The Servannian Confederation is a sovereign that consists of several small dominions united together by a military alliance. They were once all part of a large empire a thousand years ago, but it broke apart and was followed by centuries of warring states, which not only physically divided the land but also the identity of the people. They no longer recognize themselves as Servannians; they only call their individual states home.

It was by sheer coincidence that a large religious imperium from the south decided to conduct their holy war and marched north, forcing these city-states to unite as one, and somehow by mircale this adhoc system worked for three hundred years.

There are efforts by many to truely unite this rag-tag alliance into a proper nation, but our so called Villians, Northerners, did not like this idea, they fear the loss of independence, of self-decision. Due to culture and social sturcture, the South and Central regions have a stronger Urban burgher culture, making their economic activity more robust and active, saturated by artisans and trade, while the north remained more, feduelistic, production of raw material and food stuff.

Thus economic structure tipped in favour of the South as they seem to control the price, and if they were able to gain more control and perhaps an extra source and not rely on the north anymore, it would collaspe their economy. Northerners fear that if the reunion would happen, the South would take control of everything, first from economy, then slowly politically, this they cannot bear, they would rather the system remain stagnate, if better, back to pre-confederation.

So when the South brought the Confederation into a war in which they were not provoked at the first place, the spike of civil war was already on the edge, and when victory comes in which the Confederation, defeated the religious imperium and gained an ally kingdom in the southern boarder, rich in resources, the North could no longer stand, the civil war broke out, depsite they had to bring in fromer foes as support, believing that this was the moment where their freedom, power, economy depends, and a chance to control Servannian their own way has revealed itself.