Bab 121: Sacrament of Death!

An alliance of 36 city-states bound by common interests, the Seafaring Nations ranked among the most developed lands of the Purple Dawn Continent, renowned for their cutting-edge Ener Golems and Voidcrawlers.

Each city-state numbered 2.5 million people on average, ruled by Marquesses and Dukes who pledged allegiance to a nominal Seafaring King. This, however, only worked in theory. In practice, everyone knew the Seafaring Nations' true ruler was none other than…Grand Priestess Akamana of the Angra Theocracy. 

Over 800 years ago, Akamana destroyed the Seafaring Nations' armies, forcing the rulers to surrender and become tributaries of the Angra Theocracy. The threat of death is often a powerful deterrent, and faced with the choices of becoming food for fishes or vassals and lapdogs for the Angra Theocracy, that generation of Seafaring Lords opted to bend the knee—a wise but ruinous move in hindsight.