History Characters / EquestriaAtWarNorthernGriffonia

* ChummyCommies: The Communists of Skynavia are by far some of the most democratic communists in the world, having a very well developed socialist democratic system (represented as a gameplay mechanic), and even explicitly state that they reject authoritarian socialism in some of the events.

* MagikarpPower: Skynavia begins as a backwater socialist country even more fringe than the Griffonian Republic and the Griffonian Liberation Army. Despite this, they also have pan-Griffonian ideals and with some hard work can expand to encompass all of Griffonia.

* PurposelyOverpowered: A game set-up option called "Dread Apocalypse", which is designed to make the Black Crusade much more intense, purposefully strengthens an AI Dread League[[note]]The game rule does not apply to a human playing the Dread League[[/note]] by allowing the Dread League to to take both the Coven of Blood and Coven of Bones routes, which are normally mutually-exclusive[[note]]This is done by a hidden event that unlocks a focus from the Coven of Bones tree each time the Dread League unlocks a focus from the Coven of Blood tree, save for the final Quest for the Chalice focus[[/note]], gaining huge bonuses to division quality, recruitable population and population growth, more free factories, basic fighters and kamikaze tactics, offsetting most of their tech rate penalty, and doing both trees in the time it would take them to complete just one. The game even warns that this option should not be activated by a casual player. This is however very much {{downplayed|trope}} by one major factor: It only really makes them overpowered vs the Arcturian Order and maybe the Hillponies. Even with Dread Apocalypse, the Dread League is so thoroughly backwards (not to mention navally non-existent) that they tend to be swiftly defeated once they declare war on any River Coalition state.

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[[folder:Northern Tribes]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Flag of the Free Northern Communes]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ntr_communism_free_northern_communes.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Flag of the Everfrost Republic]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fat_ntr_puppet_everfrost_republic.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Full Name:''' Northern Tribes, Free Northern Communes (Skynavia puppet state), Everfrost Republic (Griffonian Republic puppet state)
->'''Ideology:''' Tribal Federation[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* GeneralFailure: The Northern Tribes are home to two of the absolute worst generals in the game - Gordon the Archer, who was once a great war hero, but whose blindness more than offsets any skill he may have once had, and Federic Birch, who is an imbecile and exactly as capable as one might expect a drooling idiot to be - no matter what his raw stats are, his Imbecile trait negates all bonuses his stats might offer, and it carriers a significant penalty to division attack and defense.
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! Dread Peninsula
[[folder:Arcturian Order]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Arcturian Order
->'''Ruling Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* {{Expy}}:
** The Arcturian Order is an expy of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheNightsWatch the Night's Watch]], being an ancient and largely forgotten knightly order founded to defend the continent against an army of the dead coming from the far north.
** One of the Arcturian Order's generals is a pony named Whitemane, who wears the same outfit as [[Characters/WarcraftOthers High Inquisitor Sally Whitemane]] from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Rosa may attempt a conference with the Arcturian Order with the intention of either corrupting the Order from within or forming a treaty under false pretenses. If her corruption efforts or treaty negotiations go as she intends, the Arcturian Order will immediately disband and be annexed by the Dread League.
* TheGoodKingdom: After their victory against the Dread League, the Arcturian Order reforms into the Arcturian Kingdom, and begins to open up to the world. Still led by the Arcturian Order, with the former headmaster being the constitutional or the absolute king, the Kingdom can either enter the world in peace (Harmonic) or be played as a KnightTemplar and spread their rule by force (Non-Aligned).
* HiddenElfVillage: The Arcturian Order adopted a policy of isolationism, deliberately turning away all outsiders to focus on defending against the Dread League. Other countries cannot interact with them until they finish off the Dread League and turn into the Arcturian Kingdom.
* HoldTheLine: The strategy to fight against the Dread League is to hold the initial reinforced border at all costs. ''Any'' breakdown in the frontline will most likely doom the Order to an eventual defeat.
* InstantWinCondition: If they successfully complete the focus and mission to retrieve the Shield of Hope, they instantly win against the Dread League, no matter how the war is going.
* TheOrder: The Arcturian Order is an ancient order of holy knights founded to keep the undead up the North of Griffonia under control.
* SacrificialLion: If you set the AI to historical while you play an unrelated faction, the Dread League will usually always overrun the Arcturian Order. This is to demonstrate the power of the Dread League before they unleash the Black Crusade.
* YankTheDogsChain: After defeating the Dread League, you have the option to release the Arcturian Order as their own nation or as your puppet. [[spoiler: If you choose to release the Arcturian Order without making them your puppet, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they will be subsequently swept aside by the Northern Storm soon after as a newly liberated nation has practically no divisions]]]].

!!''Torygg Brightclaw''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]]
->'''Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* NoMereWindmill: Following their victory on Dread League, the Order can renew their investigation into former Headmaster Torygg's assassination. [[spoiler:It is revealed that Torygg was concerned about some other dark force manipulating many events throughout history -- and as the investigation draws to a close, he's revealed to have been ''right'', for with the Order on the trail of the Windigos, they reveal themselves, take control of the Dread Peninsula and launch a second war.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The Arcturian Order's story begins with his assassination.

!!''William Steelbeak''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]] (Election)
->'''Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* TheGoodKing: William is the Harmonic option for the Arcturian Order, and becomes a King of Harmony after the defeat of the Dread League and the creation of the Arcturian Kingdom, pursuing more peaceful diplomatic relations with their neighbors.

!!''Østwald Vind''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]] (Election)
->'''Party:''' Traditional Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Knightly Order[[note]]Non-Aligned[[/note]]

* KnightTemplar: Østwald believes that the code of the Order should be upheld by all. Once the Arcturian Kingdom is created, Østvald pursues more aggressive and expansionist policies.

