Lakial

Lakial is the oldest city and by far the largest city by both chunks and population in the Aristian province of Astillia (Eldham), at its height it was the second largest city by population but it was never really known outside its local area. It was founded by OzkoJet on top of a mountain in its northern area but expanded southwards as the population grew. Lakial is close to 2 other cities, the sky city of Aelermede which is a few hundred blocks of its coast and the city of Kalisgrado which is located less than 30 blocks northeast of the old city centre.

Foundation
Lakial was founded in one of the northern mountains which is today known as the Old Town, shortly later its economy boomed and became one of the richer cities in eldham where it stayed untill about 1 month later where it crashed and lost its place. A few days after its foundation, it joined Aristios.

The Mountain City
Shortly after its foundation it began expand towards the other nearby mountains, it began with the area which is today known as the City Centre, and later the valley between, today known as Lakial Valley (Often confused with other valley areas), at this time its first population boom happened and many moved in to the houses and filled the newly added areas in only 1 day and the area known as Lakial Outskirts was built in order to let people build their own houses there if they wish to.

Foe or Friend and A Declining City
During the population boom it needed more to build houses in and a new area known as Bluevall was added in a valley on the other side of the middle mountain, named after the creator of its first houses, blueeed, it contained many smaller but cosy homes but they weren't enough and the city began look even further southwards, at some parts of the dark oak forest it had sold wood from to many visiting merchants ever since the beginning. However a nearby city did not like the expansion of Lakial and began to block its path towards expanding claiming that they were gonna build there even though they weren't near nor got any direct access to the land and Lakial was unable to get enough houses for more citizens to live in and with a plauge comming the city began to decline.

End of Plauge and Urbanisation of The City
After some time the plauge was gone and the city trying to block it had to stop after being ordered multiply times by multiply high ranked people in the national goverment. A new population boom shortly occurred and lakial began expand again. After some time it began to focus on urbanisating the city and added multiply new homes in areas tought to not been possible to build and more. The population grew untill the point it became the second largest city in eldham.

Lakial During The Aristian Civil War/Coup
When the coup happened between the old Imperial Goverment and the Commonwealth, Lakial declared themself neutral untill a decision had been made, The most trusted players were to discuss and vote on what to do and many wanted to stay neutral untill the end of the conflict however after lots of preassure from the Imperial goverment to end their neutrality many in Lakial felt forced to join the commonwealth and later during the second day of the conflict, it did with over 80% supporting it after a small vote.

Modern Times and A New Decline
A new plauge hit the city and many moved out making Lakial get closer to becoming a dead city.

Religion
The oldest Religion in Lakial is Floodism, a religion which says that one day the world will flood from the rain/tears of bedrock and that they have to do stuff, preferibly burning hay bales in order to prevent it from happening in the close future, however lately Sheepism, a religion that praise a dead sheep named Bæ grew larger and became the largest religion in the city. The national sponsored religion, Voclarism never got a lot of followers and it is estimated that only 2 or 3 people in the city praise it.

Alcohol
In the early days of Lakial it exported lots of Chocolate Brews and Strong Coffe to visiting merchants however lately local bars sells all sorts of drinks to visitors, anything from beer to wine to some sort of teas.

Lakial Lager
A secret alcohol originated from the city, many inhabitants in Lakial consider it to be the city drink as its the only known drink named after the city. It was found in a chest before inside the old town in its early history and nobody knew who made it, many searched high and low untill 1 day, a stranger came and gave the receipt to 1 man, many belives the stranger to been sent by a god of some sort.

Famous Buildings
Lakial Arena: A pvp arena inside Lakial that can host duels, zumo, archery and much more. Theres cheese shops at its entrence for visitors that come to watch.

Blockmart: A supermarket that got almost everything, it doesn't just get visitors from the city but from people all over Eldham.

Kaiserlict: A ship at the port, it was built by Mafiapeikko and have never been sailing outside the city before.

The big city walls: A bunch of city walls located on top of each mountain, most are made of stonebricks except for the old towns that are entirely made out of cobblestone, they are known to look high due to their location, to people outside the walls, they look to be over 20 blocks high but inside they can only look about 6 blocks high in some places.