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	===Treva and the Dark Times===		===Treva and the Dark Times===
	Treva was barely into its second decade of independence when the Old Gods went silent. At Midsummer {{ICYear\|1262}} the [[Dark Times]] began, and the next fifty years tested the young principality far harder than its founding had. It was during this time that the local aristocracy found itself paralyzed in fear, leaving a power vacuum that several merchant families and guilds were forced to fill. The [[Crimson Plague]] reached the Trevan coast by ~~{{ICYear\|1264}}~~ and is estimated to have taken close to two in five Trevans, striking hardest in Modegna's crowded wool-quarters and lightest among Vallenza's scattered shepherd holdings, a disparity that shifted Trevan wealth toward the highlands and the looms they fed.		Treva was barely into its second decade of independence when the Old Gods went silent. At Midsummer {{ICYear\|1262}} the [[Dark Times]] began, and the next fifty years tested the young principality far harder than its founding had. It was during this time that the local aristocracy found itself paralyzed in fear, leaving a power vacuum that several merchant families and guilds were forced to fill. The [[Crimson Plague]] reached the Trevan coast by the end of the year and is estimated to have taken close to two in five Trevans, striking hardest in Modegna's crowded wool-quarters and lightest among Vallenza's scattered shepherd holdings, a disparity that shifted Trevan wealth toward the highlands and the looms they fed.

	The old baronial houses took the losses hardest of all: a manor's household, packed close and visited constantly by tenants and kin, proved far better breeding ground for the Plague than a counting-house that could simply bar its doors and wait the sickness out. Whole baronial lines are said to have died out over those years, their lands passing to whatever cousin or steward survived to claim them, while merchant families who could isolate themselves or send their ships out of port until the worst had passed emerged thinned but intact. The infant principality's baronial coalition survived the Dark Times, but never recovered the numbers or confidence it had before them. [[Portosalvo]] absorbed its own share of the era at one remove: refugees fleeing the [[Valtaang\|Valtaani]] sack of Zeth trickled north and west along the Aurean coast throughout the Dark Times, and a number settled permanently in the port, where they found the thinning labor market welcoming to new, healthy workers. Their descendants assimilated easily into Portosalvo's population today and, other than a few Zetian surnames, there is little to identify their coming. Unlike many of the former Imperial states, the fifty years of godly silence did not affect the faithful of Paelemona at [[Monte Ordito]]. The priests of most churches, accustomed to direct favor and portents, met nothing for two full generations, yet pilgrims who climbed to the Vedente throughout the Dark Times still swore she answered them, silence or no silence, and it was in that contrast that devotion to Paelemona took firm and lasting hold across the rest of the principality.		The old baronial houses took the losses hardest of all: a manor's household, packed close and visited constantly by tenants and kin, proved far better breeding ground for the Plague than a counting-house that could simply bar its doors and wait the sickness out. Whole baronial lines are said to have died out over those years, their lands passing to whatever cousin or steward survived to claim them, while merchant families who could isolate themselves or send their ships out of port until the worst had passed emerged thinned but intact. The infant principality's baronial coalition survived the Dark Times, but never recovered the numbers or confidence it had before them. [[Portosalvo]] absorbed its own share of the era at one remove: refugees fleeing the [[Valtaang\|Valtaani]] sack of Zeth trickled north and west along the Aurean coast throughout the Dark Times, and a number settled permanently in the port, where they found the thinning labor market welcoming to new, healthy workers. Their descendants assimilated easily into Portosalvo's population today and, other than a few Zetian surnames, there is little to identify their coming. Unlike many of the former Imperial states, the fifty years of godly silence did not affect the faithful of Paelemona at [[Monte Ordito]]. The priests of most churches, accustomed to direct favor and portents, met nothing for two full generations, yet pilgrims who climbed to the Vedente throughout the Dark Times still swore she answered them, silence or no silence, and it was in that contrast that devotion to Paelemona took firm and lasting hold across the rest of the principality.

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	Treva's written history proper begins as a chapter of Aescalapea's, not its own. Under the [[Great Empire]] the coast south of the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] was Aescalapean territory, ruled across the centuries first under the long tyranny of [[House Gabinius]] and then, in its final years, under [[Rukala]], the Mage-King's own magister, whose harsh hand over Aescalapea is what Trevans still name first when asked why they left. Wool and grain flowed north to [[Dracar]] throughout; loyalty did not flow back.		Treva's written history proper begins as a chapter of Aescalapea's, not its own. Under the [[Great Empire]] the coast south of the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] was Aescalapean territory, ruled across the centuries first under the long tyranny of [[House Gabinius]] and then, in its final years, under [[Rukala]], the Mage-King's own magister, whose harsh hand over Aescalapea is what Trevans still name first when asked why they left. Wool and grain flowed north to [[Dracar]] throughout; loyalty did not flow back.
	===Independence and the Dark Times===		===Independence and the Dark Times===
	The death of [[Lucasa\|Emperor Lucius "the Heretic"]] in {{ICYear\|1253}} tipped the Great Empire into the [[Fourth Succession War]], and the Trevan coast, still raw under Rukala's recent magistracy, broke from Aescalapean rule amid the same chaos. Its fields and looms made it a prize worth fighting for rather than simply abandoning, and several major battles of the War were fought on Trevan soil. These were failed attempts by various claimants to hold the Golden Coast, not a single decisive campaign. Treva's ~~break became final~~ and ~~recognized~~ in {{ICYear\|1257}}.		The death of [[Lucasa\|Emperor Lucius "the Heretic"]] in {{ICYear\|1253}} tipped the Great Empire into the [[Fourth Succession War]], and the Trevan coast, still raw under Rukala's recent magistracy, broke from Aescalapean rule amid the same chaos. Its fields and looms made it a prize worth fighting for rather than simply abandoning, and several major battles of the War were fought on Trevan soil. These were failed attempts by various claimants to hold the Golden Coast, not a single decisive campaign. With no single claimant able to hold the coast for long, Treva's independence looks less like a war won than a war simply passed over: as the fighting further inland exhausted itself, the surviving baronial councils and the four coastal towns' guildmasters jointly signed a compact at Modegna in {{ICYear\|1257}} declaring the nation answerable to no outside authority. No Aescalapean claimant contested it, if only because none had men to spare from the wider war to try and the silence that followed was treated, by Trevans at least, as recognition enough.

