Atlantis (Earth-7642)

**Atlantis** is an underwater kingdom, and the home of the Atlanteans. King Orin is the current king of Atlantis. It is a constitutional monarchy.  Actually the size of a continent, it is one of the earliest and most highly advanced cultural and magical societies on Earth.

The component realms of the crown were not united politically except at the level of the king, who ruled over each autonomous polity according to its own laws, raising funds under each tax structure, dealing separately with each parliament, particularly the Kingdom of Poseidonis, the Kingdom of Tritonis, the Principality of Nanauve, the Lordship of Neptunos, and Kingdom of Lemuria and Crastinus.

## History

### Early Life

Atlantis owed a lot of its development to the strong mystical energies intrinsically tied to the land. Over 145,000 years ago, two powerful mystics named Calculha and Majistra became the most powerful sorcerers in the world. Calculha, a follower of the light, manipulated White Magic, while his only living equal, Majistra was a practitioner of the dark arts. Through their influence, Atlantis flourished and grew into an advanced community unlike any other on the planet. Although magic was the dominant means of power throughout the continent, noted intellectuals began to recognize the wisdom of science.

While the rest of the world had yet to benefit from inventions such as the wheel, the Atlanteans were already developing highly advanced technological wonders. Legend has it that the Atlanteans even managed to combine science and sorcery to create the world's first space-craft. This vessel is thought to have left the planet Earth some 50,000 years ago. Some have speculated that the crew of this craft may have populated the nearby human worlds of Rann, Thanagar and Krypton.

As the centuries passed, the sorcerers Calculha and Majistra decided to consolidate their mystical prowess and mate with one another. Their union produced twin offspring, Garn Daanuth and Arion. Calculha took Arion under his wing and apprenticed him in the arts of pure magic, while Majistra schooled Garn in the ways of evil. The children each grew up to become powerful mages in their own right, and the bitterest of enemies. Arion eventually defeated his brother, but at great cost to himself.

### The fall of Atlantis

Founded by King Atlan, the empire of Atlantis at its peak was the most powerful and technologically advanced nation on the planet. Eventually Atlantis developed a series of new technologies centered upon their greatest achievement - the discovery of an inexhaustible source of energy, allowing the creation of machine walkers, advanced aircraft and the powerful Trident of Atlan. During a test of the Trident, a massive energy pulse violently radiated outward and destroyed Atlantis, causing it to sink into the sea with great loss of life.
As a result of the disaster, Atlantis and its empire splintered into seven successor kingdoms, Atlantis itself would form its own kingdom,, and over the years develop further into feuding city states, such as Poseidonis, and Tritonis. While others, such as Xebel, the Kingdom of the Deserters, the Fishermen, the Trench, the Brine, and the Missing Kingdom were formed from breakaway factions. As time went on, the seven Kingdoms would eventually undergo significant changes, either surviving, evolving to a new form, collapse or completely die out: Atlantis and Xebel would survive to the present day and retain the original characteristics of the ancient Atlanteans.

The Kingdom of the Fishermen evolved to become fish-like and are considered adverse to conflict. The Kingdom of the Brine evolved into a crab-like and brutish people. The Kingdom of the Trench has regressed into savage creatures incapable of speech or intelligent thought. The Kingdom of the Deserters died out as the Sahara became a desert. The Missing Kingdom was reported to have completely disappeared, leading to it being called "lost."

The Fall had an unexpected side effect: the energy pulse affected the survivors biologically, causing them to gain the ability to breath underwater and superhuman strength needed to survive in the deep ocean. Alongside the biological improvements, the survivors safely harnessed the energy source to rebuild their destroyed civilization despite the Atlantean empire splintering.
As a result of the Fall, the despondent King Atlan took the Trident and went into exile, never to be seen again by anyone. His last words were copied onto a recording device and left clues to his whereabouts for future generations to find.

### Unification Wars

Over time, the monarchs of Poseidonis became increasingly powerful and began to unite and subjugate the numerous kingdoms and peoples of Atlantis. They left some kings and nobles in power, however, as long as they submitted to Poseidonis. Eventually, King Honsu ended the unification wars in victory and crowned themselves the Kingdom of Atlantis's first monarch, not to leave the capital city until his death.
Despite Poseidonis's victory, the earth monarchs were unable to establish a centralist or authoritarian regime due to the kingdom's sheer size. As a result, Atlantis became a confederate monarchy of individual polities and kingdoms, and the component realms of the Crown were not united politically except at the level of the king, who ruled over each autonomous polity according to its own laws.

### War for Atlantis and constitutional change

King Orm attempted to declare war on the surface world and reuniting the Seven Kingdoms while doing it, but he failed and was arrested by Aquaman. After the war, the Seven Kingdoms reunited back into one. During the reign of King Orin began establishing a constitutional monarchy, and accept a new constitution that limited his power while empowering the common people.

Along with establishing a new constitution, Orin also passed the Unification decrees which abolished regional institutions, privileges, of almost all the areas that were formerly part of the Kingdom of Atlantis, embedding those regions into a new and nearly uniformly administered, centralised Atlantis.