Empire of Thi'Vis

The Empire of Thi'Vis was forged at the beginning of the Years of Flames, in the aftermath of the fall of the Ri, by the First Triumvirate. When the great pillars of flame erupted and grand civilisation of the Ri collapsed, when the onslaught of the Adversaries razed the hive-cities of the Ri, three companies of their slave armies refused the call of their masters. Three soldiers declared themselves generals and overthrew their Ri commanders. With the strength and discipline, these companies spend the next three decades rebuilding civilisation in the aftermath and bringing back order to Thivis. This culminated the founding of the Empire of Thi'Vis, ruled by the generals which declared themselves the First Triumvirate.

After more than a century of order and a degree a prosperity, the Empire nevertheless fell into chaos with the deaths of the Third Triumvirate and the Imperial Family. However, while the Imperial Throne from that point onward lacked an occupant, the regional administrators continued to maintain the Empire. Over the years, the Empire existed less and less in actuality, and more and more in name only, with its various regions becoming increasingly independent - even outright warring among each other. Nevertheless, the existence of the Empire itself was never challenged by any of these rulers as it gave their rule a mantle of legitimacy.

As such, traces of the Empire remain today, from the Imperial Edicts, the Glassteel Towers, the Ivory Roads, its un-forgeable currency, simple things such as the Imperial Taxes, old treaties and animosities with the northern empire and the White Cities, the recital of the Imperial Pledge at dawn by every citizen - even the distinction between Imperial Citizens and others, as well as other now-decade old disputes.