	===Treva and the Dark Times===		===Treva and the Dark Times===

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	\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]		\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]
	\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]		\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]
	\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since {{ICYear\|1318}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.		\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since the [[Concilium Magni Textrini Fatalis Zethensis]] in {{ICYear\|1318}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.
	\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.		\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.
	\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].		\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].
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	===Treva and the Fourth Age of Man===		===Treva and the Fourth Age of Man===
	When the gods returned in {{ICYear\|1312}}, the reconstituted Imperial Ecclesia found itself needing to reorganize faiths that had, in places, kept functioning without it. Few had functioned as visibly as Monte Ordito, and in {{ICYear\|1318}} the Ecclesia formalized what pilgrims had long since decided for themselves: the sanctuary's own head priest was raised to Pontifex over the entire Church of Paelemona, a seat Monte Ordito has held ever since (though the Pontifex is usually in residence at [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] in Modegna due to the highly political nature of the role). This decision has rapidly become a source of pride for Trevans of every ilk and one of the few things the rural aristocracy and the urban elite can agree on.		When the gods returned in {{ICYear\|1312}}, the reconstituted Imperial Ecclesia found itself needing to reorganize faiths that had, in places, kept functioning without it. Few had functioned as visibly as Monte Ordito, and in {{ICYear\|1318}} at the [[Concilium Magni Textrini Fatalis Zethensis]], the Ecclesia formalized what pilgrims had long since decided for themselves: the sanctuary's own head priest was raised to Pontifex over the entire Church of Paelemona, a seat Monte Ordito has held ever since (though the Pontifex is usually in residence at [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] in Modegna due to the highly political nature of the role). This decision has rapidly become a source of pride for Trevans of every ilk and one of the few things the rural aristocracy and the urban elite can agree on.

	Independence had not brought order, and the Dark Times did not change that. What followed, for roughly three-quarters of a century, was a coalition of surviving baronial families ruling a coastline of prosperous, mutually suspicious towns, each guarding its own charter and guild. Vistria, carved from that same Aescalapean collapse, took the quieter path of a rebuilding archduchy; Treva took the noisier one, its towns forever competing at market rather than settling under any single house. A weak crown, a rich merchant class, and towns bound loosely enough that none felt truly ruled from Modegna: that arrangement held into the Fourth Age with little real change.		Independence had not brought order, and the Dark Times did not change that. What followed, for roughly three-quarters of a century, was a coalition of surviving baronial families ruling a coastline of prosperous, mutually suspicious towns, each guarding its own charter and guild. Vistria, carved from that same Aescalapean collapse, took the quieter path of a rebuilding archduchy; Treva took the noisier one, its towns forever competing at market rather than settling under any single house. A weak crown, a rich merchant class, and towns bound loosely enough that none felt truly ruled from Modegna: that arrangement held into the Fourth Age with little real change.

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	The old baronial houses took the losses hardest of all: a manor's household, packed close and visited constantly by tenants and kin, proved far better breeding ground for the Plague than a counting-house that could simply bar its doors and wait the sickness out. Whole baronial lines are said to have died out over those years, their lands passing to whatever cousin or steward survived to claim them, while merchant families who could isolate themselves or send their ships out of port until the worst had passed emerged thinned but intact. The infant principality's baronial coalition survived the Dark Times, but never recovered the numbers or confidence it had before them. [[Portosalvo]] absorbed its own share of the era at one remove: refugees fleeing the [[Valtaang\|Valtaani]] sack of Zeth trickled north and west along the Aurean coast throughout the Dark Times, and a number settled permanently in the port, where they found the thinning labor market welcoming to new, healthy workers. Their descendants assimilated easily into Portosalvo's population today and, other than a few Zetian surnames, there is little to identify their coming. Unlike many of the former Imperial states, the fifty years of godly silence did not affect the faithful of Paelemona at [[Monte Ordito]]. The priests of most churches, accustomed to direct favor and portents, met nothing for two full generations, yet pilgrims who climbed to the Vedente throughout the Dark Times still swore she answered them, silence or no silence, and it was in that contrast that devotion to Paelemona took firm and lasting hold across the rest of the principality.		The old baronial houses took the losses hardest of all: a manor's household, packed close and visited constantly by tenants and kin, proved far better breeding ground for the Plague than a counting-house that could simply bar its doors and wait the sickness out. Whole baronial lines are said to have died out over those years, their lands passing to whatever cousin or steward survived to claim them, while merchant families who could isolate themselves or send their ships out of port until the worst had passed emerged thinned but intact. The infant principality's baronial coalition survived the Dark Times, but never recovered the numbers or confidence it had before them. [[Portosalvo]] absorbed its own share of the era at one remove: refugees fleeing the [[Valtaang\|Valtaani]] sack of Zeth trickled north and west along the Aurean coast throughout the Dark Times, and a number settled permanently in the port, where they found the thinning labor market welcoming to new, healthy workers. Their descendants assimilated easily into Portosalvo's population today and, other than a few Zetian surnames, there is little to identify their coming. Unlike many of the former Imperial states, the fifty years of godly silence did not affect the faithful of Paelemona at [[Monte Ordito]]. The priests of most churches, accustomed to direct favor and portents, met nothing for two full generations, yet pilgrims who climbed to the Vedente throughout the Dark Times still swore she answered them, silence or no silence, and it was in that contrast that devotion to Paelemona took firm and lasting hold across the rest of the principality.
	\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should ~~return to being~~ an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old ~~nobility~~ might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years~~; the~~ Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: ~~the~~ giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
			===Treva and the Fourth Age of Man===
			When the gods returned in {{ICYear\|1312}}, the reconstituted Imperial Ecclesia found itself needing to reorganize faiths that had, in places, kept functioning without it. Few had functioned as visibly as Monte Ordito, and in {{ICYear\|1318}} the Ecclesia formalized what pilgrims had long since decided for themselves: the sanctuary's own head priest was raised to Pontifex over the entire Church of Paelemona, a seat Monte Ordito has held ever since (though the Pontifex is usually in residence at [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] in Modegna due to the highly political nature of the role. This decision has rapidly become a source of pride for Trevans of even ilk and one of the few things the rural aristocracy and the urban elite can agree on.

			Independence had not brought order, and the Dark Times did not change that. What followed, for roughly three-quarters of a century, was a coalition of surviving baronial families ruling a coastline of prosperous, mutually suspicious towns, each guarding its own charter and guild. Vistria, carved from that same Aescalapean collapse, took the quieter path of a rebuilding archduchy; Treva took the noisier one, its towns forever competing at market rather than settling under any single house. A weak crown, a rich merchant class, and towns bound loosely enough that none felt truly ruled from Modegna: that arrangement held into the Fourth Age with little real change.