[[folder:Dread League]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Dread League, Scientific Dread Collective
->'''Ruling Party:''' The Necromancer Council
->'''Ideology:''' Necrocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

* ChallengingTheChief: The winner of the Immortal Games is allowed to face off against the incumbent Dread King. Should they succeed, a new monarch would take their rightful place upon the throne.
* CombatByChampion: Contestants in the Immortal Games are not required to directly participate. Instead, they can choose or create a single champion who will fight in their stead.
* {{Expy}}: One of the Dread League's generals is a pony named Windrunner, whose name, hood and facial features are a clear reference to [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas Windrunner]], a major character in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' who leads the Forsaken undead.
* HardCodedHostility: The Dread League fights two wars: the first one with the Arcturian Order, and the second one with the rest of the world. After taking the focus "Finis Omnium Vitarum", the Dread League will automatically and continuously declare war on all of their neighbouring countries.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: The Dread League relies on raising the dead, giving it a near endless stream of bodies and absurd numbers, but its tech is incredibly poor.
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: A running theme for the country - they're called the Dread League, all of their starting states sound ominous, their leader takes the surname ''Maledictus'' (masculine) or ''Maledicta'' (feminine), and all of their ships have names like "Corruption", "Desecration", and "Soul Reaver". The theme even extends to some lands once held by the ancient Dread Empire, such as Losthope in Farbrook and Bonedrift in Firtree.
* TheNecrocracy: The Dread League is governed by a cabal of necromancers (most of them liches) and a coven of vampire lords.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Dread League is a league of necromancers who fight with an army of raised dead.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Dread League seeks to wipe out all life in Equestria. After defeating the Arcturian Order and taking the Finis Omnium Vitarum focus, they'll automatically declare war on all countries that share a border with them until the Dread League is defeated or successfully conquers the entire world.
* OutsideContextProblem: [[InterfaceSpoiler Semi-omniscience provided by the user interface not withstanding]], pretty much nopony outside the Arcturian Order and the Dread League itself is aware they even exist, and in a world preparing for an industrial UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-like conflict, they're an almost completely magical threat that wouldn't be remotely out of place in a more traditionally fantastic setting.
* PurposelyOverpowered: A game set-up option called "Dread Apocalypse", which is designed to make the Black Crusade much more intense, purposefully strengthens an AI Dread League[[note]]The game rule does not apply to a human playing the Dread League[[/note]] by allowing the Dread League to to take both the Coven of Blood and Coven of Bones routes, which are normally mutually-exclusive[[note]]This is done by a hidden event that unlocks a focus from the Coven of Bones tree each time the Dread League unlocks a focus from the Coven of Blood tree, save for the final Quest for the Chalice focus[[/note]], gaining huge bonuses to division quality, recruitable population and population growth, more free factories, basic fighters and kamikaze tactics, offsetting most of their tech rate penalty, and doing both trees in the time it would take them to complete just one. The game even warns that this option should not be activated by a casual player. This is however very much {{downplayed|trope}} by one major factor: It only really makes them overpowered vs the Arcturian Order and maybe the Hillponies. Even with Dread Apocalypse, the Dread League is so thoroughly backwards (not to mention navally non-existent) that they tend to be swiftly defeated once they declare war on any River Coalition state.
* QuantityVsQuality: The main choice for the Dread League is whether to favor the vampires of the Coven of Blood or the liches of the Coven of Bones. The Coven of Blood is the quality route, trading away most of the Dread League's massive population growth for significant improvements in division attack and speed and offsetting a significant portion of the Dread League's massive tech penalty. The Coven of Bones is the quantity choice, ignoring the Dread League's tech penalty entirely in favor of doubling down on its massive population growth and recruitment rate and favoring attrition tactics in a war of raw numbers with boosted defense and kamikaze tactics.
* ShoutOut: The Communist leader for the Dread League, Comrade Salikov, is the [[https://www.memedroid.com/memes/detail/2211192/Comrade-Skeletal-for-Hall-of-weens Comrade Skeletal meme]]. While his canonicity is questionable since the Dread League cannot follow Communism, he's the only human to appear in the game even if he's just a skeleton of one (NCR Expedition AprilFoolsDay content notwithstanding).
* TheUndead: The Dread League's entire army is made up of the reanimated dead. They get a huge portion of recruitable core population, and basically no recruitable non-core population. However, they can "convert" the living non-core population to recruitable population by decisions, and in the Coven of Bones route, they get massive boosts to population growth to represent raising hordes of the undead.
* VampireProcreationLimit: Since vampires can't convert the living to mostly-mindless thralls as rapidly or endlessly as the lichs and necromancers can raise skeletons and zombies, the Coven of Blood route sacrifices most of the Dread League's massive population growth. Fortunately for the Dread League, thralls are stronger and faster than zombies and skeletons.

!!''Corpus Maledictus''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' The Necromancer Council

* {{Narcissist}}: Known for his extreme narcissism, Corpus only does anything when it benefits him.
* SoreLoser: When the Dread Council declares Wilted Rose's victory over Corpus as legitimate, he refuses to accept and tries to kill her so he wouldn't have to abdicate.
-->'''Dread Council:''' The rules state that a Contender cannot cast spells during a match. She did not cast the spell. Her champion did. You lost, Corpus.
-->'''Corpus Maledictus:''' No! I will not accept this, you vile traitors! What she did was not possible! She had to have cheated and you're covering it up! The Circle will have your hides for this! I will not relinquish my authority to a scheming, pathetic mortal!

