Saethryn

The People's Republic of Saethryn, also known simply as Saethryn, the Black Cinnamon Isle or Drakonia's Secret is a nation of various ethnicities that resides on the island of the same name. In antiquity Saethryn once was owned by the Spicelords and their culture before being forcefully taken by the Drakonian Empire in ancient times. Saethryn was Drakonia's largest penal colony where most of the higher-ranking prisoners were sent for forced labor and reeducation. Due to it being an exclusive prison-island for prisoners of noble families and political enemies of the royalty, around thirty percent of Saethryn's population can trace their lineage back to old Drakonia. Saethryn is controlled exclusively by several main families, who are descendants of it's most influential and highest-ranking prisoners, with House Kaesoricci having a unique case in that their ancestors were the Warden's of the island before Drakonia's fall.
== History ==
Saethryn is as old as most of the other city states, being founded as early as Drakonia's first conquests outside of their native peninsula. Drakonia and it's families had several penal colonies over the millennia though none were as self-sufficient and lucrative as its first. Originally Saethryn was known as the Black Cinnamon Isle and was owned by the Rajdir, or the Spaeus-Gothrii (Spicemen in Old-Drakonian), a culture of tan-skinned men with a strange culture centered on spice and mercantile-practices. It was later forcefully taken from the Spicemen via right of conquest.
After being handed to the Drakonian royalty, their ancient Imperator, Vaeronius Dragomarus saw potential in the newly acquired land. Saethryn was then fully turned into Drakonia's first self-sufficient penal colony, and some sources say it was their penal colony regardless. Over thousands of years Drakonian royalty and nobility have sent high-ranking political prisoners and members of exiled noble houses to the prison-island.
Immediately after the fall of Drakonia Saethryn's Warden, Nargothros Kaesoricci, enacted martial law which lasted nearly twenty years. Gangs formed and fought over the island, though over time Nargothros and his entourage quelled the gang-leaders and even offered them respite. Rather than executing his rivals, the leaders of the gangs were given land and even a voice within Saethryn's fledgling government. The descendants of these leaders would become Saethryn's noble houses.