mop"Well, there are a few of notability." Ariel says "Most well knows is the Elf's Hestian(Hest-ian) Empire, Beastmen's Brunich(Bru-nick) Kingdom, the Orcidom(Or-seh-dom) clans in the East, and Humans of "The Empire" very boring of an empire name but there are factions within the Empire so meh."
"The Hestian Empire and the kingdom of Brunich have been at various times war due to the history of blood, slavery, and also raids between the factions. Making both races have some animosity towards each other regardless. How do you feel about Elves like me?" She asks nervously.
I can tell she is nervous about my response. How can I hate her for just being an Elf? I am not like that one bit.
"I would never hate you just cause your an elf, Ms. Ariel. Please don't think I would just because of such a bigotry idea. You like the mother I didn't get at birth." I think that cleared some things for her.
Hopefully enough to ensure she thinks of me as a son.
"Mmm, I am so glad you think that way of me!" she says while holding my hands swinging them side to side.
"Also currently we are in the city of Arcadia. within the independent nation of the United Provinces of New Arcadia. Or UPNA OR NA(New Arcadia) by some. Most people who are citizens of the country are just called Arcadians." She speaks while eating her salad carefully.
"Anyways let's get some food. I am sure you are hungry for something delicious!
-5 minutes later-
"So here you go sweety!" she places 2 bowls of food one with a salad and the other with some random meat I don't even recognize at all. Oh, of course, I would go for the meat but that salad...it scares me.
How of all things a salad, A SALAD scares me. As a kid, I think we can all agree most of us rarely ate a salad for the life of us as a kid. But this time I have more reason to, I am a lizard and likely are carnivores I would think.
As I contemplate the salad I proceed to eat the meat on the table carefully as so as not to spit my food everywhere. I still want to be perceived as mature for my age, not a Lil savage kid. I also continue my questions in regards to the countries but mainly where we are.
"So," *chews* "Where are we? like what country did you mention we are in? *chews*
"Oh well, we are in NA the capital city itself Arcadia. Named after one of the old Human cities from the Empire centuries ago before it had burned down. The country used to be cell New Arcadia but got changed due to the name of the country being changed as well.
-30 minutes of explanation later-
Okay so apparently since this country used to have ties to the Empire the main population is human. But since it openly had promoted travel, trade, communication, and immigration, this country has the greatest diversity in population with Humans, Orcs, Beastmen, and Elves combined. Pretty Amazing.
The country also became the center of neutral diplomacy between different factions from different countries. If a beastmen Tribe had issues with the Elves' family's they would have neutral ground here in the NA for them to speak without any sides taken. Of course, both sides would bring an army the only thing is nobody dares goes to war with NA.
Armies are heavily forbidden outside of the main cities due to them being needed for defense for the people, not a military state. They have local militias for that task of helping people with those tasks of driving criminals or bandits and animals away.
The Elves in this world are a little bit uhm, stuck up pricks a bit in their history. Having been known to be supremacists in regards to magic a lot and had enslaved the beastmen greatly throughout history until a united faction of beastmen and support from the NA they had forced the Elves into signing an official pact stating slavery to be abolished universally and slavery was to be not tolerated within the boundaries of the Hestian Empire, UPNA, any orcish clans, and beastmen tribes.
Their society heavily surrounds magic to the point low mana is shunned and brings great shame to the family's name. Sounds depressing but it seems elves have naturally higher mana than other races. The only other race that can use direct magic is that of Humans.
Plus what fascinated me more was Orcs are a variant of elves. Hundreds of years ago the Elves were at war with the beastmen and a way to counter the beastmen was using magical experiments to physically enhance the elves but keep the magical power they can have. It failed and the Orcs were banished to the East where they eventually became the Orcs now.
Truly fascinating. Now Orcs have physical strength surpassing humans and coming close to Beastmen. Makes me want to meet an Orc and ask questions about their history a bit.
"So what about the Beastmen and the Empire?" I ask almost finishing my meat *chews*]
"Well, the Empire was...
-40 minutes of explanation-
So it seems historically the Emprie is made of up different nobles and kings and queens of different portions of the region but all listen and must obey orders directed by the Emperor. Or Empress. The Empire has been known to have many civil wars but is known to be a resilient people throughout history. A Civil war called "The War of the Gold" was a civil war where the Emperor died mysteriously and the whole family died from assassinations.
Meaning there was no successor and every noble and general in the army and merchant wanted the seat. The Golden throne goal was the objective and resulted in thousands dying with many rulers dying. But that civil war resulted in a few nobles who sought the chaos as a chance to take independence from the crown and left without much resistance.
Establishing a few cities from different nobles, and militiamen and women to garrison different villages and towns. Eventually opened themselves to Elves, and Beastmen and eventually orcs to their nation for betterment through immigration and eventually trade.
A battle known as the Siege of Arcadia, resulted in the combined might of militiamen, beastmen tribes, and Orcish mercenaries defending against the Empire who sought to reclaim the city being envious of the city-states golden age it was going through.
The siege was 6 days long. The first to 3rd day had the attack commence where the walls were bombarded. with a few skirmishes on the walls. the Fourth day was where a few wall breaches came in and the battle came into the city itself. Luckily the people were evacuated out through the southern parts of the city gates. the 5th day was a retreat by what remained of the militiamen, but also the reinforcements.
The 6th day was the day where all combined forces of humans, beastmen, and orcs combined blitz into the southern gates and forced what remained of the Imperial forces and won the battle. The battle had up to around 60,000 soldiers combined and the militia had up to 12,000, beastmen around 1,400, and orc mercenaries to 540.
Against an army of around 46,000 Imperial soldiers of the Empire. This battle broke the Empire and resulted in a treaty where the Empire gave parts of its treasuring and territory from the west. Great farmland. An army of less than 20,000 beat an army of 40,000. Awesome.
"And the beastmen?"
"Oh, that is one I have very little knowledge about. Oopsie" she says while turning her head around putting her hand to her mouth trying to hide her smile.
"What!? Do you know all this and beastmen history is suddenly you have no idea about? How?"
She turns her head and looks into my eyes and speaks with an oddly over-perky tone but has some sinister feelings behind it.
"Eat your salad, I made it myself..."
What the...Why did she have to say it like that? I knew the salad has something evil in it. Must have tofu or something...Fine then, I will eat the salad!