Archontiai Civilazation

[Ioannis 1478]

Race : Wood Elves

Language : Common tongue , few Greek words 

 

Chere=Hail

File=Friend

Anaktoro=Palace

Ne=Yes

Ochi=No

Malista=Sure

Edaksi=Okay

Kalimera=Good morning

Kalispera=Good evening

Gia=Hello/Hi

Personal traits : Patient people , good merchants , religious , war-like

 

Lore: 

Some time after the creation of the elves by Malin  , few wood elves families left their homeland Malinor to find a another place to live . After decades of wandering , they found a large area surrounded by a desert . Because that area lacked trees , they decided to use sandstone as their main building material . In that area   they  builded their city Archontiai. There , away from the others , developed their own architectal style and language .  Since their new place was surrounded by desert , they developed their own architectal style based on Sandstone and stonebricks.

Few years after finishing their town , a Human named Rolf came to the city. He spoke an other language . The people of archontiai were curious to learn that new language since Rold described them huge cities and glorious battles .  Rolf spent his last years teaching the people of Archontiai the common tongue . The people decided to make the Common tongue their new language but kept few words from the old one , just for respect and a reminder of their old ways.

Time has passed and  the Archontiai City-State , was in civil war . Menelaus Komninus , the King of the City-State was in war with his own son Constantine . Menelaus ruled his City in a brutal way . Taxes people couldnt pay , executions and exiles . His son , in order to save his people , declared himself the new King . His father , a person with no regrets and with money as his own friend , ordered his troops to bring Constantine's head . But the common people joined Constantine's army . The two armies fought in the desert for hours . At the end both armies retreated because the dead were too many . The desert around the city was covered in blood and dead people . After the battle , Constantine took his people and fled to an unknown destination . They took only took few supplies because they were in a hurry . So every month they had to stop and make temporary camps . After years  of traveling, their population dropped dramaticaly . After  finally reaching  the realm of Athera , they saw that only few of them had survived the long trip . They were wandering on a foreign land and found an old abandoned Dwarf outpost to settle. They started building their new home  there. Constantine , in search of help , he sent scouts to find help and to scout the area . In order to make sure his scouts will return with good news, he sent his only son Ioannis Komninus along with his most trusted men. Now he waits pantiently for the return of his people . 

 

Religion : 

Their religion was not changed . They still have the same religion as the other Wood Elves.

 

Architecture :

Architecture 

There are two types of architecture . 

 First is for palaces , banks and  temples. They are both build like the Ancient Greek architecture style .

 

 

The second is the normal architecture of houses . Oak wood , stonebricks , for the roof bricks( byzantine tiles).

 

 

Only the Architect has the right to build new buildings .

 

Sociaty ranks :

The leader of the sociaty is called Vasileus( King).

His first son is Prince , his other sons get only the last name .

The counsil of the King have the rank of Sumvoulos ( Advisor).

The guards of the Keep have the ranks of Frouros( Guard). *

The wealthy people have the rank of Eugenis ( Noble).

* The best soldiers of the army get this rank and are members of the Elite Guard of the King or Prince in battles .

 

Military : 

Army : Mainly consisted by mounted lancers and mounted archers

Weapons: Bows for archers and lances for melee cavarly 

Weaknesses : Lacking numbers , lacking farms for food 

 

In this sociaty , there are only few military ranks. 

First      :  Strategos (General) and he is commanding the troops on the battlefield

Second :  Ippeus (Cavarly)

Third     :  Hoplite (Infantry)

Forth     :  Toksotes ( Archer)

Fifth      :   Pronoiar . This rank is for farmers , who are given plots to farm and with the money the get , they buy their weaponry.

Last       : Varangian and this rank is for mercenary troops

Every citizen , during a war , is summoned to fight .

[Jistuma 1995]

• Do not create cultures which have beginnings in Athera before the rest of the people came from Anthos. Lore Team suggests that you create the cultures IG, and not with a lore thread.

Your culture  is based on the fact that they were in a land other than Anthos before they reached Athera. I advise that you simply create the culture in game.

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/122006-lore-creation-rules/

[Ioannis 1478]

Delete this post  and all the others with Archontiai stuff .