Verena

The High Kingdom of Verena is a Kingdom located in the south west region of Abexilas, it is an absolute monarchy that is headed by the Asparii Royal Family. It is a nation built upon peace, prosperity, and cooperation with its neighbors; with a government system heavily based upon meritocracy the Kingdom would be established as a place of beautiful architecture and military capability.

The Age of Tales
The Age of Tales is a time frame in which predates the end of the long succession crisis and the ascension of the First High Kingdom. Information of this era is not commonly found in historic documents but are prevalent in prophecy and tales among the old.

The Tribal Era
In the beginning of the known history, tales were told of the Asparii Tribes settling in the south-west with the motivation to create a land prosperous for their children. They began their feudalist ideas and structure soon after settlement in order to create a more organized way of life, most of their time was spent struggling to survive as large beasts and monsters ruled the region in which they called home. Overtime, the tribe began to populate more and gained an edge over the beasts and started to expand as a people. In order to continue the success of the large tribe the first King 'Rhoam I Asparii' was crowned and began the 'Era of Kingdoms'.

The Revelation
After the death of the first King, other tribes from outside of the region began to invade Verenii lands in order to conquer it. This long lasting conflict began to spread fear and hate among the large population of the region; because of this massive imbalance the Eternal Father Avaros revealed himself to the Verenii people in order to show them his teachings and the importance of balance. Avaros blessed one of the Kingdoms commoners with the powers of vision, prophecy, and reincarnation to teach the followers of Avaros the importance of cosmic balance until the end of time. This individual would become the first Holy Archon named 'Aurexis I' "the seer" who would continue to be reincarnated and the cycle of Holy Archons began.

The Kingdom of Stone
1300 after the Revelation, the Asparii line of Kings still prevailed and ruled the Kingdom of Verena in peace and harmony following the teachings and guide of Avaros. During this time the current King was 'Borexis XII' and the Holy Archon was 'Urex III' also known as "The Careless". The Holy Archon revealed to the King a prophecy of an incoming invasion of distant lands, however the King had already been considerably aged after a fourty-two year reign. His mistrust that his children can handle such an invasion caused him to search for other ways to prepare, overtime he began to seek for immortality because he was certain that he was the only one that could prevent the oncoming disaster. He invited witches, alchemists, wizards, sorcerers from distant lands to present him a path for immortality. Most were foolish however one mysterious hooded sorcerer promised the King he can find a way if he provided the funds to do so, in which the King trusted him. It is unknown why the King trusted this man however they continued to search. After four years the sorcerer finally presented the King with a ritual that would make him immortal but at the cost of sacrificing half of his Kingdoms population. The King was desperate and running low on time so he obliged. The ensuing ritual that is now known as the Magic Catastrophe of Boraxis, turned half of the kingdom's inhabitants into stone, including the immortalized king, frozen in the Cathedral of the Capital. The hooded sorcerer fulfilled his promise but the King was forever frozen into stone.

The Grand Succession Crisis
After the King was turned into stone and half of the population perished there was no designated heir to the throne. All thirteen children of King 'Boraxis XII' laid claim to the throne which began a large internal conflict and would escalate into open war. The war was a long and brutal era in Verenii history in which many of its people died terrible deaths, in the first five years there had been six different self proclaimed Kings that sat themselves in the throne of Seraphelle which didn't rule for more than a few months. Seventeen years into the civil war the next Holy Archon after 'Urex III' who was turned into stone, would proclaim the capital of Seraphelle under the jurisdiction of the Faith to save it from further destruction in the raging conflict. Generations pass and the civil war still rages on and most of the Asparii dynasty has perished with only two Princes left fighting for the throne. Prince Margon and Prince Ethoril would meet at the gates of Seraphelle for their last battle in which both would fall, as the battle settled a messenger arrived to the Holy Archon which would say:

'The Royal line of Asparii is not yet exctinct, as a boy was born to Prince Ethoril and his wife before the battle had commenced.'

This young boy would be brought the the capital and Holy Archon 'Aurexis XIV' proclaimed the eighty-four year long war to be over and presented the realm with their new King.