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        Julius Cæsar was a genius, and the best military commander anyone had seen for hundreds of years. He took over the lands that Iskandar the Great had conquered, and inherited from his father Phillip II. Using Rome and the newly retaken Iskandar Empire as a base, Julius Cæsar managed to conquer more than half of the land of Atlantis. After he was assassinated by his good friend Brutus, his Empire was shaken. Much of the power was controlled directly by Julius and some of the outlying provinces revolted and reinstated their own forms of government. The Chin Empire broke all treaties and reinstated a border along an ancient wall that runs between Kubla and the Capitol city of Chin. The Egyptian lands killed all the Roman citizens living there and declared themselves to be free of Roman influence. Julius Grandson Octavian was renamed Augusta Cæsar and took the seat of power. Yet he was not strong enough to hold together the Roman Empire completely.
Eventually Augusta was assassinated by Crassus, some say on the orders of Titus Cæsar. Titus is a cruel, intelligent, ambitious man. He has publicly stated his intent to return Roma to its days of glory and power. He is currently trying to consolidate his power and raise a massive army to retake some of the lost lands.

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 King Lot was a Grandson of Peter who was a companion of Joseph of Arimathea. Uriens is a grandson of Joseph of Arimathea himself. Joseph of Arimathea is the man responsible for catching the blood of Christ in a chalice and bringing it to A small village named Westport. This Chalice passed into the hands of Josephs son, John, who discovered the wonderful powers of the chalice and came to call it The Holy Grail. He performed many many miracles to help his people and his village of Westport grew from the supplicants seeking the miracles of The Holy Grail. The people renamed their town Saint Johns in his honor. A band of Vandals attacked Saint Johns and managed to defeat the village guardsmen. Saint John took the Grail and fled to save it from falling into evil hands. No one knows where he hid the Grail, and despite thousands of men looking for it, it has never been found.

 

Note that Guinevere, daughter of King Leodogrance, is not listed in the family tree, because she bore no children. Mordred was publicly proclaimed to be the son of Arthur and was his Heir apparent. He has 2 sons from a Druid/Færie woman, Lyzianor. Lyzianors children were not recognized officially as children of Arthur, although the whole court knew who had fathered them. His first son, Loholt was known by the names Borre, and Loholz in some writings. Loholt went on a quest with the wicked sir Kay and managed to slay an evil giant, Logrin, who was terrorizing the countryside. Sir Kay murdered Loholt while he was weak from the battle with the giant, leaving Lilliard a widow to raise her only son, Barnwell. Mordred and Arthur slew each other, using Mordreds tainted spear, thus making resurrection impossible. After Arthur and Mordred died, Camelot was over-run by the Saxon invaders and the Knights of the round table were cut apart and scattered to the 4 winds. The Kingdom that Arthur had forged was shattered into dozens of tiny kingdoms. 50 years after King Arthurs death, King Jasper, a grandson of Loholt, managed to rally several kingdoms to the Pendragon flag and retake the lands once ruled over by Arthur. King Jaspers son Boris now rules the land from the Capitol City of Londres. The empire is known as the Londres Empire, despite the attempts of some to call it Camelot, or Pendragon. King Boris is a Knight of the New Round Table, but he is more of a realist. He realizes that one who wishes to run an empire cannot maintain the knightly, chivalrous ideal. He also realizes that other religions must be acknowledged and accepted if he doesnt want the people to revolt. He is a Christian, he worships Yahweh, but he is tolerant of others beliefs.

These are the family trees of the rulers of 2 of the greatest world powers. Londres and Roma, each hold from 20-25% of the land under their control. This makes them Superpowers, Only Ch'in, Vis, and Mira can claim membership in this exclusive club. The latter 3 having enormous populations and mighty military forces if not the vast land mass. The Ch'in dynasty is long and would take several pages to detail. (note that currently Ch'in is being ruled by the dragon isles) The Miran line is held as a state secret unknown to outsiders, and Vis has only recently been accepted by the world community as being a civilized nation. Most experts agree that the Vision Dynasty begins with Élan. Some say it ends with him too