City of Felonil

#REDIRECT Halcyon // Felonil
NAME CHANGE WARNING
Years ago when I first created Indratera, I stole just the name Waterdeep for the great city. That name still appears around the wiki, but is outdated. Its name is Felonil now, but 'Waterdeep' appears in various places, too many to change.
Felonil, officially The City of Felonil, was the most important city of Indratera's modern era. The capital of the Danderillon as founded by the Euluskan Empire, it became the largest and most prosperous city throughout the early-mid second millennium, and the centre of industrialisation. It was the most technologically advanced city, with years of overlapping history, invasions by everyone and their mother, and campaigns and stories within. In 1567, it was renamed to Halcyon - see that page for it, or here for it after the Collapse.
==A Brief History==
The site of Felonil was known to the early native Danderillonians as a warm set of tidal islands with good game and fish. It was a large saltmarsh (estuary) where two great rivers (Reiros and Reidos) met the sea. There were hills to the north and south, prairie to the east, and fens to the northeast. It was a very plentiful region and one easily traversed with nothing but canoes or rafts at high tide, and even just by walking at low tide.
In the year -8926, the Anoquit tribe of a few hundred (big for the Bronze age) fled a meteor shower event from their homeland, and settled here. The meteor shower is purported to have deepened the Anoq Basin, hence the name. These tribespeople shared ancestry with the native Gildegrans and Vreigardts (modern indigenous peoples of Gildegra & the Danderillon). The Anoquit named their settlement here Y'rontaoq (Proto-Gildegran: /jəʔ.ʁon.tawqʰ/). It consisted of a small village on the high hill to the south of the salt marsh, and extensive catacombs beneath, the Ławglasqaqquit (Proto-Gildegran: /ɬaʊ.ɣʟas.qaqʷː.ɨt/), which survive to today. Y'rontaoq survived for quite some time but became abandoned in the first few millennia, known to the locals as Yurontoq-Reimostek ('the meeting of two rivers at Y'rontaoq').
When the Euluskan Empire began its campaign of colonialism in the Danderillon, they set up two capital colony ports; one here in 299, and one at Dákov (now Datria) in 329. Here, they identified the salt marsh as a great place for a harbour with natural defences, and it was relatively uninhabited - Yurontoq had long since crumbled. They named their new port Falloiönul, meaning 'the city of the Fallo' (better translated as New Fallo). The port grew from a fort to a town to a capital city over the centuries, its name changing from Falloiönul to Felonil. It stood as the largest and richest city in the world from the 1200s onwards, the most rapidly industrialising, and the centre of Indratera. Once the city became quite large in the 13th century, it became an autonomous territory of the Empire. Its reach stretched eastward, encompassing towns like Jarren's Well, and the Vreilands which were oil-rich. It bordered the Euluskan state of Accipiter to the east.It was attacked and suffered various losses, but never truly fell until 1561, when a neofascist government took over its leadership, prompting the Lakayan Federation to invade. They renamed it Halcyon, and you can read more about it in that era at Halcyon.
== Geography and Climate ==
Felonil was quite warm, with cool winters and mild summers, rainy all year round. Its hills were soft and loamy, its woodland perfect for industry, and the land to its east very oil-rich. The harbour was deep and accessible, with spar/spit islands that nestled it from the waves of the ocean. Wildlife in the area had been overfished and overhunted, but consisted of pods of whales and seabirds westward, and lots of deer, foxes, wild sheep, rodents etc inland. The city was warmer than its environs due to the heat island it created.
== The Sixteenth Century ==
This was the most important period of history in Felonil; see below.
