Thythr
The Council Republic of Thythr, officially Thythryn Ashtur Republic, commonly simplified to Thythr, was a small country on Eradin consisting of a federation of local councils, so called Ashtur, culminating in the Thythryn High Council, the primary decision making organ of the young republic.
It was the first place on Eradin where a Divine Harvest was constructed, which resulted in a decisive win for Thythr in the Great Peasants' War.
Through the subsequent establishment of support for the Mantis throughout the Republic, and the construction of various Divine Harvests, the formerly small and underdeveloped nation became an economic powerhouse in mere years.
"I see the hundreds of hundreds of acres our folk have graven out of grey dirt. I see the ships' canal our scarred hands have dug through dull hills to bring trade to our inland towns. I see the walls of Mavyn, stretching higher than the sun on some winter noon where once just a mound decorated the land. And so, I cannot help but to think to myself: Thythr could not have been the work of a God. Human fingerprints line these lands."Mantis member and renowned professor Jeval â Nyun
Structure
The Thythryn Ashtur Republic was organised and ruled via democratic councils, called Ashturs, on various levels.
On the lowest level, on a town and village scale, there were peasants' and labourers' Ashturs, which all valid citizens of Thythr were member of.
On the next highest level, on the scale of several neighbouring settlements, there were regional Ashturs, designed to represent interests of different regions within the Republic.
On the highest level, on a nationwide scale, there was the Thythryn High Council.
While every citizen is member of their local Ashtur, higher Ashturs consist of representatives. All lower Ashturs vote for representatives among their own to send to the next highest Ashtur. These representatives are not free to do as they choose, but are bound to the decisions of the Ashtur they were sent from. Thus, even the Thythryn High Council consists of peasants and labourers, not any nobility; who are, in addition to their class, also forced to obey their peers who voted them to represent them. In that way, Thythr is clearly the most democratic of the three major Eradine powers.
There are several more formalities that allow lower Ashturs to exert control over their superiors, yet not even many council members know the full extent of Thythryn law.
Public Agenda
As Thythr was a rural nation, mostly devoid of significant infrastructure, its main focus since existence has been to expand enough in order to be self-sufficient and not dependent on foreign trade. With every milestone however came other nations' technological advancements, which sent Thythr back into a development phase. It was not until the First Upheaval of Mantis, during which Thythr supported the Mantis and thus gained control over massive amounts of Divine Spirit, that the power balance shifted; allowing them to even win the Great Peasants' War.
After the First Upheaval began, Thythryn doctrine seemed to be up in the air. It clearly won the upper hand over its enemies now with the most major Divine Harvests under its control; however, the internal tensions between religious factions decrying Divine Harvesting as torture and an affront to the Gods, and those who hailed the overabundant energy gain of the Divine Harvests as great progress, within the Ashturs grew, making Thythr unable to form a cohesive mission statement.
Assets
While Thythr had traditionally been an underdeveloped nation of abundant agricultural acres and not much else of note, the introduction of the Divine Harvests during the First Upheaval of Mantis made Thythr one of the most valuable and powerful forces on Eradin. As of 105, it controlled around a dozen Divine Harvests, more than any other world power at the time.
"Eyth ashtur, êshath." ("It's Ashtur, or death.")
Founding Date
~ 400-500 years before 0
Type
Geopolitical, Country
Alternative Names
The Ashtur
Demonym
Thythryn
Parent Organization
Subsidiary Organizations
Location
Neighboring Nations
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