Vulture States

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
Bovic Kingdom of Drak-Modan		Drakorda	Lachmodan So-Sara	Drak-Modan First Movement	Natopia Raspur Pact House of Waffel-Paine
Elwynnese Republic		Eliria	Elwynn	Elwynnese Popular Front	ESB Group Holy Church of the Divine Icebear Iron Company Nationalist & Humanist Party Raspur Pact Verionist Union
Frankish Empire		Brandenburg	Absentia Agningas Hyfrost West Mishalan Olesääd Tsofnland	Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy Military Council Reichstag	Arcadia Batavia (personal union) Helderbourgh (personal union) House of Vinandy	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 Changed name from "West Amokolia" to "Francia" in 1678 Hostileto the Raspur Pact
Guttuli Protectorate		Gatonia	Alexandretta Lower Lunaris Musica	Protectorate Military Council		Brookshire Chauvinist, Bistur nos Daiunig
Imperial Republic of Shireroth		Shirekeep (executive) Fort Kezan (imperial residence)	Hawshire-Dura Kezan Shirekeep Shireroth (claimed) Zy-Rodun			Claims to be continuation of the Imperial Republic
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
Democratic Federation of Sanama		Niyi (Nee)	Amarra Sanilla Cisamarra Lower Highpass (claimed)	Sanilla and Amarra Liberation Army for Democracy	Raspur Pact Talenore	Successful revolutionary movement
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 ...	Established by the Imperial Regency
Republic of Shimmerspring		Mortis Mercatoria	Shimmerspring	Established by the Istvanistani Patriotic Army
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
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
Unified Governorates of Benacia		Merensk	Benacia Isle Lachmeren Lywall Mishalan (claimed) New Blackstone	Benacia Command	ESB Group Nationalist & Humanist Party Raspur Pact	Intends to replace Shireroth with a Benacian Commonwealth.
Kingdom of Ransenar		Goldfield	Elsenar (claimed) Ran, parts of Ynnraile (Tyrelwynn, Teldrin) (controlled)	Kaiseress Salome	Raspur Pact Imperial Democratic Party	Aims to establish an independent Ransenari Kingdom with an elected monarchy and a parliamentary democracy.

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.
Republic of Yardistan						Ideological contradictions.