!!''Rosa Maledicta''
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[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Bones]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_lich.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Blood]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_vampire.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Redeemed Queen]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_redeemed.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' The Necromancer Council
->'''Ideology:''' Necrocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

* EvilMakesYouUgly: As a necromancer of the Dread League, Rosa is visibly gaunt and looks like she's seen better days. If the Arcturian Order redeems her after defeating her, she gets a new portrait with much softer facial features, and perhaps just as a function of the change in the lighting, her mane goes from appearing to be a graying reddish-black to a bright maroon.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zigzagged. After being defeated, the Arcturian Order can try to purge Rosa of evil influences and turn her to the side of the light. If the correct choices (the more compassionate ones) are chosen, Rosa will embrace light and turn to goodness, becoming a member of the Arcturian Order. This makes her a powerful general for the Order, undoes her lich or vampire transformation, and gives her a new portrait. Alternatively, she can attempt to subvert the Arcturian Order via corruption or diplomacy, only to have these backfire and have the Arcturian Order either root out the corruption and convince her to disband the Dread League, or they actually embrace the treaty of peace and friendship and push it hard, which can result in Rosa actually agreeing and giving up the Dread League's goals of wiping out all life.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Rosa's attempts to subvert the Arcturian Order and eliminate them without a war may instead lead to the Dread League being disbanded and itself eliminated without putting up the fight they had spent years preparing for.
* MurderSuicide: On the grandest scale possible - if she succeeds in wiping out all life, she tops it off by ending the last (un)life left - her own. [[spoiler: She does so to spite the Windigoes and create a truly dead world in which there is no disharmony on which they can feed.]]
* RedemptionEqualsSex: Downplayed. If Rosa Maledicta is redeemed and made a general instead of being executed, she will marry William Steel Beak after [[spoiler:defeating the Northern Storm]].
* VampiresAreSexGods: The flavor text for Rosa as the Queen of Blood describes her as both beautiful and terrifying. To the description's credit, she looks much younger and no longer has the gaunt appearance of her pre-transformation self.

!!''Rubra''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Defeated by Viira)

* DragonAscendant: If the Dread League is defeated by Viira Lehtola, she makes a pact with House Rubra, elevating them to be the new rulers of the Dread Peninsula.
* ShoutOut: Lady Rubra is based on Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, a villain from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage''.

[[folder:Northern Storm '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
->'''Full Name:''' Northern Storm
->'''Ideology:''' Tyrannic Magocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

->'''Full Name:''' Griffonian Republic, Griffonian National Republic (Suntail), Duchy of Cloudbury (Oskar I)

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Head of State[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' National Revolutionary Front

->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' Military Junta
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

!!''Rikard Astler''
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->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Head of State[[/note]]
->'''Party:''' National Republican Party - Left Wing
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Rikard Astler, founder and leader of the Left-NRP, was born in Cloudbury in 981, when it was under the control of the Republic, one of the only ministers in Kemerskai's government to have not fought in the Long March nor the Revolution. Astler's father, a native Cloudburian, and his mother, a refugee from the Republic's territory in the Heartlands, raised him with a pro-native policy, and Astler would soon begin to idolize the Socialist Republic of Skynavia and its unique system of government.\\\
Participating in numerous socialist and unionist movements, Astler eventually became a City Councilgriff in Cloudbury, under the banner of the Left-NRP, promising a democratic socialist government for the Republic. Although he abandoned many of his pro-Skynavian views during his tenure in the City Council of Cloudbury, many began to distrust him, and he endured slander after attack on his character.\\\
However, against all odds, Astler was elected Mayor of Cloudbury in 1005, in local elections allowed by the Kemerskai government. His opponent, a fierce Republican and anti-communist, was driven out of his seat, and Astler instantly began to further progressive reform efforts in the industrializing city.\\\
His mayoral position has now put him in an interesting situation - as one of the most powerful politicians in the Republic, Astler has the powerful and influence to become the next President of the Republic - if he does not fall to anti-Skynavnian fervour.[[/labelnote]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Rikard Astler is a riff on Music/RickAstley.
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[[folder:Socialist Republic of Skynavia]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Socialist Republic of Skynavia, Pan-Griffonian Socialist Commonwealth, Griffonian Northern Region (Griffonian Republic puppet state)
->'''Ruling Party:''' United Socialist Revolutionary Front
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
The Socialist Republic of Skynavia is a republic lying on the Skynavian watershed, at the pony-inhabited Northern edge of Griffonia. Led by a popular front of socialists, anarchists, and communists, the republic formed from the far-left splinter faction of Kemerskai's Republican movement, who saw Kemerskai's authoritarianism as a betrayal of the revolution. Years after the socialists' second long march north of Cloudbury, the Skynavian revolutionaries have gathered their strength and are looking outwards, for their final goal is nothing less than the total liberation of all Griffons.

* ChummyCommies: The Communists of Skynavia are by far some of the most democratic communists in the world, having a very well developed socialist democratic system (represented as a gameplay mechanic), and even explicitly state that they reject authoritarian socialism in some of the events.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Skynavia supports and can align with most Communist nations, but they will ''not'' work with [[RevengeBeforeReason Abba Povner's Longsword]] and [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Lavender Berry's Baltimare]].
* MagikarpPower: Skynavia begins as a backwater socialist country even more fringe than the Griffonian Republic and the Griffonian Liberation Army. Despite this, they also have pan-Griffonian ideals and with some hard work can expand to encompass all of Griffonia.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Political advisors Emma Goldgriff and Mikhail Beakunin are based on famous anarchists Emma Goldman and Mikhail Bakunin respectively.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: After Sickleclaw gives up power, Skynavia's leader (for the rest of the game) becomes the General Congress, whose portrait depicts the building where they meet (instead of any individual creature), reflecting how decentralised power is.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Skynavian politics is fiercely divided between Internationalists who are eager to spread the revolution, and Communalists who want to maintain what they have right now.

