Themyscira (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Tehmyscira is a location featured in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the DC Comics' Wonder Woan series. Pronounced Them-mes-skera, it is an island nation located on Earth, and place of origin to its princess, Diana (better known as Wonder Woman).
It was primarily known as Paradise Island, the name given to it by its original creator William Moulton Marston. For a time, it was governed by Aphrodite's Law, which stated that "Under penalty of death, no Man may set foot on Themyscira." This is due to the queen becoming emotionally scarred following her rape at the hands of Hercules; as a result her people became very isolationist and came to the conclusion that most if not all men were monsters. The island was created by Marston to allegorize the safety and security of the home where women thrived apart from the hostile, male-dominated work place of the 1940s (often colloquially refers to as "man's world").
==History==
In ancient times the Amazons gathered and formed their peaceful matriarchal society of Amazonia with the backing of Aphrodite, who gave their queen Hippolyte a magic girdle which would prevent their being overthrown so long as she wore it.
Amazonia quickly became a flourishing successful nation, but male warriors became bitter at taunts that they could not defeat a bunch of women who refused to kill. As part of Mars' ongoing philosophical feud with Aphrodite he prompted violent men representing his own ideals lead by Hercules to attack. Hercules was defeated in single combat by Hippolyte and resorted to trickery to steal her girdle and enslave the Amazons. Hippolyte managed to recover her girdle and lead the Amazons to escape their captors, stealing a fleet of ships and setting sail for new shores. Following this ordeal Aphrodite directed them to build a new nation aloof and separate from men on Paradise Island, where the local Fountain of Youth imbued them with immortality so long as they were on the island and keep men from stepping foot there.
Originally a city state founded by Amazons three thousand years ago, Themyscira's inhabitants were first shown in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #1. Here it is said that "the skies above fair Greece yawn wide pouring thousands of souls from Gaea's womb", thus placing the nation's original location somewhere in Greece. Later Diana first visits Greece (after living her entire life on Paradise Island) with her mentor, Julia Kapatelis, and at the end of a tour of her ancestry in that country, she reaches the island of Lesbos where she contemplates in solitude the fates of her Amazon sisters who once flourished at that site in their own Amazon city. This ancient former city state of Themyscira was destroyed and later abandoned. When the Amazons arrive at the hidden Paradise Island to live out their lives there, they retitle it "Themyscira" after their former home. The Amazons began their new lives, erecting buildings and monuments, perfecting their skills as artisans and warriors.
The Amazons were gifted with great physical strength, beauty, wisdom, love, and highly acute senses. They were ruled by two sisters, Hippolyta and Antiope. The Amazon city on Themyscira is composed entirely of Greco-Roman architecture from 1200 BC. The residents dress in Greek garb, togas and sandals, and the appropriate warrior clothing—shields, breastplates, helmets. They all wear the Bracelets of Submission as constant reminders of their past, though unfortunately these bracelets cannot deflect bullets like Diana’s.
In recent times, Hippolyta’s daughter Diana, also known as Wonder Woman, has become an ambassador to the outside world. With Diana’s help, the Amazons have opened the shores of Themyscira to dignitaries of “Patriarch’s World” (called "Man's World" in modern times), the term for what the Amazons call the rest of Earth. For a time the Amazons even destroyed their battle armor as testament to a new period of peace. The Amazons opened up their shores to dignitaries from Patriarch’s World, female and male, though that exchange was almost a complete failure—that is unril they realized that they could come up with a way to even invite dignitaries from other plnaets and dimensions as ell, both female and male. The Amazons even conducted their own tour of the city of Mobotroplis. Later, the Amazons recrafted their armory, vowing to once again become warriors. Circe would transplant many of these mercenary women of Bana-Migdhall, called the Lost Tribe, to Themyscira, where, after warring with the Amazons already there, joined forces to stop Circe herself. The two sects of Amazons forged an uneasy truce, living at opposite ends of the island.
But with Diana and Hippolyta adventuring in Patriarch’s World as Wonder Woman for longer and longer periods of time, the Banas and the Themyscirans were manipulated into a bloody civil war at the hands of Magala. Using the pre-existing disdain of the tribes against each other, Magala used allies among both Amazon cities to spark the vengeful conflict. The island was left in ruins, and the war was only stopped when Hippolyta abolished the royal family, renounced her throne. Left at odds but on even political ground, the Bana Amazons and the Themyscirans joined forces against the Imperiex.
After the island had been destroyed by Imperiex during the Our Worlds at War storyline, Themyscira was rebuilt and relocated once again, this time to an island in the Bermuda Triangle. Designed by the likes of Julia Kapatelis, the Martian Manhunter, Steve Trevor, Canadian architect Jean Claude Tibet, and Amazon master designer Kaleeza Fashed, the new Themyscira was erected.
Themyscira is one of the nations that is in several trade agreements with planet Mobius.
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