=== 1500s ===
Around 1500, Felonil's industrial revolution was in full swing, Every few years, a key new technology would be debuted, or another factory would spring up. This was an age marked by the advent of true industrialisation - the first trains, the widespread adoption of steam, and the extension of the river delta into canals, allowing for more connectedness but also more reclaimed land elsewhere. Telegraph lines began to crisscross the world hereafter. However, this period was marked by rising unrest and crime, too. The Euluskan Empire was in its death throes during about the late 1400s and first two decades of the 1500s; and Felonil was becoming too powerful and too great. Another key thing that marked this period was the unregulated nature of mercenary companies and gangs. They became quite a problem, such that the years 1502-1504 were known as The Riots, when various mercenary groups and street gangs clashed with each other and with the Guardia regularly. The city went into successive periods of martial law during this time. The ruler throughout this was Lord Laurena di'Ayala, who then went on after the end of her standard seven-year tenure to rule Lakay as the final Governor. 
=== 1510s ===
The 1510s came out of a period crackdown and regulation following the Riots, and into an age of economic prosperity and safety. Oil was the name of the game in this era; the Vreilands beyond the city were found to be rich in it, and the city became incredibly rich as it gobbled it up using hundreds of town-sized factories. The contemporary ruler, Lord Amélio di Atalanta, was hailed as the shepherd of an age of wealth. As the Euluskan Empire foundered, its territories began jumping ship beginning in 1513, when Lakay was overthrown in a native and convict rebellion. The following year, with sufficient wealth and political power, pressure from lobbyists, and distancing itself from a colonial past, Amélio signed the Felonil declaration of independence. It became the capital of its own large city-state, Scarossar. The Empire fell in 1519, leaving remnants worldwide.
=== 1520s ===
The 1520s were defined by the Moor Wars, a series of small battles between Scarossar and rebelling native Vreigardts protesting the oil drilling in the Vreilands. This period was one defined by social pro- or anti-war trends, as seen by the rise of the famous peace activist Papa Warad, as well as various separatist plots. The writer Žan Këdenza rose to prominence; he was the archetypal writer of Felonil's modern history. The Vortic Mercatorium also integrated a suburban colony into the town during this era, because they were a rich naval consortium providing foreign aid for the war. This formed a close bond between the two nations, and a large Vortic diaspora in the city. In 1522, the wealthy Calinezzi family in the city was fragmented; suddenly, a lot of the businesses and syndicates in the city had lost their top dog. Various burgeoning gangs, such as the Loveridges, Moonstars, Rapscallions, communists, and the di'Lamendolios began feuding over territory, a squabble that would last decades. 
=== 1530s and 40s ===
These decades were dark, gritty, and full of economic and social deprivation. Felonil drove its profits sky-high, and its industrialisation accelerated. There were underground trains, skyscrapers, car prototypes, electrical and steel works, and more. 
=== 1550s and 1560s ===
This was when change finally came. Until 1552, the gangs were rising again, the conditions were the worst they'd been, and things showed no signs of improving. Under Lord Corina Fellbranch, the city was rotten to the core. The police had no power; the aforementioned gangs ruled everything, scrapped in the streets, and profits were still record-high. In 1552-3, a series of bombings and later riots that concluded with the destruction of a communist sect (the Red and Blacks) and an anarchist terror group (the Red Hands) wracked the city. Groups like the Agents of Chaos united the gangs, and alongside figures like Papa Warad from before, they vowed to turn things around, which they did. They established the Convocation, a council of merchants, oligarchs, gang leaders, and politicians, to regulate and protect Felonil's people. The city slowly became better; not great, but better.
In 1560, the fascist shadow cabal known as the Oracles infiltrated Felonil and installed Aresilia Decimus as their puppet Lord. A group known as the Night Watch did their best to stop them, but it was too late. After several murders of high-profile citizens and the rounding-up of various politicians, the Oracles declared martial law, proclaiming Felonil to be the City of the Eye now. The Night Watch travelled to Lakay and entreated Lord Governor Machavellio di'Sforza to help. He mustered his nation's army, and in 1561, they blockaded the city and bombarded it. Along with the help of ground troops and the Night Watch, the Oracles were killed or captured, and the seized politicians saved. With no leadership and a lot of rubble, a twist occurred. Lord Governor Machavellio declared that Felonil would henceforth be under the wing of the Lakayan Federation. The city's name was changed to Halcyon, and annexed. Lakay's federal capital was moved here, and the rest is history... which can be seen here.