The history of the Boruvian Empire is the History of Man: an inexorable rise to greatness, an age when entitlement replaces ambition, and the inevitable decline that follows. In its Golden Age, the Boruvian Empire covered the entire South, and stretched from the coasts of Calland to the great woodlands of Riesental. But today, the Empire is a shadow of its former glories. Four centuries of weak rule have decayed the Empire from within. Sensing inaction, separatist movements have relentlessly carved up the Old Empire, backing it into the corner it is in today. Now newer, hungrier realms like Hadrigel, Berany and Crivia view the Empire as the "soft underbelly" of the world.
Yet for all its woes, the Boruvian Empire still remains the largest of Realms. It is a place of great civilization and tradition, of old wealth, established families and trade. It is also the seat of the only Emperor on the continent, and the Great Hall of Light is still very much alive with the murmurs of far-flung ambassadors.
The sense of greatness in its twilight is very much a part of the Boruvian consciousness, an odd mix of fatalism in their Great Fall, and yet a thinly-concealed derision for the adolescent kingdoms around them. The Boruvian people will always consider themselves superior to their neighbors, a point all the more poignant to them, because they know how far they have fallen. Thus they see themselves as the keepers of civilization. If they fall, so too goes civilization, and so they must hold the line and guard hope for the coming of a great ruler who will once again restore their rightful place in the world.
