Las Vides

== Las Vides ==
Las Vides, Officially known as the High Chiefdom of Las Vides. Is a nation in the near center of the Sub-Continent of Adramis. And a founding member state of the United States of Adramis. Its people known as Las Viden are a mix of Native Adramian Races and Settlers from the Comet. It bears no official Language. Las Vides City is the capital of the nation and the seat of its power, formed from the long abandoned remains of Icarus City. and Serves as the power base of the state. 
"Las Vides is a phoenix from the remains of an Icarus city. Which is to say, it was born from the ashes of a civilization that flew too close to the sun. Long ago, industry blossomed where Las Vides stands- factories coughed up smoke into the sky, machines swept across forests like hungry locusts and life was good. Life was profitable. The Old City flourished like oil spilled over a flame. Bright, beautiful, big, but brief. The caves that had provided coal to fuel their furnaces ran bare, stumps littered the skeleton plains where greenery once grew. There was nothing to craft with, nothing to build. The people grew hungry and were driven from their homes in search of fertile land untouched by pollution. Yet, some stayed amongst the concrete and catastrophe, determined. They taught their children of their mistakes as generations passed and found that the land they’d forsaken had forgiven them. Crops grew between the alleys and trees broke through stone to see the sun. Vines wrapped around the aging buildings, holding them together as time took its toll. Now, the descendants of those few hopefuls from the Old City work with Nature, only hoping to somehow amend their ancestors’ abuse."
== Pre-Foundation History ==
=== Prehistory ===
The lands know inside of Las Vides were originally home to very little human or sentient life, the rare temperate rainforest provided a hearth for megafauna. The Vides Peninsula was home to specifically some of the earliest scars of magic on nature with a large megalithic oak tree, known as galdivðr. at the peninsulas base. The few sentient life present before the founding of Icarus city hundreds of years before the Comet came to Abexalis would consist of beings mostly made of dirt and plant, held together with some from of magic leaking under the region, Centered at galdivðr. these beings, known as the Yivol, would maintain the landscape of the peninsula and surrounding land. and Most are believed to have been exiled or Destroyed during the reign of Icarus city, with notable exceptions to this belief. records of pre-Icarus settlement by the Yivol is rare and only found around the galdivðr in modern day las vides city. there extent outside of the peninsula and surrounding temperate rainforest is unknown,
==== Icarus City Period ====
Icarus City was a large expansive mega city founded onto of the geographical features of the region, believed to have been founded nearly 1800 years before the Comet. Founded by Natives of Cathlet fleeing subjugation the people of Icarus are referred to as Icarian, they would found there city on the northern end of the Vides Peninsula. The Icarian would become a major power and city only after a few hundred years from the founding of the city. Little is known before 1352 years before the Comet as steady written record only starts then. Icarus city would outgrow its peninsula after covering it with a thick layer of concrete, the city they would make nearly spelling the end of galdivðr Multiple times. Serving as a extinction event for multiple species found in the area. Icarus city would see its success after extracting the magic from the soil of Las Vides as well as heavy natural resource extraction. 
===== Fall of Icarus =====
Icarus city would begin its decline nearly 900 years before the comet, when both wars from a coalition of neighbors currently unknown and resource mismanagement brought population decline, and the abandonment of the parts of the city outside of the peninsula, where it would isolate itself devolving further into a corporate autocracy. however this isolation would allow the lands outside of the Viden Peninsula to get a head start in re=growing, the Yivol would organize around the Ash Tree, and at multiple times prevent further extraction of Magic out of the roots of the tree. The city itself would grow upwards as it forced its population to live in small, non-maintained and poorly build housing units. the air of the city would become nearly ignitable and the waters around it would very much be so. The dumping of the waste of the city outside of its boundary's would infuriate its neighbors to no end. and to protect the city from these angry outsiders and keep its starving, near slave population inside and working, the construction of a wall around the city would begin. The wall would be made foremost to keep the people inside the city trapped inside, and under the thumb of the ruling class. This however would slowly slip into decline over the next hundred years, as conditions became more and more unlivable, and tensions from attacks outside the walls more organized. The city would decline into a train wreck that columnated roughly 771 years before the comet. Outside of the dead-zone of the city the Yivol would raise all remaining members of the race from there rest and invite other Adramian native races like the Ackó including members of the Icarian lower class fully ready to throw the city to the wind. Meeting on the edge of the city the forces of Adramis would breach the walls of Icarus and storm into the city. Police meeting soldiers and the never-ending riots and protests evolving with the invading forces. The city would Ignite in flames the toxic metals and chemicals keeping the nation alive imploding the higher ups of the city would die in a flame seen from space. Few survive the siege the invading forces retreating back to there homes, the Yivol sheltering the Icarian that choose to follow them to safety. Some survivors of the city would flee back to Cathlet or out into wider Adramis. The Yivol would also disperse across Adramis, this time to cleanse the land of the destruction brought by the city, few who left the area known now as las vides would return. The Icarian people would slowly lose there original identity as they lived with the Yivol forging a new one as over the century's, the Yivol would crumble to the earth or go into hibernation. After 400 years from the siege, roughly 300 years before the comet, the majorly of the alive Yivol would return to hibernation, the last of them, would create and seal away a artifact for the Icarian, or the name that they had taken for themselves after years of only knowing Icarian as the name in recovered books, Las Viden.
