Allaria and their neighbors

Allaria is a civilized, diplomatic realm, and has managed to keep, at worst, a tense truce with every other Realm in Valerna.

Bucentauri
Bucentaur rebels are a thorn in Allarian rule, both inside and outside the realm’s borders. While most local Bucentauri have accepted Allarian influence, many tribes still demand independence from the Dragon Kingdom, and violently defend their territory from Allarian presence, particularly beyond the Great Gold River to the Northwest. Most of Allarian military action happens in what’s been called the Great Gold Front, and Allaria has more veterans of Bucentaur wars than of any other conflict.

Ellari
Ellari rebels, while they live inside the Realm’s borders, consider themselves independent, and so enemies of the Dragon Kingdom. Most of them live in secluded enclaves inside the Fai Woods, where the Kingdom’s armies can’t reach them, and content themselves with harassing the closest Allarian settlements and freeing other silver elves from servitude.

The Dragon Queen has sought a parley with these rebels but, despite having helped her gain her throne, they refuse to meet her, claiming that she is ‘the same old oppression, only with a friendlier face’.

The Fell Courts
This is the greatest danger that the Dragon Kingdom faces nowadays. An organized kingdom of magic-wielding elves that respect neither borders nor individuals, and can shift the fabric of reality on a whim, located smack dab in the middle of your territory, is always a sign to worry.

The Kingdom has sent wave after wave of Fai hunters against the Courts, but survivors have been few and victories fewer. Meanwhile, the Fell keep sending their creatures, their troops and their charms against Allarian citizens, who keep falling to the Dream Elves’ blades or to their dark, maddening power.

The Free Nwoda Clans
The Nwoda are Allaria’s best allies, as they bring tax-free trade, (mostly) free exploration reports, and even (not so free) secret information from the other realms. Allaria has tried time and again to convince the Nwoda to join the Dragon Kingdom, but the Nwoda’s freedom-loving culture would never agree to such a deal. Which is a shame for the most militaristic Allarian senators, because a Nwoda-Allaria confederacy would trap Nahuac between both territories, finally giving the Dragon Kingdom an upper hand against its oldest enemy.

Nahuac
This is the closest Allaria has to an enemy, as previous dragon kings made constant incursions across the border to claim various spots of Nahuac land and their resources, and the Coalition retaliated with the bloody and widespread slaughter of Allarian colonists.

The long conflict ended just over a decade ago, with the end of the Second Null War; but both peoples still mistrust each other, and it’s likely they always will, despite the Dragon Queen’s emphatic peace overtures.

Sikaria
The Arkane Dominion is a great danger to the Kingdom, with its incredible magic power and its hordes of mutated, trained creatures. So far, Sikarians seem more interested in their own experiments than in warfare, but Allarians know that the blue elves started as oppressed Ellari, and they bear no love for the Dragon Kingdom. So, they maintain trade and diplomatic relations with the Arkane Dominion, but remain poised to defend the Dreamsea against magical invasion.

Tyveria
The Blood Empire is a tolerated neighbor, but Allarians remain wary of the Crimson Crow syndicate, of the Empire’s spies inside Allaria, and of the bloody maghyr dictatorship. And every citizen of both realms knows that, for every day of the last millennium, the only thing preventing a Tyverian invasion of Allaria was the Primalian Range between their borders.

Today, Queen Elyse and the Blood Emperor have officially sworn peace and even joined forces briefly during the Null War, and again to help Ysval against the Frost Horde. But their agendas remain opposed and hostile, and conflicts between both powers are common, in several arenas from trade to politics, from border skirmishes to assasination.

Ysval
The Holy Alliance is a friend, an ally and a trading partner of the Dragon Kingdom. Like everyone on both sides of the Primalian Range, Allaria depends on Ysval agriculture to sustain its expansion, and it has always made sure to remain friendly with the North.

In return, the Dragon Kingdom has historically offered an important counterbalance to Tyveria’s ambitions over Ysval territory, serving as an invasion deterrent by its mere presence, and often sending troops across the Dreamsea to support Ysval’s defense against Tyveria or other enemies.