Mindaeistos (Isle)

Mindaeistos (or Serakis as it is known as by the inhabitants of the city-state of Serakis) is a medium sized island in the west of the Sunset Archipelago, known generally as "the New World".

Mainland Mindaeistos covers 4770 square miles, its climate is temperate and wet and its geography is split between silt loam grassland, light deciduous forest and barren siltstone hills.

As of the **year 300**, the major polities of Mindaeistos Isle are:

* The city state of Mindaeistos - supposed successor to the legacy of the demigod Anciolon
* The city state of Serakis - supposed successor to the legacy of the demigod Achilles

As of the **year 310**, the major polities of Mindaeistos Isle are

* The city state of Mindaeistos - supposed successor to the legacy of the demigod Anciolon
* The city state of Serakis - supposed successor to the legacy of the demigod Achilles
* The Damocletian Alliance - Alliance between the Fourth Durvite, the barony of Grmoteviste and Batca

## History of Mindaeistos Isle

**The year 1 GC**

Mindaeistos Isle is inhabited by a collection of Yellowtooth and Greytooth ogre tribes, bugbears, mousemen and eaglemen. Humans arrive and establish the petty kingdoms of Oldenton, Caldan, Tyris and Batca. During the next few years brave heroes vanquish the ogre alliance under the Triclops Boatsmasher.

**The year 6 GC**

More and more humans have arrived and began to fight amongst themselves, the great fleets of Mindaeistos and Serakis have arrived and taken the lands of Oldenton and Tyris for their reborn holy cities.

**The year 100 GC**

The past century has ravaged the populations of the surviving humans, thousands of people have starved and all the major settlements have been reduced to mere collections of buildings. An exodus of strong warriors occurs as anyone capable of hunting takes to the wild to make what they can of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle their ancestors long abandoned. Almost all knowledge of before the great migration is lost.

**The Year 200 GC**

Mindaeistos and Serakis have asserted their legacy as city builders. The small towns of Mindaeistos and Serakis have regrouped and rebuilt as the few remaining holy men regain some small amount of power to heal and control, the towns are ruthless slave states thriving on conquest and expansion. The town of Batca is destroyed by an evil curse, its famous meadow becoming a foul swamp.

**The Year 300 GC**

Mindaeistos and Serakis are (perhaps erroneously) referred to as cities once more, Batca and Treme (once the kingdom of Caldan) are their vassals.

An ogre has not been seen for 40 years and the bugbears have been driven to the hills, as have the hunter-gatherer tribes.

**The Year 301 GC**

A group of heroes known as the Heroes of Batca declare independence from Mindaeistos after centuries of being traded between the two city states, the independence is secured by the trickery of the warrior Tonitrus ‘The Lord of Thunder’ as well as the patronage of a rebellious Durvite legion. A new settlement of Halfling and Foreigners called Grmoteviste is established nearby. The three factions form ‘The Damocletian Alliance’

The Heroes of Batca somehow reverse the curse of Batca, releasing a minor god called Exarewan.

**The Year 305 GC**

The Damocletian Alliance submits as tributary to the city of Mindaeistos