!!''Asper Sickleclaw''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' United Socialist Revolutionary Front, [[spoiler:Sickleclaw's Clique (Military junta path)]]
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], [[spoiler:Despotism[[note]]Non-Aligned[[/note]] (Military junta path)]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Asper Sickleclaw was a junior lieutenant in the Griffonian army when the First Revolution smashed the Empire to pieces. Marching alongside his fellow revolutionaries, Sickleclaw participated in most of the battles against the monarchist counter-revolution, eventually ending up in Cloudbury along with the remnants of the Republican government.\\\
Having witnessed the despotism and authoritarianism of the Republican generals, Sickleclaw, anticipating the Republic's spiral into warlordism, adopted socialist views and marched onwards north, leading disillusioned socialists and other leftists away from the crumbling Republic into the virgin lands of Skynavia, where they hoped to start anew, free from the baggage of capitalist militarism.\\\
Now a staunch Internationalist, Sickleclaw is the foremost military leader of the Skynavian Socialist Republic, and is looked up to by most as a revered war hero, though some have raised concerns over what they perceive to be autocratic tendencies in his leadership.[[/labelnote]]

* BookBurning: [[spoiler:Dictator Sickleclaw organizes a massive book burning across Skynavia to destroy subversive socialist literature.]]
* {{Cincinnatus}}: Sickleclaw serves as the authoritarian provisional leader of the Socialist Republic to safeguard the Republic through periods of hardship. Once the hardship is over, he is expected to step down and hand power back to the General Congress. [[spoiler:He can decide not to.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:If Sickleclaw's military dictatorship is overthrown, he commits suicide inside his office after his headquarters is stormed by a large group of revolters.]]
* DrunkWithPower: [[spoiler:Initially the provisional leader of the Socialist Republic of Skynavia, expected to give up his powers to the General Congress, Sickleclaw can decide that he does not want to give up his powers, and soon turns on his fellow socialists.]]
* EmergencyAuthority: When the Socialist Republic is in a losing war, Asper Sickleclaw can be recalled back to the leadership to lead the country through the war, granting several temporary bonuses to the country.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Disappointed with socialism, Sickleclaw can decide to make his temporary power permanent and begin a military dictatorship. He will then purge socialist elements from Skynavia and declare an perpetual martial law to keep his power indefinitely.]]
* FullCircleRevolution: [[spoiler:It is possible for Asper Sickleclaw to seize power and become the military dictator of Skynavia, just like Kemerskai's authoritarian government that originally led to Skynavia's secession. In fact, in many ways, Sickleclaw's dictatorship is ''worse'' than Kemerskai ever was or ever could be.]]
* TheGulag: [[spoiler:As a part of his anti-socialism efforts, Sickleclaw sends socialist thinkers (activists, teachers, philosophers, etc.) to work camps to reeducate them.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Sickleclaw's path to a military dictator begins very mildly, when he simply states that he wants to stay in power for a bit longer. Once the council reacts against him and begins a civil war, Sickleclaw rapidly descents into a total dictator willing to cleanse the entire society to get rid of socialism.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In the event where Sickleclaw becomes the dictator of Skynavia, he initially states that he is a WellIntentionedExtremist that was disillusioned with socialism and its bickering politicians, and thus wanted to give Skynavia a strong leader. However, his subsequent JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and creation of an anti-socialist police state made it unclear as to what does Sickleclaw truly believe anymore.]]
* PoliceState: [[spoiler:Skynavia under Sickleclaw is a tightly controlled nation that harshly punishes socialism at every level of society, where the secret police watches every citizen and arrests any sign of dissent, where people are incentivized to report on each other for socialist behavior, where the army either actively purges socialism or gets purged themselves. Everyone lives in fear.]]
* ThePurge: [[spoiler:Sickleclaw's dictatorship begins an extensive purge on the society and the army to root out socialist elements, where ''one tenth'' of the military personnel are liquidated.]]
* RevolvingDoorRevolution: [[spoiler:In Sickleclaw's dictatorship route, after he deposes the General Congress to create his military dictatorship, if Sickleclaw does not pacify Skynavia within 450 days, a communist revolt happens and deposes him.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Under Sickleclaw's military dictatorship, fear, repression, and purges run rampant. In his desire to completely cleanse the country of socialism that he thought had failed them, Sickleclaw had become a complete tyrant.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: While Sickleclaw plays a very minor role for the vast majority of Skynavian playthroughs, the Skynavian route where Sickleclaw plays a major role is spoileriffic.
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[[folder:Kingdom of Vedina]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Kingdom of Vedina
->'''Ruling Party:''' Wingstrom Dynasty
->'''Ideology:''' Benevolent Absolutism[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* TheAlliance: To avoid getting annexed later on, Vedina can join various factions after the Vedinian Royal Wedding depending on the outcome.
** In the Righteous/Harmony path, it can choose between the Republican Pact or the Entente.
** In the Pragmatic/Non-Aligned path, it can choose between returning back to the Reichspakt or standing alone.
** In the Corrupted/Supremacy path, it is one of the few nations that can ''form their own faction'' like New Mareland or join a Supremacy-headed faction in the continent like the Archon!Reichspakt.
* CantCatchUp: The nation as a whole is suffering from this when compared to other major powers. It has a very slow research speed and starts with only ''2'' research slots. Their capitulation quote even lampshades this!
* CivilWar: The nation can go through this if the Vedinian Royal Wedding gets bloody. And this is not counting the brewing separatist movement by one of the dukes...
* MultipleEndings: How the Vedinian Royal Wedding goes is decided by the choices you made up until that point.
** Ondska not chosen and last-minute proposal rejected: [[spoiler:If Prince Ondska was not chosen then he will try to convince Princess Sköldsvärd to change her mind and pick him. If she resists then during the ceremony, if not enough quests are completed in a chivalrous way then the nobility will rise up in rebellion to cause a civil war and the Non-Aligned path opens up. If enough quests are completed then Ondska will instead attempt a coup and challenge Princess Sköldsvärd to a duel. If she chooses the sword then the Righteous/Harmony path opens up, otherwise, if the gun is chosen then the Pragmatic/Non-Aligned path opens instead.]]
** Ondska not chosen and last-minute proposal accepted: [[spoiler:Ondska will plan with Princess Sköldsvärd. He will launch his coup to murder the nobility and become king. After that, a civil war opens up against the Harmonist supporters, leaving Ondska to lead the nation and cause a loss of 15% stability.]]
** Ondska chosen and darkness rejected: [[spoiler:If Ondska was initially chosen then Princess Sköldsvärd has one last chance to come to her senses and back out of his plan. Doing so will open the sword and gun paths. However in this case, while choosing the sword will still lead her back to the Righteous/Harmony path, choosing the gun will instead will have it jam at a crucial moment and cause her death. This results in the Prince Stridande taking over, who takes the Non-Aligned path while the country plunges into civil war against Ondska.]]
** Ondska chosen and darkness embraced: [[spoiler:If Princess Sköldsvärd goes with Ondska in the end then they will massacre the nobles at the wedding. The remaining nobles and knights who did not side with the Princess will start a civil war and the Corrupted/Supremacy path will open.]]
* OurFounder: A figure known as the "Wise Lady" is prominently worshipped in Vedina due to her involvement in helping their first king form the country. It is also known that she had divine or supernatural powers of her own. [[spoiler:The fabled sword that is chosen if you go down the Righteous/Harmony path [[ForgedByTheGods is said to be made or at least blessed by her]]]].
* ShoutOut: The Vedinian Royal Wedding focus is called "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire The Red Wedding]]".
* SkillScoresAndPerks: In her journey to become the next ruler, Princess Sköldsvärd has to go through various trials that test her skills. If chosen correctly, you get Chivalry points. These are meant to be spent on "Combat", which increases her Field Marshal stats and "Statecraft", which increase her overall ruler buffs. There are 8 levels for both attributes and increasing them also needs 50 political power per level. It is noted that if her "Combat" is at least level 4, her stats would already be at least ''5 and above''.
* SuccessionCrisis: While King Wingstrom has a daughter and is making sure that she is the next ruler, Princess Sköldsvärd has yet to prove herself by passing the traditional trials of being a KnightInShiningArmor to earn her right to the throne.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Northern Tribes]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Flag of the Free Northern Communes]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ntr_communism_free_northern_communes.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Flag of the Everfrost Republic]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fat_ntr_puppet_everfrost_republic.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Full Name:''' Northern Tribes, Free Northern Communes (Skynavia puppet state), Everfrost Republic (Griffonian Republic puppet state)
->'''Ideology:''' Tribal Federation[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* GeneralFailure: The Northern Tribes are home to two of the absolute worst generals in the game - Gordon the Archer, who was once a great war hero, but whose blindness more than offsets any skill he may have once had, and Federic Birch, who is an imbecile and exactly as capable as one might expect a drooling idiot to be - no matter what his raw stats are, his Imbecile trait negates all bonuses his stats might offer, and it carriers a significant penalty to division attack and defense.
[[/folder]]

