Darker Depths Wiki/Tsarograd

# Tsarograd

Old Ocean, *as of 1915 it still survives.*

## Summary

The Oldest surface city, old statues who have lost their faces due to the rain wearing away their detail.

Tsarograd is a city of the descendants of the aristocracy of a now gone and destroyed land folk empire, washed away in the flood. The city itself is made of the preserved pre flood palace and immediately surrounding neighborhood.

The titular Tsar of Tsarograd, a now ancient Tortoise, still lives in the same palace.

## History

**Founding**: One day, the date lacking importance, the sky was overcast. The white clouds shrouding much of the sunlight, though the sky grew darker and darker, blackening. It was then that rain began to fall. And it would continue to rain, all over the world. Lower lands flooded, higher and higher. As the capital of this lost empire itself began to flood, the ground was excavated, the palace and the surrounding neighborhood of the emperor would be put upon ballasts and flotation devices. The Tsar would hold a goodbye party, all of the nobility of the empire trained to the capital to leave with him, the average denizen mobbed around the neighborhood, though the guards kept them aback. Shortly after violence broke while the newly made Tsarograd held waltz in the palace.

**Early History**: Tsarograd, filled with all the empires arts and fabrics and state of the art weaponry and reserves of canned foods and literature would float up with the ocean as the world flooded higher and higher until Land went extinct. They fished for sustenance and waited, the Tsar waited.

**Mid History**: They waited still, calling out into the void of never ending inky sky, radioing against the rain, calling across all stations. Eventually, they would make contact by happenstance with another civilization, spotting the soft glow of lanterns. Once contact was made, and the language barrier eventually hurdled, a network of contacts made, Tsarograd was quick to establish itself as the world power, having access to old history and weaponry and technology. Tsarograd was one of the few states to go unscathed by the Barbary age.

**Vorkutskan Civil War**: As connections were made with other city states, the people of Tsarograd grew restless. They sat on this wealth of power and did nothing but wait. As the Barbary age for others round to an end, a sector of Tsarograd, known as Vorkutska, would engage in civil war against the Tsar, wishing to shape Tsarograd into Oligarchy, inspired by the city of Ark’s. However, the civil war would slow into stale mate, and the Vorkutskan’s would use explosives to physically break the neighborhood from the rest of Tsarograd.

**Warring States Period**: After a short peace, separated from Vokutska, the Warring States Period would break out. The city state of Vorkutska had destroyed and sunk a neighboring city, Coniston, to avoid total war. The conflict has spiraled after a dispute regarding fishing boundaries. Tsarograd quickly found itself aligned with the similarly Monarchic state of Juno, agreeing and engaging in a mutual defense pact. After a long war it would culminate in the Battle of Juno, where Vorkustan forces sunk Juno. After which, all major and minor city states were summoned to the neutral state of Salem, where the Tsar’s ambassador attended and signed to the proposed Accords of Salem.

**Modern History:** Following the treatise would be a time of peace and reconstruction which would continue to the modern year of 1915.