Ebonmeria: rise and fall

The world of ebonmeria has always been a land of constant struggles for power and war, the many distinct nations constantly fight for control of the supercontinent but for some reason, none ever come on top, the world has been in a bloody stalemate for the past 600 years and technology has not advanced at all, mages are seen as gods by some, and demons as others....

That was written 20 years ago, now the supercontinent is almost wholly controlled by the ebonmerian empire led by "the empress" it grew from a single mercenary settlement of 100 to an empire of billions in the space of 2 years, their technology is 100s of years ahead of anyone else and the last independent nation of New heaven is all that stands between them and complete control of the world. While there is peace in the empire there is a far darker side that no one sees, a side that field marshall ashers is going to find out...