! Dread Peninsula
[[folder:Arcturian Order]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Arcturian Order
->'''Ruling Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* {{Expy}}:
** The Arcturian Order is an expy of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheNightsWatch the Night's Watch]], being an ancient and largely forgotten knightly order founded to defend the continent against an army of the dead coming from the far north.
** One of the Arcturian Order's generals is a pony named Whitemane, who wears the same outfit as [[Characters/WarcraftOthers High Inquisitor Sally Whitemane]] from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Rosa may attempt a conference with the Arcturian Order with the intention of either corrupting the Order from within or forming a treaty under false pretenses. If her corruption efforts or treaty negotiations go as she intends, the Arcturian Order will immediately disband and be annexed by the Dread League.
* TheGoodKingdom: After their victory against the Dread League, the Arcturian Order reforms into the Arcturian Kingdom, and begins to open up to the world. Still led by the Arcturian Order, with the former headmaster being the constitutional or the absolute king, the Kingdom can either enter the world in peace (Harmonic) or be played as a KnightTemplar and spread their rule by force (Non-Aligned).
* HiddenElfVillage: The Arcturian Order adopted a policy of isolationism, deliberately turning away all outsiders to focus on defending against the Dread League. Other countries cannot interact with them until they finish off the Dread League and turn into the Arcturian Kingdom.
* HoldTheLine: The strategy to fight against the Dread League is to hold the initial reinforced border at all costs. ''Any'' breakdown in the frontline will most likely doom the Order to an eventual defeat.
* InstantWinCondition: If they successfully complete the focus and mission to retrieve the Shield of Hope, they instantly win against the Dread League, no matter how the war is going.
* TheOrder: The Arcturian Order is an ancient order of holy knights founded to keep the undead up the North of Griffonia under control.
* SacrificialLion: If you set the AI to historical while you play an unrelated faction, the Dread League will usually always overrun the Arcturian Order. This is to demonstrate the power of the Dread League before they unleash the Black Crusade.
* YankTheDogsChain: After defeating the Dread League, you have the option to release the Arcturian Order as their own nation or as your puppet. [[spoiler: If you choose to release the Arcturian Order without making them your puppet, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they will be subsequently swept aside by the Northern Storm soon after as a newly liberated nation has practically no divisions]]]].

!!''Torygg Brightclaw''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]]
->'''Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* NoMereWindmill: Following their victory on Dread League, the Order can renew their investigation into former Headmaster Torygg's assassination. [[spoiler:It is revealed that Torygg was concerned about some other dark force manipulating many events throughout history -- and as the investigation draws to a close, he's revealed to have been ''right'', for with the Order on the trail of the Windigos, they reveal themselves, take control of the Dread Peninsula and launch a second war.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The Arcturian Order's story begins with his assassination.

