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// shodeaenu.01Shodea stands as a scattering kingdom founded in the heart of Enuan centuries ago, an empire soon-to-be as foretold in the recent decades, lingering in the infancy of its societal ascension and recently claiming its right to Empiredom by the establishment of leading medicinal practices and recent footholds in the city-states that have come to posture beneath its banner for protection against the Eastern Continent's alarming advances. Encompassing most of Enuan, with lesser Kingdoms branching outward into the bordering sea and Northern claim, and the sliver of land that stands against the mighty empowerment of the East, a land stretched far and wide as the only peaceful and neutral territory between the rivaling Empires. The continent is considered young still, with the jewel of Shodea its child, enmassed and composed of medicinal and scientific advancements that coincide with the laws of nature; harnessing solar energies and influencing waterways to fortify massive generators; paving the way for industrial claims and rapid technologies with more altruistic applications. Though still well advanced and boasting towering cities ringed and walled off by sheer faces of pale hewn rock and stone, cut and carved by massive machines now forsaken as rusted creatures embedded into the crust of Eritus, sentinels of time long since past, clamored with vine and flower, and left to be. Shodeaβs past is prettily adorned and shelled, eclipsed by the proclamation of global peace and the religious following of an idealized pantheon of fallen Aeons, profoundly advocating for the healing of life and home, endeavoring to appeal to the Eastern Continents mass pollution and excavating as what Shodea views as a holy ground, this being the cavernous underground chamber beneath the βCrownβ that they simultaneously worship, and in result, receive βgiftsβ of Azonite for their reverence. With rich farmlands scattered betwixt their blooming cities, Shodea also claims the forefront of supplying the continent with boundless resources of food.
Eaeth-Song is a localized phenomenon that encompasses the entirety of the West, where the night sky reveals curious ripples of mauve and violet hues strewn through stars and blankets of shadows. These ripples, or tears in the sky, release soft, melodic hums with only a select few being perceptible or sensitive to their tunes, able to decipher a particular and barely heard nuance of sound that translates to what some report as βvoicesβ. Recording devices have been recently implemented to translate these humming notes, transmuting into a particular code that none have been able to break.
Shodea stands as a unified product of elected bodies of power, Dukes and Duchesses, Marquises and lesser Lords and Ladies that all claim to a bannered house under Shodean rule, sworn loyalty to a crowned pair, the Emperor and Empress, rulers in name and spirit, that appeal themselves to a higher power, uttered to align themselves with the means of faith and prophecy. Among these staggered powers lingers the rumored election of an Oracle, a saintly being that glimpses into wavering fabrics of time and space, particularly empathetic with Eaeth-Song and christened as a holy extension of unbeknownst power. | Rolling hills of golden wheat and emerald greens, sparkling with the boon of an unforeseen life force that etched through the lands and spiraled into mountain peaks capped in crystalline spires of ice and snow. A paradisal landscape it was, but unbeknownst to the touch of man and wary of their mark, as early life attempted to establish itself through the roots of grand trees, vast lakes, digging deep into caverns of pale jewels. Through every claim, life initially fought back, refusing to budge against fire and stone and archaic metals harvested from the refuse of the equator, where a sister community has established modern roots. Though ripe with potential, it took many years to tame and temper the inhospitable lands that would birth science, medicine, and philosophy, founded on the wiles of nature and the ever-changing adaptation and burden of Eaeth-Song. An idealized religion would inspire the lands of Enuan, an Empire sired on the coexistence of life and worship of ancient beings carved into the landmasses of gargantuan trees and glimmering mountainsides, the cradle of all life with valleys to the North, their sprawling cities further inland, with the center bearing the crowned jewel, the South composed of sprawling thickets of towering fauna and entangled canopies where it rains eternal, and further out west where bleached shores gleam ethereal and pearlescent against the Vaudeken Sea.
// slinaenu.02The capital of Shodea and the prominent seat of the newly introduced Emperor and Empress, and the home of their rumored Oracle. Encapsulated gardens teeming with life, vast and open expanses of glimmering and jeweled stone and metal, glistening under sunlight and moonlight, entrapped with glass and spiraling waterways. Bountiful and beautiful homes carved into the vast arches that proudly display cerulean pools, dotted with staggering trees ripe with fruit and budding flowers, a myriad of plants scattered betwixt homes and roads built and gilded in amalgamated biofriendly materials, organic, as some would say, that reveal Slina as a holy seed of Enuan, the birthplace of all life and belief, the first founded city within Shodea and a pinnacle of science and education and worship. In the heart of this sun-dappled realm lies a grand temple spiraling into six ivory towers, intricate lattice work fringes each of these towers that stand as representatives of a selected Aeon.
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