Crownmeet

The Crownmeet is an ancient council based in the Northern Kingdoms that has convened multiple times throughout history for multiple purposes.

First Crownmeet
As part of the forging of his coalition against the rest of the Imperial Pantheon, the Fallengod Brashur looked to the North for more allies in his looming crusade, and there he found the Nordayne. At that time, the North was an untamed land populated by regional petty kings and shifting alliances, but always at conflict. In the guise of his mortal form, Brashur managed to unite the disparate fiefdoms by joining their council in a central body that became known as the Crownmeet. This first iteration was not called as such, but it was the start of the later institution that historical scholars began to refer to it as for simplicity.

Old Kingdom Crownmeet
After Leorus had conquered the Northern Kingdoms, he paid homage to their ancient traditions and established the Crownmeet as an advisory council to his unchallenged rule of the North, in exchange for peace under his banner.

The Principate Crownmeet
When the Desoral uprising of the early 6th Era was put down, the Crownmeet evolved into the administrative body by which Leonihal and Buranas jointly ruled the defeated nation, having recently lost its king, its right to a seat at the Crownmeet, and been reorganized into the Principate.

Leonihal Crownmeet
When both Desoral and Buranas left the Crownmeet in the late 6th Era, the council was moved to Leonihal, with Ethoras as the only crown providing support to its proceedings.

Much of the Crownmeet's duties were only symbolic in nature, because it was controlled solely by the Ethoran crown. But after King Edowin's death, who no longer had a natural-born heir to claim the crown, the Crownmeet elected Theseus as Edowin's successor.