!!''William Steelbeak''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]] (Election)
->'''Party:''' Progressive Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Chivalric Knightly Order[[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* TheGoodKing: William is the Harmonic option for the Arcturian Order, and becomes a King of Harmony after the defeat of the Dread League and the creation of the Arcturian Kingdom, pursuing more peaceful diplomatic relations with their neighbors.

!!''Østwald Vind''
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->'''Role:''' Headmaster[[note]]Head of State[[/note]] (Election)
->'''Party:''' Traditional Wing of the Council
->'''Ideology:''' Knightly Order[[note]]Non-Aligned[[/note]]
----
* KnightTemplar: Østwald believes that the code of the Order should be upheld by all. Once the Arcturian Kingdom is created, Østvald pursues more aggressive and expansionist policies.

[[folder:Dread League]]
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->'''Full Name:''' Dread League, Scientific Dread Collective
->'''Ruling Party:''' The Necromancer Council
->'''Ideology:''' Necrocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

* ChallengingTheChief: The winner of the Immortal Games is allowed to face off against the incumbent Dread King. Should they succeed, a new monarch would take their rightful place upon the throne.
* CombatByChampion: Contestants in the Immortal Games are not required to directly participate. Instead, they can choose or create a single champion who will fight in their stead.
* {{Expy}}: One of the Dread League's generals is a pony named Windrunner, whose name, hood and facial features are a clear reference to [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas Windrunner]], a major character in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' who leads the Forsaken undead.
* HardCodedHostility: The Dread League fights two wars: the first one with the Arcturian Order, and the second one with the rest of the world. After taking the focus "Finis Omnium Vitarum", the Dread League will automatically and continuously declare war on all of their neighbouring countries.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: The Dread League relies on raising the dead, giving it a near endless stream of bodies and absurd numbers, but its tech is incredibly poor.
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: A running theme for the country - they're called the Dread League, all of their starting states sound ominous, their leader takes the surname ''Maledictus'' (masculine) or ''Maledicta'' (feminine), and all of their ships have names like "Corruption", "Desecration", and "Soul Reaver". The theme even extends to some lands once held by the ancient Dread Empire, such as Losthope in Farbrook and Bonedrift in Firtree.
* TheNecrocracy: The Dread League is governed by a cabal of necromancers (most of them liches) and a coven of vampire lords.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Dread League is a league of necromancers who fight with an army of raised dead.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Dread League seeks to wipe out all life in Equestria. After defeating the Arcturian Order and taking the Finis Omnium Vitarum focus, they'll automatically declare war on all countries that share a border with them until the Dread League is defeated or successfully conquers the entire world.
* OutsideContextProblem: [[InterfaceSpoiler Semi-omniscience provided by the user interface not withstanding]], pretty much nopony outside the Arcturian Order and the Dread League itself is aware they even exist, and in a world preparing for an industrial UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-like conflict, they're an almost completely magical threat that wouldn't be remotely out of place in a more traditionally fantastic setting.
* PurposelyOverpowered: A game set-up option called "Dread Apocalypse", which is designed to make the Black Crusade much more intense, purposefully strengthens an AI Dread League[[note]]The game rule does not apply to a human playing the Dread League[[/note]] by allowing the Dread League to to take both the Coven of Blood and Coven of Bones routes, which are normally mutually-exclusive[[note]]This is done by a hidden event that unlocks a focus from the Coven of Bones tree each time the Dread League unlocks a focus from the Coven of Blood tree, save for the final Quest for the Chalice focus[[/note]], gaining huge bonuses to division quality, recruitable population and population growth, more free factories, basic fighters and kamikaze tactics, offsetting most of their tech rate penalty, and doing both trees in the time it would take them to complete just one. The game even warns that this option should not be activated by a casual player. This is however very much {{downplayed|trope}} by one major factor: It only really makes them overpowered vs the Arcturian Order and maybe the Hillponies. Even with Dread Apocalypse, the Dread League is so thoroughly backwards (not to mention navally non-existent) that they tend to be swiftly defeated once they declare war on any River Coalition state.
* QuantityVsQuality: The main choice for the Dread League is whether to favor the vampires of the Coven of Blood or the liches of the Coven of Bones. The Coven of Blood is the quality route, trading away most of the Dread League's massive population growth for significant improvements in division attack and speed and offsetting a significant portion of the Dread League's massive tech penalty. The Coven of Bones is the quantity choice, ignoring the Dread League's tech penalty entirely in favor of doubling down on its massive population growth and recruitment rate and favoring attrition tactics in a war of raw numbers with boosted defense and kamikaze tactics.
* ShoutOut: The Communist leader for the Dread League, Comrade Salikov, is the [[https://www.memedroid.com/memes/detail/2211192/Comrade-Skeletal-for-Hall-of-weens Comrade Skeletal meme]]. While his canonicity is questionable since the Dread League cannot follow Communism, he's the only human to appear in the game even if he's just a skeleton of one (NCR Expedition AprilFoolsDay content notwithstanding).
* TheUndead: The Dread League's entire army is made up of the reanimated dead. They get a huge portion of recruitable core population, and basically no recruitable non-core population. However, they can "convert" the living non-core population to recruitable population by decisions, and in the Coven of Bones route, they get massive boosts to population growth to represent raising hordes of the undead.
* VampireProcreationLimit: Since vampires can't convert the living to mostly-mindless thralls as rapidly or endlessly as the lichs and necromancers can raise skeletons and zombies, the Coven of Blood route sacrifices most of the Dread League's massive population growth. Fortunately for the Dread League, thralls are stronger and faster than zombies and skeletons.

