Kratima

***"An ancient Paradise, Lost"***

## Kingdom of Kratima

The Kratiman banner, A yellow flag with two red perpendicular stripes, with a yellow, red-trimmed circular charge in the center.

### Motto

Protectores silvestres, silvestres nos tuentur.

### Status

Weakened and eventually destroyed by war and internal struggles

Kratima is the oldest recorded civilization, and is the precursor to the modern New Jersprucalem.

Founded by a gathering of migratory nomads who had wandered into the legendary Kratiman Jungle, the land of Kratima was particularily interesting because of the connective waterway, where a quickly-dug trench opened up access to the sea, as well as the deep ravine separating the jungle from the nearby grasslands. Around the perimeter created by the Ravine and the Lakes and Rivers a palisade wall would emerge, then houses, then storage huts.

In the middle ages of Kratima, a new religion began to take hold- The beginnings of Spruce Worship. The faith likely begun over the repeated use of Spruce as an alternative to Jungle Wood, increasingly seen as an objectively better alternative to Jungle wood until it faded into common culture, then religion. The tenants suggesting the use of Spruce soon overtook the other tenants of the pre-Spruce Kratiman faith, laying the foundations for what is to come.

The middle ages of Kratima also brought several new constructions- The Canal connecting Kratima to the waterway, and thus the rest of the world, was expanded, and the Palisade wall was fitted with a Redstone gate that allowed boats to pass into the interior lakes. Lastly, a project to create a giant clock tower, featuring a map room, storage room, and at the very top a platform to launch from via Elytra, was put into construction as a monument to the power of Kratima.

However, one day the city would awaken to find their homeland in ruin- The walls and buildings burned, bodies and debris littering the streets. The military quickly deployed to find the attacker, but none could be found. Though the mysterious destruction would destabilize Kratima, the damage was repaired and the nation continued on for several more years.

At last, the people of Kratima, weary from the rebuilding of their city, awoke to find a great army just outside the gates. After a short battle at the walls, the enemy army breached the gate, slaughtering all who did not run from the city and burning the land to the ground.

In the chaos after the destruction of the city of Kratima, much of Kratiman culture and religion would be lost as the Kratiman people were systemically rounded up and killed by enemy powers. It was due to this policy that the lands Kratima once called home were lost to time, and have yet to have been rediscovered. This has given Kratima a legendary status as a sort of Eden, a warm, distant past that we cannot return to. Many myths paint Kratima as a land of plenty, with blocks of Gold and Diamond laying in abandoned stores, untouched for centuries.

Finally, as the last survivors of the Great Exodus coalesced far from their homelands, the powers that destroyed Kratima declared their crusade complete and left, seemingly for good. Those final survivors would unite under the growing Spruce Worship faith, forming the nation of Jersprucalem.