Soronaca

Soronaca Aulian De Porphyropolis is an author, politician, and military leader in the Drakeslands. At the end of Eldham, he was the mayor of Porphyropolis and Viceroy of Las Islas Doradas, co-leading the Kingdom of Amarillo.

Depending on the context and the period, he can also be called Soronaca Trichechi (before his marriage with Delta), Soronaca Trichechi Aulian (rarely), Soronaca Aulian, or Soronaca de Porphyropolis.

The fall of the Drakaen Concordat
Soronaca was born as a walrus in the Frostbite, near New Yoake, but always felt a bit different. He was kidnapped by Salazar Van Den Green, who took him as his pet.

He eventually began to talk, so Green taught him everything he needed to know about human history, traditions, and life in general, and gave him a house in his city under construction : Puerto Amarillo. Soronaca integrated himself well into Puerto Amarillo, becoming friend with Lhytt Poliorcetes and designing the city's flag.

During the fall of Drakaes, Soronaca participated in the first meetings of the newly created Coalition of the Bay of Peace, and fought at Jorvick.

Soronaca wrote the first rules of the Coalition of the Bay of Peace, to prevent it from collapsing. He also did a speech in favour of it when some former members from New Haven wanted it to be dissolved.

He did what he wanted to do since he became a citizen of Puerto Amarillo : he built a library in the city, and began to gather books inside of it., including the masterpiece Pink Mongus.

Though he had no real political power, Soronaca gradually became kind of influential in the newly formed Republic of Amarillo and in the League of The Bay of Peace. When the Amarillian president Wyattmanboss85 stepped down, Soronaca got elected and took his place.

President
During his presidency, he sent Amarillian troops to the battle of Tamarin, and he was one of the main actors behind the transformation of the League of the Bay of Peace to the League of Vircon. He proposed the non agression pact between Vircon and Andliria, seemingly putting an end to the tensions between Amarillo and Andliria. It's during his presidency that Onumozaki joined the Republic, even though it wasn't his deed.

He also created the Amarillians orders of Merit, and gave medals to Delta Sien, Salazar Van Den Green, and Lhytt Poliorcetes.

Lhytt's presidency
During Lhytt's presidency, Soronaca became a secretary in the League of Vircon, and the minister of foreign affairs. As such, he was one of the most involved persons in the Kibris war, recruiting spies, negociating with Ananas, and taking part in the strategy meetings. He fought in the first battle, and in the second, stayed to protect Mirai from an eventual attack, because troops from Otello were seen near the city some times before, as if they were scouting. During the battle, Ananas fled. When he came back, he surrendered to Soronaca. Soronaca became the Virconian governor of Kibris to oversee its destruction.

Between the two battles, he also participated in the Nido Games, where he lost the boat race and almost murdered Ananas but, most importantly, confessed his feelings and became Delta Aulian's fiance.

Secretary general
After Lhytt's presidency, Soronaca became minister of Home affairs of Amarillo and, most importantly, Secretary General of the League of Vircon. As such, he participated in every important event the League had to witness during this time.

He eventually married Delta, and began to be called Soronaca Trichechi Aulian, and later Soronaca Aulian, taking the surname of his wife.

Along with Lhytt, he got the idea to get Amarillo involved in the war between Uraka and Barbossa, to gain some islands they wanted for months. It worked, and Soronaca became the mayor of the first Amarillian town in these islands, Porphyropolis.

Soon after, when Lhytt became president again, Soronaca became minister of the Armed Forces and began to reform the Amarillian military. Though, his secretary general role still took most of his time.

He, along with his wife, created the Virconian Volunteer Company of the USSE army, and encouraged Virconian citizens to fight in the Merconis-Zamotz war, even though the League as a whole wasn't involved.

At the end of his term as secretary general, he launched the Kelp War, after worrying reports of the Drakaen Sea rising. He had, before that, participated in building dams all around the Drakaen Sea to protect the land and the civilian population from the ocean rising. He was appointed general commander of the League's forces for the kelp war.

The end of Vircon
In December 2021, after the Holy Drakaen Empire crisis, the League of Vircon collapsed. While Amarillo left the League, Soronaca, along with the new secretary general Salazar Van Den Green, continued to work in and for the League even more than in Amarillo, to help Valreach against the rebels. In the end, despite the Holy Drakaen Empire being disbanded, the League was seen as impossible to reform and was dissolved in early January 2022. Soronaca continued his efforts in the Kelp war, and stayed one of Amarillo's top officials for the entirety of the following period, as leader of the armed forces.