!!''Corpus Maledictus''
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->'''Party:''' The Necromancer Council

* {{Narcissist}}: Known for his extreme narcissism, Corpus only does anything when it benefits him.
* SoreLoser: When the Dread Council declares Wilted Rose's victory over Corpus as legitimate, he refuses to accept and tries to kill her so he wouldn't have to abdicate.
-->'''Dread Council:''' The rules state that a Contender cannot cast spells during a match. She did not cast the spell. Her champion did. You lost, Corpus.
-->'''Corpus Maledictus:''' No! I will not accept this, you vile traitors! What she did was not possible! She had to have cheated and you're covering it up! The Circle will have your hides for this! I will not relinquish my authority to a scheming, pathetic mortal!

!!''Rosa Maledicta''
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[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Bones]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_lich.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Blood]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_vampire.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Rosa Maledicta the Redeemed Queen]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eaw_rosa_redeemed.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' The Necromancer Council
->'''Ideology:''' Necrocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

* EvilMakesYouUgly: As a necromancer of the Dread League, Rosa is visibly gaunt and looks like she's seen better days. If the Arcturian Order redeems her after defeating her, she gets a new portrait with much softer facial features, and perhaps just as a function of the change in the lighting, her mane goes from appearing to be a graying reddish-black to a bright maroon.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zigzagged. After being defeated, the Arcturian Order can try to purge Rosa of evil influences and turn her to the side of the light. If the correct choices (the more compassionate ones) are chosen, Rosa will embrace light and turn to goodness, becoming a member of the Arcturian Order. This makes her a powerful general for the Order, undoes her lich or vampire transformation, and gives her a new portrait. Alternatively, she can attempt to subvert the Arcturian Order via corruption or diplomacy, only to have these backfire and have the Arcturian Order either root out the corruption and convince her to disband the Dread League, or they actually embrace the treaty of peace and friendship and push it hard, which can result in Rosa actually agreeing and giving up the Dread League's goals of wiping out all life.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Rosa's attempts to subvert the Arcturian Order and eliminate them without a war may instead lead to the Dread League being disbanded and itself eliminated without putting up the fight they had spent years preparing for.
* MurderSuicide: On the grandest scale possible - if she succeeds in wiping out all life, she tops it off by ending the last (un)life left - her own. [[spoiler: She does so to spite the Windigoes and create a truly dead world in which there is no disharmony on which they can feed.]]
* RedemptionEqualsSex: Downplayed. If Rosa Maledicta is redeemed and made a general instead of being executed, she will marry William Steel Beak after [[spoiler:defeating the Northern Storm]].
* VampiresAreSexGods: The flavor text for Rosa as the Queen of Blood describes her as both beautiful and terrifying. To the description's credit, she looks much younger and no longer has the gaunt appearance of her pre-transformation self.

!!''Rubra''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Defeated by Viira)
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* DragonAscendant: If the Dread League is defeated by Viira Lehtola, she makes a pact with House Rubra, elevating them to be the new rulers of the Dread Peninsula.
* ShoutOut: Lady Rubra is based on Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, a villain from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage''.

[[folder:Northern Storm '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
->'''Full Name:''' Northern Storm
->'''Ideology:''' Tyrannic Magocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]]

* BrokenRecord: When the investigation concludes, the post-Dread-League-War Arcturian Order focus "The Investigation"'s description turns into:
-->''"They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming. They are coming."''
* ClimaxBoss: The Windigoes are a major foe in the Arcturian Order's storyline. After the Dread League is defeated, and the investigation is fully complete, the Windigoes reveal themselves with little warning, instantly retaking the entire Dread Peninsula and spawning ''40'' or so divisions on the spot and declaring war on the Arcturian Order. Only until they are defeated does the Order truly come to peace, and can begin to further expand their Kingdom. They will only capitulate when you seize ''every tile they own''.
* DiabolusExMachina: There is no hint towards the existence of the Windigoes before the investigation happens. Once the investigation finishes and the Windigoes are revealed, they also instantly reveal themselves physically and declare war on the Arcturian Order, forcing them into a second, much more unexpected war.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Despite instantly appearing with 40 divisions, the Arcturian Order at this point in time would have developed a very strong army that had already defeated the Dread League before. With a little extra help from other countries, the Arcturian Order can easily crush the Northern Storm.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Formed the Dread League to create massive amounts of disharmony to feed off, but they don't prevent it from killing ''everyone''. [[GoneHorriblyRight This results in a lifeless world with nothing to feed off, dooming them to starvation]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Windigoes are nightmarish monsters that feed on disharmony, and have influenced many events that occurred throughout Equus and Griffonia to produce discord so they can feast. They are also extremely powerful magical creatures, and had hid their presence ''extremely'' well.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The presence of Windigoes is associated with a sudden drop in temperature and lots of ice. This is reflected in gameplay with the Northern Strom inflicting a massive cold attrition.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Windigoes had a hand in influencing Rosa and causing the Dread League's Black Crusade so they can feed on the disharmony created. According to Torygg, he thinks that they are also responsible for the many, many conflicts happening beyond the Dread Peninsula as well in his investigation notes.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Essentially the reason they showed up. They appeared to silence the Arcturian Order/Kingdom, the only people that know of their existence and involvement in generating the world's conflicts. Once they defeated them, the Northern Storm will take it a step further by ''subsequently destroying everything (population, infrastructure, factories, etc.) in the Dread Peninsula, leaving it a frozen wasteland'' before hiding once more. After that, one of the neighboring nations will notice this frozen wasteland and annex it in an event, unaware of what happened.
* SatelliteCharacter: The Windigoes are not supposed to be controlled by a human player (they are not a starting country and there's no option to tag-switch to them when they emerge unless via save file); instead, they serve as a major ClimaxBoss in the Arcturian Order's story. If you ''do'' tag switch via save file, their description and focuses lampshade how you shouldn't be able to see this and there is nothing for you to do when playing as this faction.
* WalkingSpoiler: Everything about the country is a spoiler, along with the existence of the Windigoes. Even hinting at the existence of the country would hint at a twist ending in the investigation of the assassination of Headmaster Torygg.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: While Northern Storm the nation does not spawn in the event of a Dread League victory, events surrounding Windigoes can still happen, where Rosa learns that Windigoes have been manipulating her to create disharmony to feed them. This eventually drives Rosa to commit suicide to spite her puppeteers.

