Rhoden Kingdom

Rhoden Kingdom is a human kingdom to which the main character Arc, found himself in at the start of the series.

Background
The eastern and western Leburan Empires touched the northern border, while the shoreline connected to the Burugo Gulf in the west, the south led to the sea and in the east was the Great Canada Forest. The Kingdom's location kept it relatively safe from foreign enemies.

The Rhoden Kingdom had began a war 600 hundred years ago; however, the number of engagements were nearly nonexistent. At that time, the Tishiento dukes kept an opposing stance on war with the elves and broke off from the Rhoden Kingdom, forming the Grand Duchy of Limbult.

Since then, interactions with the humans such as trade were only limited to those of Rinburuto.

At the time of the war, the majority of the troops of the Rhoden Kingdom’s king and feudal lords were lost; it fell into the brink of destruction. Fortunately, the country still remained to this day thanks to the fact that the Reburan Empire, in a dispute for succession of the throne, had split into East and West, unfolding with it a fierce war that was the only saving grace allowing the kingdom to recover.

Afterwards, the king of Rhoden 400 years ago formally apologized for the war, and in a display of goodwill, signed a treaty that prohibited the capture of elves.

However the Kingdom faced an internal conflict, due to the many noble factions, there is fierce competition over who the next king will be, and due to the current king’s old age, several nobles have taken drastic measures to ensure their candidate is selected.

Light Novel Volume 01
Shortly after news reached the royal capital of Olav that the city lord of Diento was killed, the king and his heirs held a meeting to discuss what had transpired. From what they gathered they royals and their advisors were able to determine that the culprits were perhaps freed slaves who rampaged city, One of the princes, Sekt held the belief that it was perhaps the elves who killed Tryton in retaliation for the elven slaves kept in the slave houses in Diento. Dakares though rejected such accusations as they sullied the kingdom's honor. Arguments aside, the king was worried that the elves would restrict trade with their neighbor the Grand Duchy of Limbult and thus cut the kingdom off leaving it at the mercies of the other countries. To prevent that Princess Yuriarna volunteered to head to Limbult to open communications with the elves.

Culture
The Rhoden Kingdom is a feudal state, with nobles at the the top of the social hierarchy whilst commoners are at the bottom. Nobles act as administrators and manage the cities and towns under their jurisdiction.

Travel within the Kingdom is restricted based on social status. Commoners are not normally permitted to travel beyond their unless they possess showed their passports.

Religion
The Rhoden Kingdom practice a temple based religion. The Hilk Church though has been spreading its influence in the kingdom among its citizens. Though it has been rebuked by Princess Yuriarna who urged the king to halt its proselytizing.

Traditionally, each region in the kingdom has their own houses of worship. Due to this the king has used this as grounds to ban any Hilk proselytizing. But in reality, the faiths of the Hill and kingdom’s are hardly any different, especially when it comes to other races such as the beastmen and elves. In the Kingdom’s teachings, beastmen are mocked as the bastard children of men and beasts and elves are painted as those who tricked the gods and stole their magical abilities.

Education
Only extremely close friends and relatives can address the members of the royal family by their childhood names, if someone else were to does so then it would be less majestic.

Politics
The Rhoden Kingdom was a country formed by the gathering of many nobles and feudal lords. Central to the Kingdom was the Olav royal family. Even though the royals established the policies of the kingdom, they could not recklessly interfere with the territories under heavy control of the feudal lords.

The power of the royal family surpassed any one lord, but it is of no match to all of the lords’ combined might. However, the royal family can intervene in military matters if the actions of a feudal lord are a threat to the Kingdom.

Of the nobles, the dukes of Rhoden Kingdom wielded great power over the kingdom. And while not owning any land like other nobles, they were the most powerful supporters of the royal family and lived on stipends provided by the king from levies on the country’s citizens.

Military Strength
There are only three generals in the Kingdom of Rhoden, and one of the seven dukes usually holds office. But sometimes his status is filled by a member of the royal family.

Because each Lord has its own military power, the military power of the kingdom is divided:


 * Luvierte House

As a viscount house, they have enough military power to send a small army to subjugate the basilisk.


 * Diento House

As a Marquis house, they have enough military force to send their troops to a bandit base in the mountains, which is usually very difficult to send troops.

Foreign Relations
In addition to that, the struggle for the succession of Rhoden’s throne has also intensified, with outside influence affecting the succession.

Grand Duchy of Limbult
Limbult shares a border with the Rhoden Kingdom and serves as a trade partner due to its royal blood connection. As the Kingdom could not directly trade with the elves of the Great Canada Forest, that was function of Limbult to act as intermediaries so as to allow the Kingdom to acquire magic tools vital to their nation's defense and prosperity.

Great Canada Forest
Rhoden Kingdom has a very poor relationship with the Great Canada Forest. Six hundred years ago Rhoden waged a war against the elves unaware they were far outmatched by elves's superior combat abilities. Rhoden was nearly wiped out from the map but the civil war in Revlon Empire was what finally caused them decide to sue for peace. As a gesture of good-will, the royal family forbade the enslavement of the elves. But through the years this covenant was largely forgotten and ignored as many nobles became involved in capturing elves, including members of the royal family such as Dekares and maybe Sekt. However the relationship seems to be mending under Yuriarna's and Fangas leadership. Following the elves retaliation on the elven slave trade, both parties met to negotiate. In the negotiations, the princess promised to stand with the elves, enforcing the law against the enslavement and protecting them from the Revlon Empires ambition. Fangas on his side, promised to support Yuriarna's claim for the throne and expand the trade to the entire Rhoden Kingdom.

Known Characters

 * Celsika Dourman
 * Dakares Ciciay Karlon Rhoden Vetran
 * Karlon Delfriet Rhoden Olav
 * Lauren Laraiya du Luvierte
 * Marca
 * Rita Farren
 * Sekt Rondahl Karlon Rhoden Sahdiay
 * Seona
 * Tryton du Diento
 * Uldran
 * Yuriarna Merol Melissa Rhoden Olav

Trivia

 * The Rhoden Kingdom proudly holds the position of the third largest power on the continent.
 * before there were eight dukes, but seven became dukes after one of them built his own country.