Roggs

Roggs is the capital city of the Roxen region in eastern Estines. It has a population of about 210,000 people and was a major cause of the fall of the Playtan Empire. It also held the final battle of the Conquest for Roxen. It's representative family in the Nineteen Noble Families is the Stuarts family. It's home to Carl Hartson and Chief Lewis, two key players in the Seekers Movement.

History
From 934 B.E. to 712 B.E. Roxen was an independent country ruled by the Stuarts family, known as the Okili family at the time. The country was almost entirely refugees from Zane who found the region unoccupied due to the rocky, arable terrain. However, Zane was home to numerous large mountain regions, so the refugees were able to occupy the land with relative ease.

In 710 B.E. the Playtan emperor Pheobus began planning to conquer the region, as he sent scouts to the country who discovered large reserves of lead, tin, and copper underneath the country's terrain. When the Okili family discovered his plan to invade, they surrendered before he could invade. In exchange for their early surrender, Phoebus allowed the Okili family to maintain political power in the region. As a token of their gratitude, the Okili family allowed Phoebus to change their surname to any name of his choosing. Phoebus chose Stuarts, regarding it as a proper Playtan name.

The population of Roggs exploded under Playtus, as Phoebus allocated resources and materials to the city to become a mining town. However, as ethnically Playtan people moved to Roggs, they often discriminated against the Zanean population, only offering the very worst jobs to Zaneans and not allowing them into Playtan businesses or to make any of the mass amounts of money that the Playtans got from the mines. Eventually, despite making up over eighty percent of the population in Roggs, Zaneans were forced into servitude, working their entire life in the mines while making just enough money to get by.

In 265 B.E., the Zaneans held a massive revolution against Playtus, burning down many of the Playtan buildings and tearing down the structures in the mines. The Stuarts family immediately sided with the Zaneans, knowing that an already weakened Playtan Empire wouldn't be able to squash the impassioned revolution. They were correct, as only 5 years later in 260 B.E. Roxen once again declared itself an independent country. The Stuarts family head at the time, Liber Stuarts, was allowed to be a figurehead ruler, but it was actually a democratically run government. This was Roxen's attempt to continue to have good ties with the rest of the Playtan empire after breaking off. It was successful.

The military resources allocated to the Roxen Rebellion hurt Playtus horribly financially, and the already declining Playtus empire declined even further, until dissolving officially in 203 B.E..

Roxen continued as an independent country, with the head of the Stuarts family serving as a figurehead ruler. The Stuarts family, however, still owned half the region's mines and continued gaining immense wealth.

Arthur Pendragon wondered in a meeting with his advisors whether or not Roxen was even one of the Playtus regions they wanted, due to not only the low but fiercely independent population. His advisors pointed out the immense mineral wealth within Roxen and said that if they put up a fight that Arthur could simply kill and kidnap the Zaneans and make them the first experiments. Arthur ends up agreeing, sealing the envelope for the Stuarts family.

In 4 B.E., the Twenty Noble Families officially began conquering the twenty regions of Playtus. The only region that resisted was Roxen, and started the four year long conflict known as the Conquest of Roxen. At the end of the conquest, the population of Roxen had been halved and Estines was officially declared a new country.