The Heladian Empire (c.850BA - 155AD) is a Rome-analog classical empire whose influence on Western Asantrea is still felt in the modern era. It expanded steadily through almost 9 centuries of continuous conquest and growth, until the martyring of the Prophet Arahan in the city of Venium. The Heladians had held Venium for four centuries and it was the strategic jewel in the crown of Empire - but the martyring of the Prophet instigated a decades-long uprising that eventuated in the Heladians being ousted from their outpost in 88 AD - and the eventual collapse of the Empire, culminating with the sacking of Vinegress, the Imperial Capital, in 155 AD. The map shows the greatest extent of the Empire, in 30 AD.