			[[Casa Ozzo]] broke that stalemate. In {{ICYear\|1331}}, [[Ranuccio Ozzo]], Bartolo's father, parlayed a wool-and-banking fortune into the baronial coalition's collapse and claimed the Principe's throne outright, the first merchant house in Trevan history to do so. Bartolo inherited that throne on his father's death in {{ICYear\|1351}} despite no clear line of succession established under any law. Trevans of middle age remember when Casa Ozzo were simply the wealthiest house in Modegna rather than its rulers, and that memory, more than any law, is what still drives the old aristoracy's resentment and the new order's fragility.
			\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. [[Peron Vasca\|Peron Vasca's]] voice in the [[Confraternita dei Lanaioli]] has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in [[Modegna]] is he's quietly courting [[Guadenza\|Guadenza's]] grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. [[Casa Ferranti]] has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should become an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. [[Ilaria Vezzano\|Contessa Ilaria Vezzano]] has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in [[Vistria]], testing whether the old aristocratic houses might find more sympathy there than at home. A [[Portosalvo]] escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years. The [[Compagnia dei Naviganti]] insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: rumors of a giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from [[Monte Ordito]] report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
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	\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.		\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.
	\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].		\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].
	\|major_temples = [[La Cattedrale della Reginamare]] ("The Cathedral of the Sea-Queen"), Portosalvo's great temple to Betshaba, seat of Treva's senior Wavemother and the blessing-site for ships clearing the harbor and the principality's principal seat of Betshaban worship.		\|major_temples =
			* [[La Cattedrale della Reginamare]] ("The Cathedral of the Sea-Queen"), Portosalvo's great temple to Betshaba, seat of Treva's senior Wavemother and the blessing-site for ships clearing the harbor and the principality's principal seat of Betshaban worship.
	[[Il Forziere della Raccoglitrice]] ("The Strongbox of the Collector"), a modest shrine to Bellona kept within Casa Ozzo's own Banco, more counting-room than sanctuary.		* [[Il Forziere della Raccoglitrice]] ("The Strongbox of the Collector"), a modest shrine to Bellona kept within Casa Ozzo's own Banco, more counting-room than sanctuary.
			* [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] ("The Hall of the Spinner"), Modegna's grand temple to Paelemona, recently expanded upon and gilded at Casa Ozzo's expense, where guild oaths are sworn and the wool-year is blessed each spring in a festival that has quietly become as much a celebration of Casa Ozzo's rise as of the goddess herself.
	[[La Sala della Spinatrice]] ("The Hall of the Spinner"), Modegna's grand temple to Paelemona, recently expanded upon and gilded at Casa Ozzo's expense, where guild oaths are sworn and the wool-year is blessed each spring in a festival that has quietly become as much a celebration of Casa Ozzo's rise as of the goddess herself.		* [[Il Santuario della Vedente]] ("The Sanctuary of the Seeress"), the true heart of Paelemona's worship in Treva: an ancient shrine atop [[Monte Ordito]] high in the [[Antasian Mountains]]. Il Santuario was tended long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] existed and never fully silent even through the [[Dark Times\|Dark Times']] fifty years without the gods. Pilgrims who make the difficult climb consult the resident Vedente, and since {{ICYear\|1318}} the sanctuary has also held the seat of the Pontifex of the Church of Paelemona under the [[Imperial Ecclesia]].

