Fiction:Khidar

Khidar is one of the 36 vassal states of the Tenet Domain, and among the oldest surviving. Khidar claims to be among those kingdoms allied with Tenet in its earliest days as it brought the homeworld to heel -- hardly an uncommon claim among Tenet's vassals, but no evidence contradicting it exists.

Organization
Khidar was one of those vassals hardest hit by the war against the Congregation. It has been reduced to eight hundred systems, much smaller than average, though most of those worlds are well-populated and -developed due to both time and the influx of refugees.

In keeping with most other Tenet vassals, the ruling apparatus of Khidar is known as the Khidar Court. Important members of the Khidar Court follow:

 Baron Arid Anuk=

"It is not my place to question the will of my master."
 * Name: Arid of House Anuk
 * Titles: Knight-Marshal of the Emerald Host, Baron of the Third Order, Right Hand of the Archon, the Black Hand
 * Role: Supreme general of the Emerald Host's ground forces, appointed champion of the Archon

Baron Anuk's personality can be defined by two constants: his honor, which has remained stubbornly entrenched across the many centuries of his life, and his bitterness, which has only ever grown deeper. Once a mere labor-slave at the bottom of Tenet's hierarchy, he has risen to the rank of Baron by being more dangerous and more competent than any of his superiors, and by the support of the Viscountess, who sees great things in him. Duke Izesh Izeroth= "Insolent upstart children. Give them the least room to quarrel and carve out space for themselves, and they suddenly think themselves mighty."
 * Name: Izesh of House Izeroth
 * Titles: Grand Magister, Duke of the Third Order, Left Hand of the Baroness
 * Role: High priest/chief engineer of Khidar, deputy of the Archon

Noble by birth and magi-trained, Baron Izeroth was born with an ambition to rule and an understanding of his self-evident superiority. His arrogance and insufferability are infuriatingly compounded by genius: as Grand Magister, his thaumaturgical skills have proven to be among the most advanced and comprehensive within all of Khidar. Count Kohm Aqar= "As the Scrolls say: to overreach and fail in glory is still to fail."
 * Name: Kohm of House Aqar
 * Titles: Fleetmaster of the Emerald Host, Count of the Third Order
 * Role: Supreme admiral of the Emerald Host's space fleet

Old, easygoing, and devout, Count Kohm remembers when the Archon was still a calf at her mother's side. His House has long been closely tied to the Ashazdes, and he has watched Fehari's rise to power with pride as if she were his own daughter. He has no official function within the Court, but the Archon respects his age, experience, and advice, trusting him like her own uncle.

Military
The armed forces of Khidar are known as the Emerald Host for the color of the state's heraldry, a particularly vivid shade that only Khidar is allowed to fly on its banners according to old pacts. The Emerald Host is organized along lines decreed by the Holy Realm over twelve thousand years ago across the whole of Tenet, standardizing the militaries and ranks of its vassals for easier integration and cooperation (again).