Candiels

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Region Details
Continent	Dwilight
Region Type	City
Geographic Area	South Mediterranean
Population	9079
Economy	N/A
Politics
Realm / Duchy	Artificers' Coalition / The Forge
Local Lord

'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. Great fortress walls, the crenellations of Candiels span the length and breadth of the city, garrisoned by the Royalist Regiment miliciens réservistes, further manned by the Chevaliers du Hausos Auziwandilaz under the command the gentry of Aurvandil. The city has overcame numerous sieges, from both the eastern Pirate menace of Madina, the vast rogue swarms of the Marrocidens Wilds, and in times past, seen the walls stand strong before an opposing Zuma horde.

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

"Serve the Sovereign, Protect the People, Ave Auziwandilaz"

Duke Mendicant Anhanger was anointed Duke of Candiels (Governor in the Madinian republic) in the Thirteenth year of Dwilight colonisation, his immediate reign of the city was marked by vast and expansive civil works in and around the Candielia, alongside military operations deeper into the Maroccidens wilds. During the foundation of the League of Free Nations in the great struggle against northern religious tyranny, Candiels became the centre of military preparation and operations for the march north, funding the army and expedition north, which was ended prematurely when Duke Mendicant Anhanger was crowned Monarch of Candiels, later to be the impetus for the signing of the Commonwealth, thus creating the Candielian Kingdom and Commonwealth of Aurvandil; free from the autocratic corruption of the Madinian republic, and the acts of piracy and ignobility committed by the "Eastern Pirate Menace". Aurvandil then became a centre of civilisation in the southern Maroccidens, expanding across the wilds and forcing the rogues deeper back in conjunction with the Marwood Republic of Barca; it would also be the centre of Chivalry and noble virtue in the south, extolling the ideals of Chivalry and courtly honour in the dusk of the infamy of the Pirate Republic.

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 Imperial residence of the High Sovereign, head of state for the Kingdom and Commonwealth, it serves its function also as the royal Palace of Aurvandil, heart of government for Candiels, constructed on the year 14YD shortly for the secession and royal coronation of the House Anhanger as the Royal Family of Aurvandil. The Palais is located in the centre of the Imperial Capital, encompassing the single largest section of land of any structure; it is most famous for the massive excesses of the aristocracy and the obscene grandiosity of its feast in the Grande-Salle in the shadow of the legendary marble Colossus of Mendicant Anhanger.