	[[Il Santuario della Vedente]] ("The Sanctuary of the Seeress"), the true heart of Paelemona's worship in Treva: an ancient shrine atop [[Monte Ordito]] high in the [[Antasian Mountains]]. Il Santuario was tended long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] existed and never fully silent even through the [[Dark Times\|Dark Times']] fifty years without the gods. Pilgrims who make the difficult climb consult the resident Vedente, and since {{ICYear\|1318}} the sanctuary has also held the seat of the Pontifex of the Church of Paelemona under the [[Imperial Ecclesia]].
	\|economy = Treva's wealth begins with wool and ends in coin. Raw fleece comes down the [[Selvano River\|Selvano]] from Vallenza's shearing-fairs to [[Modegna]], where carders, dyers, and weavers turn it into the finished cloth that carries the Trevan mark to buyers across Aurea, whether by ship from [[Portosalvo]] or overland along the [[Via Augustus]]. That cloth trade built the fortune [[Casa Ozzo]] rode to the throne, and the same counting-houses that once merely financed the looms now lend, exchange currency, and underwrite voyages out of Portosalvo, a second industry growing up alongside the first rather than replacing it. Grain from the river valleys remains Treva's quiet third leg, sold heavily to [[Milosia]] at [[Guadenza\|Guadenza's]] river-market, a dependency that keeps the peace across that border better than any treaty could.		\|economy = Treva's wealth begins with wool and ends in coin. Raw fleece comes down the [[Selvano River\|Selvano]] from Vallenza's shearing-fairs to [[Modegna]], where carders, dyers, and weavers turn it into the finished cloth that carries the Trevan mark to buyers across Aurea, whether by ship from [[Portosalvo]] or overland along the [[Via Augustus]]. That cloth trade built the fortune [[Casa Ozzo]] rode to the throne, and the same counting-houses that once merely financed the looms now lend, exchange currency, and underwrite voyages out of Portosalvo, a second industry growing up alongside the first rather than replacing it. Grain from the river valleys remains Treva's quiet third leg, sold heavily to [[Milosia]] at [[Guadenza\|Guadenza's]] river-market, a dependency that keeps the peace across that border better than any treaty could.
	\|exports = Wool and finished cloth as the base, plus grain, sold heavily to Milosia, and a growing banking and currency-exchange trade.		\|exports = Wool and finished cloth as the base, plus grain, sold heavily to Milosia, and a growing banking and currency-exchange trade.
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	\|black_market = Where the guilds tax, someone smuggles. Cloth carrying a forged Trevan quality-mark moves through minor ports up and down the coast, undercutting the Confraternita's own goods and drawing fierce guild retaliation whenever a forger is caught. Grain crosses the Taddo and Morela well upstream and downstream of the toll-factors, dodging Trevan, Milosian, and Vistrian tariffs alike, an open secret every side tolerates more than it admits. Unlicensed lending at rates the Concilio would never sanction runs quietly through Bellona's smaller shrines, serving borrowers neither Banco Ozzo nor Casa Ferranti will touch.		\|black_market = Where the guilds tax, someone smuggles. Cloth carrying a forged Trevan quality-mark moves through minor ports up and down the coast, undercutting the Confraternita's own goods and drawing fierce guild retaliation whenever a forger is caught. Grain crosses the Taddo and Morela well upstream and downstream of the toll-factors, dodging Trevan, Milosian, and Vistrian tariffs alike, an open secret every side tolerates more than it admits. Unlicensed lending at rates the Concilio would never sanction runs quietly through Bellona's smaller shrines, serving borrowers neither Banco Ozzo nor Casa Ferranti will touch.
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	==Treva Before the ~~Empire~~==		===Treva Before the Zetian Conquest===
	Long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] unified the region under the provide of Aescalapea and centuries before [[Zeta\|Zetian]] ships ever crossed the [[Aurean Sea]], the coast that is now Treva was held by three related but distinct peoples, none of whom left writing behind, only names preserved secondhand in later Zetian trade-logs and a handful of surviving folk practices. The [[Velsuni]] held the harbor and the shore: fisherfolk and small-boat traders who worked the natural anchorage that would one day become [[Portosalvo]]. They are now remembered by scholars and historians as the people who first harvested the aurelia-shell, a small coastal mollusk that yields a rare golden-hued dye when crushed and cured, a laborious, foul-smelling process the Velsuni are said to have guarded jealously. The [[Ossarae]] were shepherd-weavers of the western mountains in roughly the countryside Vallenza occupies today, whose legend credits their weaving to an ancestral spirit-woman named [[Mirensa]] Mirensa, it is said, wove the first thread from a fleece "the color of a held breath" on the high, remote peak the Ossarae held sacred, the same peak known today as [[Monte Ordito]]. The [[Tarnii]] held the river valleys between them, farmers of the fertile lowlands and the most numerous of the three tribes. They tilled the ground around what is now [[Modegna]] and [[Guadenza]], and the peoples the coast's other two groups deferred to in matters of common defense, though deference seems to have meant loose confederation rather than any real central rule.		Long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] unified the region under the provide of Aescalapea and centuries before [[Zeta\|Zetian]] ships ever crossed the [[Aurean Sea]], the coast that is now Treva was held by three related but distinct peoples, none of whom left writing behind, only names preserved secondhand in later Zetian trade-logs and a handful of surviving folk practices. The [[Velsuni]] held the harbor and the shore: fisherfolk and small-boat traders who worked the natural anchorage that would one day become [[Portosalvo]]. They are now remembered by scholars and historians as the people who first harvested the aurelia-shell, a small coastal mollusk that yields a rare golden-hued dye when crushed and cured, a laborious, foul-smelling process the Velsuni are said to have guarded jealously. The [[Ossarae]] were shepherd-weavers of the western mountains in roughly the countryside Vallenza occupies today, whose legend credits their weaving to an ancestral spirit-woman named [[Mirensa]] Mirensa, it is said, wove the first thread from a fleece "the color of a held breath" on the high, remote peak the Ossarae held sacred, the same peak known today as [[Monte Ordito]]. The [[Tarnii]] held the river valleys between them, farmers of the fertile lowlands and the most numerous of the three tribes. They tilled the ground around what is now [[Modegna]] and [[Guadenza]], and the peoples the coast's other two groups deferred to in matters of common defense, though deference seems to have meant loose confederation rather than any real central rule.
			===Treva as Part of the Province of Aescalapea===
	The [[War of the Golden Coast]] was fought across this ground. When Zetian traders first encountered the aurelia-dye around {{ICYear\|-200}}, its rarity and richness earned the whole stretch of shoreline the name Zetian merchants recorded it under: the [[Golden Coast]]. The trade agreement that followed, and its collapse into open war in {{ICYear\|-192}}, played out largely on Velsuni and Tarnii ground; Aescalapean biremes that dominated the sea-war were crewed and provisioned, in no small part, from these same coastal peoples. When the Zetian army finally forced Aescalapea's surrender by {{ICYear\|-187}}, the Trevan tribes were absorbed into the Imperial peace along with the rest of Aescalapea, their names surviving only in Zetian records from that point on.		The [[War of the Golden Coast]] was fought across this ground. When Zetian traders first encountered the aurelia-dye around {{ICYear\|-200}}, its rarity and richness earned the whole stretch of shoreline the name Zetian merchants recorded it under: the [[Golden Coast]]. The trade agreement that followed, and its collapse into open war in {{ICYear\|-192}}, played out largely on Velsuni and Tarnii ground; Aescalapean biremes that dominated the sea-war were crewed and provisioned, in no small part, from these same coastal peoples. When the Zetian army finally forced Aescalapea's surrender by {{ICYear\|-187}}, the Trevan tribes were absorbed into the Imperial peace along with the rest of Aescalapea, their names surviving only in Zetian records from that point on.

	[[Zetian Language\|Zetian]] and later [[Aurean Language\|Aurean]] speech replaced the Velsuni, Ossarae, and Tarnii tongues within a few centuries, but not everything was lost. Mirensa's weaving-spirit never fully vanished from Ossarae folk practice and the peak where she was said to have woven her first thread stayed a place ordinary Trevans, and no small number of outsiders, still climbed to leave an offering. When the Imperial priests arrived with their own goddess of fate and weaving, Trevan highland folk simply folded practices honoring Mirensa into worship of Paelemona rather than abandoning her. This act of quiet syncretism was never much minded by the Imperial priests and many of the local practices became commonplace in worship of Paelemona across the Empire. What had been a shepherd's shrine became [[Il Santuario della Vedente]], and [[Monte Ordito\|Monte Ordito's]] oracle, whatever name she answered to in a given century, never stopped speaking.		[[Zetian Language\|Zetian]] and later [[Aurean Language\|Aurean]] speech replaced the Velsuni, Ossarae, and Tarnii tongues within a few centuries, but not everything was lost. Mirensa's weaving-spirit never fully vanished from Ossarae folk practice and the peak where she was said to have woven her first thread stayed a place ordinary Trevans, and no small number of outsiders, still climbed to leave an offering. When the Imperial priests arrived with their own goddess of fate and weaving, Trevan highland folk simply folded practices honoring Mirensa into worship of Paelemona rather than abandoning her. This act of quiet syncretism was never much minded by the Imperial priests and many of the local practices became commonplace in worship of Paelemona across the Empire. What had been a shepherd's shrine became [[Il Santuario della Vedente]], and [[Monte Ordito\|Monte Ordito's]] oracle, whatever name she answered to in a given century, never stopped speaking.

