Heavenry

Heavenry

Heavenry is a medium sized continent covered mainly in civilization. Forests are scarce and lone trees are harder to find, this is a purely industrialized continent. A small portion of the continent is taken over by dwarves who have build iron walls around the mountain range that encloses it from the rest of the continent. Owhary is a country on the inner portion of the continent where it is home to merchants, artificers and scholars. Rivalling Owhary is the country of Astral, which is made up of mainly cities, towns and a few farms. The cities in this area are Victorian in aesthetic and values, where primarily the rich and noble reside.

Heavenry is a medium size continent, there is plenty of room for the people living on the continent.

Heavenry has a population of 200,000. There are 8,000 dwarves that live within Kheggrin Forge in Owhary, there are 100,000 humans who are split evenly between Astral and Owhary, 10,000 Eladrin elves in Owhary, 10,000 Pallid elves in Astral, Mark of Shadow elves are 5,000 in Owhary and 5,000 in Astral, 40,000 half-elves who are also split evenly between Astral and Owhary and various undead creatures make up 2,000 in Astral.

There are several mountain ranges, ranging from an elevation of 100 feet to 7,000 feet. Hills and plains make up mainly all of the topography, though the further up the continent it becomes rockier.

There are no bodies of water on Heavenry, though there is a vast underground water system that is tapped into using wells, pumps, etc.

The northern areas' mountain ranges make for a great defense system as it is difficult to get into.

The lack of trees for cover of the cities and towns in Heavenry provides a disadvantage, as the sunlight has no plants to catch onto.

Heavenries

Both countries within Heavenry are hereditary monarchies.

Economy is very rich and plentiful; the people electing to trade in minerals, fine jewelries, clothes, animals for pets and other typically frivolous things.

Tourism is not encouraged, as the people who live in Heavenry typically are very racist towards races that do not live on the continent.

Owhary's architecture is very much Baroque in nature, they choose to highlight the fineries in life and promote learning along with the high arts. Astral's architecture is Victorian, with their dark streets and darker buildings, electricity wherever they can get it and motorized carriages.

Heavenry has a reputation of being uppity folk and generally unpleasant to visit unless human, elf, half-elf or dwarf.

Cabbages, corn, wheat, berries.

Heavenry typically sees 90 degrees in the summer and the lowest of -10 degrees in the winter.

Springs are very nice and usually pollen-free due to the lack of trees and otherwise plants, summers get unbearably hot sometimes due to the constant sunshine. Fall begins to cool down the continent with brisk breezes and gentler sunshine. Winters get cold though it snows fairly rarely closer to the plains.

The continent is not very humid and typically is dry.

It rains very often in the spring and fall.

In the northern areas the winds can get strong when they come from the mountain ranges. The plains get windy but the hills typically block the strongest of gusts.

Earthquakes are common in the northern area while tornadoes form in the valley between mountain ranges.

Heavenry was founded by Mynter Heavenry in 786 M.E (Middle Era) with a group of settlers from Hustria in Bastion. The settlers were tired of the constant battles with the wildlife and set out to find a new land with less forests. The settlers landed upon Heavenry and immediately began to cut down trees, using the logs to build their many villages and farms. As settlers turned into pioneers, these pioneers found the dwarves who had lived in this land deep within the mountains for centuries. The pioneers brokered deals with the dwarves, trading crops and wood for gems and minerals. After word from the settlers arrived to their families in Hustria, the news of a new land spread across the country and into the continent, causing more settlers to arrive on the now barren shores.

As more people arrived, more area was taken over and deforested, villages and towns being erected where the vast forests once stood. Soon, the wildlife began to die out besides the few lucky deer and bears that were kept as pets by nobility. In 789 M.E, Mynter Heavenry declared the first kingdom of Heavenry, the Astral Kingdom. He claimed that this kingdom and land were sent to him by the Pantheon, as a testament to the godly blood that ran through his veins. The settlers soon began to worship King Mynter, who told them to build temples to Avol, Crues and Carrion. Avol's temple was built in a secluded valley area near the growing city of Strand, where scholars soon began to flock to. Crues' Temple was built near the dwarvish area of Kheggrin, so that all who travel to the dwarves be safe and rewarded with great trade. In between the farm village of Ancesa and the military city Haacaster, Carrion's temple was built with great care along with Astral Kingdom's vast cemetery.

