From 612 b.c. to just before the first industrial age of the 1700's, the lands of the Haruspex were split into twenty realms (provinces). These eventually became city-states themselves as the population grew onwards.
These twenty city-states are now the primary cities in existence for the Haruspex, with Chel'de Yorn being the largest and the capitol for the entire nation.
This was also an age before the now current method of the royal lines existed being an Emperor or Empress. In this period, the land was dominated by provisional leaders, usually from a specific tribe or bloodline, and warring with others of similiar back grounds.
Old Haruspex is very similiar to feudal Japan during this age, with similiar dress and styles of warfare. Orders grew based on the faith in the gods, which hasnt changed much since the gathering of the tribes. There were minor deities that inspired cults and covens to form their own orders and so on, and these could lead to the strengthening or weakening of any province accordingly.
Also, before the industrial age kicked in so to speak, Haruspex was a greener place if you will. It's landscape is vaguely in my mind representing Korea with a dash of Burma thrown in to be this sort of semi-tropical bit for it's valley's and plains and what not, with the mountains and all that taken from Korea.
When the industrial age hit, it was right after the unification war that brought all the realms into one by the first Patriarch, and then later named Emperor Hadon Renor Elemmiire. It was his promise that the Haruspex would live on into the night, and that it would bring untold wealth and strength.
Two years later, 1700 AD, Haruspex industrial efforts peak, and with it the founding of the houses. Each house was afforded a mainline and several kin lines so as to strengthen their numbers. Haruspex have referred to their industrial revolutions as ages, simply because there has been so much of it.
From that of 1700 to the early 1900's, the Haruspex industrial capacity jumped nearly four hundred percent. This included wars, spates, and general research into better ways to manufacture various items and so forth. The once green land of the Haruspex became much as it's seen today, a blight of industry. Gradually spilling from one city-state's provisional holdings to the next.
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