Opron
Opron.
Known in Reethese as Eafhream, is the easternmost country of the continent of Rethium, and is responsible for the growth and shipping of many major products that are shipped daily across the continent. Staples such as fruit, vegetables, wood (from trees), cotton, silks and other items are a high commodity of Opron, and many cities and towns have made names and reputations for themselves as major out-putters of these valuable and precious cargoes.
Opron consists of two major counties which are almost equal in size. The first being Garden County, which is where the countries capital city is located, aptly named Opron Center. The city is also notably the trading, political, educational and architectural marvel and powerhouse of the country, and is also one of the most populated cities in the entire continent. It is home to over five million residents and their history, and is a city built on more than three levels of ground, carved out of a natural formation that had at point in the world's history been a large mountain in the center of the country. The history of the mountain before it's transformation into a massive city is unknown, but it could have been a volcano at some point as there were traces of heated pockets of gas and other materials located hundreds of feet below the roots of the mountain at one point in Opron's history.
The second county in Opron is named Kitsune County. This land area is surrounded by a large stone wall that effectively cuts the counties off from one another completely, save for a number of gates along it's length which offer periodic entry and exit into and out of the smaller county. The wall is protected by legions of guards which endlessly and protectively patrol the wall without end, and who have kept guard over the wall - known commonly as The Great Stave - for over eight-thousand years without stopping. Aside from the major citadels and cities of Opron, the Great Stave was the greatest feat of architecture and engineering that Opron as a whole would ever undertake, and millions of men and women worked together for decades to construct and complete the wall. Kitsune county is one of the most productive land areas in Opron and the continent of Rethium as a whole, churning out millions of pounds worth of goods every single year and turning profit after profit every time the season comes to sell their goods and trade their wares and business for money. Many of the politicians across Rethium can trace their roots back to Opron Center and even Kitsune County, as academics is another staple of the county. There is an immense amount of history gone into the country and it's people, and unfortunately it cannot all be spelled out in a single document.
There is a grand total of forty-eight cities within the Opron borders, with eighteen lying north of the mountains known by the Kitsune race as The Great Stave. These cities by name inside Kitsune County - the second county in the country of Opron and south of The Great Stave - are by name: Solstice, Roan, Darbury, Leaf, Paen, Penketh, Bury, Sarton, Hythe, Kirth, Old Aston, Spalding, Saxon, Edenford, Charme, Aston - sometimes called New Aston -, Emelle, Pendle, Fairglen, Pran, Starhelm, Ferndale, Ebonhold, Amberham, Littlepaw, Birmfront, Keld, Howe, Bearbell and Home, which is Kitsune County's capital city.
To the North of The Great Stave are the following cities: Aria, Carlisle, Norfolk, Haran, Yarrin, Dirn, Sanlow, Acomb, Pella, Yarn, Ever, Mirton, Squall, Lham, Berx, Carran, Erast and Opron Center, the capital city of Garden County, the first and largest county in the country of Opron. There are two major forests in Opron, both on the Southern side of The Great Stave. These are the Yagi Forest - named after the Goddess of The Forests, Yagi - and the infamous Cragorn Forest, which is named after an explorer who ventured into the woods to chart it before he disappeared inside the depths of that same forest only a few weeks later, never to be seen or heard from again. This forest is home to haunts, ruins, rivers, darkness and scary tales around campfires as well as many other nefarious acts and other things of note, but the most well known is Cragorn Keep, a great mansion built there a long time ago and since left to rot from the intrusion of the forest into the long-forgotten home.
Amongst the many intakes of the country concerning goods, one of these is Cinder Spice, grown in the fields and gardens of the Karasu in the distant country of Pagrad. Millions of pounds of the spice are imported every year to accomodate the needs of the public in the cities, and it is one of the countries' most prized commodities due to it's price and the value of it's taste and the quality at which it is grown and can be shredded to make proper Cinder Spice for food preparation. It also exports the spice to other countries nearby such as Yesmos and Stale, but the former is also able to reach Pagrad by cart in order to retrieve the spice for the same use. A typical sight at the front of these carts is the Southern Pagfowl, or the Toilbird, which also originates from Pagrad but can survive almost any climate with the right provisions and care by their masters and drivers who walk alongside them during their trips back and forth across the country.
