Memnos (MEM-nos)

General info The smallest of all the Protectorate states, Memnos is directly opposite the Northern tip of Nikos and faces the harsh stormy waters of the Greytongue ocean and the pirate haven of Hi-Kar. A Jagged and rocky land, the region of Memnos is famed for it’s colossal jutting crystal-ranges lines of vibrant and clean-faced crystals protruding from emergent geodes that stretch for dozens of miles a t a time with crystalline stands reaching hundreds of metres in height. These crystal walls are ever-growing and eroding condensations of the strange strands of magic whipping down from the wilds of the silver sea and the frozen dread reaches of the Polar ices of the Greytongue ocean, all of which scatters over the high peaks of the Drakenchain Mountains. With these wild and strange magical energies being condensed and bound within the crystal lines of Memnos it is no surprise that it has become a constant beacon of magical research and has resulted in magic in itself being interwoven into every part of architecture, social structure, economy and Protectorate military forces. The interwoven magics have even reached the very bodies of the native peoples of the region, with many able to exhibit lights, prestidigitation and other small cantrips by the time they hit puberty. A common sight in the streets of a Memnosi city is for Metal wagons being pulled by golems walking underneath lamps of swirling dancing flameless lights within silver-laced glass domes. Mephits and avian familiars can often take the place of pigeons and sea-birds. While animated quills and great towers of Messaging bring correspondence through the cities and beyond faster than any horse can run or bird can fly. Major settlements and defining features. The single-most defining feature and the organisation that encapsulates the whole nation of Memnos in the eyes of the wider Protectorates is the vaunted and often densely enigmatic Twelve-fold halls. Six academies are found in the major cities of Memnos under the Hall of Erudition while the remainder of the Halls operate from the Twelve-fold Hall itself, a huge complex of jutting spires and high-walled courtyards that both rise into tapered ziggurats covered in ranks upon ranks of statues or an everflowing waterfall of greenery. The twelve-spires of the halls can be visibly seen dominating the skyline of the capital city of Jemmes-reth that has wrapped itself and surrounded the monumental Twelve-fold halls. Jemmes-Reth : Capital city of Memnos and the seat both of the Twelve-fold halls as well as the general governmental rule of the province. The second largest city in the province it is by far the most heavily magically influenced with swathes of the city services and architecture heavily magically influenced and run. The city itself is enclosed within a circular valley ring with a rise in the exact centre of the city with multiple lakes dotted around the valley floor in the city.

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Geopolitical, Country