Pearl necklace in the corner of the world

The planet Cathine has three continents, only one of them is inhabited by human beings. Mountain ranges of a dozen thousand meters high rise continuously along the latitude line, and the weak but powerful magic lingers in the mountains and the sea it extends into. This made the world have few plains. Tribes and agglomerations had developed into small states, but there had never been a large country.

Shōhna Islands is off the northeast coast of the continent - This is a pearl necklace in the corner of the world.

In the distant times, the Jithoes from the continent looked at the sea all day long, hoping to find the wonders on the other side of the sea. Those of them who dare to take risks, take simple boats, sailed through stormy waves and the terrifying magic below the sea level, just like needles. To their surprise, they found and came to these rich islands.

On the islands, they found that there was a kind of plant they seemed very familiar with: Shoh, which means the plant can be used as the blue dye. The flowers and leaves of this plant can be extracted by a reasonable process to produce a bright blue pigment with a color close to the gemstone.

People who come here dance and thank God for giving them the rare land. They call the island Shōhna - the land where Shoh grows.

These Jithoes started to live here. Later, they found other islands one after another. After a long time of island life, the cultural, social, and artistic systems they brought from the continent have changed with the characteristics of the island. Language becomes concise and clear, while words become as casual as waves and as elegant as flowers, just like everything on this island.

As the population continued to grow, they began to build their state. The first King appeared, and  "the land where Shoh grows" became "the Kingdom of Shōhna". At the same time, this maritime civilization began to show its business acumen.

After they became rich, they decided to develop the military first for, in the meantime, they have not forgotten revenge: a country in the southern islands once launched a war against Shōhna and slaughtered hundreds of women left behind in the city on its main islands. Shōhna people will never forget all this bloody past, they retaliated back and wiped the country from the map.

The war created a hundred years of peace. A fast-growing Shōhna finally became the world leader at that time. Under the solid national strength, it became the Church Center of a plant theology called Zāheme, and the capital became the Holy city "Nakjehja" recorded in its belief, which means "land between flowers". In its heyday, these 4000 square kilometer islands became the economic and cultural center of half the world and became one of the most powerful countries in medieval Cathine without exception. Later, with its top shipbuilding technology, it finally found a new uninhabited continent after exploring the vast and extremely dangerous magic sea area.

However, no country will be prosperous all the time. Hundreds of years later, the time came for Tēdēzjōba Era. Although in the first decades of this era Kingdom of Shōhna still maintained its strong posture, the internal situation of the kingdom is not as good as before. The early death of several successive kings and the luxury and extravagance of the aristocracy led to the chaos and ignorance of the country. The mighty kingdom fell from its throne. People are still immersed in the glory of the past until the southeast emerging country - the Kingdom of Bhidac - broke through the door of Shōhna with its fleet. People suddenly awakened. Fortunately, it's not too late. Thanks to the last king and his officials in Tēdēzjōba Era, Shōhna had been salvaged from subjugation.

After this event, people woke up from their dreams and returned to the track of development. With the advent of the steam age, Shōhna people enjoy the new life with the jingle of steel and developed their industry in the vast and uninhabited new continent of the new world with the globe: that land seems to be prepared for big factories. Giant ships were built, and their bows were engraved with their beautiful characters like waves. They even launched a huge sports meeting on the giant ship.

As productivity went up, magic becomes less and less important. They gradually became toys. With the advent of the electronic age and the information age, Shōhna people never dare to give up on catching up, for fear that they would fall behind in the world again and be deprived of their small land.

Gradually, skyscrapers - the representative of commercial civilization - were by no means rare in this country. The main island was crammed into two huge cities. The steel forest was shining brightly at night. Every light was a node, and every roaring subway was a tiny and high-speed society. Nakjehja had no night, just as money never sleeps.

Cars are gradually replaced by private aircraft, and space between buildings became new buildings. People were overcrowded on the tiny 4-thousand-square-kilometer-islands. The living space needed a huge expansion and optimization, but space colonization seemed to be nowhere in sight. They finally decided to build an eternal tower, like the most developed countries, with the whole territory as the tower base. The terrible construction movement of Cathine has been carried out in all countries one after another, and the Shōhna people were unwilling to lag. The foundation column as big as the city is pulled up from the sea like a giant beast, but it was only one of the dozens of the same structures. The islands were gradually blocked by the massive shadow, but it was better to be blocked by the shadow of other countries. The crazy plan lasted for hundreds of years. Its tower first penetrated the clouds and then rushed out of the stratosphere, shining like a knife in the darkness of the universe. Once again, Shōhna dominated the world in the latest century.

And these stories all started with the group of people, which landed on the islands thousands of years ago, dancing in front of the blue dye plant.