Mithril Isles

The Mithril Isles is an archipelago of Islands in the Crystal Sea made up of 23 islands 8 smaller ones and 15 larger ones. The Islands have a very high content of Mithril ore and shallow top soil, many of the plants on the islands are fast growing species and seem to grow fast even for their species while on the islands. The biomes present on the various islands are surprisingly diverse with Xuterel and Arcadia being far colder than the surrounding area while Guleran and To-Chi Bay are both more often hit with storms and have a higher rainfall. The indigenous species across the islands are Dragonborn with one colour having been native to ten of the different Islands now the dragonborn that remain live as second class citizens to the Elves that rule over the archipelago.

The even though the Isles have mainly stayed out of most land based combat they are still renowned for having one of the most disciplined military forces on both land and sea. The Dancing Blades are famous as some of the most formidable fighters on Trayst people say that 10 of these men could repel a force of 500.

### Leadership

The Islands are ruled by The Emperor Re-forged which is the name for the five Emperor Regents when they are together and working in unison. Each island is then overseen by a Perfecta and then each province on the Islands ruled by a Governor. The Govonors are nothing more than puppets of the Perfecta who in turn enact the will of the Emperor Re-forged.

### History

The history on the archipelago doesn't go back far enough to record a time before there was competition between the Islands and they would often fight one another over the resources, raiding one another and as their sea fairing technology improved the skirmishes turned to wars. The red skinned Dragonborn of South Dragonia began to gain power and posed a threat to the whole archipelago so the Dragonborn of the norther Islands formed an alliance to face them. These were the Gold, Silver and Bronze at first it worked to contain the red Dragonborn but the Reds sort assistance from the other chromatics and began to push back until the Copper and Brass metallic joined and a stalemate was formed.

The Mithril Isles were officially discovered in 3457 SU by the Torlundian explorer Dolok Webb, the initial discovery changed little, but as time went on Torland sent more ships to establish diplomatic relations with the Dragonborn until it one ship brought home a shipment of Mithril and the properties of the magical metal were discovered in 3942 SU. Torlund began to trade items like cloth, food, wood and stone with the islands in exchange for the Mithril ore which was considered virtually worthless to the dragonborn. Torlund worked hard to keep trade flowing to all of the Islands but constantly had to watch who and what they traded with trying not to displease any of islands too much or disrupt the balance of power. Scandar and Carthorka began to trading with the Mithil Isles as well when the learned where Torlund's Mithril was coming from but with the extended distance from Carthorka and the lack of organisation / diplomatic skill of Scandar trade began to be less effective and they sometimes tried just to take the mithril from the islanders. This began to effect the supply of Mithril and eventually this became too much effort and even though it displeased the natives the Torlundians set up a settlement on Eskya the and began to mine the mithril themselves to ship back to the mainland soon after Scandarians formed a settlement on Agis-Lek which started a conflict with the Copper Dragonborn and the Carthorkians on Roc Sen Rear to the south. Torlund then joined the dragonborn and attacked the Carthokian ships but this may well have been to secure their trade more than to help the natives. This war then began to spread to involve Scandar as well and was known as the Mithril War was heavily contested by the countries to the west of Tanalier but the fight stayed mostly off shore with a few raids from Scandar into northern Torlund but with little impact.

The war for control over the precious resource raged on mainly out at sea and across the archipelago taking the lives of many dragonborn, the Metalic Dragonborns mostly sided with the Torlundians but many saw them as invaders and simply fought against any none dragonborn, while the Chromatics began to side with Carthorka if only because they were against the Metallic Dragonborns. As the war raged on a group of Elven mages made the long journey to the Mithril Isles with a group of powerful mages, they set up a camp of their own and a teleportation circle, they offered a way out for the natives who didn't want to be part of the war, Carthorkians and Torlundians began also shipping Dragonborn back their countries as well.

Mean while in Tek-Rein (Mer-Rein) a group of high elves calling themselves the Transcendent Hope were stirring complaining about the latest peace treaty with Mer-Fen they started with protests and carried out terrorist attacks and finally an attempt to break the peace treaty by attacking San sfar. This ended badly for them but as refugees from the Mithril Isles began to flood in it sparked further anger and rallied more elves to their cause. The Transcendent Hope regrouped its forces and decided to flee so they took over the transportation circles and transported themselves to the Mithril Isles before blocking them from being used. From here they began a gorilla warfare campaign to take the islands using there superior magical ability to stay one step ahead of the other groups present. They started working under the radar targeting the Dragonborn first who rarely worked with one another and since they had spent the last few years of trying to deport the other nationalities they were unlikely to receive help from them. Systematically this elven group worked their way through the metallic then chromatic dragonborn the three nations benefited from the lack of Dragonborns but when the Transcendent Hope began attacking their settlements they realised they had left it too late, the Elves didn't care about taking over the settlements just wiping them out, they didn't steal the mithril, just sank the ships, collapsed the mines and burned buildings to the ground. With teleport capabilities between Islands and reduced resource needs the mithril Isles began sinking any ship which cam close then declared them selves a sovereign state with Ru'Van Venro as the first emperor of the new Mithril Isles.

### Islands

To-Chi Bay (Bronze)

Preyn Scald (Brass)

Agis-Lek (Copper)

Arcadia (Silver)

North Dragonia (Gold)

South Dragonia (Red)

Etheras

Elep

Eskya

Hodrana (Green)

Proa Scald (Black)

Xuterel (White)

Roc Sen Rear

Guleran (Blue)

Tun Sen Rear