Erethusa

**Erethusa** is a city located in the Royal North at the northernmost and easternmost point of the island nation. About 1,374,919 people live in Erethusa as of 2022. It is situated to the vast Marima Ocean to its east, the Miraculous Fold Mountains to its northwest, and flat green lush open meadow with mixed deciduous-coniferous temperate rainforest to its southwest and direct west. Its home to a large theater presence, adopted by Cheskachenican and Chartequincian cultures, as well as a large old money culture. It is the most Chartequincian city in The Royal North, with 67% of its population being of Chartequincian ancestry.

## History

The land was originally used to grow pears and grapes traded between Northern Lobevians and Eastern Cheskachenicans over the Sidrova-Podochovia border. This land is believed to have the most fertile soil in all of the Olden World, and thanks to abundant mist and rain, many Cheskachenicans traveled to the low density land to grow the pears and grapes. Over time, Cheskachenicans believed this land to be their own little secret from the rest of the Olden World further west, but as Chartequincians pillaged villages and wandered even more westward, many locals of Nalilandi and Mynnukan people told them to move to further fertile (The Royal North) land further east to avoid wrecking their land. This led to feuds between Cheskachenicans and Chartequincians, who already had feuds, and resulted in the Erethusite War, which the Chartequincian won in 1793. The settlers on the land began to recruit some Chartequincians to move across the continent to the land to settle, but the travel was long and ravenous, so many Chartequincians already in the land decided to recruit other, more convenient peoples, to help shape the land. Northern Kosnatic people, Kutwheans, Lobevians, Makolans, and Indigenous Podochovoyans were the prime workers who brought crops from their own lands (Citrus, peace lilies, jade plants, and fuchsias) to beautify the land. In 1834, a peace treaty was signed between the Chartequincian and Cheskachenican to build a bridge between Cheskachenica and The Royal North to build the land together. This resulted in a big economic boost and a melting pot of cultures between the two nations.

More flora and fauna between Chartequincia, The Borogoves, Podochovoya, Kutwhean highlands, and Cheskachenica were implemented into Erethusa. Some notable species brought were the red fox to foxhunt, rabbits and peafowl to beautify, and magpies and sparrows to remind of home. Plants brought included cypresses (especially baldcypress), various maples and oaks, and redcedar. Cockspur coral trees, weeping bottlebrushes, trailing abutilon, magnificent angel's trumpet, balloonplant, and cogon grass were implemented from the cool highlands directly west of East Kutwhe City.

## Geography

Erethusa sits on coastal wet meadow with a Csb climate abundant of cool ocean breezes, wind, and cloudy skies. Plants like Rhexia, Parnassia, Lobelia, and Sarracenia are the prime species natively found here under native Osmanthus and Abeliophyllum. Today, it has very wide strands of callery pears, cherries, oaks, hemlocks, weeping willows, sugar maples, wisteria, pines, cedars, figs, and tree daisies. Birds such as the magpie, black swan, mute swan, greylag goose, snow goose, mallard, raven, and slaty woodpecker are the most abundant as well as the introduced fish crow, elegant tit, sora, dowitcher, woodcock, and muscovy duck. Mammals include opossums, moonrats, raccoons, red foxes, moose, and shrewmoles.

## Demographics

67.7% of the population is of Chartequincian ancestry, 21.0% are of Mynnukan, Nalilandi, or Cheskachenican ancestry, 7.5% are of North Kosnatic ancestry, 1.6% are of Oppi Andruschgretan ancestry, 1.6% are of Kutwhean ancestry, and 0,6% are of other ancestries or mixed race (eg. Mecirhannian, Lobevian, Kafaniyati, Jabalwis, and Andruschgretan).