The Aquitanian Empire

The Aquitanian Empire was a Period of the Ancient Aquitanian Empire that Ruled the Greater World, including the Steppelands from the beginning of recorded history untill the time of the Great Calamity (year 1452 Imperial Date, or 725 years before the founding of the Imperial Commonwealth.)

The Aquitanian Empire was a large empire ruled from the Imperial seat in Avaricum untill the Great Calamity, When a Cataclysmic Earthquake created the Charybdian Sea, splitting the Empire into approximately 1/4 and 3/4 parts. As the Charybdian Sea grew larger in the decades following The Great Calamaty, with a series of smaller but none-the-less unusual and violent earthquakes, Contact with the the old Aquitanian Empire was lost. A combination of Loss of government, trade, and cataclysimic infrastructure damage, total social breakdown was experienced by the Steppeland provinces of the Empire. This continued for several decades untill several independant kingdoms emerged, the strongest of whitch became Firisia. In response to Firisian agressive unification attempts the various remaining kingsoms created the Imperial Commonwealth.