent series of autonomous weapons hijacking which irradiated their mainland and massacred much of the population. Kaikias-Overseas attempted to maintain control over the outlying regions, including Eleutherios and Akis. By the end of the Fifth Age, the protracted conflict made it to Kaikias itself, adding to the existing Antican diaspora.

Founding of the County Palatine

A. Oqtavion, an Antican Elwynnese citizen, by virtue of being in the Line of Kalir on the maternal side, ascended the Golden Mango Throne as Kaiser Aiomide in 5089 ASC. Following a break with the Elwynnese leadership, Aiomide re-established House Octavius and, alienated from Elwynn, sought to establish a new seat for this "new" noble house.

With Imperial Decree 636, the first steps were taken to create a genetic pool from which House Octavius could grow out from. With Imperial Decree 637, the islands of Eleutherios and Akis were reorganized into the County Palatine of Kezan, with House Octavius ruling it in perpetuity.

Late in Aiomide's reign, Stormark invaded Kaikias; a group of Kaikian refugees fled to Kezan under the promise that House Octavius would uphold the traditional Antican rights. Once Aiomide left the mortal plane, House Octavius passed on naming a successor, choosing instead to invest its attention in its new home in Kezan and its new subjects.