Vulpine Concordat Lore Repository
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A Complete History of the Vulpine Concordat Pre-0 A.E. – 2025 A.E.
Overview
The Vulpine Concordat is a historically proud, aristocratic, and culturally sophisticated nation known for its saffron-orange colors, grand architecture, complex politics, and mercantile power. It has a long tradition of refinement mixed with intense internal political turmoil.
Historical Timeline
Pre-0 A.E. Important southern province of the pre-Eclipse Western Empire.
0 A.E. – 1100 A.E. Emerged as a Carolingian / Early Holy Roman Empire analogue.
Age of Rising Banners (1650–1789 A.E.) Growing rivalry with the Diremarch of Fenngard.
First Concordat Revolution (~1789–1799 A.E) French Revolution analogue. Monarchy overthrown, Council of Nine established.
Age of Iron Banners (1799–1815 A.E.) Participated in Napoleonic wars amid revolutionary instability.
Twin Crown War (1870 A.E.) Major war against the Diremarch of Fenngard.
First Emberline War (1910–1918 A.E.) WW1 analogue. The Council of Nine’s rule grew increasingly corrupt.
Second Concordat Revolution (1914–1918 A.E.) Russian Revolution analogue, occurred during the First Emberline War. The nation split into:
The Republican Concordat (western/central territories, democratic system)
The Workers’ Bloc (eastern industrial heartlands, communist system)
The Great Depression (1929–1939 A.E.) The Workers’ Bloc, led by the radical former Flamebound Zarratok (Rasputin analogue), consolidated power through populist fervor.
Second Emberline War (1939–1945 A.E.) The split Concordat did not fully participate as a unified nation. Instead, the Republican Concordat and the Workers’ Bloc engaged in on-and-off civil war and border conflicts with each other throughout the global war, preventing either side from committing fully to the broader international conflict.
Cold Veil Era (1946–1991 A.E.) Intense ideological and clandestine warfare between the Republican Concordat and the Workers’ Bloc. Espionage, proxy conflicts, and propaganda were constant.
Coalfire Nuclear Disaster (~1968 A.E.) Chernobyl analogue. Catastrophic meltdown in the Workers’ Bloc caused massive contamination and accelerated its collapse.
Post-Cold War Era (1991–Present) With the Workers’ Bloc dissolv
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