			The mountain's reputation reached well beyond Treva's eventual borders. Even in the days of the [[Zetian Republic]], centuries before there was an Emperor to crown, petitioners are said to have made the long climb to Monte Ordito to ask the Vedente's counsel, and the oldest surviving fragment of the legend holds that the Republic's own Senate once did the same, sending envoys to ask whether Zeth should ever crown a single ruler over itself. The answer, as the story is still told in Treva, was a warning the Senate chose not to keep. Whether the tale is history or the kind of story every oracle's admirers eventually tell of her, no Trevan will insist it isn't true where a Zetian might overhear.

			Treva's written history proper begins as a chapter of Aescalapea's, not its own. Under the [[Great Empire]] the coast south of the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] was Aescalapean territory, ruled across the centuries first under the long tyranny of [[House Gabinius]] and then, in its final years, under [[Rukala]], the Mage-King's own magister, whose harsh hand over Aescalapea is what Trevans still name first when asked why they left. Wool and grain flowed north to [[Dracar]] throughout; loyalty did not flow back.
			===Independence and the Dark Times===
			The death of [[Lucasa\|Emperor Lucius "the Heretic"]] in {{ICYear\|1253}} tipped the Great Empire into the [[Fourth Succession War]], and the Trevan coast, still raw under Rukala's recent magistracy, broke from Aescalapean rule amid the same chaos. Its fields and looms made it a prize worth fighting for rather than simply abandoning, and several major battles of the War were fought on Trevan soil. These were failed attempts by various claimants to hold the Golden Coast coast, not a single decisive campaign. Treva's break became final and recognized in {{ICYear\|1257}}.

			===Treva and the Dark Times===
			Treva was barely into its second decade of independence when the Old Gods went silent. At Midsummer {{ICYear\|1262}} the [[Dark Times]] began, and the next fifty years tested the young principality far harder than its founding had. It was during this time that the local aristocracy found itself paralyzed in fear, leaving a power vacuum that several merchant families and guilds were forced to fill. The [[Crimson Plague]] reached the Trevan coast by {{ICYear\|1264}} and is estimated to have taken close to two in five Trevans, striking hardest in Modegna's crowded wool-quarters and lightest among Vallenza's scattered shepherd holdings, a disparity that shifted Trevan wealth toward the highlands and the looms they fed.

			The old baronial houses took the losses hardest of all: a manor's household, packed close and visited constantly by tenants and kin, proved far better breeding ground for the Plague than a counting-house that could simply bar its doors and wait the sickness out. Whole baronial lines are said to have died out over those years, their lands passing to whatever cousin or steward survived to claim them, while merchant families who could isolate themselves or send their ships out of port until the worst had passed emerged thinned but intact. The infant principality's baronial coalition survived the Dark Times, but never recovered the numbers or confidence it had before them. [[Portosalvo]] absorbed its own share of the era at one remove: refugees fleeing the [[Valtaang\|Valtaani]] sack of Zeth trickled north and west along the Aurean coast throughout the Dark Times, and a number settled permanently in the port, where they found the thinning labor market welcoming to new, healthy workers. Their descendants assimilated easily into Portosalvo's population today and, other than a few Zetian surnames, there is little to identify their coming. Unlike many of the former Imperial states, the fifty years of godly silence did not affect the faithful of Paelemona at [[Monte Ordito]]. The priests of most churches, accustomed to direct favor and portents, met nothing for two full generations, yet pilgrims who climbed to the Vedente throughout the Dark Times still swore she answered them, silence or no silence, and it was in that contrast that devotion to Paelemona took firm and lasting hold across the rest of the principality.
	\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should return to being an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old nobility might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years; the Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: the giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.		\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should return to being an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old nobility might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years; the Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: the giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
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	* [[Confraternita dei Lanaioli]] ("Brotherhood of the Wool-workers"), Modegna's guild of carders, dyers, and weavers, the body [[Peron Vasca\|Peron Vasca's]] voice is rising within.		* [[Confraternita dei Lanaioli]] ("Brotherhood of the Wool-workers"), Modegna's guild of carders, dyers, and weavers, the body [[Peron Vasca\|Peron Vasca's]] voice is rising within.
	\|black_market = Where the guilds tax, someone smuggles. Cloth carrying a forged Trevan quality-mark moves through minor ports up and down the coast, undercutting the Confraternita's own goods and drawing fierce guild retaliation whenever a forger is caught. Grain crosses the Taddo and Morela well upstream and downstream of the toll-factors, dodging Trevan, Milosian, and Vistrian tariffs alike, an open secret every side tolerates more than it admits. Unlicensed lending at rates the Concilio would never sanction runs quietly through Bellona's smaller shrines, serving borrowers neither Banco Ozzo nor Casa Ferranti will touch.		\|black_market = Where the guilds tax, someone smuggles. Cloth carrying a forged Trevan quality-mark moves through minor ports up and down the coast, undercutting the Confraternita's own goods and drawing fierce guild retaliation whenever a forger is caught. Grain crosses the Taddo and Morela well upstream and downstream of the toll-factors, dodging Trevan, Milosian, and Vistrian tariffs alike, an open secret every side tolerates more than it admits. Unlicensed lending at rates the Concilio would never sanction runs quietly through Bellona's smaller shrines, serving borrowers neither Banco Ozzo nor Casa Ferranti will touch.
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			==Treva Before the Empire==
			Long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] unified the region under the provide of Aescalapea and centuries before [[Zeta\|Zetian]] ships ever crossed the [[Aurean Sea]], the coast that is now Treva was held by three related but distinct peoples, none of whom left writing behind, only names preserved secondhand in later Zetian trade-logs and a handful of surviving folk practices. The [[Velsuni]] held the harbor and the shore: fisherfolk and small-boat traders who worked the natural anchorage that would one day become [[Portosalvo]]. They are now remembered by scholars and historians as the people who first harvested the aurelia-shell, a small coastal mollusk that yields a rare golden-hued dye when crushed and cured, a laborious, foul-smelling process the Velsuni are said to have guarded jealously. The [[Ossarae]] were shepherd-weavers of the western mountains in roughly the countryside Vallenza occupies today, whose legend credits their weaving to an ancestral spirit-woman named [[Mirensa]] Mirensa, it is said, wove the first thread from a fleece "the color of a held breath" on the high, remote peak the Ossarae held sacred, the same peak known today as [[Monte Ordito]]. The [[Tarnii]] held the river valleys between them, farmers of the fertile lowlands and the most numerous of the three tribes. They tilled the ground around what is now [[Modegna]] and [[Guadenza]], and the peoples the coast's other two groups deferred to in matters of common defense, though deference seems to have meant loose confederation rather than any real central rule.

