The Lakes Despotate

The Lakes Despotate is a militaristic successor state to Alaezia, ruled by acclaimed emperor Tamin II Ulshoth. Its economic capital is Halpax, but its political capital is Tanreve where the emperor has his court.

It was founded in 82 AF by Tamin Ulshoth, a general of Tibernian descent whose father had been commander of the Western Legion, the division of the Alaezian army tasked with watching the frontier with the dwarves and one which had fought ofen with the Dwarven Alliance.

The Western Legion was the division of the army which was least scathed by the civil war and arcane chaos which took place during The Fall, largely because they sheltered in the mountains, and none of their generals were involved with the senatorial intrigue.

Many officers of the Western Legion owned land around fortresses, or had been granted land which they helped to keep peaceful, and so when they died they named their children, or their most trusted lieutenants, as their heirs. Tamin Ulshoth was the eldest son of the commander of the whole legion, and as such inherited command of the disparate legions.

Revival of the Daemons
Since the reign of Tamin Ulshoth, the prime perogative of the Lakes Despotate has been to revive the Alaezian hegemony. Tamin believed that this was achievable by regaining the favour of God, and thus the help of his daemons.

Officers were encouraged to retire and train as wizards, plundering the once public libraries of the cities within the Lakes Despotate, taking them over and turning them into private governmental palaces. The military-wizards would train here to devise methods of contacting God again, and also to enable the commanders of the Lakes Despotate to achieve sainthood.

Because of their proximity to dwarven territory, and access to many dwarven artefacts captured by Alaezia, or built for the Alaezians by citizen-dwarves, as well as a large number of dwarven records, many of the wizards are bilingual in Dwarvish and Alaezian.

Dwarven theology has inspired their attempts to contact God, resulting in a syncretic faith dependant on dwarven methods but Alaezian beliefs: see theology page for more information.

Dwarven military efforts have thus fur denied the Lakes Despotate access to the Grand Magnum Ohm.