The Empire of Velanya

Imperial Velanya is an empire the claims to continue the line and majesty of pre-cataclysm nation of Imperial Marranth. The nation is currently ruled by Empress Keralia Velanya.

History
The Imperial Velanyan Empire was founded in the MediaWiki:Badtitletext from the ashes of the Imperial Marranth Empire around 410 LCY. By The Poisoning of Marranth House Velanya was a small but influential noble house that was largely responsible for the upkeep and taxation of the northern reaches of the Empire. There is some disparity between the official records of Velanya, and what is recorded in the libraries of Luccini.

The Imperial Library of Velanya records that House Velanya was founded by the son of a fourth daughter of the Marranthine ruling family, House Marran. It is written this son, Ser Qwilean Velanya had led numerous campaigns to quell and subjugate the barbarians of the northern reaches before being awarded with his own High Lordship beginning the House of Velanya in 350 LCY. This noble house built its homestead on the site that would later become the Imperial Palace of Velanya. From here improved roads and taxation spread to all corners of the barbarian north that had once been a source of incursion to Marranth. House Velanya continued to grow in wealth and power, though their distance of their house from the Marranthine seat of power always left them dismissed from the upper echelons of Imperial politics. In the end, this distance may have been the main thing that allowed house Velanya to survive the poisoning of the Imperial Court of Marranth, and the subsequent downfall of the Empire. In 400 LCY, led by Ulgren Velanya, the Velanyans closed their meager borders (barely consisting of fifty miles in any direction from the capital) and successfully fought off the raiding hordes that brought low what remained of Marranth.

The archives of Luccini record a somewhat different story, however. It is written that the name Velanya is actually a name derived from Valya, or barbarian valley people that plagued the northern reaches of the Marranth Empire. These barbarian tribes, prior to about 350 LCY were known to cause significant disruptions to the Empire, to the point that their raids very nearly pushed south to the capital in the summer of 350 LCY. During this summer, the Imperial Marranthine ruling family contacted what they perceived to be the strongest chief among the barbarian tribes and offered to marry their fourth daughter, Amandis Marran, to him. With his acceptance, they made him a Lord in their Empire and charged him with the rule of the northern reaches of the Marranth Empire. This barbarian prince became known as Qwilean Velanya and with the support of the Marranthine army, he subjugated the other barbarian tribes and took control of the region, reporting to Imperial Marranth. Beyond this, the histories of Luccini and the Velanyans line up at least until The Poisoning of Marranth.