Tor Ardwen

The Enlightened Republic of Tor Ardwen(named in the old language of the ancient prophet Aurelian) was declared by followers of the reformer Ioseph Sotiras following weeks of religious unrest in Urbs Archadia that forced the Heliarch to flee the city. Ruled by the Council of the Faithful the new republic set about implementing the reformist agenda of Sotiras on a population still somewhat split between the reformists of the nascent Sotiran branch of the faith and traditionalist followers of the Omnican Church. There were many rebellions against the Sotiran regime and occaisional exalted marches on the republic by outside nations for the cause of restoring the 'holy mother church', particularly after the death of Sotiras himself left Tor Ardwen without a central guiding figure. The weakened city-state finally fell despite attempts by Leopoli and the Vozdina to save it after a grand army assembled by the Heliarch-in-exile from the alliance of the Order of St. Kastor and the Niccolovian Confederation descended on it. The restored Heliarch conveyed several dignities on the Order and confered the title of Basileus on King István III Nagy of the Confederation, proclaiming a new Holy Archadian Empire.