Atlantis Empire

The **Atlantis Empire** or simply **Atlantis** is a lost sunken nation that existed many thousands of years ago during the **Age of the Gods**. The civilization that inhabited this nation were deeply in touch with Magic and were more advanced than most current civilizations. The inhabitants had the capability of using magic for Space Flight and Star Gate travel to other worlds. However at the height of it's time it got involved in a very nasty series of wars with **Mu** a rival civilization on the other side of the world which prompted the Gods to intervene as both allies and enemies of the mortals resulting in the **Titanomachy**. The fall of Atlantis marked the end of the **Age of the Gods** and the beginning of the **Age of the Dragons**. Because of the vast devastation inflicted on humanity nearly all technology regarding the Atlantean and Muan civilizations has been lost. Despite this however, very slowly people are rediscovering elements of this lost technology thanks to the Starseeds and the Survivors left behind. Atlantis was named after it's founder **Atlas Celeste** who became one of the first of the Ten Emperors and was the first civilization to establish relations with the **Visitors** from the various worlds they discovered.

## History

### Atlantis Wars

The Atlantis Wars were a series of prolonged conflicts that occurred very late in Atlantis' existence and marked it's inevitable decline. At this point in time there were two large empires that controlled large amounts of resources, Atlantis and Mu. The wars that ravaged earth land between these two nations were the result of ideological and economic conflict built up over a century.

### Titanomachy

The Titanomachy Began as the gods intervened in the wars that were ravaging the globe, the gods split into two factions, one that sought to eliminate the mortal races to save the planet and another that wished to protect the mortals and find a peaceful resolution. The latter faction brought forth the first **God Slayers** by gifting mortals the **Power of the Gods**. These first god slayers were referred to as the **Children of Heaven**. The result of the Titanomachy was the near extinction of the God Race, paving the way for the dragons to take their place as the dominant Race in Earth land and thus ending the Age of the Gods. Another result of the Titanomachy was the sinking of Atlantis and Mu.

## Currency

Atlantis had a very strong stable and flexible economy. While using Barter Systems they also used Coins made from precious metals and small gemstone spheres made of precious gems. Atlantis had it's own paper currency that can be obtained by placing the aforementioned treasures in a bank of sorts and in place the citizen would gain paper Certificates that acted as proof of ownership over funds and as a binding contract of exchange.

## Military

This factor was why the Atlantean Empire was so feared by others in the world. Atlantis had fleets of armored Magical Warships as well as massive amounts of Aircraft and quite a few Space Craft. Alot of this tech however was lost to the ages after the Cataclysm including most of their knowledge of space travel. Even now forms of space travel are rare and few between mainly because of how much power is typically needed to do so as a result recent discoveries such as the Anima is close enough to how the Atlantean Empire traveled to various worlds.

## Inhabitants

Inhabitants of Atlantis were called **Atlanteans**. Atlantean is not a term for a race but rather a Nationality. The inhabitants varied greatly and included Dragons, Humans, Elves, Demons, Dwarves, Vampires, Witches, and many more.

## Politics

Atlantis was a Constitutional Monarchy and a Constitutional Magocracy with an elected Senate and an Unelected Monarch called the Emperor. In addition there was a council of Twelve Kings directly under the Emperor that are Appointed by the Emperor and Approved by the Senate. The Cabinet and Judicial Candidates were appointed by the Emperor and approved by majority vote of the Senate and Twelve Kings. The Role of Supreme Commander was rotated among each of the Twelve Kings for periods of one year each. Each of the ten kings were from a race that helped found the Empire consisting of an Elf King, Hebian King, Human King, Giant King, Dwarf King, Animalia King, Machias King, Angel King, Demon King, God King, Dragon King, and Phoenix King.

### Ten Emperors

The ten emperors are the first ten monarchs each one was from the Elf Race and in particular the Celeste Family. There is an old tablet written in the Old Tongue in the Avalon Empire's Royal Treasury that is in actuality a kings list from this early era of Atlantis with the first Emperor being **Atlas Celeste**.

## Trivia

* I based this off of real life legends of Atlantis in theosophy and other works besides Plato or Homer.
* Rather than have ten concurrently ruling emperors the author elected to have the ten atlantean kings be in a line of succession more in line with the real life sumerian kings list and first roman emperors.
* Atlanteans used a method of Space Travel similar to Animas of Edolas and Stargates in the Stargate Atlantis franchise. So magical wormholes and such. They even had magical starships called Vimanas.
* Alot of inspiration also comes from Edgar Cayce.