The Port City of Vita, along the Pearl Coast of Vaswain, is a strategic and economic hub of the eastern realm of the Kingdom of Vaswain. Due to its trade diaspora communities, Vita exhorts a unique subculture with a blend of traditional Vaswaini and foreign cultures, creating a vast cosmopolitan lifestyle. The aristocracy of Vita, mostly macro-anthros, viewed themselves as far above the common people and basked in the wealth and splendor of their business ventures, social parties, and political power they wielded. As a result, Vita viewed and conducted itself differently compared to the rest of the Kingdom and often clashed with royal authority, and often pushed back against the various monarchs due to the influence and power they had. Under Queen Sophen’s rule, Vita was the subject of a new wave of assimilation and economic policies by the Sophen Monarchy to defang the port-city’s aspirations to rule itself. The Queen’s decree abolished meeting halls, enforced martial law, sent in a brigade to occupy the city, forced the resignation of city magistrates, instated royalist aristocrats to rule in place of local officials, and moved to reassert control over an unruly town. Lord Alaric Vita, a desert fox and descendant of Geralde Vita, the founder of the city, quickly hijacked the lower class’s outrage and organized the higher orders of the city to pool their funds to rebel against Queen Sophen. It was now or never. After months of countless planning, Vita erupted into full-scale rebellion, for which the VRS was formed and quickly spread to other cities along the Pearl Coast.

VRS troops consist mostly of human Militiamen of the lower classes, with the more affluent being enlisted within the officer corps, which is evident by the blatant contrast between uniforms. VRS infantrymen use reissued, dyed, and basic Vaswani tunics with mismatched equipment imported from other countries or scrounged from Royalist Depots. The majority of elite brigades and higher ranks are occupied by macro-anthros due to the strict racial caste system they uphold. It’s a macro-world to them, and the more beastly you are, the higher your status.
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More lore for the Sophen Saga! [FYI] The VRS features in the "Communications Blackout" and "Spoils of War" works I did, check them out in my gallery.

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