Eblis
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| Official language | English, Latin, High German |
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| Capital | Eblis |
| Largest cities | Tyre, Acre, Maymundiz, Mercia |
| Website | No Website |
| Forum | No Forum |
| Number of citizens | 3 |
| Number of active citizens | 0 (Nation Inactive) |
| Date founded | November 2004 |
| Government | Armed Monastic Order |
| Current leader | Magister Generalis Marcellus von Grobe |
| Currency | unknown |
| National animal | Dragon |
| National fruit/food | unknown |
| National drink | unknown |
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| Map versions | 6.7. 9- 6.8.3 |
Foundation
Eblis was founded as a Crusading Order in November 2004 about the time of Sennar's seccession from Alexandria, and it was this series of events which led to the short but bloody war for which Eblis is best remembered. Those involved in Eblis at the time recall it as being a 'blantant Papel state' (presumably of the Grand Commonwealth), and it is presumably due to this strong political link between Eblis and the Grand Commonwealth that roughly half of Eblis' territory, the province of Terre d'Riches, was signed away to Babkha within months of Eblis joining the MCS.
By its very nature Eblis had an interventionist foreign policy under the guise of numerous crusades, and the many eloquent pleas for the shedding of infidel blood of its Magister Generalis, Marcellus von Grobe (Ardashir Khan), did not amount to much until the some might say strangely coincidental appearance of the Islamic Republic of Sennar on Apollonia, bordering Eblis. The Crusader State had already had some border disputes with Antica and, weak from its loss of Terre d'Riches, declared a crusade of sorts against Sennar, which was promptly supported both militarily and politically by the Grand Commonwealth and Babkha. Sennar pleaded Babkha to reconsider its decision but as Radio Rastakhiz of Babkha reported, its pleas only made matters worse:
Richmond, Terre des Riches: Rumours have been circulating of a minor Islamist revolt beyond the frontier of Eblis. The Islamic Republic of Sennarstan, claims to have moved to this location in order to be closer to its Arabic ‘brothers’ of Babkha. A statement that came as something of a surprise to the Faris-Zarathustrian majority in Babkha. Other reports claim that Sennarstan has been declared amidst the ruins of vanquished Alexandria in the far north on the border with Arminy. Other reports claim that Umra’s little toe knew more about Islam than the Islamic Republic of Sennarstan which may transpire to be little more than an ill-advised venture by Spelev and Edgard into the territory of Terrorism Chic.
The Declaration of War
Part of the unusually elaborate declaration of war issued against Sennar was as follows:
The Conflict and Demise
After declaring war on the 26th of December 2004, crusader forces advanced deep into the heart of Sennari territory, the remainder of which was bombed into submission by an overzealous Babkhan Airforce, to such an extent that Sennar was marked as 'hell' on Babkhi military maps of the era. Eblis' victory over the Sennari bought it closer into the Babkhan sphere of influence and sewed the seeds for Eblis' ultimate demise.
Islands off the coast of what had been Terre d'Riches had formerly been part of the short-lived Communist nation of Rulczentia, the successor state to Rulak, which had itself been annexed by Babkha earlier on. The Babkhi seizure of Terre d'Riches should have alerted Eblis to long-term Babkhi territorial ambitions in the region, but Eblis remained for several more months until presumably agreeing to Babkhi annexation of its territories. The Kingdom of Northworthy occupied Southern Eblis for a brief period before the Grand Commonwealth colonised Southern Eblis and created the Sovereign Territory of Palastina and the Islands on the 31st of March 2005, the city names of Eblis being similar to those in the macronational region of Israel-Palestine. Signs of Eblis' brief independence could still be seen on the MCS map for long after, with Tyre as a city of Riponia until map 13.4.1.