Cold war
After the end of the League of Vircon, high tensions between Amarillo and its former allies of the League, Catania and Valreach, gathered in the newly formed VCC, quickly broke out.

During this entire period, Soronaca kind of engaged in double dealing. On the one hand, he served Amarillo faithfully and always did what he thought was in the interest of his nation. On the other hand, concerning the various conflicts between Amarillo and the VCC, he did not blindly support his nation's official position but, depending on the situation, supported whoever he thought was right at the time. Overall, he represented with Salazar Van Den Green (until his impeachment) the moderate wing of the Amarillian government : he was mostly opposed to aggressive expansion to the west, and supported getting closer to the VCC and cooperating with it. His wife Delta Aulian played a similar role on the other side, being a Valrean official but wanting good relations with Amarillo. They were even often suspected of more or less being double agents for the opposite party.

Soronaca consistently ran in presidential elections against Knarr, where he was always beaten. A lot of elections had suspicious incidents or interventions of "foreign voters", and Soronaca suffered at least one smear campaign to prevent him from being elected, though no election was rigged against him.

There was a single moment where Soronaca moved on from moderation to aggressivity towards the VCC. He indeed saw the creation of Gardenia and its protection by the Commonwealth as a provocation, and a foreign intrusion in Amarillo's own affairs. Had the war against Skjoldrbrodir ended well for Amarillo and its allies, Soronaca would probably have supported a war against the VCC.

In late march 2022, the cold war came to an end when the Drakaen Commonwealth, new name of the VCC, chose to help Amarillo against potential traitors rather than support them. Some weeks after, Kawaii Poliorcetes would tore appart the Amarillian constitution and create the Junta. Soronaca, unwilling to let go democracy, fled the capital and created a democratic army, starting the Amarillian civil war.

The Amarillian civil war
Main Article: Amarillian Civil War

In the civil war, Soronaca led the democratic forces. After winning the battle of Verdesburg with foreign volunteer Logui Fielinya despite being severely outnumbered, he was proclaimed Imperilan by his troops, though quickly made the title fully military, distancing it from its Andlirian political equivalent, to limit civilian backlash. Leading the now Imperilano forces, he managed to get the few Republicans that had left him back in his camp and, with their help and help from Catanian king Rodnim, his son thanks to stock exchange, he took back Puerto Amarillo and took Kawaii Poliorcetes, King of the Junta, prisonner.

Due to the rather wide popular support the Junta had, the fear of a foreign Arktanian intervention, and the fear of a pro-junta guerilla warfare in the Mohadi towns, Soronaca, thanks to the help of his friend Lhytt Poliorcetes, reached a compromise with the former's son : Kawaii would stay king, but his power would be limited by a democratic constitution, while the civil war would be considered a democrat victory, the most important democrats would receive awards, but the juntistas would receive amnesty as not to divide the nation further.

Simultaneously, he also participated in a new more intense phase of the kelp war, spearheaded by Catanians. He would most notably participate in person to the raid on Ambrosia, a terrorist attack on the southern city launched to prove the dangers of kelp to those who doubted them. The raid, despite being very spectacular and causing some damage, didn't cause the death of any victim.

Temporary government member, prime minister, and Drakaen leader
Soronaca was, along with SSiTon of Onumozaki, Lhytt Poliorcetes (later replaced by McBabwe), and King Kawaii Poliorcetes, a member of the temporary government. As such, he participated in creating the Kingdom of Amarillo's constitution. After the constitution was voted in and proclaimed, he became the Kingdom's first Prime minister, though only temporarily, while waiting for the first elections.

When Catania left the Drakaen Commonwealth in may 2022, Soronaca, seeing this as an opportunity to assert Amarillo's diplomatic dominance over the Drakeslands, quickly organised a Drakaen Summit. Due to the chaotic situation in the DC, in Soronaca's mind, Amarillo could, at that moment, shape the future of international relations in the Drakeslands almost as it wished. At the summit, he announced the creation of the Treaty of Puerto Amarillo, a mutual defense pact of Drakaen nations against foreigners, that would several times be misunderstood, leading to its abandonment months later, and that Amarillo would join the Drakaen Commonwealth to fill Catania's boots and introduce an era of cooperation between Drakaen nations.

Soronaca, due to his military past, would then become the Supreme Commander of the Drakaen Commonwealth's common military, on top of still being the highest ranked soldier in his home nation.