====== Viden Cultural Divergence & Las Vides City ======
the Icarian at this point had changed fundamentally from there original state, and the Icarian that remaind around the tree or near the original city had been heavly influenced by the Yivolish Culture. Las Viden had started as a name for Icarian's who fully accepted Yivolish teachings on the environment but would soon come to be the name for the culture that had evolved in the Area around the original city. most of the city had been destroyed in the siege with few buildings remaining, however some bunkers and library's in them had been saved. And the people of the Viden Peninsula would select a Chief to guard that knowledge and use it to advance there living conditions. Some time 200 years before the comet this early chiefdom would have its first split as the sub-culture of Icarian-Videns that lived south of the tree in modern Stonehaven keep had fallen under there own leadership separate from the city. This explains modern Stonehaven keeps drastically different culture and architecture as they were cut off from the knowledge in the Peninsula until very recently. They would come to be ruled by the Brante family that still rules the province today. It is around this time that we find the first Viden practicers of SeiðrismSeiðrism, the religion of the Yivol likely adapted to the early Videns as they became more environmentally focused.
== Pre-Comet Las Vides History ==
=== Centralization of the Early Videns ===
from -200 VE to -100VE the area of early Las Vides would be centralized in modern day Las Vides City and Stonehaven Keep, with at this point a mostly unpopulated east in modern Sventismo being influenced by the small Viden populations there. Las Vides City while not called that in name until at least -71VE would begin its centralization with some buildings being repaired, and consistent population growth being marked for the first time in century's. Southern Vides would become militant and finally halt nomadic lifestyle, forming the second permanent settlement in the Viden area, believed to be somewhere near modern day Aplia. The first Yivol would come out of hibernation under galdivðr and join the northern Videns helping the population through a Famine that is believed to have stunted southern Viden growth. This would set up the overarching power dynamic the two area would share in the future. Finally near the end of the century both sub-cultures would centralize there governments into some form of chiefdom.
The Southern Videns are belived to have formed the Brante Chiefdom, starting the line of power in the area that continues to today, The name
==== The Nameless Chiefdom & Era of War ====
The Southern Videns are believed to have formed the Brante Chiefdom, starting the line of power in the area that continues to today, The name of the Northern Las Viden Chiefdom are, unknown, thought the Sinclair line ruled over it similar to the Brante. The Sinclairs would take rule of the north in -92VE, and begin agriculture and township in the ruins of Icarus city. Clearing many half sunken or destroyed buildings and preserving very few excluding those that held documents or worthy shelter. The Nameless Chiefdom would expand its boundaries to encompassed all of the Las Viden Peninsula and stablished a stable food supply when, in the fall of -76VE the Brante family attacked a farmer on the southern extent of there boundary. The north and south would enter a small scale war over these attacks ending in 71VE. Shortly after the Chief of the south would die, and the Brante family would enter a heir succession crisis. In this time the north would further establish itself as a small localized power with rolling villages cut up by ruins of skyscrapers scratching the ground and cutting the peninsula up half sunken into earth. a wing of the Brante family, pushed out of the south would fly north and seek a alliance with the north, starting the second major war between the two. This time the south had constructed major fortifications and this war would drag for a long 27 years. Eventually the north and Brante family coalition would siege the southern capitol of Vanhlian and the victorious Brante family, swear allegiance to the north. 2 years before the end of the war in -44VE the Chief of the north had died, leaving Mazamadorous Sinclair the new Chief apparent. After the war Mazamadorous would centralize northern power and recover the population lost during the war. Its this time in the -30VE's that the term las vides would regain popularity not just as a title distinct from Icarus, but as a identity for both the north and south. This era of Hegemony under Mazamadorous is the largest known extent of the Las Viden culture, retaining its colony's in what is know San Sventismo as well as large swaths of southern Maravilla and northern Zamotz through the southern Brante Vassal. However this was mostly maintained by the areas general low population and Mazamadorous diplomacy, that would deuterate the closer to the end of his life he got. in 17VE despite large territory outside of the Northern Viden and Southern Viden homelands, nearly 60% of the population lived in just the Las Viden Peninsula alone. in the last year of his life in -3VE after a long 86 years of life he would see a large swath of modern Maravillian land lost to a blizzard, bar San Sventismo. he was proceeded by his son, Mox Sinclair, who would upon coming to power at 19, officially name the lands the Chiefdom of Las Vides.