Vulture States

A timeline of some major states having received their independence from Shireroth and their territorial evolution

The Vulture States is the informal collective appellation bestowed upon the dozen or so successor states that arose from the ruins of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth in the wake of the Kalirion Fracture.

Notable vultures

Polity Name	Coat of Arms	Capital	Territories	Ruling Faction	Patrons	Notes
Benacian Union		Chryse	Chryse Elluenuueq Sovereign Confederation Unified Governorates of Benacia	Nationalist & Humanist Party	Honourable Company Raspur Pact	Formed after the Second Elwynnese Civil War at the first session of the Congress of Chryse (1696 AN–1698 AN). Union-state established at the Second Session of the Congress (1703 AN).
Cisamarra						Seceded from Sanama
Highpass				House of Niit n Taag	Raspur Pact	Seceded from Sanama
Kingdom of Ransenar		Goldfield	Ran, Elsenar, parts of Monty Crisco, Caverden, Ynnraile (Tyrelwynn, Teldrin) and Holwinn (controlled)	Queen Salome I (Kaiseress Salome of Shireroth)	Raspur Pact Imperial Democratic Party (IDP)	Founded in 1673 AN, early on it aimed to reunify the County of Ransenar under the rule of the Imperial Democratic Party. Upon its independence, it invited Kaiseress Salome to become its Queen. After several regional conflicts, the Kingdom achieved its goal of reunifying Ransenar and expanded into parts of Caverden and Monty Crisco under Operation Salvation.
Sanaman Union of People's Republics		Semisa City	Amarra Sanilla Cisamarra	Agrarian League Sanaman People's Party	Raspur Pact Tellia Shireroth	Successful revolutionary movement Sanaman Civil War
Imperial Republic of Shireroth		Shirekeep (executive) Montran (imperial residence)	Imperial Duchy of Brookshire Duchy of the Guttuli Hawshire-Dura Kezan Duchy of Modan Sathrati Shirekeep Zy-Rodun			Imperial Regency established after death of Ayreon IV struggled to attain recognition as a continuation of the Imperial Republic but was able to suppress the various pretenders to the Golden Mango Throne and, during the reign of Salome, would subsequently recover the greater part of historic Brookshire through a mixture of conquest and diplomacy.
Tellian Confederation		Romero	Hither Tellia Thither Tellia	Vittorio Vllazërim Fabbri Giuseppe Fossone		City states independent of Shireroth, gained vulture status by occupying the Mandate of Tellia

Notably dead vultures

Polity Name	Coat of Arms	Capital	Former Territories	Ruling Faction	Patrons	Cause of Death
Boreal Kingdoms		Tala	Leng, Hyperborea	Shadow Witch Council		War with Elwynn, conquered
Imperial Daemonic Republic of Shireroth		New North Shirekeep (temporary) Shirekeep (claimed)	Demonsfall (New North Shirekeep) Shireroth (claimed)	Kaiseress Kizzy The Saints CF		City of Demonsfall destroyed by indiscriminate area bombing, pretender to the throne murdered by disillusioned followers.
Verionist Republic		Chryste	Elsenar Monty Crisco Skyla Islands	Kaiseress Salome (courtesy title) Viceroy Regina Verion (de facto Head of State)	Iron Company Verionist Union House of Verion	Annexation of the Free State of Crisco in 1675 and attempt to forcibly restore the exiled Prefect of Shirekeep to office in the same year united Benacian powers against the Verionist Republic. Critical failure of reactor safeguards results in a cascade failure across a network of radiological and biological research projects that had been inexplicably linked together - according to some sources this was done as a fail-safe in an attempt to render territory uninhabitable in the event of the regime's overthrow. In any event the panic engendered by this calamity precipitated the collapse of what remained of Verionist Benacia. The city of Chryste was transferred to Batavia, which transferred the city to Francia.
Republic of Yardistan						Ideological contradictions.
Free City of Chryste		Chryste		Viceroy Jana Al-Basani	Iron Company Verionists House of Verion	Emerged out of the Verionist Republic. Joined Elwynn in 1690 following the Battle of Chryse.
Frankish Empire (Germanian: Fränkisches Reich)		Brandenburg	Absentia Agningas Hyfrost West Mishalan Olesääd Shireroth (feels entitled to claim according to its own constitution) Tsofnland	Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy Reichstag	Arcadia Batavia (personal union) Helderbourgh (personal union) House of Vinandy Tassity Mansabdar	Declared independently in 1672 AN by the Declaration of Brandenburg. Sees itself as a legal successor of the historic Amokolia. Suspended the claim on former Amokolian territories under other flags, but the treaty is no longer observedby the co-signatories. Changed name from "West Amokolia" to "Francia" in 1678 AN. The Raspur Pact is hostile to Francia. The city of Chryste, former captial of the Verionist Republic, was transferred by Batavia. Collapsed, transformed, and relocated.
Sovereign Confederation of Suthergold and Norestria		Kingsgate	Suthergold Western Wintergleam Northern Ynnraille (claimed)	Speaker Doir Jen Merah	Raspur Pact	Self-declared as Protector of Goldshire. Joined Elwynn.
Republic of Shimmerspring		Mortis Mercatoria	Shimmerspring	Established by the Istvanistani Patriotic Army.		Pacified by Sanama.
Republic of Inner Benacia		Bagegeniśort	Inner Benacia Litkov Salient (claimed) Northern Lywall (claimed)	Ś°ecehe Yśehe (West) Łe 'em Yśehe (East)	KDF (Ś°ecehe Yśehe) Black Legions (Łe 'em Yśehe)	Former Shirerithian puppet state, in revolt since 1670 AN. Now part of the UGB.
Guttuli Protectorate		Gatonia	Alexandretta Lower Lunaris Musica	Protectorate Military Council		Brookshire Chauvinist, Bistur nos Daiunig. Rejoined Shireroth following conquest.
Emirate of Sathrati and the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth		Novi Nigrad (Nigrad Nehix)	Amity Mirioth Yardistan Zy-Rodun		Raspur Pact ...	Conducted rituals to acknowledge Imperial sovereignty over Sathrati in 1685 AN.
Bovic Draconian State in Modan		Drakorda	Lachmodan Draconia	Co-Monarchs of Drak-Modan	Natopia Raspur Pact	Established as a client state under Natopia. Now ruled by a cadet branch of the Natopian imperial family. Proponent of Draconian supremacy and Reorganized Bovinism. Reunification with Shireroth followed the 1699 Drak-Modani attempted coup d'état
Elluenuueq		Ardashirshahr	Elwynn	Benacian Directorate of the Honourable Company N&H National Sector Party Union Defence Force	ESB Group Holy Church of the Divine Icebear Iron Company Nationalist & Humanist Party Raspur Pact Verionist Union	Second Elwynnese Civil War member of the Benacian Union. Subsumed into the Benacian Union.
Unified Governorates of Benacia		Merensk	Benacia Isle Eiland Salome Florencia Lachmeren Lywall Iridian Isles New Blackstone Transelwynn	Benacia Command	ESB Group Nationalist & Humanist Party Raspur Pact	Ambition to replace Shireroth with a Benacian Commonwealth ultimately faltered, resulting in the establishment of a Benacian Union comprised of the UGB, mainland Elwynn, and the city state of Chryse. Subsumed into the Benacian Union.