It is as Supreme Commander of the Drakaen armies that Soronaca would participate, in the end of June 2022, to the vote regarding the future of the Drakaen Commonwealth. Being left with the choice of either dissolving the commonwealth or merging its members into a single nation, Soronaca chose to prioritize Amarillo and vote for dissolving the organisation. As about half of the highest officials of the Commonwealth agreed with him, the Commonwealth was dissolved, leading its members into a troubled period.

Minister of foreign affairs
After the fall of the Drakaen Commonwealth, several countries claimed lands from its members, and Valreach had to face several rebellions after it announced it would become a Simulami vassal.

Soronaca, considering the current Prime Minister, McBabwe, unfit to lead the nation through such a troubled time, participated in launching an impeachment against him, which was successful. He then became the minister of foreign affairs of the next prime minister, Potatus Inferro, leading Amarillo's foreign policy along with King Kawaii.

The crisis would in the end not have very important effects in Amarillo, especially compared to Valreach. Soronaca's attitude towards the Nidaros rebellion was ambiguous : while he moslty wanted Nidaros to succeed, he also wasn't in any way hostile to Valreach, and didn't do anything to support Nidaros. After the suicide of his wife Delta, he however got involved more concretely and forced the two sides to do a truce until the funerals of his wife would be over.

In the beginning of July, Soronaca, upholding the treaty of Puerto Amarillo and considering Gardenia as, besides Amarillo itself, "the last free Drakaen nation", sent Amarillian help to Gardenia against Limuria. When the Gardenian government completely abandonned the struggle, disregarding completely the efforts and the will of both their population and their allies, Soronaca tried, as its population wished, to take control of the Drakaen part of Gardenia and annex it into Amarillo, but failed.

On the 13th of July, King Kawaii abdicated. After all of his potential heirs were considered unfit to rule by parliament, Soronaca de Porphyropolis became king of Amarillo on the 26th of July 2022.

King of Amarillo
Part of Soronaca's reign can be considered one of the golden ages of Amarillo.

The new king made efforts to finally conclude the kelp war, at least in the Drakaen sea, continuing Operation Salema, he had launched in his last days as minister of foreign affairs. Rather quickly, the kelp war removed in the entirety of the Drakaen sea, and the only thing that was left to do was lower the sea back to its original level. Though, Pasifa, a kingdom built on artificial islands in the Drakaen sea, refused the lowering of the sea. After unfruitful attempts at negotiation, Soronaca declared war to Pasifa in September 2022, considering, out of principles, Amarillo couldn't accept Pasifa's conditions for lowering the sea level while Pasifa had, in his eyes, almost always been a hindrance for everyone around it, and accepting their conditions when they were one once again would only encourage them to continue. Launching the Pasifa war would later be considered by Soronaca one of the biggest mistakes of his reign, even though it ended in a victory for Amarillo and its allies from the Nachtenreich and the VVR.

Soronaca first thought of the war as a small scale conflict that wouldn't have big consequences other than the inevitable lowering of the sea levels and teaching Pasifa once and for all it couldn't keep annoying all of its neighbours. Though, as time went on, seeing the Pasifans' tenacity, strategy and war goals, Soronaca understood the war had escalated out of proportions. He felt more and more compelled to completely destroy Pasifa, but renounced to do it and stuck to his original war goals, always trying to prevent the war from escalating further while still trying to win.

Though, due to his horrible relations with the Pasifan leaders, he could not reach peace even after seizing control of the Pasifan capital. Peace was only reached thanks to the efforts of Prime minister Laetizia Poliorcetes in late November 2022. From then on, Soronaca more or less tried to mend relations with Pasifa, at least stopping completely to be aggressive towards the island kingdom. He stopped caring at all about the relations between Amarillo and Pasifa months later, after the end of his reign, when he learnt that Pasifa had, from the beginning of the peace, planned not to respect the treaty's conditions and not to pay the reparations it had to pay to Amarillo.

Under Soronaca's reign, the Kingdom of Amarillo also reached its territorial peak, annexing peacefully the Kingdom of Aurica in late August 2021.

Emperor
After the end of the war with Pasifa, Soronaca was burnt out. He still fulfilled his day to day obligations well, but didn't show a lot of initiative.

