Candiels

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Region Details
Continent	Dwilight
Region Type	City
Geographic Area	South Mediterranean
Population	1
Economy	N/A
Politics
Realm	(rogue)

'Candiels (pronounced Can-De-Els) is a coastal port and capital city in the southern Maroccidens of Dwilight.

The Imperial City of Aurvandil, Centre of the Kingdom and Commonwealth, home to the court of High Sovereign, the Noblesse Chevaleresque of Aurvandil, seat of the Les Souverains Noblesse Militaires. The Fortress walls of Candiels span the length and breadth of the city, garrisoned by the Royalist Regiment miliciens réservistes as its static guardians, and further manned by the Chevaliers du Hausos Auziwandilaz, the gentry of Aurvandil. The city has withstood multiple sieges, from both the eastern Pirate menace, and the rogues of the Marrocidens Wilds, and in times past, seen the walls stand strong before an opposing Zuma army.

History of the Candielian People

A historic city of the Maroccidens, prior to the arrival of colonists in the year 0YD, the city had all but fallen to the wilds and rogues of the Maroccidens, as had all the lands for hundreds of miles in all directions, with only a shell of former defences and urban settlement left. It was retaken first by the Madina Republic, for a time.

Province of the Sea Faring Republic Of Madina

Little is recorded of the history of the city under Madina rule, save for rebellion and starvation of the city under Duke Vallyn Rothach. It was later recaptured by Lady Florence Endellion, Marshal of the Tower Battalion, who was granted governorship of the city by the then Grand Doge Langford for leading and funding the expedition to reclaim lost lands on the peninsula. During this time the population largely began to be regained, the walls and infrastructure brought into existence and the wealth and position of the city well secured, with the Fields of Candiels also captured and fortified against further rogue incursions. However its revival and success was short lived and forever ham-stringed by the lords of the Sea Faring Republic of Madina, the city starved under Duchess Florence until Ten Thousand where dead, with lords of Madina refusing to trade and sell agricultural produce and foodstuffs for anything but ridiculously high trading prices, unaffordable by a city of famine. When Duchess Florence was elected Grand Dogess of Madina, she appointed Mendicant Anhanger as its Governor and Duke in her stead. With the city once again seeing massive economic and demographic growth, it was not long before the city suffered another great famine and starvation, with the lords of the republic once again refusing to provide the city with food it greatly required.

During the reign of the Grand Dogess Florence, the Candiels duchy funded an expeditionary force to be sent north, made largely of the nobles of the Candiels duchy to support the League of Free Nations and the Republic of Caerwyn. The expeditionary force never left Madina soil, with political and economic turmoil ravaging the Sea Faring Republic of Madina, the Duke Mendicant was crowned High Sovereign in a public coronation ceremony in the city, leading to the secession of the city and the creation of the Kingdom of Aurvandil.

Seat of the Crown and Commonwealth

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Cour Impériale De La Noblesse De Chevalerie

Founded by the Royalist Government in the Dwilight year of 16YD, it is an Imperial Court of the Knightly Noblity of the Commonwealth and composed only of a selected body of vassals to the High Sovereign. It's function are primarily the command of the Gentry both landed and unlanded of the Kingdom, and the voicing of the will of the High Sovereign to his subjects, it is convened under the auspices of the Sovereign and acts as a lesser form of a governing body.

Assemblée de Royal Sovereign l'armée du Haut

Founded in the year 16YD under the Royalist government of the High Sovereign as the supreme military body of the Aurvandil Kingdom and Commonwealth. Lead and presided over by the High Sovereign, it is a military council of the nobilities and the Knight Hausos At Arms. It's primary function is the relaying of orders, commands and directives from both the High Sovereign and the Knight Hausos At Arms, as opposed to a traditional format of a council of war, it also serves as an emergency governing body over the Imperial city during any time of siege or great upheaval.

Palais Haut-Souverains

The royal residence of the High Sovereign, the Imperial Palace of Aurvandil and Candiels, constructed under the orders of Mendicant Anhanger in the year 14YD shortly after the secession and royal coronation of the House Anhanger as the Royal Family of Aurvandil.