			The [[War of the Golden Coast]] was fought across this ground. When Zetian traders first encountered the aurelia-dye around {{ICYear\|-200}}, its rarity and richness earned the whole stretch of shoreline the name Zetian merchants recorded it under: the [[Golden Coast]]. The trade agreement that followed, and its collapse into open war in {{ICYear\|-192}}, played out largely on Velsuni and Tarnii ground; Aescalapean biremes that dominated the sea-war were crewed and provisioned, in no small part, from these same coastal peoples. When the Zetian army finally forced Aescalapea's surrender by {{ICYear\|-187}}, the Trevan tribes were absorbed into the Imperial peace along with the rest of Aescalapea, their names surviving only in Zetian records from that point on.

			[[Zetian Language\|Zetian]] and later [[Aurean Language\|Aurean]] speech replaced the Velsuni, Ossarae, and Tarnii tongues within a few centuries, but not everything was lost. Mirensa's weaving-spirit never fully vanished from Ossarae folk practice and the peak where she was said to have woven her first thread stayed a place ordinary Trevans, and no small number of outsiders, still climbed to leave an offering. When the Imperial priests arrived with their own goddess of fate and weaving, Trevan highland folk simply folded practices honoring Mirensa into worship of Paelemona rather than abandoning her. This act of quiet syncretism was never much minded by the Imperial priests and many of the local practices became commonplace in worship of Paelemona across the Empire. What had been a shepherd's shrine became [[Il Santuario della Vedente]], and [[Monte Ordito\|Monte Ordito's]] oracle, whatever name she answered to in a given century, never stopped speaking.
	\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should return to being an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old nobility might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years; the Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: the giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.		\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should return to being an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old nobility might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years; the Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: the giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
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	\|history = <!-- History - Main Body - Prose paragraph(s) about the known history of the Nation, with links to years as appropriate; years should be in the format used by the culture, where possible; for longer histories, break down into Third Age, Dark Times, Fourth Age, etc. -->		\|history = <!-- History - Main Body - Prose paragraph(s) about the known history of the Nation, with links to years as appropriate; years should be in the format used by the culture, where possible; for longer histories, break down into Third Age, Dark Times, Fourth Age, etc. -->
	\|current_events= ~~<!-- Current Events - Main Body - Prose paragraph(~~s~~) about~~ the ~~present~~-~~year situation and adventure seeds~~, ~~which suits~~ a living ~~campaign~~. -->		\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. Peron Vasca's voice in the Confraternita dei Lanaioli has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in Modegna is he's quietly courting Guadenza's grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. Casa Ferranti has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should return to being an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. Contessa Ilaria Vezzano has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in Vistria, testing whether the old nobility might find more sympathy there than at home. A Portosalvo escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years; the Compagnia dei Naviganti insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: the giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from Monte Ordito report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
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	\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]		\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]
	\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]		\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]
	\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since {{ICYear\|1318 IC}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.		\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since {{ICYear\|1318}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.
	\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.		\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.
	\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].		\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].

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	\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]		\|pantheon = [[Imperial Ecclesia]]
	\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]		\|patron = [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]]
	\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since {{ICYear\|1318 IC}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.		\|dominant_faiths = The Triad ([[Ptharos\|Lord Ptharos the Father]], [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] and [[Baelthor\|Baelthor Stonehands]]), honored as the formal religion underlying all practice and [[Minos\|Minos the Cockerel]] is popular among merchants and teamsters alike. [[Paelemona\|Paelemona the Fateweaver]] is the state's patron, the deity of the wool guilds and from whom the Concilio delle Città draw legitimacy. Her authority in Treva anchored by the ancient oracle of Monte Ordito and, since {{ICYear\|1318}}, by the seat of her faith's own Pontifex in Modegna.
	\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.		\|secondary_faiths = Worship of [[Bellona\|Bellona the Collector]] is growing quickly among the banking houses. [[Betshaba\|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] is kept with particular devotion by Portosalvo's sailors and factors, as in most port cities. [[Fides\|Fides the Oathbinder]] is often invoked at the signing of the Concilio's charters and trade agreements.
	\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].		\|persecuted_faiths = The Dagonian deities are proscribed by law, as in most Imperial successor-states. [[Phlegethon\|Phlegethon Ironfist]] draws special suspicion in Treva, given his old association with the tyranny Treva broke free of when it split from [[Aescalapea]].

