Regnum Fortunae

Regnum Fortunæ, also known as the Province of Fortuna or just Fortuna, is a subdivision in Viodoxa. It's capital is Fortuna and it stretches from the Andronikos Bay to the southern world border. The name Regnum Fortunæ means, in Traveler's Tongue, Fortunan Kingdom.

Culture
Most of the culture in the north of this province is derived from the Fortunans and the Fortunist religion. There's a Greco-Roman building design in these buildings and they spread throughout north of the province. Very similar cultures are the Kaisaran culture and the Lapithosi culture. For example, in the Lapithosi culture, buildings are more detailed on their walls and they use granite in their roofs instead of bricks like Fortuna. The largest culture, Fortunan, has also an own language.

The south of the province is dominated by Humans from Fjörgyien, who have a unique clay brick style, Foxterians from Vassa with their underground burrows and the people of Hierapolis, who are building a new city.

Geography
Fortuna is in southern/central Cymru, surrounded by the neighbouring provinces of Valron, Silvay, Demiarbez, Eisenland and Aussay. In the north there's a taiga biome and mountainous ranges, while in the south there's plains. The province has a very short coastline, but with populated cities, such as Fortuna and Kaisara, who are surrounded by the Andronikos Bay, in the Cursed Sea. There's also terraformed places like the cities of Fortuna, Kaisara and Lapithos.

History
The earliest record of the Fortunan Kingdom is more than 700 years ago upon the landing of the Rasennans. Heavily mythologised as a great awakening for the land, the Founding of Fortuna is unfortunately composed mostly of myth and barely any actual historical accounts survive of this early period.

It is known that during this period the Rasennan peoples, of which Fortuna was a part of, were incredibly divided into small villages which competed with each other for influence. The Fortunans, due to their advantageous position and a string of competant rulers, eventually came to dominate the other cities and became the new hegemon of the Rasennan peoples.

Before achieving their hegemony the Fortunans were occupied by the Rasennan mad King Domitius, who ordered that the men of Fortuna shall lay slain and their women and children he brought to their capital. Domitius was eventually killed by a stone sword right into his heart by the Fortunan Hero Tydides who put a Flavian back to the throne.

Fortunan Hegemony was shortlived and after a string of defeats and wars with the Barbarians to the south, the Fortunans were pushed back to their walls where they valiantly held off the Barbarians as they razed and pillaged their city. Only when a unit of cavalry lead by the Prince Alexandros, which earlier seemed to have fled battle, came back and delivered a devastating cavalry charge onto the Barbarians was Fortuna saved.

The period following this was one of reconstruction and a temporary collapse of the Fortunan Kingdom which ushered in the Fortunan Princedom period. The first Prince Alexandros, and his successors past him worked heavily to re-consolidate Fortunan holdings which eventually was achieved by the last Prince and first Basileus since the Sack, Basileus Phillipus Calpernius Justinianus. The Princedom still survives to this day as the title "high prince of the Rasennans" is still a title used by Fortunan monarchs as a remnant of this period.

After the re-establishment of the Kingdom, the Fortunans fought a long series of Maro-daenic wars which saw the Fortunans constantly battle the Barbarians in the cursed forests and saw Fortuna besieged multiple times with all attempts being repelled, multiple ambushes, entire legions being wiped out and a series of brutal campaigns. These wars, and the wars and sacks preceeding it, are seen as major reasons for the utter hate the Fortunans have for barbarians and their isolationism. After the Maro-daenic wars, where Fortuna stood victorious and eventually managed to repel the barbarians off their cursed forests where they were either assimilated into other cultures or naturally stopped following their old cultural traditions. The Fortunans still view the cursed forests as damned areas with barbarians still inhabiting it, however evidence for that is little.

Eventually, a string of incompetant Rulers would cause Fortuna to fall again and led to a peasant revolt that managed to overthrow the monarchy and created a shortlived republic. Soon the 20th Basileus of the Fortunans, Flavius Rex would eventually march back into Fortuna with a small army of exiles. By his Coronation Fortuna was just a village at the brink of Collapse, but through constant work and great rule by Flavius Rex, he managed to usher in another Rise for Fortuna.

It used to be the mainlands of Interium, an ancient province which, after declaring independence from the Second Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa, was couped by Greater Karolium. Little after the coup, Justinian declared that Fortuna was to join Seratovia as a new town as his last decree, but Karolium did not allow this and declared war on Fortuna. After the Siege of Fortuna, in which Karolium lost and had to give up half of their land, Fortuna joined Seratovia as they wanted, as Karolium's revenge desire became larger. A conflict erupted in Early December 2021, which ended in the Karolian annexation of all former Interium lands except the cities of Fortuna, Lapithos and Kaisara. Almost a week later, Seratovia's government reformed to the Third Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa as a response to Loic's return. After two battles in Viodoxa City, in which Loic won, Viodoxa surrended and the county was reformed to the Imperial Archonal Union of Viodoxa, with Fortuna as a new province.

The Early IAU Rebellions
On 12nd February 2022, Greater Karolium and J Horde declared independence from IAU due to "outrageous terms such as giving their capital cities to random players and disbanding their discords" according to the rebel side. On 21st February 2022, 9 days later, Greater Karolium surrended to the IAU forces after a coup, re-integrating them into the IAU as a part of the Regnum Fortunae, CarolvsRex being castrated and exiled, and Laythe only being exiled.

Amidst the rebellion, another revolution which was IAU-sided arose inside Karolium's soil. The southern Karolium towns rebelled because they were sick of war and the United Provinces of Southern Karolium were formed. Nonetheless, this country was short-lived and it was immediately integrated to the IAU, into the Province of Fortuna.

The Neko Virus
Ever since then, the province began to gain members slowly, and many cities began to develop, such as Vassa, Fortuna, Lapithos and Fjörgyien. On May 2022, a disease struck Viodoxa's population and many were infected, especially some in Fortuna, including Kogan, but despite this other towns were left untouched. A cure would be developed afterwards, but there was conflict amongst the many cures invented for this disease, the largest ones being the Fortuna's cure and Salapet's cure. The virus eventually came extinct and every town in the province lifted their quarantine and continued their daily lives.

Politics
It is an absolute monarchy governed by Flavius Rex, and it has a senate, and a Princeps Senatus.

The province is subdivided in 5 prefectures (praefecturius/praefecturii). They used to be counties but on Early March 2022 they were changed.

Fortuna City Prefecture (Praefectura Fortuna Urbi) is the capital prefecture of the province. It's capital is Fortuna.

Kaisara Prefecture (Praefectura Kaisara) is an artificial island in the Andronikos Bay. It's capital is Kaisara.

Lapithos Prefecture (Praefectura Lapithosia) is a prefecture-village to the east, and borders Valron.

Greater Enithica Prefecture (Praefectura Magnus Enithica), is a prefecture that borders the southern world border, and houses the ancient cities of Isren Draca and Red Tree Valley now Hierapolis and Fjörgyien respectively, as well as Vassa, which is home to the Foxterians, fox people with a very special culture and building style. Fjörgyien is dominated by Humans and Hierapolis by the Kurami, a species of fish humans.

This prefecture was created after the people of the south wanted to be unified and Flavius was convinced to allow it, after there was a protest march and the Archon Havi Asagrim intervened on the side of the people.

Holy Rasenna Prefecture (Praefectura Sancti Rasenna) is a special prefecture that serves as a holy site for Fortunist followers. It doesn't have a capital.