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There were enemies at the time, but none imposed a true threat. They mostly included people who were kicked from Imperia for one reason or another, and would band together to occasionally attack the throne room. They said their true goal was true destroy Auel and Imperia, which they clearly failed to do. The most prominent, which was still fairly small, was a "dark" version of Imperia, consisting of guilds such as "The Dark Royal Guard" or "The Dark Royal Family". None of their attacks on the throne room ever lasted long enough to have a significant impact, they did occasionally force the Imperians to retreat to the basement of the castle to reorganize for a few minutes before taking the throne room back. 

While Auel, and thus Imperia, did experience great growth and popularity, there was no shortage of enemies. People who were kicked out, felt like they were passed over for chances to get better ranks, or felt slighted for some other reason, there was a constant, but relatively minor, flow of people being angered at Auel or Imperia. For a long time, this didn't feel like a problem, and it wasn't until the third era of Imperia that it finally managed to come back around. 

 

The second Imperia saw some changes to the governmental system, and the first version of a council governing the military, overpowered only by the Queen, Cornilia, and the King, Auel. Zaer was selected as chairman. Not much is said about this era, it had decent members, similar tensions with minor shadow guilds, but nothing major. It collapsed in November of 2011 when Auel disappeared for 2 weeks without a word.

 

There were multiple small Auel led guilds between the fall of the second Imperia and the launch of the third. The most prominent of which being the first version of the Graal News Network, or GNN. The third era of Imperia strayed from the Kingdom style of government and instead was based off of Roman Cohorts. Cohorts such as Cohort Valorius, Cohort Spartarum, and others were prevalent in this era. Leaders of the Cohorts included Craig (different than State era Craig), Kentiman, and Zearos. The main enemy of this Imperian era was a guild called Timuit, but nothing much amounted of this rivalry. It fell on March 15th, 2012, as while Auel had been offline for just 6 days, the leader of the guild Cohort Valorius had turned against Imperia and started to amass an army to fight them, and Craig left to make his own guild. Seeing this, Jade & Zearos made the call to end Imperia. It was relaunched a hair over two weeks later when Auel returned, but this time under a more traditional style.

 

The 4th Era of Imperia combined a structure of the first two Imperian guilds. It saw the return of the Royal Family (under Auel), the Royal Army (under Xinke), and Royal Guard (under Zearos), as well as a a few Imperian guilds under Kentiman.

 

As the war is already well documented on its own page, this page will not go into many details on it, except to share the original Imperian plans for the war, as seen below:

 

 

The plan was a smashing success, with the main infiltrator being none other than Zaer. Harau trusted Zaer more than Auel could have hoped, making him 2nd in command of the Confederacy. Zaer played the part beautifully, and single handedly ended the war when he set up an ambush on Harau by nearly the entire Imperian army.

 

While Imperia did win the war, there was a deeper impact it had psychologically on Auel. After this war, he became much more closed off, he no longer viewed his officers as friends, but rather as tools. He began to delve deep into research on exploiting hacks and glitches. It was due to this that Auel developed many of the "abilities" for which he is so known. It would unfortunately take Auel years to fully recover and become as great of a leader as he once was.

 

There are not much significant things to say of the remainder of Auelian Imperias, they played around with government structure a bit in each era, sometimes a monarchy, an empire, a democracy, or a republic. They tried out multiple guild styles, be it multiple iterations of the academies, or an attempt at developing squad based combat, using squads of four, each with an assigned specialist role to improve combat tactics. Multiple Auel lead non Imperian guilds filled the gaps in this era, be it other attempts at GNN and SHINRA, or the Baby Punchers Association, or BPA for short.

 

The 9th Era of Imperia also marked the final Auelian Imperia, which in structure was similar to many of those prior, but at this time many of the veteran officers, such as Zearos, Occido, and Senlok had started to resent Auel for his constant leaving weeks into a new guild causing the death of many guilds. A small handful of officers left to join Valikorlia, under [[James F. Zor|James]]. This is important because as to this point, there had been no other significant militaries outside of Imperia in it's year and a half of existence, and when Auel noticed it, he began to formulate a plan. He created a three way merger with Valikorlia, as well as a guild known as Elite Mercenaries to form [[The State]]. In doing so, he disbanded the Knights of Imperia, causing many of the Imperian officers who had not left with the original group to rebel and leave, this group included Imperian greats such as Xinke, Ryzallion, and Keith. This ended the era of Auelian Imperias, and Imperia in general for almost a year. The State grew to be the largest and longest non consecutively spanning military in Graal, as well as the most well known.

