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The Magicate of Augan (Meridish: Magicáto de Aucán) is a  which encompasses the Augish Isles. Augan is considered to be politically and socially a part of the Lomban continent, though it is geographically separated from the mainland by the Ardoran Straits. The nation is composed of 3 free cities and 8 free counties, and the capital changes every four years between the free cities. As of 17E7, the capital of Augan is located in the city of Carwent, and the nation has an estimated population of 5.4 million people.

Augan is a that combines  and, in which a Archmage is the  and. Laws and local militias are controlled by the free localities, and the majority of the process of governance is left to the discretionary vote of the peoples of those localities. Augan is principally unified by the High College of the Magi, a body which is made up of the best mages from across the nation, and this High College is responsible for the administration of commerce, defence, and diplomacy, and it further sets regulations for the colleges of the respective localities. There are 11 colleges which represent each individual locality, and the ten most skilled members from each college goes on to represent their locality in the High College. The Archmage is elected from within the High College, and they hold power over the national administration, though they cannot make decisions without the approval of the High College. This system of mage-dominated confederation was implemented by the High Charter of 164E5, after the Great Mage Rebellion succeeded in creating an independent mage state at the edge of the Second Lomban Empire.

The first known inhabitants of contemporary Augan were the Brinei tribes that migrated to the isles several hundred years before the First Era. These early bronze age agrarian peoples fell subject to the Nornish invasions of the Third Era, and in 189E3, the invader Hraldr the Great declared himself the first King of Augan. The young kingdom was heavily settled by Nornish warriors who sought to become farmers in the richly arable soil of the isles, and by the middle of the Fourth Era, the realm had grown prosperous and peaceful. King Dag III established the College of Karvund in 44E4, which was instrumental in building the culture of arcane mastery which the isles came to inherit. The First Lomban Empire invaded the southeast of Augan in 189E4, and over the course of the First Lomban-Augen War, the Empire successfully conquered the remaining portions of the isles by 4E5. When the First Empire collapsed in 101E5, the local countryside aristocrats established a new elective Kingdom, but it was an extremely fragile realm marred by constant infighting, and so it was quickly subsumed by the Second Lomban Empire with nearly no bloodshed in 159E5.

When the Empire attempted to cull the mages of Lombe soon after rising to power, the Great Mage Rebellion saw the outright revolt of the mages against Imperial authorities across the continent. Arcane culture was especially entrenched in the cities of Augan, and, during the second year of the Rebellion, the Imperial Archmage Patrenos Igorena fled with most of the administrators and archives of the Imperial High College of the Magi to Carwent. Facing foreign invasions in the north and east, the Empire reluctantly signed the Concordat of Ardore in 164E5, which led to the expatriation of many educated mages to the newly independent realm in Augan. The High Charter of Augan established the contemporary political system after the peace with the Empire, and it came to function with relative tranquility despite some small initial countryside rebellions. Over time, peaceful cooperation came about across the country as education and quality of life were massively improved by the huge influx of skilled migrants and wealth. The Augen Navy was formed in 34E6 to deal with pirate raids from the east, and Augan grew to become the largest naval power in Lombe. By the beginning of the Seventh Era, Augan had become one of the most formidable realms in Lombe, rivaling the influence of its former Imperial master.