The Gilded Throne · The Church-State · Vix’ke’s Punching Bag
The Kingdom of the Sun-Kissed Crown is a theocratic human empire built on three pillars:
Human supremacy.
Divine justification.
Institutionalized slavery.
It is prosperous, radiant, and monstrously cruel.
Where other powers in Atherfall survive by adaptation or restraint, the Sun-Kissed Crown survives by extraction—of labor, bodies, and belief.
In the Sun-Kissed Kingdom, humanity is divinely favored.
All other races—beastkin, monsters, constructs, fey, aberrants—are classified as lesser beings, existing to serve human destiny. This doctrine is not debated. It is preached, enforced, and ritualized.
Non-humans are not citizens.
They are property.
Attempts to argue otherwise are labeled heresy.
The Sun-Kissed Crown maintains the illusion of monarchy.
A king sits upon the throne.
He does not rule.
True authority lies with the Church, led by the Bishopric. Doctrine overrides law. Faith overrides evidence. Obedience overrides morality.
The Church teaches that:
slavery is mercy
suffering refines the soul
resistance proves inferiority
The state exists to enforce divine hierarchy.
Slavery in the Sun-Kissed Kingdom is not a practice.
It is infrastructure.
Roads are built by slaves
Fields are worked by slaves
Fortresses are raised by slaves
Temples are polished by slaves
Any being that is not human is legally enslaveable. Escape is punishable by death. Harboring fugitives is punishable by mass execution.
This is why the Kingdom of the Hidden Eidolon executes Sun-Kissed officials on sight.
This is why Hell’s Gate despises them personally.
This is why the Sun-Kissed Crown has no moral allies.
The kingdom is visually stunning:
white stone cities
gold-inlaid temples
radiant banners and solar iconography
It is also deeply rotten.
Human citizens are conditioned from birth to see slavery as normal, necessary, and divinely ordained. Compassion toward non-humans is framed as weakness. Questioning the Church is framed as betrayal of the species.
The average human lives comfortably—
because others suffer invisibly beneath them.
The Sun-Kissed military is large, well-equipped, and brutally disciplined.
Its ranks are filled by:
human soldiers
enslaved auxiliary forces
coerced labor battalions
They favor overwhelming force, public punishment, and religious justification for atrocities.
They have never successfully invaded:
the Hidden Eidolon
Hell’s Gate
the Beastkin Alliance
They refuse to learn from this.
Hidden Eidolon: Absolute enemies; no trust, no diplomacy
Hell’s Gate: Mutual hatred; unresolved blood feud
Domain of the Dynast King: Tolerated but watched
Beastkin Alliance: Actively hunted beyond safe borders
Yokai Kingdom: Avoided out of fear
The Sun-Kissed Crown believes itself righteous.
The world disagrees.
The Kingdom claims sanction from the Pantheon of Order, but even Order does not openly endorse their extremism.
Their greatest fear is not Chaos.
It is exposure.
They know that if their doctrine is ever stripped of divine pretense, it becomes what it truly is:
Human elitism weaponized into law.
The Sun-Kissed Kingdom is not stable.
It is overextended, ideologically brittle, and morally indefensible.
Its enemies do not need to invent reasons to hate it.
It provides them daily.
When it falls, it will not be a tragedy.
It will be a correction.
The Sun-Kissed Crown believes it stands in the light.
But light that blinds itself to suffering becomes something else entirely.
And when Chaos finally comes for it—
not as a crusade, not as vengeance, but as consequence—
there will be no chains left to hide behind.