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| | The Great Kingdom, or the Great Kingdom of Aerdy or The Empire of Aerdy. |
| |image = [[Image:Great Kingdom02.JPG]]
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| |caption = The arms of the Great Kingdom, as depicted in the ''[[World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting]]'' (1980).
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| |name = The Great Kingdom of Aerdy
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| |region = Old [[Aerdy]] East, Old Aerdy West
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| |ruler = [Final] Ivid V
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| |government = Feudal monarchy
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| |established = -110 [[CY]]
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| |capital = Rauxes
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| |major towns = [[Rauxes]], [[Rel Astra]], [[Kalstrand]], [[Eastfair]]
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| |religions = [[Baalzy]]*, [[Pholtus]], [[Zilchus]], [[Sol]]
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| The '''Great Kingdom''', or the '''Great Kingdom of [[Aerdy]]''', refers to a now-defunct empire of the [[Flanaess]] that varied in size at various points in its history. | |
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| ==History==
| | At its greatest extent, the Great Kingdom stretched from the city of Rel Astra on the Solnor coast to the Viceroyalty of Ferrond in the west; and from Sunndi in the south to Ratik in the north. |
| The Great Kingdom arose from the [[Kingdom of Aerdy]] in -110 [[Common Year|CY]], when the [[Aerdi]] forces of Grand Prince [[Almor II]] defeated the [[Nyrond|Nyrondese]] in the [[Battle of a Fortnight's Length]]. Aerdy nearly doubled in size, and was thereafter known as the Great Kingdom, though its ruler still held the old national title and office of Grand Prince. Despite the new moniker, power in the new empire would not become truly centralized until 1 CY, when Grand Prince [[Nasran I]] declared universal peace throughout the land and took the title of [[Overking]] of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy.
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| By the sixth century CY, however, the Great Kingdom had shrunk to a fraction of its size, limited to the lands east of the [[Harp River]] and [[Teesar Torrent]], and north of the [[Iron Hills]] and [[Thelly River]]. It began with the breaking away of [[Nyrond]] in 356 CY. In the century that followed the provinces of [[Medegia]], [[Almor]], [[North Province]], [[Bone March]], [[Ahlissa]] and [[Rel Astra]] grew increasingly more independant, as the [[Malachite Throne]] degenerated into the chaos known as the [[Turmoil Between Crowns]]. The Overking, [[Ivid I]], was eventually forced to recognize their complete independence.
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| Regrettably, the [[Turmoil Between Crowns]] also resulted in the destruction of the [[Royal Guild of Navigators]], the august body responsible for developing a more accurate method of navigating the oceans and seas of [[Oerth]], by creating a system of longitude and latitude. (0° longitude was established so as to run through the capital, [[Rauxes]], while 0° latitude was determined to run along the Oerth's equator).
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| In 586 CY, [[Ivid V]], last Overking of the Great Kingdom, was rumored to be dead after the devastation of [[Rauxes]], the nation's capital. This essentially brought an end to the Great Kingdom. Two successor nations, the [[Ahlissa|United Kingdom of Ahlissa]] and the [[Great Kingdom of Northern Aerdy]], now vie for control of the region.
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| ==Geography==
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| At its greatest extent, the Great Kingdom stretched from the isles of the [[Sea Barons]] in the east to the Viceroyalty of [[Ferrond]] in the west; and from [[Sunndi]] in the south to [[Ratik]] in the north. | |
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| ==Bibliography==
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| *[[Cook, David]]. "History of the [[Greyhawk Wars]]." ''Wars''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1991. Available Online: [http://www.nyrond.org/turbine/page/university/greyhawkwars.html]
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| *[[Bruce Cordell|Cordell, Bruce R.]] ''[[Bastion of Faith]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1999.
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| *[[Gygax, Gary]]. ''The [[World of Greyhawk]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1980.
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| *-----. ''[[World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
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| *[[Gary Holian|Holian, Gary]], [[Erik Mona]], [[Sean K. Reynolds]], and [[Frederick Weining]]. ''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
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| *[[Moore, Roger E]]. ''[[The Adventure Begins]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
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| *[[Niles, Douglas]], and [[Carl Sargent]]. ''[[The City of Greyhawk]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1989.
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| *[[Carl Sargent|Sargent, Carl]]. ''[[From the Ashes]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.
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| *-----. ''[[Ivid the Undying]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, unpublished. Available online: [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads]
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| *[[James M. Ward|Ward, James M]]. ''[[Greyhawk Adventures]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1988.
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| ==External links==
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| *Guarhoth, Taras. "Timeline of [[Aerdi]] Grand Princes and Overkings." ''[[Canonfire!]]''. Available online: [http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36]
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Kingdom The Great Kingdom at Wikipedia].
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The Great Kingdom, or the Great Kingdom of Aerdy or The Empire of Aerdy.
At its greatest extent, the Great Kingdom stretched from the city of Rel Astra on the Solnor coast to the Viceroyalty of Ferrond in the west; and from Sunndi in the south to Ratik in the north.