Editing Talabecland (section)

==History==
Despite probably being the least talked about and explored province in [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|The Empire]], Talabecland has quite an important role in the Empires history. Due to its central location, the province contains important trade routes from and to all parts of the Empire and large caravans of furs, ores, metals and other shiny and valuable objects pass through the province every day. Because of this, the province spends a lot of time keeping the roads patrolled and guarded to the best of its ability, and most of the most travelled trade routes are relatively safe.

However, the largest role Talabecland has played in the Empires history is kicking off a civil war that lasted near 1000 years and pretty much accounts for almost [[Gorbad Ironclaw|every one of]] [[Von Carstein|the Empires]] [[Great War Against Chaos|darkest hours]]. So it's not a shining history. It started with the election of the Elector Count of [[Stirland]] as the new Emperor in 1359IC. His most prominent rival was Countess Ottilia of Talabecland, who lost the vote by one and accused the elector count of paying off and bribing the other elector counts. Now before you blame Ottilina of being a sore loser, she was almost certainly correct that other elector counts had been paid off by both Stirland and the [[Cult of Sigmar]] (who already had 3 votes on the next Emperor) as the count of Stirland was very handily in the cults pocket and could be used to further spread the power of the cult of Sigmar. Because of this the [[Cult of Ulric]], not wanting to lose more power to the cult of Sigmar, backed Ottilina and heavily recommended her to take the initiative and claim power from Stirland, and with the backing of a few of the other provinces, Talabecland declared war on Stirland for the right to be Emperor. During the battle of Talabec, the army of Stiland was crushed by Ottilina after a decisive cavalry charge which she headed, and she rode back to Talabheim with a majority backing. Unfortunately the Grand Theoginist and cult of Sigmar were unwilling to crown her as the new Emperess despite her claim being the stronger of the two after the battle, citing that she still lost the vote and that she was a woman and thus unfit to rule the Empire, though the real reason was that the cult of Sigmar didn't want to give up on its power grab.
[[File:Talabecland Banner-Bearer.png|thumb|right|300|No nonsense. Very humble. Terrible taste in colour]]
The result of this kerfuffle caused the Empire to be split in two between the Ottillian Emperors and Elected Emperors, and then 200 years later a further third split happened with the Wolf Emperors of [[Middenland]] backed by the Cult of Ulric (because Talabecland hadn't lived up to their expectations, the tree-hugging Taalites) properly kicking off the [[Age of the Three Emperors]]. Good job Talabecland.