Crown of Elysium

Main details Identity Meta information The monster Crown of Elysium, commonly known as the Crown of Elysium or simply labelled as Elysium, is a sovereign city-state located in the Kavernis continent, settled within the peninsula with the same name. Elysium was founded by the group known as the Ivory Order and is currently ruled by its monarch, Endoru Shadowstorm.

Prelude
The Crown of Elysium, unlike most of its neighbors, is a young nation, founded in the year sixteen after the death of the Primal Dragon of Chaos (16 A.W.D.) by a group of people known as the Ivory Order.

In the year 12 (A.W.D.) the Ivory Order was a small group of people, counting with an estimate of five members, which was rather infamous due to the nature of its members, most of them not being part of "civilized races" or directly part of what were considered to be monster species. United by the goal to survive and with the hope to find a place to call home, these individuals followed the leader and founder of the Order, Endoru Shadowstorm, who was a in appearance a humanoid young male, despite his young age he managed to get his companions' loyalty and share the same goal. They craved for a safe place, one where to live in harmony, where discrimination based on race, culture, religion or any other sort of identity traits was not a thing; nevertheless, they were unsuccessful during their travels, mostly due to what was known as "monster-nature" which caused fear and panic everywhere they went to. Being discriminated or directly hunted down, they also grew famous for their incredible combat skill which allowed them to survive every single attempt of slaying the group of "monsters" and human blasphemers, becoming adventurers and carrying out dangerous commissions in order to survive as nomads during that time; another reason for their somewhat relevant renown was their actions, Endoru himself forbade the members of the Order to murder any innocent lives and instead commanded his companions to help anyone who was being persecuted for what he thought weren't valid reasons such as racial and cultural persecution, extremist religious crusades and the hunting of species only because they were considered to be monstrous.

After some years, during 16 A.W.D., the members sat down and reflected about their situation, they had picked up many refugees from their adventures, being unable to just keep them in the wilderness without a proper home. It was around that time when the leader of the Order decided that if there was nowhere where they could be fully accepted, then the Order should establish somewhere, his right and left hands suggested to travel to the north in order to find a proper land for such an important project, with all the members agreeing they decided to split the group in two, with most of the Order staying in the wilderness of the Lazzeatir continent to keep their refugees safe but with Endoru and his left hand, Angelica, heading to the northwest.

The pair traveled to the west extreme of the central continent, Lazzeatir, encountering the ocean that separated the lands of the previous mentioned with the northern continents Lverstwryn and Kavernis. They sailed in a small ship across the sea, having the original goal to travel first to the Lverstwryn continent but being intercepted by a great storm that guided their ship to the closer northwest, being close to the coasts of a land neither of them had seen with their own eyes, the ship got destroyed by great waves and both of them were dragged to the shores of the peninsula that was the closest to the central lands, in the Kavernis continent. Although normal humans would've probably died, both Angelica and Endoru were actually part of the monster species, being their innate toughness what allowed them to survive. Endoru checked on his companion as the storm seemed to get more violent but they were at least in solid land, they didn't precisely know where they were exactly, all they saw was a great mountain-range which they climbed in the hopes to find a higher point of view so they could orient, instead what they found was something else, a strange monument that seemed to be at least some centuries old, Endoru then remembered that one of his members, his right hand, was a native of the Kavernis continent, he was someone who would constantly tell him many tales about the ancient magic of the empire that once was established there, the fallen Kaverdi Empire. Endoru perceived with his sensitivity to magical energy that the land was completely flooded with mana and the presence of multiple elemental spirits, they all seemed to reunite around the center pillar of the monument as if they were waiting for someone to come, despite Angelica's initial shock, Endoru seemed unfazed and simply walked towards the pillar placing his hand on it, once he did that, he closed his eyes and the pillar was struck with lighting multiple times, yet, he did not take his hand off of it; the elemental spirits around them manifested physically in the form of some sort of colorful lights that flew around the leader of the Order, then the lights proceeded to get closer towards Endoru himself being absorbed by him as they seemed to merge with his own voluntarily, although what happened was unknown the the leader of the Order and his companion, they saw that once the elemental spirits' energy merged with Endoru's the storm abruptly disappeared, the sky was clear in a matter of seconds and the sunlight was finally brought to the Ivory Order members, Endoru felt different, as Angelica also walked towards him, with the bright light of the day they were astonished by the looks of that land, it was precious and filled with beautiful mountain, plains and forests; Endoru himself took the event that just happened as a signal, not from a deity, but from the world itself: A signal that told them, that they have found the perfect land to establish their "heaven" for everyone.

A couple of days after the monument event, Endoru quickly traveled back to where the Ivory Order and its refugees were hiding, meeting with the rest of its members and making another journey back to the peninsula they found, this time very steadily and without major complications. Together they started working to establish a settlement, during the first days of the settlement they struggled a lot due to the fact that a great amount of mana was also a major attraction to actual magical beasts, having the Order to purge the land of the un-sentient monsters that were nothing but a danger to their refugees, the Ivory Order. The settlement started growing as suddenly as it appeared, as other travelers and refugees casually stumbled upon the Ivory Order, which was rather strange since the peninsula appeared to remain untouched without any sort of civilizations after the fall of the Kaverdi Empire; due to the growing amount of people that wished to stay under the Ivory Order's wings, they decided to make their settlement an actual town, which was possible the help of one of the Ivory Order members, Ludwig Withenbach, alongside the help of multiple volunteers among their refugees who decided to help build a proper town; the land was rich, fertile and had a lot of resources; most notoriously, it also had the ruins of the castle which belonged to the ancient lord of the Margrave of Zaldrezi, which was a dominion of the fallen Kaverdi Empire, curiously also being the lineage of the member of the Ivory Order, Alyus Von Zaldrezius, Endoru's right hand. With his authorization, the Ivory Order decided to take on the project of reestablishing the castle and make it the headquarters of the Order.

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After months of developing and building infrastructure, Endoru was then asked to have a conversation with his right hand in order to express something in behalf of the rest of the Order. The conversation had multiple themes and topics, Alyus told Endoru that as the town grew prosperous and populated it was time to keep something in mind: There were actual nearby countries beyond the peninsula further in the north, if the Order wished to carry out this project and have their own ideals, then that would also mean that they would have to proclaim independence; even if they weren't a previous established civilization or didn't have a cultural identity yet, they had a goal and the capacity of the Ivory Order to protect their sovereignty.

Endoru agreed to this point, he decided to start planning on making first contact with their neighbors, successfully contacting the Hallowed Lands of Araxis and Osterion with positive interactions, it appeared that the countries they encountered respected them, even if the Ivory Order's land didn't have a background, they had their own capacity to make themselves relevant, through diplomacy and talks, Endoru made sure that they started to have good relationships.

After assuring a safe start in the local geopolitics, Endoru listened to Alyus' suggestion about becoming an official country; Endoru, alongside his companions, kept the idea of just wanting to have a home, not an expanding empire, being that the reason why they decided to become a city-state, when asked about the government, the Order felt only confident in trusting Endoru instead of having an open democracy without superior supervision since they believed that was incredible dangerous for a country that had to stay united under a single flag despite all differences, they needed a leader, so they suggested that they become a monarchy and have Endoru as the monarch. After convincing him, Endoru agreed, and in front of his citizens, Endoru established Coribya as a city and proclaimed independence as a sovereign country, keeping in mind the multiple identities of his now citizens and the original reason of why the Ivory Order was formed and together built a homeland, the name was given and they became "Monster Crown of Elysium", also naming the peninsula where they established as Elysium.

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