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	Treva is the wealthiest state on the [[Golden Coast]] and by its own history the least prepared to hold it. It broke from [[Aescalapea]] during the chaos of the [[Fourth Succession War]] and has settled into an uneasy shape ever since: a generation ago, a wealthy merchant family bought its way into the hereditary rank of Principe at [[Modegna]] while the true weight of power runs through the wool halls and counting-houses of the towns bound beneath him. Modegna leads the compact of Trevan towns in name and commerce alike, its finished cloth and lines of credit reaching farther than any Trevan sword could. Northern Trevans watch the militaristic [[Milosia\|Milosians]] across the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] with unease, an anxiety made stranger by how heavily Milosia leans on Trevan wool and grain to feed and clothe its own legions. Treva commands a different kind of respect too: [[Monte Ordito]], deep in its western mountains, has been sacred ground since long before the Old Empire existed, and its resident oracle now shares the mountain with the [[Imperial Ecclesia]] Pontifex of Church of [[Paelemona]]~~, an honor no other Aurean state can claim~~.<noinclude>		Treva is the wealthiest state on the [[Golden Coast]] and by its own history the least prepared to hold it. It broke from [[Aescalapea]] during the chaos of the [[Fourth Succession War]] and has settled into an uneasy shape ever since: a generation ago, a wealthy merchant family bought its way into the hereditary rank of Principe at [[Modegna]] while the true weight of power runs through the wool halls and counting-houses of the towns bound beneath him. Modegna leads the compact of Trevan towns in name and commerce alike, its finished cloth and lines of credit reaching farther than any Trevan sword could. Northern Trevans watch the militaristic [[Milosia\|Milosians]] across the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] with unease, an anxiety made stranger by how heavily Milosia leans on Trevan wool and grain to feed and clothe its own legions. Treva commands a different kind of respect too: [[Monte Ordito]], deep in its western mountains, has been sacred ground since long before the Old Empire existed and its resident oracle now shares the mountain with the official seat of the [[Imperial Ecclesia]] Pontifex of Church of [[Paelemona]].<noinclude>
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	===Treva Before the Zetian Conquest===		===Treva Before the Zetian Conquest===
	Long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] unified the region under the ~~provide~~ of Aescalapea ~~and centuries before [[Zeta\|Zetian]] ships ever crossed the [[Aurean Sea]]~~, the coast that is now Treva was held by three related but distinct peoples~~, none of whom left writing behind,~~ only names preserved secondhand in later Zetian trade-logs and a handful of surviving folk practices. The [[Velsuni]] held the harbor and the shore: fisherfolk and small-boat traders who worked the natural anchorage that would one day become [[Portosalvo]]. They are now remembered by scholars and historians as the people who first harvested the aurelia-shell, a small coastal mollusk that yields a rare golden-hued dye when crushed and cured, a laborious, foul-smelling process the Velsuni are said to have guarded jealously. The [[Ossarae]] were shepherd-weavers of the western mountains in roughly the countryside Vallenza occupies today, whose legend credits their weaving to an ancestral spirit-woman named [[Mirensa]] ~~Mirensa~~, it is said, wove the first thread from a fleece "the color of a held breath" on the high, remote peak the Ossarae held sacred, the same peak known today as [[Monte Ordito]]. The [[Tarnii]] held the river valleys between them, farmers of the fertile lowlands and the most numerous of the three tribes. They tilled the ground around what is now [[Modegna]] and [[Guadenza]], and the peoples the coast's other two groups deferred to in matters of common defense, though deference seems to have meant loose confederation rather than any real central rule.		Long before the [[Great Empire\|Empire]] unified the region under the province of Aescalapea, the coast that is now Treva was held by three related but distinct peoples; only their names were preserved secondhand in later Zetian trade-logs and a handful of surviving folk practices. The [[Velsuni]] held the harbor and the shore: fisherfolk and small-boat traders who worked the natural anchorage that would one day become [[Portosalvo]]. They are now remembered by scholars and historians as the people who first harvested the aurelia-shell, a small coastal mollusk that yields a rare golden-hued dye when crushed and cured, a laborious, foul-smelling process the Velsuni are said to have guarded jealously. The [[Ossarae]] were shepherd-weavers of the western mountains in roughly the countryside Vallenza occupies today, whose legend credits their weaving to an ancestral spirit-woman named [[Mirensa]], it is said, wove the first thread from a fleece "the color of a held breath" on the high, remote peak the Ossarae held sacred, the same peak known today as [[Monte Ordito]]. The [[Tarnii]] held the river valleys between them, farmers of the fertile lowlands and the most numerous of the three tribes. They tilled the ground around what is now [[Modegna]] and [[Guadenza]], and the peoples the coast's other two groups deferred to in matters of common defense, though deference seems to have meant loose confederation rather than any real central rule.
	===Treva as Part of the Province of Aescalapea===		===Treva as Part of the Province of Aescalapea===
	The [[War of the Golden Coast]] was fought across this ground. When Zetian traders first encountered the aurelia-dye around {{ICYear\|-200}}, its rarity and richness earned the whole stretch of shoreline the name Zetian merchants recorded it under: the [[Golden Coast]]. The trade agreement that followed, and its collapse into open war in {{ICYear\|-192}}, played out largely on Velsuni and Tarnii ground; Aescalapean biremes that dominated the sea-war were crewed and provisioned, in no small part, from these same coastal peoples. When the Zetian army finally forced Aescalapea's surrender by {{ICYear\|-187}}, the Trevan tribes were absorbed into the Imperial peace along with the rest of Aescalapea, their names surviving only in Zetian records from that point on.		The [[War of the Golden Coast]] was fought across this ground. When Zetian traders first encountered the aurelia-dye around {{ICYear\|-200}}, its rarity and richness earned the whole stretch of shoreline the name Zetian merchants recorded it under: the [[Golden Coast]]. The trade agreement that followed, and its collapse into open war in {{ICYear\|-192}}, played out largely on Velsuni and Tarnii ground; Aescalapean biremes that dominated the sea-war were crewed and provisioned, in no small part, from these same coastal peoples. When the Zetian army finally forced Aescalapea's surrender by {{ICYear\|-187}}, the Trevan tribes were absorbed into the Imperial peace along with the rest of Aescalapea, their names surviving only in Zetian records from that point on.
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	Treva's written history proper begins as a chapter of Aescalapea's, not its own. Under the [[Great Empire]] the coast south of the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] was Aescalapean territory, ruled across the centuries first under the long tyranny of [[House Gabinius]] and then, in its final years, under [[Rukala]], the Mage-King's own magister, whose harsh hand over Aescalapea is what Trevans still name first when asked why they left. Wool and grain flowed north to [[Dracar]] throughout; loyalty did not flow back.		Treva's written history proper begins as a chapter of Aescalapea's, not its own. Under the [[Great Empire]] the coast south of the [[Taddo River\|Taddo]] was Aescalapean territory, ruled across the centuries first under the long tyranny of [[House Gabinius]] and then, in its final years, under [[Rukala]], the Mage-King's own magister, whose harsh hand over Aescalapea is what Trevans still name first when asked why they left. Wool and grain flowed north to [[Dracar]] throughout; loyalty did not flow back.
	===Independence and the Dark Times===		===Independence and the Dark Times===
	The death of [[Lucasa\|Emperor Lucius "the Heretic"]] in {{ICYear\|1253}} tipped the Great Empire into the [[Fourth Succession War]], and the Trevan coast, still raw under Rukala's recent magistracy, broke from Aescalapean rule amid the same chaos. Its fields and looms made it a prize worth fighting for rather than simply abandoning, and several major battles of the War were fought on Trevan soil. These were failed attempts by various claimants to hold the Golden Coast ~~coast~~, not a single decisive campaign. Treva's break became final and recognized in {{ICYear\|1257}}.		The death of [[Lucasa\|Emperor Lucius "the Heretic"]] in {{ICYear\|1253}} tipped the Great Empire into the [[Fourth Succession War]], and the Trevan coast, still raw under Rukala's recent magistracy, broke from Aescalapean rule amid the same chaos. Its fields and looms made it a prize worth fighting for rather than simply abandoning, and several major battles of the War were fought on Trevan soil. These were failed attempts by various claimants to hold the Golden Coast, not a single decisive campaign. Treva's break became final and recognized in {{ICYear\|1257}}.

