The Denise Empire was a naval power on Colupan.

History

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The federacy of Denise emerged out of the human population of the goblinoid Trensandor Empire, and was centralized out of the city of Denise. This settlement became the trade hub of the new Colupanian human community, which was then ruled over by a loose of feudal lords, such as the mayor of Waterfront. A hundred years after their independence, they had one of the strongest navies of the archipelago, because of the need to protect their caravans from goblinoids and other raiders. They had become capital of the Colupanian states, replacing the mayors and other lords with three marshalls based in Denise, their original settlement. As a measure of the power of this new Denise empire, the Ochebana Empire wished to ally with them. This Denise empire went well, until the Orc Wars started. The Bonebreaker orcs, springing from the Greenwood (a forest just to the north of Denise city, aided by internal conflicts between the marshalls, rapidly took control of the city as they went on for bigger and better things more to the south. As the orcish occupation ended, the town was left with a few hundred inhabitants and an incompetent marshall. But that was when the Meffios came. They were an armed group that had managed to take over Londerhome, though not for long. Ochebanian armies had chased them away from their territory, and the Meffios had fled to Denise. The city was ridded of poverty and the incompetent whilst the Meffios lost their more barbaric traits, and the city quickly rose to impressive power again, with a strong navy. By 100 OW, the Denise empire was more powerful than ever before. The city had been rebuilt, their merchants outstanding, their navy unbeatable. Although the Denise empire had hardly any infantry since the Orc Wars, it had no one to fight on its small island territory, and its navy protected amply. Around 200 OW, they were ousted from Colupan by the Trensandor goblinoids, as well as the dwarven armies. They remained on Bao-Mou for a century, bravely resisting dwarven onslaughts, until they united with the cuprien, forming the State of Humanity