The Anatolian Fringe
“Where the sea ends, the forgotten begin.”
Overview
Stretching along the eastern shore of the Aegean and beyond, the Anatolian Fringe is a land of ashes, ruins, and uneasy beauty, where foreign winds whisper old names in broken tongues. Once home to mighty cities—Troy, Ilion, Lydia, and the bronze-towered ports of lost kings—it is now a fractured coast of ruined sanctuaries, wandering peoples, and gods who no longer answer.
Here, memory is not passed down—it washes ashore. The landscape is shaped by waves of exile, as broken armies, forgotten cults, and divine refugees drift westward from empires that have collapsed or turned against their gods. The locals do not call themselves Hellenes, but neither are they something else. They are the echoborn, survivors of a divine silence that still cracks the sky.
The Anatolian Fringe is a borderland between what was and what cannot be again. Its fields still smolder, and its altars bleed dust. Yet in that emptiness, something new may be born—if it dares to remember.
Cultural Identity
The people of the Anatolian Fringe are broken kingdoms reborn as scattered tribes, often bound by shared loss rather than shared blood. They are pragmatic, cautious, fiercely private, and steeped in story—but the stories change with every telling.
Art & Music
Art Woven ashes into cloth, silvered glass masks, votive dolls made from driftwood and vine-ash. Their Music includes Low chants, high woodwinds, and stringed instruments tuned to mimic wind and wave.
Language and Dialect
A hybrid tongue called Fractured Ionic, blending Hellenic roots with older Anatolian dialects.
Customs
Veil-Keeping – The dead are never buried, but wrapped in veils of salt-stained linen and burned on funeral Pyres, their ashes returned to the Earth like their lost cities
Religion
Here, the gods are broken, buried, or changed. Many once worshipped deities have abandoned this region, or are worshipped in forms unrecognizable to Olympian priests.
Major Deities
Ash-Troy (The Hollowed God) – A ruined god believed to be the spirit of Troy itself. Worshipped as a guardian of the fallen, and invoked during moments of ruin and revenge.
Mneme the Exile – A splinter-aspect of Mnemosyne , worshipped as a goddess of forgotten truth and whispered names.
The Tide-Bearer – A sea-god known only through storm omens and drowned visions. Possibly Poseidon , possibly something else.
Elenna of the Threshold – an aspect Enodia, A wandering goddess of lost homes and refugee hearts, believed to have been born when Ilion burned. She carries memory in her cloak and wears a mask of silver grief.
Factions & Organizations
- The Ash-Walkers – Wandering mystics and chroniclers who trade stories and burned scrolls, believed to hold fragments of divine speech.
- The Hollow Concord – A loose confederation of refugee cities, each ruled by a Council of Three: one priest, one general, one Normal Man.
- The Bronze Vow – A militant order of exiled warriors who believe that Troy must be reborn, either through divine reclamation or conquest.
- The Chorus of Dust – A cult that sings the names of forgotten gods, believing that memory alone can rekindle divinity. A branch of The Mnemonic Veil
Geography
Location
The Anatolian Fringe lies east of Hellas, across the Aegean Sea, beginning where the ruins of Troy break the coast and stretching down through Aeolis, Lydia, and Caria—a region half-claimed by Hellas, half-forgotten by its own gods.
Terrain
Cracked coastlines and salt-ravaged ruins line the shore, remnants of cities burned in divine or mortal war. Low, windswept hills and barren vineyards, where once stood palaces of bronze and marble Inland valleys cradle scattered refugee camps, nomad-priest sanctuaries, and outposts built on memory and bone. The forests are sparse but haunted—populated by whispering trees and ash-covered glades.
Climate
Hot, dry summers with dust-laden winds from the east. Cold, wet winters, with thick fogs rolling in from the sea. Sudden storms are common
Major Cities or Settlements
Troy
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