Meanwhile, many important people in both Amarillo and the Nachtenreich wanted the two countries to merge into a single empire. Soronaca, while not being very enthusiastic about it, participated, as it seemed that it was what his people and his allies all wanted, making sure Amarillo was the senior partner. As soon as the Twilight Empire of Amarillo, resulting from the merge, was proclaimed, Simulami and Valreach threatened it with war due to their very tense relations with the Nachtenreich. Soronaca refused to bow to their ultimatum. However, instead of preparing the country for war, as he, and most of the nation, seemed exhausted by the recent war with Pasifa, Amarillo, led by Soronaca and other high ranking diplomats, tried to reach a compromise with Simulami preserving Amarillo's best interests while maintaining peace. This led to the treaty of Varasopolis, considered humiliating by many, the dissolution of the Twilight Empire, and the independence of all the constituent members of the former Nachtenreich, some of which joined Amarillo, which reformed itself into the Amarillian Empire. Afterwards, Soronaca began to consider accepting to create the Twilight Empire and refusing to declare a war that could have been won against Simulami and Valreach were, along with declaring war to Pasifa, the biggest mistakes of his reign.

Soronaca led the Amarillian Empire through the first weeks of its existence. Though, disgusted by the Twilight Empire crisis, doubting his own choices and feeling exhausted from diplomacy, he abdicated in favour of his daughter Connie de Porphyropolis on the 13th of January 2023.

From then on, Soronaca mostly stayed in las Islas Doradas, which he led as both Governor and Mayor of Porphyropolis.

The Second civil war
During the second Amarillian civil war, Soronaca maintained his province's neutrality and prepared his town to face an attack from either side. After the war ended, despite what he had planned since the beginning, Soronaca refused to join the winning side. This was because the newly formed Republic of Amarillo, despite having rebelled against Soronaca's daughter, Connie, accepted to uphold the decisions she had illegally taken, mostly selling Mikanie and part of Amarillo's mainland to Altryae, and most importantly joining the newly formed Western Drakaes. This made Soronaca, who wanted to preserve Amarillo's independence above all, keep Las Islas Doradas out of the republic, and out of West Drakaes.

From the subsequent dissolution of the Amarillian Empire and reestablishment of the independent Kingdom of Amarillo and until the end of Eldham, he would co-lead the nation's executive power as Virrey de Las Islas Doradas, along with his granddaughter, queen Josefina I.

Political career in the Second Republic
Despite being one of the leaders of the Kingdom of Amarillo, which did not recognise the Republic and the other way around, Soronaca still was a citizen of the Republic and of Zie Western Drakaes. At first, he did not participate at all in the Republic's politics, and only cared about his kingdom. However, he ran for president in october 2023, after McBabwe's constitution was proclaimed. Soronaca's campaign was focused on replacing McBabwe's constitution, which he considered as undemocratic and poorly written.

He was elected, and after pushing McBabwe's constitution to its limits by exploiting every loophole he could find in it, he wrote a new constitution and, after a vote of the Amarillian people, it was adopted by the Second Republic of Amarillo. Soronaca's constitution would stay the Republic's fundamental law until the end of Eldham in march 2024.

From the end of his president (now consul) term until the end of Eldham, Soronaca kept being one of the most influential politicians in the Republic of Amarillo, often holding the office of Secretario del Pueblo (see the constitution).

He opposed McBabwe's attempt to secede from Drakaes despite being pro-independence as it did not take into account the people's opinion and was considered anti-democratic. He also participated in renovating Puerto Amarillo after the secession attempt, during which the city was unclaimed, and was even named vice-mayor by mayor Kuiper.

He ran for consul again in february 2024, for a term that would end in late march, and so that would last until the end of Eldham. One of his most important promises was to organise another independence referendum. However, due to Drakaes' opposition and, most importantly as he planned to do it whether they liked it or not, more pressing issues with Valreach and Pasifa, that needed to be dealt with first, he did not do it before Eldham closed.

For a good portion of his term, Soronaca was on a huge expedition out of the Drakeslands, and left his friend and trusted right hand man Legate Diego Velasco replace him the Republic as much as he legally could. Both in the Kingdom and the Republic, Soronaca later commented Velasco's job as perfect, describing it as being exactly what he would have done in his place.

Soronaca's last term as consul marked the peak of the reconciliation and cooperation between the Republic and the Kingdom of Amarillo which, despite not recognising each other, cooperated and acted together on many matters. It was of course made far easier by the fact Soronaca was a consul of the Republic and a Viceroy in the Kingdom. During the second half of his consular term, the other consul too, Liliana de Kibris y Las Mareas, was one of the Kingdom's Viceroys.

