Just for orientation purposes, here is an overall map of that part of the world of Aeryth Chromatica where lie the main combatants of the coming Little Great War.
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| Aeryth Chromatica - the warring nations |
Sangria is, of course, the diamond in the sceptre of the Ruberia global empire. The Zubian region has had troubles, and therefore a historiography of its own, e,g. that of Robert G. Cordery, printed as recently as 2019.
Turcowaz has certainly been in the wars in recent times, beating off a powerful challenge from the Blacklands League, halting a Ruberian punitive expedition just short of Sakhdad, and facing a powerful challenge in Abasgia.
In the face of escalating challenges from all round, the Sultan of Turcowaz appealed to the Republic of Azuria for assistance. Today it is generally believed that the Sultan - or at least his chief advisor and confidant, Wazir Yezdi - was seeking a negotiated settlement of outstanding issues, with Azuria as the disinterested mediator. But the Republic had its own scores to settle, especially with Ruberia. Azuria was not behindhand in stepping into the ring.
As it happened, Ruberia was the readier for war, and very swiftly put into motion a plan long wished for, plotted and the wherewithal gathered. For so long, withal, had the seaborne invasion been in the Ruberian mind, that the Troisieme Bureau of Azuria had had for years almost every detail gathered by its agents, read carefully, studied, analysed, criticised, damyerised, and finally filed away clearly labelled. So, when the invasion fleet appeared suddenly one June morning off the coast of Norromandy, it came as a complete surprise...
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