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Not only cannons made their advances, Dwarves made good use of new technological exchange and dug deeper than ever before with Regalian Black Powder. In various Dwarven settlements in southern Ellador, deep tundra mining has revealed strange springs producing gasses. These gasses were originally found to be highly toxic, but when captured inside a balloon, provided intense buoyancy, even more so than heated air. Dwarves immediately started experimenting with balloons and found the gas had various advantages over conventional airships powered by super heated air. The gas was nonflammable, meaning ships were effectively safe from fire arrows. Additionally the gas was much more intensely buoyant, and required no constant heating to remain in the air. It took several months to create various ways to force ships back to the ground, but eventually when the Dwarves developed a hook-reel system that could safely pull airships down, followed by Regalia showing interest in purchasing large quantities of the new developments. With Regalia now pouring piles of gold onto the Dwarves for their gas and technology, Regalia's arsenal was expanded with more reliable, faster and larger airships able to carry more materials and personnel. The entire face of the way the Regalian Empire was to fight wars in the future was to change forever, but change was not only confined to the Army itself.
The Imperial seat was in relative turmoil due to the government instability of the past years, and the increased power of the nobility started infringing ever more on the royal prerogative. In order to preserve the religious stature of the Imperial seat, the Emperor agreed with the Sanchella of Union to create a separate sovereign body to rule all of the Regalian sub-states, including the Empire, separately. This new sovreign body was still confined to the Imperial Crown Isle, but encompassed only the Imperial district and the Imperial Palace, maintaining its own strict direct control by the Emperor. By separating the emperor from the Regalian Empire itself, the Empire changed from an Absolute Monarchy to an Oligarchic State overnight, with the Emperor federally declaring his spiritual and foreign guidance to all states equally. All states within the Regalian commonwealth became formally part of the Regalian Empire, though were all treated as federal states of the Emperor, even the Archipelago itself. The Empire was becoming so large and populated that direct control of the Archipelago and treating all other lands like colonies was no longer feasible, as seen by the populist riots in Daendroc and the various Archipelago lands. In some cases even the rural lands of Anglia and Calemberg as a whole almost had as much inhabitants as the Imperial capital itself.
OOC Summary of Lore happenings:
- The Emperor and The "Church of Union" seceded from Regalia to form a sort of "Papal State" which functions as a doming government over all federal Regalian states as federal government.
- Duchies and Counties in many cases are treated as their own countries. The various lands in the Regalian Archipelago have become so intensely populated that the central government can no longer control them all, resulting in semi-autonomy for local rulers.
- Lighter-than-air gas has been developed by Dwarves called Loftoren Gas. This results in making airships more reliable and larger, though still only affordable to richer characters.
- Older ring-cannons are replaced by more reliable Déculverts, heralding the frequent use of field artillery in mixture with infantry tactics for the Regalian army. These cannons are for now, patented to the Regalian army, but various local foundries can make a few for rulers of semi-autonomous lands.
