Ciral

*ไม่ลดละ* (Unrelenting*.*)

Ciral is located in the southeast side of Aelloyn. Their land is like the desert and they rely on the water to help keep their crops healthy and feed them with food.

**Capital**: Rodrin

**Language**: Ciri and Silvii

**Cities**: N/A

**Symbol**: Ship.

**Colours**: Ocean blue and Seaweed Green

**King**: Tybalt

**Princes**: Prince Consort, Gawen. Crown Prince Cystenian

### **Beliefs**

* Worships Llyr. Ancient of the Sea and Sailors.

### **Festivals and Events**

* ***Day of the Seafarer***. To celebrate all those who have worked hard to keep the country fed. Those who have lost their lives on the sea will have a little ceremony at the end of the night where the people light lanterns in their honour.
* ***Festival of Llyr***. A day of giving thanks to the ancient who keeps their seas calm and plentiful with fish.

### **Climate**

* Ciral has only one season, Summer. In the cooler months, they get more rain but in the hotter months, water is scarce.

### **Main Trade**

Ciral is most famous for its many fishing villages along the coast, a majority of their diet and money coming from the rare and delicious fishes that only swim on their warm water shores. Though the share a small section with Candonia along the coast, Candonian fishers have not yet gained the ability to fish the treacherous waters that Ciral has. Ciral is also the owner of the once sovereign nation of Silvercoal, which also is a major fishing capital, during a skirmish between Ciral and Candonia, both countries agreed to take the islands on either side of their coasts. Candonia gained possession of the Emerald Isle, and Ciral of the Silvercoal.

### **Relations**

King Tybalt and King Antais, Candonia, are close friends hoping to mend the centuries of strife between Candonia and Ciral.

### **History**

Queen Cirilli, believed to have been the offspring of Llyr, settled Ciral, naming it for herself. Queen Cirilli kept to herself for most of her reign until Bronomir invaded and occupied the Silvercoal and Emerald Isles, infuriating the Queen. One day, glaring out the window of her castle in Rodrin, she looked upon the Metal Mountains, which blocked her view of the rest of Aellolyn and a hatred for Candonia burned in her chest. She would not rest until she took the Silvercoal and the Emerald Isles from Candonia, and the source of their wealth too, the Metal Mountains.

This sparked what became known as the Great Schism, resulting in both sides going to war periodically over the next five hundred years, the feud handed down from monarch to monarch on both sides. There were periods of peace, though they were few and far between, until King Kaan of Candonia, known later as the Peacemaker, and Queen Naida of Ciral, known later as the Great Queen, sat down and discussed the peace between the two countries that lasts till the present. The Silvercoal would become Ciral’s sovereign islands, the Emerald Isles and the Metal Mountains would remain in Candonia. This division was only agreed to when King Kaan offered that a portion of Candonia’s annual income from the Grand Market in Velaris would go to the coffers of Ciral. The percentage at the time being a measly five percent, but enough of the income to keep Ciral’s coffers flowing with gold.

Ciral kept to itself mostly after the Great Schism, a country of fishermen, its own wealth outside of the annual income from Candonia, was entirely dependent on the tide. Though originally known only for its name sake, the Ciral fish, over the next five hundred years, Ciral fishermen become more equipped to handle the dangerous sea, traveling further and further out. Eventually, their bounty grew from just fish, to oysters, sharks, whale, octopus, and all the other various fish the sea had to offer.

During the reign of King Uailean the Innovator, Ciral was the first country of Aellolyn to craft a Navy, though it would do little good against its landlocked enemies. But King Uailean was clever, and patient, he possessed a curious mind, a mind that yearned to explore the rest of the world, convinced there was more outside the bounds of Aellolyn. At the ripe age of sixty-eight, King Uailean set sail, leaving behind a wife and seven children to find the land of the unknowns, believing it to be the land of the Ancients. He was never seen or heard from again, nor was any member of his crew.

Though the following regents of Ciral did not travel to the extent of King Uailean, they found there was a benefit to building a navy, along with maintaining it. To this day, Ciral patrols the seas surrounding Aellolyn, guardian of the coast, even in the most frigid temperatures of Grimmwing, keeping watch for pirates and looters who hope to disturb the peace currently reigning. The Ciralian Navy is growing even more under the eye of its currently monarch, King Tybalt, an old friend of Anais. King Tybalt’s hope is to find new uses for the sea, hiring the best inventors in the continent to find ways for the sea to help them more. His dream is to be able to walk the depths of the sea as we do on land, and find a way to convert sea water into fresh water allowing ships to stay longer at sea.

King Tybalt married his childhood sweetheart, Gawen, becoming the first royal to marry their same sex partner. Though many were concerned about the line of succession, Tybalt’s younger sister gave birth shortly before passing away, to a boy named Cystenian, who Tybalt named his legal heir and Crown Prince.

With Evan's approach, and already abhorring the practice, King Tybalt abolished slavery, hoping to spare his people the conqueror's gaze.