->'''Party:''' National Republican Party

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Claus Rosewing, once Kemerskai's most trusted friend in the battle against reaction, was born in 941 in the city of Griffing, Angriver.\\\

->'''Full Name:''' Socialist Republic of Skynavia, Griffonian Northern Region (Griffonian Republic puppet state)

->'''Ideology:''' Knightly Order[[note]]Non_Aligned[[/note]]

!! ''Eriviar Sunstriker''

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Alexander Kemerskai was born in Vinnin, the third son of Baron Aldus Kemerskai. With too late a place in succession and too insignificant a griffon to truly become one of the nobility, Kemerskai tried many odd jobs - he played cornet in the Vinnin Orchestra and was a constant guest at every event in town - eventually, however, he joined the Imperial military. He rose to the ranks of Artillerieoffizier in the Imperial Army, and was set to have a promising career in the armed forces as a Marshal. But fate had different ideas for Griffonia.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Reinhard Suntail was born in Crona, a province in the heart of the Griffonian Empire. His family was poor, and lived on scraps. Suntail, wanting to escape the dreary farmlands of Crona, joined the Imperial Army at the age of 15, and journeyed to the city of Griffenheim, where he was placed into the brigade of Alexander Kemerskai, a renowned Artillerieoffizier in the Griffonian Empire and one of Grover's most promising generals.\\\

->'''Party:''' Military Junta

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Claus Rosewing, once Kemerskai's most trusted friend in the battle against reaction, was born in 941 in the city of Griffing, Angriver.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Rikard Astler, founder and leader of the Left-NRP, was born in Cloudbury in 981, when it was under the control of the Republic, one of the only ministers in Kemerskai's government to have not fought in the Long March nor the Revolution. Astler's father, a native Cloudburian, and his mother, a refugee from the Republic's territory in the Heartlands, raised him with a pro-native policy, and Astler would soon begin to idolize the Socialist Republic of Skynavia and its unique system of government.\\\

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Flag of the Griffonian Northern Region]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/srs_fat_puppet_griffonian_northern_region.png[[/labelnote]]]]

!! ''Asper Sickleclaw''

->'''Party:''' United Socialist Revolutionary Front, [[spoiler: Sickleclaw's Clique (military junta path)]]
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], [[spoiler: Despotism[[note]]Non-Aligned[[/note]] (military junta path)]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Asper Sickleclaw was a junior lieutenant in the Griffonian army when the First Revolution smashed the Empire to pieces. Marching alongside his fellow revolutionaries, Sickleclaw participated in most of the battles against the monarchist counter-revolution, eventually ending up in Cloudbury along with the remnants of the Republican government.\\\

* BookBurning: [[spoiler: Dictator Sickleclaw organizes a massive book burning across Skynavia to destroy subversive socialist literature.]]

!! ''Torygg Brightclaw''

!! ''William Steelbeak''

!! ''Østwald Vind''

!! ''Corpus Maledictus''

!! ''Rosa Maledicta''

* CivilWar: Two generals in the National Republican Army, Reinhard Suntail and Claus Rosewing, were exiled north due to their conflicts with Kemerskai, and have been planning to rise up against Kemerskai and coup him, starting a civil war.

* InternalRetcon: After conquering the Empire, Suntail announces that the Republic will embrace the Three Principles it was founded upon, namely Security, Nationalism, and Prosperity. These are clearly not Kemerskai's original Three Principles (Liberty, Democracy, Prosperity), as Suntail has modified the Three Principles to suit his vision.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Skynavia supports and can align with most Communist nations, including the more authoritarian ones, but they will ''not'' work with [[RevengeBeforeReason Abba Povner's Longsword]] and [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Lavender Berry's Baltimare]].

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Sickleclaw serves as the authoritarian provisional leader of the Socialist Republic to safeguard the Republic through periods of hardship. Once the hardship is over, he is expected to step down and turn over the powers to the General Congress. [[spoiler:He can decide not to.]]

* FullCircleRevolution: [[spoiler:It is possible for Asper Sickleclaw to seize power and become the military dictator for Skynavia, just like Kemerskai's authoritarian government that originally led to Skynavia's secession. In fact, in many ways, Sickleclaw's dictatorship is ''worse'' than Kemerskai ever was or ever could be.]]

!! ''Headmaster Torygg Brightclaw''

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%%!! ''Corpus Maledictus''

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->'''Ideology:''' Kleptocracy[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]], Maar Worship[[note]]Supremacy[[/note]] (Maarite cultist path), Non-Aligned (King route)

->'''Ruling Party:''' Wingstrom Dinasty

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->'''Ruling Party:''' National Republican Party

->'''Party:''' National Republican Party

->'''Ideology:''' Communism, [[spoiler: Non-Aligned (military junta path)]]

->'''Ideology:''' Benevolent Absolutism [[note]]Harmony[[/note]]

* TheGoodKing: William is the Harmony option for the Arcturian Order, and becomes a King of Harmony after the defeat of the Dread League and the creation of the Arcturian Kingdom, pursuing more peaceful diplomatic relations with their neighbors.

->'''Ideology:''' Republicanism [[note]]Non-Aligned[[/note]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]

->'''Ideology:''' Supremacy

->'''Ideology:''' Supremacy (Maarite cultist path), Non-Aligned (King route)

->'''Ideology:''' Non-Aligned

->'''Ideology:''' Non-Aligned (continuation of a junta), Harmony (democratic route)

->'''Ideology:''' Supremacy

->'''Ideology:''' Supremacy

->'''Ideology:''' Communism

->'''Ideology:''' Communism

->'''Ideology:''' Harmony