 

 

While heading into launch, things seemed optimistic, a fair amount of people were interested in the guild, the plan seemed rock solid, and one of the members was even appointed as Delteria Admin Staff. There was one thing they did not expect that caused all their well made plans to go down the well. That was the fact that the Delterian server was awful. At launch, it was extremely buggy and unpolished. Most quests couldn't be completed, most dungeons caused players to get stuck, and half the spells in the game didn't work. On top of all of this was the fact that the guild system at launch was completely unfinished. The terrible state of the server caused many of the Imperians to lose interest and leave.

Auel decided to lead an attack on Imperia over a personal dispute between Xinke and himself. As part of Auel’s plan, he asked Zaer to hand over the guild “The Kingdom of Imperia” to him and surrender in the name of Imperia if ever the battle turned on Imperia’s side. After 2 hours of intense battling and a growing Imperian counterattack, Zaer surrendered and Imperia crashed. Zaer quit the game of Graal shortly after this happened, not being able to deal with the guilt of his betrayal.

 

 

Xinke, as King, lead the central guild, the Kingdom of Imperia. It was surrounded by multiple allied guilds including The Imperian Guard, lead by Captain Ryzallion, the Knights of Imperia, under Commander Collin, the Imperian Rangers, and the Imperian Military, lead by Commander Kozak, assisted by Riely and Cal Magnus. Zearos took the position of Duke, and was in charge of collating the Imperian Alliance, which consisted of Imperia, Bacseya, and half a dozen smaller, independent militaries. One notable one was Kibler Guard, under Sol Fessler. Fessler was manipulated into joining the main alliance branch, while unintentionally surrendering near full control of the guild to the Imperians.

This Imperia was met with great success, and the war propelled activity on both sides. This is the most fondly remembered Imperia by many. While Imperia did eventually defeat The State, it did fall three weeks later, as its leaders returned to school, and no true enemy was there to be fought. Activity slowly died out, and the leaders ordered the remaining members to transfer to the Bacseyian Empire.

 

 

 

The guild had high initial success, gaining enough members to take the town of York from Sarovia on it's first day after the launch of its first guild, Ordo Magnus. Due to high activity, they soon added on Ordo Rhodos under Peter, and Ordo Caelestius under Azrael. They pushed a slight religious theme in line with the crusade theme, and as such, appointed Shinzo Magnus as Pope. Three weeks after launch, they officially formed The Kingdom of Imperia, and transfered control of Ordo Magnus to Grey Magnus, a promising new generation militant who had been given the Magnus name in the lifespan of the guild.

After the war, Imperia decided to generously split the conquered land with the other militaries, taking only York, Snowtown, Deadwood, and Destiny for themselves. Post-war the guild continued to get solid activity through the summer and held strong. The portions of land that were given to Aurea were taken by Sarovia when the Aureans returned to West. These lands were quickly taken back by Imperia, again leaving Sarovia landless. 

 

 

On December 1st of 2019, The Kingdom of Arcadia, lead by Peter Rhodes, seceded from the Imperian Empire over disagreements with the direction that the empire was taking, as well as disagreements over how to handle the remainder of Sarovia. After the departure of Arcadia, The Holy Imperian Empire continued to remain the largest combined military and was in a strong state. Arcadia became The Arcadian Sovereignty and continued to be self sustaining. 

In the months that followed the attack, Imperia once again returned to its original crusader theme, and saw large boosts in activity, choosing to focus less on the politics of the GMC, and instead, opting to internalize and have fun with the game. Imperia continued this way through the summer of 2020. Unfortunately, as the Summer drew to a close, it became abundantly clear that the High Command of Imperia, being primarily consisting of adult members, would no longer be able to commit the time necessary to continue to run the guild on Graal. On August 30th, 2020, Imperia officially disbanded its presence on Classic, ending the nine year legacy of Imperia on Graal.

 

* Auel Vist

* Xinke Magnus

* Ryzallion Magnus

* Kozak Magnus

* Collin Magnus

* The Wandering Troubadour

* Pierce Vist

* Jade

* Cornilia

 

* Xinke Magnus

* Zearos Magnus

* T Magnus

* Mel Rhodes

* Envisage Magnus

* Noctis Magnus

* Jaz Solis

* Sirtroll Horvath

* Bjorn Magnus

*JT Caelestius

 

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