Pagfowl are also common in Home and in Opron Center as carrier birds and in use for other things, but are sometimes seen simply walking the streets back and forth as they move about their own unknown tasks for the people who have entrusted them with an important duty to perform throughout the day. One such Pagfowl approached a party of travelers as they had passed through the city on their way to Yesmos, only to be threatened by the band's leader, Sir Io. This altercation led to the admittance of a misunderstanding by the knightly figure and his band, after which they departed on their business and made their way through the city to continue their task, which they had not revealed to anyone in passing.
The mountain range which separates Opron from the rest of the country is called the Minorian Mountains, after the Kitsune who had first discovered them during his race' expansion across the continent in the early years of their existence. This Kitsune was named Michi Minori, who's name translates to "Pathway Of Truth" which is an apt title for such a large range of staggeringly impressive mountains and the land which his race and others would go on to inhabit in the coming centuries. The same race continued along with Humankind through Opron, splitting apart along the way to begin their own civilizations where they could settle down together and grow their race. The humans founded Opron Center, located in a wide, lush valley between the hills that they had crossed.
The Kitsune continued across a second mountain range, and Minori announced that the land waiting behind it would belong to them, and he called the mountains The Great Stave, before they continued on and founded their own capital city, which they called Home. It was founded amidst a massive bowl-shaped valley capped by immense trees and a green canopy as tall as the sky, and it would be here that in the Second Age, more than forty-thousand people would live, work and call this city their home.
There is one large mountain in Opron that stands above all others and yet is not connected to any of the known ranges within the country. It's exact location is not charted on any maps, nor are other mountains similar to it that reside in other countries, as only six others exist on the continent. It is believed that these mountains hold an extremely religious importance to the world at large, and so they are given their own important titles to identify them when speaking in conversation about these towering natural structures. The mountain which resides in Opron is known as The Mountain Of Light, and is named in honor of the daughter of the Sun Goddess, Gyrasil, who's name is Le'hth, which literally translates to Light in Reethese. The Light Mountain is considered holy ground, but those with a strong belief in the Goddess and her power and existence make the trip to this mountain in an attempt to climb it and to reach the peak, where it is said that Le'hth resides in order to live close to her mother Gyrasil, who lives in the Pantheon above the mortal realm.
It is also believed that Yagi had given birth to a daughter before rising to the Pantheon, but this claim is unconfirmed. There resides in the Yagi Forest a woman with powers named Me'hthem'elae, which translates to Nightingale. She lives in the forest and speaks to the animals and cares for them, keeping the forest from the plagues of darkness that endlessly fight against her power in an attempt to destroy the world that the gods created for the mortal races to inhabit. She was one of a few people of note to have encountered Sir Io and his band and to have spoken and traveled at length with them for around two days before parting ways to remain in the forest in order to protect it. She is quiet, reclusive and will do anything to anyone if she feels that she or the forest or it's creatures are being threatened in any way, and will go so far as to kill anything that poses an imminent threat to the peace of the woods that she had promised her mother she would always protect no matter what. It appears as though she wishes to ascend to the Pantheon to live with her mother, but that she has suffered the same fate as Le'hth, being banished for an unknown reason.
Known in Reethese as Eafhream, is the easternmost country of the continent of Rethium, and is responsible for the growth and shipping of many major products that are shipped daily across the continent. Staples such as fruit, vegetables, wood (from trees), cotton, silks and other items are a high commodity of Opron, and many cities and towns have made names and reputations for themselves as major out-putters of these valuable and precious cargoes.