==== Travels south ==== After a party with Puerto Amarillo's upper crust, in which he consumed Nidaros special, Soronaca had visions, comparable to others he had before that were sent by the Dragon, a mysterious spirit linked to the caves of Nidaros, Drakaes and several important people of the Drakeslands, mainly his wife Delta. In his visions, he saw his wife, alive. After a confirmation of his interpretation of the visions by the Oracle of Porphyropolis, he considered them as trustworthy, and grew to think Delta was still alive, and had gone back to her birthplace, Oncatea, after the Twilight Empire crisis.

As such, he organised an exploration expedition to the south, to find Oncatea and, hopefully, his wife. While this was Soronaca's personnal motivation for the expedition, it also had diplomatic, commercial and scientific goals, aiming to find new trade routes, new diplomatic partners, and acquire new scientific knowledge.

The expedition, led by Soronaca, involved people and assets from both the Kingdom and the Republic. Its three ships, the ASS Flamenco II (Salazar Van Den Green's ship), the ASS Etruiano, and the ASS Rey Kawaii left Porphyropolis for a travel that would last several years. After visiting or re-visiting many well known cities, such as Arrakis, Kazkaya, Horizonte, or even Ambrosia and going through many seas and rivers, the small fleet successfully left Eldham from the South.

After finding a new continent, and an unknown fruit in the Drakeslands, the orange, the fleet arrived in Oncatea, only to find out Delta was not there. The Amarillians stayed several months in Oncatea, and then left on an other very long boat journey to Puerto Amarillo. The expedition was however not fruitless, as it allowed the Amarillians to discover trade routes, make new relations, acquire new knowledge, and bring back to Amarillo the oranges they discovered and grow them there.

In Oncatea, Soronaca met Delta's brother, and became his close friend. A few Amarillians chose to stay in the southern city, while a few Oncateans chose to go with the Amarillians, including one of his brother-in-law's grandsons. In the honour of all of those people, the ASS Etruiano was renamed ASS Oncateano.

Return home
When Soronaca returned home, he was caught in the middle of a civil war spanning all accross Drakaes. He led the Republic through it, engaging its fleet in a battle in Varasopolis, where he killed his wife, finally freeing her from the Dragon of Nidaros' caves. Between his return and the end of Eldham, he also took over from Velasco and participated in the RSS' operation Drunken Bargainings, with the Republic, the Kingdom, and Drakaes.

After the end of Drakaes' civil war, he came to his granddaughter Josefina's weddings, where she wore Delta's mother's dress, that her brother Soronaca met in Oncatea gave him, as in Oncatea, the tradition dictates that the eldest daughter of a family must marry wearing her mother's wedding dress.

After his granddaughter's weddings, Soronaca finished his term of Consul of the Republic working on Puerto Amarillo's urbanism. Afterwards, he stopped his political career in the Republic and, while keeping his titles there, became less involved in the Kingdom's politics as well. He continued to work mostly as Puerto Amarillo and Porphyropolis' upkeeper and as a historian. One day, he left from Porphyropolis with a ship and just enough people to use it. Since then, rumors say a ship with an Amarillian name and Amarillian flags is sometimes seen in the southern seas, between the USSE and Oncatea...

Creations
Even though his main occupation is politics, Soronaca is also the most well known writer in Amarillo, and the most well known clothing designer in the Drakeslands.

Clothes
Soronaca is the founder and main designer of Rosmarus, Porphyropolis' biggest clothing company. As part of Rosmarus or independently from it, Soronaca created a lot of clothes, both for private people and for countries needing uniforms. Among others, he created the uniforms of Amarillo and Valreach, and clothes for Delta Aulian, Maria Canalopin, Vix Aulian...

Books
Soronaca is part of Nivellan Books Publisher.

List of his books in order of publication (the ones created for Porphyropolis' library temporary exhibitions are not listed) :

-Military Manual is a book explaining his vision on how a military should be organised.

-Roberto's Tale is the story of dream Soronaca made after consuming Nidaros Special.

-The battle of Kibris gives his point of view about the first battle of Kibris.

-The Walrus, part 1 is the first part of his autobiography. It begins at his birth and ends with his speech in defense of the League of the Bay of Peace.

-The Walrus, part 2 is the second part of his autobiography. It goes from the end of the first part to the beginning of Lhytt Poliorcetes' first presidency.

-Short biography of Salazar Van Den Green is, as its name implies, a biography of Salazar Van Den Green, adapted from the information from his museum.

-Cultural atlas of the Drakeslands is exactly what its name implies. (as opposed to all the others, this is a google document and not an in game book)