In 810 M.E, King Mynter passed away from old age, naming his first-born son, Midas Heavenry, the new king. King Midas' rule was protested by his twin sister, Mina Heavenry, declaring him unfit to rule the throne and that she had stronger godly blood in her than Midas. King Midas exiled Mina from the kingdom, where she led a rebellion against her brother and split the kingdom into two, Astral Kingdom and Owhary Kingdom. Mina declared herself God-Queen Mina and set the kingdom border where the mountains started. She took over Avol and Crues' temples and built onto them, adding a market stall to Crues' temple and a studium to Avol's temple. The capitol city of Iadence was built and the military fortress city of Arcwood along with it.

King Midas and God-Queen Mina had a 30 year long peace treaty which was violated by King Midas' son, Prince Mynter II, when he attacked his cousin, Prince Myn, at a royal ball. God-Queen Mina was enraged by the attack upon her son and declared war upon the Astral Kingdom. The war lasted for five years, which in God-Queen Mina was assassinated by Prince Myn. He declared that Avol came to him in a dream, telling him that he was his son and had more godly blood than his mother; which led to him confronting and killing her, all for the sake of the kingdom. He was widely accepted by Owharians and was crowned God-King Myn, where he declared the war be ended. God-King Myn and King Midas signed the Treaty of Andpolis, the merchant city.

On the end of 850 M.E, King Midas died from a heart attack. Prince Mynter II was coronated as King in 851 M.E. For several years, the king traveled from city to city searching for a lover, but could not find love. In 858 M.E, he ordered a temple to Bevreli to be built near the capitol city, Kleigh. Each night he would go to the temple and pray for love, where upon one night Bevreli herself came to the temple and took King Mynter II in her arms. The next year, a child was brought to the castle gates by a maiden from Bevreli's temple. The child was named Princess Myla and was the only child ever produced by King Mynter II.

Throughout the centuries, the continent of Heavenry progressed and entered the Industrial-Victoria Era, in 50 I.V.E. Queen Micra Heavenry called for advanced technology infused with magic and scholars in Owhary gladly put their nose to the book and grindstone. The Artificers' Guild was born in 58 I.V.E within Selstead, where the scholars would pilgrimage from Avol's temple to Wicker's temple in Kheggrin religiously, praying for the gods to come together and give them divine inspiration.

In 80 I.V.E, Heavenry was dragged into the Golden War, which was later called the High Elven war, when General Morornil Spellaerith, also known as the Ruby General and his army arrived on Heavenry's shores to continue their crusade upon the temples and people who worshipped the gods. Queen Micra Heavenry, God-King Myles Heavenry and Forgelord Grilgarn Kheggrin united their militaries together to protect the temples and their countries against the High Elven army. Daily, the casualties on both sides of the war grew larger and ground was being lost by the defending armies. The Ruby General destroyed Carrion's temple first, declaring it to be glorifying a destroyer of immortals and reaper of souls. Clerics of death and grave were slaughtered at the temple, and paladins who had taken their oath under Carrion turned their gaze towards vengeance.

The war progressed further and the only remaining temples on Heavenry belonged to Avol and Wicker, as they were well protected and contained; Avol's temple being protected by spells and spellweavers, while Wicker's temple was protected by natural mountain formations and intense lava surrounding and spewing from it. The Ruby General's army was finally defeated in 88 I.V.E by Forgelord Grilgarn Kheggrin at the Battle of Himdihr, where he slayed the high elf with his royalguard.

A year after his defeat, the land around Carrion's temple began to decay. The decay of the land spread to the city of Haacaster, where darkness and mist began to creep in and the sun began to appear in the sky less and less over the coming decade. The city was slowly plunged into gloom, and its denizens began to corrupt over time. Necromancers began to appear, cults worshipping death spread their word across neighborhoods, chapels all converted to be of death. The city became a den of despair, people died only to be reborn as undead and a daughter of Thana came to the city one moonless night in 99 I.V.E, where she spread her gift of vampirism.

Carrion's temple could not be repaired due to the vast decay and undead that spewed from it, while military camps were set up around it to keep the undead at bay from the rest of the kingdom. Unlike Carrion's temple, Crues' was repaired fairly quickly after the defeat of the Ruby General. Now, in the present day of 100 I.V.E, the continent of Heavenry is in a state of progress, repair and decadence.

Astral Civil War, Owhary's Wrath and the High Elven War.