Castellum

Castellum is a province of Sylvania. It is situated in the north of Astios with the Voclanian sea to its north and a land border with Transardacia to its south.

Founding
Castellum had been founded by Mattthebeast551 and Wize_Nifty in the somewhat earlier days of Aristios, but only one town had been made and prospered to some degree: Pompaelo (which was called Pompealo at the time). One of the founders, Mattthebeast551, had been banned so Wize had to govern the province himself, which proved to be moderately difficult. Wize had gathered several people, including Mr. Spook, InverseAtom, and Lizzie, and Pompaelo truly began flourishing. The theme was medieval, and houses were made of spruce and stonebrick, which had an effect on Pompaelo's future mayor. Lizzie being a relatively new player, just built houses, Inverse helped out at the capital, etc. Eventually, many people had changed towns or became extremely inactive which led to Pompaelo being a ghost town for several months.

Resurrection
After a long period of inactivity, Wize_Nifty became determined to revive his town. Lizzie was, if not the only, one of the few who had discussed Pompaelo and Aristii affairs concerning her belongings that were left in the ghost town with Wize recently. Eventually, Wize offered Lizzie the position of governor of Castellum, which she accepted.

The first thing she did was to change the name of the ghost town, from Pompealo to Pompaelo, she also tore down the entire town. What used to be a medieval ghost town became bare land. Eventually, she created her first establishment, (which got torn down eventually because it was kind of hideous) town hall. At some point, she hired a builder to build homes (using a sandstone and oak theme, quite different than the original look of Pompaelo), his name was Logui. He was part of another nation but became closely tied to Aristios after they met. The first few citizens consisted of BlazingTRS, Logui113, SoupError, _d0t_, Charlie_Cleric, Myndello, Psydos, and a few more. Most of them are still with us today.

Development of Other Towns
Near the time of the Aristii Coup (around October 31st), Lizzie met **Z, the founder of Galleta, a new town at the time in Castellum. He needed money and resources for his town that he had created, right here in Castellum. The town had amazing architecture, it baffled Lizzie, so she accepted.

Eventually, another person had settled in Castellum, Leltch, creating her own town, Torrington (which is now called Brimmingham, following the Gearton-Torrington merge). She too was starting something wonderful. Leltch also had great plans and worked extremely hard, and she eventually became minister of Infrastructure of Aristios.

After Torrington's creation, Revi was adamant about creating a town, one that had striking architecture but lacked in population, which led to the Favre-Torrington merge, resulting in Brimmingham.

Before Torrington and Favre's creation, two rathnirians hoping to create their very own nation within Aristios settled near Pompaelo. Eventually, one of their creators, Dracon, settled elsewhere and got land legally, and Mungo created her own town elsewhere in Castellum, Isolarium, after Gearton and Torrington's creation.

Another town near Isolarium had been created, Yaika, a Japanese style city, by a settler named Winteke.

The last town to be founded was Valkorius, by a former Pompaelo citizen named Bridge.

Lizzie's Departure
After making Castellum one of the most active and prosperous provinces of Aristios, she left Stoneworks as a whole, which led to many changes as she occupied three governmental titles. Dot became mayor of Pompaelo, considering she built most of the town, Logui, who at the time was governor of the new capital of Novapolis, became minister of Finance and Soup became province governor. Soup and Dot were very much present before the Aristii coup and were senators who helped Lizzie out with her election business.

Third governor, SoupError
Even though Soup didn't last for long as governor, her rule in Castellum was marked by a bill, the Castellum Expansion Act. Before her becoming the governor, the bill was done by SoupError herself, SirLadBubblepop, Dot and Logui. This bill decided that West Astillia, a region of the province of Astillia would become part of the province of Castellum. It was thought as a way to relieve the densely populated Castellum at the time so that new cities could settle on those lands. However the bill wasn't well received by a portion of the population of Astillia as it had been a part of the history of Astillia as a province for a long time. Soup then decided to switch her role of Governor of Castellum with the Governor of Novapolis at the time, Logui. It was decided after she felt like she needed more experience with a newer province thus easier to manage. The decision also came from the fact that Logui already had been helping Lizzie when she was the governor and when Soup herself as well, as Logui had dealt with the disputes of the newly formed cities at the time of Yaika, Valkorius and a merger between Isollarium and Ghosted's new city.

Logui's take over
Logui Fielinya Olmero took over as a Governor of Castellum and mayor of Pompaelo after Soup became the governor of Novapolis. His first act as Governor of Castellum was to discuss with the Governor of Astillia at the time, Murdius, about new borders for both provinces. The objective of the expansion of Castellum wasn't to anger the citizens of Astillia in the first place, thus the decision to discuss again. New borders were proposed by Logui and the council of Astillia approved of them. They then got voted in the Senate (to be decided). The agreement of borders said that the new city of Valkorius would continue as part of Castellum, the city of Corinthia joined Astillia, and kilimanjaro's farm would be jointly managed between the two provinces.

A new future in Sylvania
After the Federal Republic of Aristios fell due to the monarchist Eastern rebellion of Sanctus-Ismer and later reformed into the Aristii Confederacy, the people of Castellum lost faith in the idea of a fair, democratic and strong Aristios. While the idea of independence was brought up and rejected, around 2/3rds of the people of Castellum voted to join Sylvania, then an Iris Confederation member, and the closest Eldham nation to Castellum, despite the long distance between the Sylvanian mainland.

Structure
The Castellum governor is the main decision maker in the province, however the senate can veto the decisions if the majority wishes to do so. The senate is voted in during Provincial elections held by the governor.

Local rules
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16KpUGX3kp7bGqbbxbwAcKMKgpmwec3U2lmymMLKt6ig/edit?usp=sharing

(Blazing was the first to break these rules following the infamous Cat Massacre event of October.）

Galleta
Galleta located in the snow is quite a large town. It features Nordic Architecture and has a Military Base just to its east.

Pompaelo
Pompaelo is a nice mediterranean style city known for it's love of catgirls. When visiting be sure to visit the Catgirl cafe or cat statue. It is known as that Catgirl Capital of Aristios, a titled decided by Lizzie during the early days of the revived Pompaelo, as a joke.

Favre
Favre also known as Gearton(previous name) is a Parisian Themed city in the middle of the Province,Its a city known for its delicous Pancakes and light colored buildings

Torrington
Torrington is a very district within Brimmingham, it has excellent city plannings and great architecture, and is a must see in Castellum.

Isolarium
A town in Castellum on the northernmost island.

Cuisine
Fish, Bread, Potatoes and Alcohol, served by catgirls exclusively.

Folklore
Ancient’s advice, fear the night, Spirits will wander as daylight dies... Settlers die left and right, falling without a fight... As daybreak come settlers prepare, they shall never despair Nightfall's, settlers fight, defending their home till it becomes light... The settlers survive, establishing the foundation of Castellum the farming capital of The Grand Empire Of Aristios.

-Wize Nifty Olea, former Governor of Castellum.