Podslynitsia

Podslynitsia (from Literary Vitrian podslŭnĭceska, meaning "under the sun") was a West Borean political concept that referred to the domain that the Sepcans, the Neo-Sepcans, and a number of succeeding imperial entities in the same political and thematic mould laid universal jurisdiction over in principle. The idea is strongly resemblant of "all under heaven" in East Borea. It is usually synonymous with Sepcandom or Sedybia.

The world view behind Podslynitsia has origins in the Ancient Sepcan state which claimed divine right to rule over the entire world, but the idea proper began only in the late Neo-Sepcan period, in around the 8th century, during a period of increasing decentralization and feudalism under the Vitrian dynasties of the Empire. It was claimed that the contemporary Empire alongside its historical and mythological predecessors were a line of divinely commissioned undisputed authorities over the world known and relevant to the West Boreans, largely conterminous with West Borea itself. The idea was driven by both those who pushed for imperial supremacy, and those backing the devolution of the Empire, who claimed that as the growingly independent states all remained within the framework of such a sovereignty, the talk of their increasing power being unrighteous was an unreasonable argument.

The latter view triumphed, serving as justification for the Neo-Sepcan principalities' fragmentation of the realm, and ultimately independence. However, it was also due to this, that perception of diplomacy in the years after the Neo-Sepcan state's formal disestablishment was still heavily influenced by the idea of existing within a larger domain. The spectra of the empire haunted in the form of self-identification with the designation of "Sepcan" (considered synonymous with universal power), and the continued usage of aesthetics that suggested an universal authority. It was also used to justify the Tastanic church's wide-reaching authority of the Bibliocracy as the church presented itself as the only power which was consistently felt throughout the region.

In the years after the abolition of the Sepcan throne, there were calls made for the restoration of an authority over all Podslynitsia and an end to the chaos of the post-Pantocratic period. The creation of states titled as Empires in West Borea in the 10th and 11th centuries was an expression of this idea, with such identifications allowing justification of further expansion at expense of their neighbors. During the rise of Costeny in the Cositene expansion, the idea became conflated with authority over the universal Cositene community, and the role of a 'protector' over the entirety of said community was increasingly sought after following the occultation of Adytum, causing the creation of various Cositene states with a catholic bend, such as the Empire of Razaria. After the 16th century however, popularity of "Neo-Sedybianism" waned in favor of formally accepting the divided nature of the Cositene world, and most claims to Podslynitsia were dropped. This did not prevent a revival of the idea due to divleny in the 18th and 19th centuries - particularly attempts to reproduce Tuthinan universal sovereignty - which led to a period of aggressive expansionism by the West Borean states, as well as the unification of what would become modern Luziyca under Huswa Varanken.