Kythnos

=  = Kythnos, also known as New-Kythnos, Oriataun-Kythnos and Sotrania, is a major city located in Oceanum, Federation of the Southern Stars. The current city is unified polycentric agglomeration of three cities in one claim: Kythnos, Oriataun and Kronox. It is the largest city in Oceanum, and second only to Horizonte in the Federation of the Southern Stars in terms of developed claimed area and population. The city was founded in August of 2021 marking it as one of the oldest cities on Eldham. Due to its strategic position it has been a capital of several states: Sotrania and Glanran-Sotranian Commonwealth, with several attempts to make the city the capital of Oceanum.

= History =

First Arrival and settlement.
According, to legend, partial ancient texts and artifacts, the area of the city we now know as Kythnos, was first settled by the mysterious Jorv people. From what is known by fact about them is the lack of long-term or stone shelters and structures created by the people. It is, however, known that they used to at first inhibit the present day Valreach, but later moved south for unknown reasons, excluding war, due to all the descriptions of and found protective gear of the Jorv being always light and almost never damaged. Artifacts of the Jorv, have been found all the way from the Elanorian Realms, up to the southern coast of Oceanum.

After the collapse of the Forge, a small amount of explorers from another group, the Draaken have arrived to region. Old Draaken texts tell the story of their first meeting with the Jorv.

,,''When we (Draaken) first arrived on the beaches, we found a group of beached (Jorv) longboats. In order to establish contact, we chose approached the mightiest of the ships. As we got closer, we were spotted by a scout, who presumably communicated our arrival his King1. The King, immediately, left his ship in order to welcome us. After learning (that) we've come in order to settle, the King, in a gesture of peace and good will, offered us fish and fruit. That is why, when we welcome guests in our houses, we offer them fruit or fish2."''

- Anonymous Author, The Chronicle of Culture.

Essentially, after the fall of the forge, the Draaken begun settling the south of the former Oreuch Kingdom, a region also known as Sotrania. Thanks to the common trade tongue in the region, the people could easlly communicate with each other. Soon the two peoples started seeing each other as equals and soon begun intermingling creating the Old Kythnosi culture (also known as the Attano culture). Soon, a sort of a ruling class emerged - The Attano Family.

One of the groups, brought with them a religion worshiping some sort of a Blood God. We don't know if it was a major god or a patron god of the settlement. Ruins of a church of this kind, used to exist only in Kythnos. It is suspected, that this god emerged due to the constant warfare between the Old Kythnosi and the 'native' peoples of the region such as the Oreuh. The religion quickly speared in Kythnos and soon most of the population was worshiping this 'Blood God'. This led to a development of militaristic beliefs in Kythnos.

During the warring period, the Old-Kythnosi asserted themselves as one of the dominant powers in the area. It is widely acknowledged that they were one of the reasons the Oreuh civilization declined, however they were not the one who ultimately destroyed it. At the end of this period lot of Oreuh people fled south, in part to Kythnos, in order to escape the dangerous plaguing the north of their Kingdom. This caused a further merged of cultures and created a culture very much resembling the one of Modern Kythnos.

1 Historians note that the Jorv didn't have  a King, the Jorv in the myth was probably an elder.

2 The are no other records of this tradition and neither is is practiced today.

The Founding and the independence period.
The city was officially founded on the 14th of August 2021 by the Attano family. Soon after founding the city, less then 100 meters west, yet another group of settlers, who called themselves the Saitamans, arrived on an island called Okinawa. Their settlement on the island was soon named Oriataun. About the Saitaman people we know much more then about the Jorv or the Draakans of Kythnos, due to their far later arrival and the fact that the archives in which their history was harbored wasn't burned in the Battle of New Kythnos, unlike the records of the Old Kythnosi cultures. The Saitamans, came from a foreign land, from which they were forcibly expelled due to 'conspiring against the state'. One of the mayor characteristics of the Saitamans and future Sotranians is their mastery over water. This can be seen in several forms, their advanced ships and their draining and flooding projects.

Following the creation of the city of Oriataun, the Saitamans and the Oureh began mixing simiulaly to the Old-Kythnos and the Oureh. Peaple inhabiting the island were soon starting to be known as the Sotranians. The word Sotrania comes from the adaptation of the Oureh word "Sotrenshja", which when translated means "The Land of Sotren3". Due to the recent archaeological findings, the historians believe that Oriataun was build on ruins of a great Ourech people. Several structure resembling houses and storage rooms were found. Some in the scientific community argue, that there is no proof of the ruins belonging to the Ourech, but instead to an even earlier civilization. These claims also have no proof.

During the independence period, the city of Kythnos prospered, with several monuments, some of which didn't stand the test of time, being erected. An example of creations from that time include the Kythnos docks. On the other side of the channel, buildings like the Khan's palace and the Grand UFO of Oriataun were constructed. At the time, the relations beetween the to cities were not very cordial. Due to their superior numbers and army quality, Kythnos began preparing for an invasion of Oriataun. The Attano intended on integrating the city and its population, but that never came to be because, the People of Kythnos, were then discovered by what was the Second Republic of Oceanum.

The future Grand Republics people, considered the Attano and their settlement to be unlawful squatting on their territory. But due to the large population of the city (over 10 active citizens) and its quick growth the Oceanumite government was afraid to act. Though in the following days, the city of Kythnos came into an agreement with the government in which they became an autonomous city of Oceanum. The Agreement was later scraped for unknown reasons and the city became and integral part of Oceanum. Oriataun didn't follow in Kythnos's steps and remained independent.

3. Sotren, was a great Oureh king, who had first united the Oureh city states.

The Modern City.
 Sources: 

- Ulfric

- Booper

- Magnus Attano

- Jake / Jem

- Republic of Sotrania