Rouet

Server Owner Emma at a construction site at Rouet on the day of the city's founding.

## Geography

### Elevation

72 '(10 blocks above sea level)'

**Rouet** *(/rwɛ/)* is a city-state located in the Eastern part of the world and a member of the Rose Union alongside the Celestian Knights. The city is inhabited largely by a peoples known as the Nymphetans, an ethnic group of humans well known for their use of enchanting and magic - specifically for the uses of disguise and boosting agriculture. It was among the first cities to exist in Emerald Haven, founded on April 1st, 2023.

It is renowned for its agricultural industry as one of the first nations to master knowledge of 'biome specialization' for crops and using the plains biome it rests upon to grow numerous crops; mainly exporting grains and fabric. It is believed that modern weed killers derived from magic-imbued gold is a technique first mastered by the Nymphetans in Rouet.

## History

### Prehistory & Rouet's Founding

#### The Fyraqan & Zhilan

Prior to the modern settlement of Rouet - the region; known broadly as Sunquet - was largely uninhabited. The only areas to have any significant population were the Nymphetans that lived deep in the forests and jungles of Western Sunquet.

Two tribes of Nymphetans dominated Sunquet in the two centuries prior to modern migrations out of the woodlands, consisting of the Fyraqan and Zhilan tribes. These tribes are known to have warred one another on multiple occasions, though the territories of the Fyraqan normally were at the foothills of the mountainous forests across Sunquet while the Zhilan tended to live directly off the seas and rivers.

Specifically, the Zhilan were notable for their contemporary architecture of dark oak, being responsible for the construction of dark oak manors across Sunquet. Many of these manors would later be taken over by tribes of Pillagers *(known locally as the Binetr)* as a result of conflict with the Fyraqan and Binetr respectively. For this reason, many Zhilan were displaced and would migrate Eastwards into Sunquet's plains and savannahs and as a result the Nymphetans of Rouet are largely of Zhilani tribe descent; though modern Roeutians do not identify with the tribal structures formerly used across Sunquet.

#### Settlement of Rouet & Eastern Migrations

As the world of Emerald Haven became increasingly more technologically advanced and conflict erupted between the Nymphean Zhilan and Fyraqan tribes in addition to the Binetr tribes, Nymphetans would leave the woodlands they called home and most Eastwards into Sunquet's uninhabited fertile savannahs and plains. In this first migration out of the West, Rouet was founded by Chieftan Orna Qalet *(IGN: Xeroise)* as an agricultural peasant community.

The settlement would quickly find itself allied with the Port Haven Authority and Celestian Knights who had issues with producing significant amounts of grainery and as a result found themselves low in food stocks. Rouet, at this point largely consisting of former Zhilanis who had close contacts with both foreign nations, was able to conduct diplomacy and export their incredibly fertile farm goods abroad for money.

With this close diplomatic relation, the Rouetians and Celestian Knights chose to unite in a military and federal union called the Rose Union (known locally by Rouetians as the Diq Etmar); the primary motivator for this among the Rouetians being defense from the collapsing Fyraqan and Binetr tribe to their West in addition to emerging nations they may find themselves unfriendly with.