The World of Arcadia, or simply Arcadia, is the treaty name for the world as established in the Treaties of Ahdequin following the ruin and devastation of the Ages Wars. The treaties conclude this name, by consensus of the signatories, as a condition of peace for the stability of the New World Order. The following conspectus serves as the official narrative preceding the aforementioned.
Old World Order
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The Old World Order was governed by the radical ideologies of the racially hegemonic nation-states, known by various names over the many centuries of the several ages, but ubiquitously known as the Arcadians, the Dacians, and the Korans, that ruled over the various realms and Peoples of the Inner Seas, and was mired in constant strife as these nations vied for power, influence, and dominance without regard or accountability for the wanton destruction visited in their wakes. These machinations robbed the wider world of its potential, leading to its intrenchment in subjugation to the greater powers as they toiled endlessly to extirpate each other from existence. The apotheosis of these nefarious endeavors was the Ages Wars, a series of conflicts that raged across the entirety of the Inner Seas, and engaged all the Peoples of the world in violent conflict to the ends of only the few most powerful.
Ages Wars
The Ages Wars is a period of several years that saw the many Peoples, nations, and states of the Inner Seas descend into violent conflict, affecting the entire world, where the most heinous and intemperate crimes were openly committed and sanctioned to the end of eradicating entire races of People. Countless acres of pristine habitats were laid to waste in devastating acts of magickal malfeasance, manifold artifacts of immeasurable value were secreted away or malevolently destroyed, and innumerable lives were sacrificed with licentious malice; all in service to the corrupted ideologies of righteousness, hegemony, and racial purity. The scars left in the wake of this conflict will fester for generations, will test the resolve and integrity of the newly established institutions of the New World Order, and challenge the nobility of the Arcadian, Dacian, Koran, and all other races of the Peoples of the world.
New World Order
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The New World Order is the aspirational goal set forth by the Treaties of Ahdequin, and the committed desire of the varied Peoples of the world. In its most ideal form, it creates a rule of law designed to uphold the rights of the individual races, govern the interaction of political constructs, and define tenets to be shared universally across political, academic, and religious institutions. Its aim is to eradicate the racist ideologies of the Old World Order that led to the destruction of the Ages Wars, and foster egalitarian principles that become inherent to future generations.
Treaties of Ahdequin
The Treaties of Ahdequin is a collection of treaties concluded by the nations of the Arcadians, Dacians, and Korans, and their respective empires, encompassing their many and various vassals, banner-states, territories, and other many and various holdings, to establish a shared and universal regime of laws, governed by the Rowenic Council, an international body comprised of a determinate number of representatives from the many and various recognized institutions of the world, to govern all tenets of political, academic, and religious institutions for the betterment of all Peoples, for all time.
Council of Rowen
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The Council of Rowen is the foundational instrument established by the Treaties of Ahdequin for the purpose of enacting the tenets of the treaty, promoting the spirit of its intent, and enforcing the regime of laws defined within. The council is comprised of officers appointed by the many and various institutions, by a legally binding method appropriate to their distinct political culture, recognized by the defined and prescribed method, who are enshrined with the authority to execute their duties without threat of influence, molestation, or subversion by any and all subject to the council's authority. The council will serve permanently on the