Aranccia

Aranccia is the southernmost of the two human duchies on Isberia.

The heraldry of Aranccia is a white field, divided into quarters by a black cross, each quadrant has a different symbol. In the top left, there is the tangerine, the symbol of Aranccia's naval might; in the top right there is a white five pronged crown, the symbol of Isberia's true king; in the bottom two quadrants there is a scale and a loom, symbols of Aranccia's mighty economic industry and strong legal system.

Structure and History
Aranccia is ruled by a king, Xergiot the Mad, though it is common knowledge that the duchy is actually ruled by the Consul of Seven, a group of Viziers appointed by the mad king to run the state.

The Capital of Aranccia is the riverside city of Orvieto, a sprawling industrial metropolis.

The chief exports of Aranccia are quality textiles from their burgeoning sheep industry. A miniature industrial revolution has hit the country and the city of Orvieto is buzzing with the whistling of spinning looms.

To the south of Aranccia lies The Great Spine, a massive mountain range dominated by stagnate Dwarven politics and petty housefeuds. The dwarves export ores and worked gems to Aranccia, who then ships it down river to the deepsea port of Isolato, to be exported around the continent.

In the summer of 1323, Aranccian industrialism and advances in military technology led to a rapid expansion. The Aranccians quickly swept along the shore of the Termine Bay, skirting the Boscizanne woods. The Aranccians found little in the way of their conquests, save for some scattered resistance in the Borden Lakes region, where Bordfolk lived isolated from the two duchies.

Military
Aranccia's navy dominates petty naval conflicts between the nations, and for that reason, they control much of the coast and the Broken Chain

Aranccian chemists are working on a way to make gunpowder safer for naval use, especially since the Belisarian navy has begun using light galleys outfitted with front mounted fire siphons.(La Catena Rotto in the old Aranccian tongue)

Aranccian infantry favour a "pike and shot" style. They form into square formations (Tercios) of pikemen and crossbows and advance on the enemy lines (Belisaria used this form of infantry until the battle of Rutaccea forest in 1066). Aranccia also has a light infantry trained in the use of hand crossbows and light axes, for use as a marine shocktrooper force.

With the advent of gunpowder weaponry is radically changing the way warfare is fought however, and Aranccia is training a rapid deployment mounted delivery sniping division, "The Orange Guards". They ride ahead with the army on light horses and use their superior mobility to get into a position to pick off enemy officers and to disrupt formations.