Ministry of Extermination

The Ministry of Administration is one of the six Ministries in charge of overseeing various items of critical importance throughout Ardeiria. Their main goal is the utter eradication of living problems within the former Kingdom, either by their own hand or developing ways of doing so with rigid effectiveness.

Like all of the Ministries, the Lord Strategist is considered part of a pseudo-nobility, which are used as a sort of auxiliary in the case of treason to replace troublesome nobles.

History
During the Clan Wars, Emperor Aderyn the First kept a small retinue of veteran troll-slayers as strategists. While their names were lost to history, their purpose was remembered by his son, Emperor Aderyn the Second, and continued through the Ministry of Extermination. While genocide was not its only task, the enslavements that went on during his father's reign, his, and his son's, proving so, it was its main concern for ensuring Ardeiria's continued existence. It saw its most use during Queen-Regent Anneryn the First's reign, in which it first hunted down those with Geroth blood, and then culled nearly every Swen still in her Kingdom.

Victims
Ardeirian Clansmen: 90% slain, 10% enslaved.

House of Geroth: 95% slain, 5% escaped, later finished during the Siege of Raen Tukar.

House of Swen: 99% slain, single heir survived.

The Vulture Brotherhood: 100% slain within a continued, thousand year campaign ending with Earl Arwel Ferith Vaught IV.

Drake Worshipers: 100%

Purpose
As its name suggests, the Ministry of Extermination's main goal is the utter eradication of threats to Ardeiria. This does not, generally, include religions other than Dragon Worship, which proved harmful and, more importantly, impossible to inject the Ardeirian Dieties into. Since its creation as little more than a less prestigious Ministry of War, the Ministry of Extermination has risen to be one of this most feared and respected of the six, though its numbers only beat the Ministry of Intelligence, through multiple campaigns which have destroyed entire bloodlines and cultures. However, complete genocide has only been used twice out of its five main deployments, while the rest were either allowed to live for the sake of mercy, albeit with hesitation, or simple enslavement.

Structure
Lord Strategist

Blood Strategist (Created during Anneryn the First's regenthood.)

High Subjugator

Chancellor

Major

Officer

Footman

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