	===Treva and the Dark Times===		===Treva and the Dark Times===
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	===Treva and the Fourth Age of Man===		===Treva and the Fourth Age of Man===
	When the gods returned in {{ICYear\|1312}}, the reconstituted Imperial Ecclesia found itself needing to reorganize faiths that had, in places, kept functioning without it. Few had functioned as visibly as Monte Ordito, and in {{ICYear\|1318}} the Ecclesia formalized what pilgrims had long since decided for themselves: the sanctuary's own head priest was raised to Pontifex over the entire Church of Paelemona, a seat Monte Ordito has held ever since (though the Pontifex is usually in residence at [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] in Modegna due to the highly political nature of the role. This decision has rapidly become a source of pride for Trevans of ~~even~~ ilk and one of the few things the rural aristocracy and the urban elite can agree on.		When the gods returned in {{ICYear\|1312}}, the reconstituted Imperial Ecclesia found itself needing to reorganize faiths that had, in places, kept functioning without it. Few had functioned as visibly as Monte Ordito, and in {{ICYear\|1318}} the Ecclesia formalized what pilgrims had long since decided for themselves: the sanctuary's own head priest was raised to Pontifex over the entire Church of Paelemona, a seat Monte Ordito has held ever since (though the Pontifex is usually in residence at [[La Sala della Spinatrice]] in Modegna due to the highly political nature of the role). This decision has rapidly become a source of pride for Trevans of every ilk and one of the few things the rural aristocracy and the urban elite can agree on.

	Independence had not brought order, and the Dark Times did not change that. What followed, for roughly three-quarters of a century, was a coalition of surviving baronial families ruling a coastline of prosperous, mutually suspicious towns, each guarding its own charter and guild. Vistria, carved from that same Aescalapean collapse, took the quieter path of a rebuilding archduchy; Treva took the noisier one, its towns forever competing at market rather than settling under any single house. A weak crown, a rich merchant class, and towns bound loosely enough that none felt truly ruled from Modegna: that arrangement held into the Fourth Age with little real change.		Independence had not brought order, and the Dark Times did not change that. What followed, for roughly three-quarters of a century, was a coalition of surviving baronial families ruling a coastline of prosperous, mutually suspicious towns, each guarding its own charter and guild. Vistria, carved from that same Aescalapean collapse, took the quieter path of a rebuilding archduchy; Treva took the noisier one, its towns forever competing at market rather than settling under any single house. A weak crown, a rich merchant class, and towns bound loosely enough that none felt truly ruled from Modegna: that arrangement held into the Fourth Age with little real change.

	[[Casa Ozzo]] broke that stalemate. In {{ICYear\|1331}}, [[Ranuccio Ozzo]], Bartolo's father, parlayed a wool-and-banking fortune into the baronial coalition's collapse and claimed the Principe's throne outright, the first merchant house in Trevan history to do so. Bartolo inherited that throne on his father's death in {{ICYear\|1351}} despite no clear line of succession established under any law. Trevans of middle age remember when Casa Ozzo were simply the wealthiest house in Modegna rather than its rulers, and that memory, more than any law, is what still drives the old ~~aristoracy~~'s resentment and the new order's fragility.		[[Casa Ozzo]] broke that stalemate. In {{ICYear\|1331}}, [[Ranuccio Ozzo]], Bartolo's father, parlayed a wool-and-banking fortune into the baronial coalition's collapse and claimed the Principe's throne outright, the first merchant house in Trevan history to do so. Bartolo inherited that throne on his father's death in {{ICYear\|1351}} despite no clear line of succession established under any law. Trevans of middle age remember when Casa Ozzo were simply the wealthiest house in Modegna rather than its rulers, and that memory, more than any law, is what still drives the old aristocracy's resentment and the new order's fragility.
	\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. [[Peron Vasca\|Peron Vasca's]] voice in the [[Confraternita dei Lanaioli]] has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in [[Modegna]] is he's quietly courting [[Guadenza\|Guadenza's]] grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. [[Casa Ferranti]] has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should become an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. [[Ilaria Vezzano\|Contessa Ilaria Vezzano]] has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in [[Vistria]], testing whether the old aristocratic houses might find more sympathy there than at home. A [[Portosalvo]] escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years. The [[Compagnia dei Naviganti]] insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: rumors of a giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from [[Monte Ordito]] report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.		\|current_events= Treva's current state reads like a state holding its breath: nothing has broken yet, but several things are close to it. [[Peron Vasca\|Peron Vasca's]] voice in the [[Confraternita dei Lanaioli]] has grown from grumbling to genuine leverage, and word in [[Modegna]] is he's quietly courting [[Guadenza\|Guadenza's]] grain-factors too, a joint action across more than one town's guilds that would be a first for Trevan labor. [[Casa Ferranti]] has started asking questions Bartolo can't easily answer: with the Principe barely eight years on the throne and his father's ascension still within living memory, Ferranti allies on the Concilio have begun quietly floating whether the princely title should become an elected office among the great banking houses rather than an Ozzo inheritance. [[Ilaria Vezzano\|Contessa Ilaria Vezzano]] has stopped merely refusing Ozzo marriage offers and has been spotted in correspondence with baronial cousins across the border in [[Vistria]], testing whether the old aristocratic houses might find more sympathy there than at home. A [[Portosalvo]] escort galley went missing off the coast last season, presumed lost to piracy rather than storm, the third such loss in two years. The [[Compagnia dei Naviganti]] insists it's coincidence, but the underwriters at the Vault of the Collector have quietly stopped extending new marine cover at the old rates. Milosia's own unrest has northern Trevans on edge too: rumors of a giant-host massing in the Antasian valleys worries Treva less as a threat of invasion than as a reason a distracted, anxious Milosia might tighten its grain contracts rather than loosen them. And in the west, pilgrims returning from [[Monte Ordito]] report that the Vedente has grown unusually quiet these past months, offering fewer answers than usual to those who make the climb, though whether that reflects anything more than an old woman's failing health is, so far, nobody's business but the sanctuary's own.
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