The Kingdom of Bastion

The Kingdom of Bastion is a monarchy that rules the plane of Bastion and was one of the major players in the Foundling War.

The Monarchy
Bastion is ruled by one monarchy that follows the primogeniture structure, meaning rulers are most often men. The ruler is assisted in their job by varying levels of vassals who maintain territories for the monarchy. Very few of these rulers have been tyrannical and most have been little more than benign during their reign. Due to this the plane is mostly stagnant and stuck in a stage of pastoral bliss.

The monarchy and the plane is represented by the symbol of a white rose wrapped around a castle tower.

The Foundling War
The King during the Foundling War was Riktav Fitzjoie III who used his position to mislead his people into fighting a holy war against the other planes over the Bastions divine right to hold the Bridge. Riktav spoke of the long forgotten god of his land Pelor speaking to him in a dream and telling him that if all the men of Bastion were to take up arms and march to the Bridge they would take it for his name within days.

This of course did not pan out and the Bastion force ended up in a horrifying land war between the Genesists of Dust who overwhelmingly outnumbered them and the horde of the Shade who outmanoeuvred them, all the while being manipulated by both the Fey Courts and the king's draconic adviser.

The King's Army was the defending force in the final battle of the war, Sundering Prism, where they sustained innumerable losses from which the kingdom did not recover for centuries. The army was entrenched in the ziggurat when the three other armies converged and each was turned on by their draconic allies.

King Riktav Fitzjoie III was deposed and exiled (although some state he was executed) due to his part in this loss. Legends tell that each man of age in Bastion took up arms for the King's holy war except the king himself, thus not fulfilling the prophecy. Whether or not this is accurate is unknown.

Contemporary Accounts
Although he is mostly despised, even today, King Riktav's prophecy still holds some say in the lands of Bastion and many of the people of the plane in some way believe that the Bridge was promised to them but whether or not the plane could ever raise an army large enough to fight a holy war again is debatable.