bronze age Mytaneia

Mytaneia is on the west of Aedinia, the southern tip beyond Mount Olympus. The area is originaly inspired by greece and with some inspiration from other northern mediteranean places like italy or southern france. This article will be a introduction to Mytaneia during the bronze age to get a feel of the lore during the era as well as give a starting place to explore this "wiki" for more information.

Culture

Because of the nature of mytaneia the area has many individual cultures. Many different small settlements existed that had gotten their own little culture. Then however boats became a thing and the cultures started intermingling. When eventually the country Polythe started to conquer lands they started to squash these individual cultures to replace it with their own generalized cultures. While all these small cultures still exist they are mostly squaseh and dimmed by Pythian. Beside that the Dragonborn nearly live in their own world with their own culture as a result. The Dragonborn that live on the western straight of land came their orignaly from Hamaitan. Their culture as a result comes from the Dragonborn cultures their but altered over time because it's further away from their home and to adapt to the new terrain. The name of the dragonborn culture is Naseer. Another major culture is that of the Elves in the area. The Elves are elves that moved to mytaneia in a mass migration south. because they still have trade ties with the people the migrated from makes it that their culture is still largely similar, the difference in culture starts because this culture intermingled with quite a bit of fey. The culture name is Illadryean. Before Polythe Conquored a lot of Mytaneia the southern islands that were actually occupied had their own culture focussing around trade, fishing and art. That culture is still prevelant even after most territory that that culture was prevelant in was taken by Polythe. The reason for that is that the art it had heavily influenced the art that pythians started making. The name of this culture is

Demografic

Mytaneia as a whole is occupied mainly by humans with dragonborn and elves being secondary. however these different species are quite seperated from eachother. With most places having near only 1 species in them with only some exceptions.

Geogrpahy

Mytaneia is the best place to start to look through geography of the area. or you can also look at the map of mytaneia. Myaneia has hot and dry summers and wet and mild winters. The land is overall very rocky with many cliffs and other relief differences. The Plantlife is also like mediteranean greece and lastly the animals are also but with some creatures we would see as mythological mixes in like griffons and manitcores.

Language

In this early stage of the world language can sometimes be a problem. Across all of Mytaneia there are many different small accents and dialects that make it hard to communicate even within the same language. There are 4 main languages that have those many dialects. Those 4 are: Draconic, Elvish, Nímfi and Pirin.

Magic accecebility

Magic isn't something known to the average person in the setting, there exist some elements in the world that you would percieve as magical like a griffon flying around but that to these people is ordinary. Things that are truly magical like spells are fairly unknown for the common man they might have seen it once in their lifetime. Magic however becomes more common as you get to the elites of the setting, the rich have excess to magic but even there it is a rare and spared resource to them. The gods and some of their most trusted subordinates are the only ones in the setting who have consistent access to magic as a entire demografic. The type of magic that people have access too is mainly Emotion magic while some people also have access to some Arcane magic through rune magic they learned from Giants.

Major settlements

During the bronze age there were 6 truly major settlements in Mytaneia they are:

• Aníkitos: This is a human occupied independent city.
• Illadrea: A city of Elves and fey in a forest in northern Mytaneia.
• Myridas: Myridas is the center of power of an independent island country.
• Politheon: The capital city of polythe, located on the northern shore and occupied by Humans.
• Rayiea: A city of Dragonborn on the east side of Mytaneia.
• Tasros: A city part of polythe on one of the southern islands, it's occupied by humans and is the "control center" of the southern part of polythe.

Politics

The 4 full countries on Mytaneia are:

• Polythe: Polythe is the main power in myteneia, they used to be violent conquorers wich is how they got their wealth and lands. Recently they have tried to erase their history to hide it and have started doing a lot with arts and cultural things.
• Makhalib: The Makhalib lives in it's own world because dragonborn eat humans and that's accepted in their world causing this dragonborn country to have 0 trade or diplomatic relationships with non-draconic species, though some dragonborn are trying to change that.
• Iledrye: The Iledrye was a country of just Elves untill they allied with the fey against Polythe. When the alliance lost nearly all it's territory the alliance stayed together and became a single country around the elven home city because, that was one of the territory's they still owned.
• Myridas: Myridas is a country named after it's main city. It is located on Colcea. It managed to defend it's lands from Polythe's conquering and as a result formed it's own country on the island.
• There also are plenty of small independent cities or towns too small for any country to care about. Most of these independents are on the eastern side of Mytaneia.
Mytaneia isn't a self-contained world and it does also have relationships with places outside of it's own area, this mainly is trade with other organizations beyond Mytaneia. Through the trade there have started other relationships between countries too to facilitate this trade better.

Religion

The Humans, Elves and Dragonborn all have their own main religion that they tend to follow bue to having their own culture group. By far the most important religion is the worship of the Titans. The elves and dragonborn do also have their own pantheon of gods respectivly that they worship too. Lastly some people worship the Giant gods because they found worship sites to them in abandoned giant made structures and interperted things.

Technology level

The technology of the world is like that of the bronze age, people do not have access to iron yet but to bronze of course.