The City State of Dhelos
Born out of the tears and pain of people that lost their children and homes, the great city of Dhelos rose to become one of the most powerful states in the world of Anvil. Dhelos is a city state of merchants and traders, expert river and seafarers that travel to the edges of the world, trading their goods, finding opportunity where nobody else sees it and maing their families and city rich beyond compare.
The City State of Dhelos was founded in the year 4510, almost two hundred years ago when about three thousand refugees fled the utter destruction of their lands by a horde of horse riding raiders called the Kaylan that call their domain their lands in the far west beyond the great dry sea of Elquarra.
Since its creation the former nomadic traders, that founded it became the greatest traders this part of the world has ever seen. Led by a council of 13 Merchant Grandmasters that rule for ten years until the "recounting" an event that has all people's wealth accounted and recorded for everyone to see.
The Recounting
It is that recounting that started seventeen centuries ago as a way to redistribute wealth that inversed and redefined the Dhelians. With time the practice of sharing wealth to help everyone mutated into a practice of defining who is the most honorable and powerful and in the end, with abolishment of redistribution and the introduction of client families became a political tool of power.
For the Dhelian society in the city of Dhelos and all its colonies, there is no greater force than the amassing of wealth and display of opulence. The colonies built are considered ownership of their founders and they make sure that during the recounting everyone will know the worth of their lands by building Palaces and gardens, statues and fountains displaying the power of their family and house.
I am sure the people of this great city state are the brightest and most handsome in all the world. Their military prowess is surely rivalled by none for their chiselled jaws and rock-hard abs would deflect any blow!
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