Kingdom of Olympus

Not to be confused with The Republic of Olympus, which existed in a previous installment of the Cradle of Civilization,

The Kingdom of Olympus is a nation and a people in the Cradleworld.

The new olympians

## Differences

The *Kingdom* of Olympus is currently a playable faction, sometimes called New Olympus

The *Republic* of Olympus is a former faction, which existed until the server change in October 2022.

## History

The history of the name Olympus is both old and sage in this world, and it's people have had their ups and downs.

### The Age of Heroes

Main article: The Age of Heroes

During the first server of the Cradleworld (September 2021 - October 2022), normally called The Age of Heroes, the first olympian civilization would rise to it's golden age.

They came to be the first worshippers of Clitus, the god of Water, Fertility and Fun. Clitus wished happiness and peace and plenty. He was a kind and generous god to his people, but he also had rules he would bestow upon them. One of these rules said that his followers that they might kill to defend themselves as was nature's law, but they may never strike the first blow. This was readily agreed by the hobbits, but not the humans of Olympus, in who's ranks sweltered ambition of conquest.

Their capitol was the great city of Olympus, a white wonder of marbled pillar columns, a great Senate, a discoteque, ponds, fountains, a colosseum, a Forum Vulgaris and much more proudly grew in the western capital of the world. Olympus grew to expand 2/3's of the entire plains-biome during those days. This led to overpopulation and the newly elected consul of Olympus, who found a reason or another to attack the trolls to the south and take their land. This ended in a horrific genocide, culminating with the slaughter of all trolls that resisted, and the magical transformation of the survivors into humans, to wipe out any memory of their culture.

The brutality of this crime outraged Clitus, who turned his back against the men of Olympus, abandoning them for the hobbits who lived life closest in alignment with the peaceful axolotl god. This was a great crisis for the republic of Olympus, and the consul found it hard to recruit men-at-arms when it looked like their god had forsaken them.

Olympian troops in-officially partook in the invasion of The Island of Lost Souls, afterwards known as Aquila-Soul Hunter War.

Sillimaito the consul somewhat mended the political backlash of this by cleverly (yet illegal by law) selling the property of DearSquiddie and friends to the risk-capitalist Khleba Snoutz. With this Olympus was also the first nation to establish an embassy with the Piglin Empire.

The first olympians where the greatest of all democratic countries, and it's well-drilled legions and centurions protected it's lands from the bloodthirsty aquilans to the east, trolls to the south and soul hunters to their west and others.

### The King no one took seriously

During those early days, a strange nomad appeared and proclaimed himself king of all Olympus.

His argument, as he made it in the forum and as it was recorded by the historians, was that

*"Since Olympus does not have a king, it must now have a king. Since no one here wants to be king, I proclaim myself king. This is called legitimacy."*

This bemused the olympians of old, who where proud of their republic and loved democracy, so this lone lunatics ranting and raving was paid little to no attention too. His name was Amowil, and he was invited to join the olympian town as a regular citizen. The olympians hoped this would quell his thoughts of tyranny, yet in his heart feastered a black cloud of ambition, and he begain building a castle made of dirt. He found himself a crown, some say it was fake, and made his own flag, which would later be used as the official flag of the Kingdom of Olympus.

This enraged the consul, who proclaimed Amowil a traitor and had him locked up in the Towny Jail, without any trial or tribulations

For an entire real-life year Amowil languished in prison while the Cradleworld moved on.

But then one fateful day in October, The Great Doom occured and the old Cradleworld map was completely destroyed. The

### The Destruction of the First Olympus

Olympus was utterly destroyed in the event known as the Great Doom, along with the Island of Stars and the rest of the old world.

### Current Events

Since the map change in October 2022, the Republic of Olympus is no longer existing.

On

## Ethnicity

The olympians of the old republic where actually a mix between races, allowing both humans and hobbits to play. Humans tended to be more interested in war and politics, while the hobbits wished to enjoy to good things in life. During the entire Age of Heroes, humans of Olympus upheld an alliance with the hobbits, who acted as the caretakers and priests and prophets of their divine axolotl god, a fact that basically made the peaceful Shire virtually unimpregnetable to hostile forces, like the Piglin Empire or Aquila.

Currently, they have built a temple to four different gods, as well as constructed a great plaza to rival the forums of their great ancestors.