Opron consists of two major counties which are almost equal in size. The first being Garden County, which is where the countries capital city is located, aptly named Opron Center. The city is also notably the trading, political, educational and architectural marvel and powerhouse of the country, and is also one of the most populated cities in the entire continent. It is home to over five million residents and their history, and is a city built on more than three levels of ground, carved out of a natural formation that had at point in the world's history been a large mountain in the center of the country. The history of the mountain before it's transformation into a massive city is unknown, but it could have been a volcano at some point as there were traces of heated pockets of gas and other materials located hundreds of feet below the roots of the mountain at one point in Opron's history.
The second county in Opron is named Kitsune County. This land area is surrounded by a large stone wall that effectively cuts the counties off from one another completely, save for a number of gates along it's length which offer periodic entry and exit into and out of the smaller county. The wall is protected by legions of guards which endlessly and protectively patrol the wall without end, and who have kept guard over the wall - known commonly as The Great Stave - for over eight-thousand years without stopping. Aside from the major citadels and cities of Opron, the Great Stave was the greatest feat of architecture and engineering that Opron as a whole would ever undertake, and millions of men and women worked together for decades to construct and complete the wall. Kitsune county is one of the most productive land areas in Opron and the continent of Rethium as a whole, churning out millions of pounds worth of goods every single year and turning profit after profit every time the season comes to sell their goods and trade their wares and business for money. Many of the politicians across Rethium can trace their roots back to Opron Center and even Kitsune County, as academics is another staple of the county. There is an immense amount of history gone into the country and it's people, and unfortunately it cannot all be spelled out in a single document.
There is a grand total of forty-eight cities within the Opron borders, with eighteen lying north of the mountains known by the Kitsune race as The Great Stave. These cities by name inside Kitsune County - the second county in the country of Opron and south of The Great Stave - are by name: Solstice, Roan, Darbury, Leaf, Paen, Penketh, Bury, Sarton, Hythe, Kirth, Old Aston, Spalding, Saxon, Edenford, Charme, Aston - sometimes called New Aston -, Emelle, Pendle, Fairglen, Pran, Starhelm, Ferndale, Ebonhold, Amberham, Littlepaw, Birmfront, Keld, Howe, Bearbell and Home, which is Kitsune County's capital city.
To the North of The Great Stave are the following cities: Aria, Carlisle, Norfolk, Haran, Yarrin, Dirn, Sanlow, Acomb, Pella, Yarn, Ever, Mirton, Squall, Lham, Berx, Carran, Erast and Opron Center, the capital city of Garden County, the first and largest county in the country of Opron. There are two major forests in Opron, both on the Southern side of The Great Stave. These are the Yagi Forest - named after the Goddess of The Forests, Yagi - and the infamous Cragorn Forest, which is named after an explorer who ventured into the woods to chart it before he disappeared inside the depths of that same forest only a few weeks later, never to be seen or heard from again. This forest is home to haunts, ruins, rivers, darkness and scary tales around campfires as well as many other nefarious acts and other things of note, but the most well known is Cragorn Keep, a great mansion built there a long time ago and since left to rot from the intrusion of the forest into the long-forgotten home.
Amongst the many intakes of the country concerning goods, one of these is Cinder Spice, grown in the fields and gardens of the Karasu in the distant country of Pagrad. Millions of pounds of the spice are imported every year to accomodate the needs of the public in the cities, and it is one of the countries' most prized commodities due to it's price and the value of it's taste and the quality at which it is grown and can be shredded to make proper Cinder Spice for food preparation. It also exports the spice to other countries nearby such as Yesmos and Stale, but the former is also able to reach Pagrad by cart in order to retrieve the spice for the same use. A typical sight at the front of these carts is the Southern Pagfowl, or the Toilbird, which also originates from Pagrad but can survive almost any climate with the right provisions and care by their masters and drivers who walk alongside them during their trips back and forth across the country.
Pagfowl are also common in Home and in Opron Center as carrier birds and in use for other things, but are sometimes seen simply walking the streets back and forth as they move about their own unknown tasks for the people who have entrusted them with an important duty to perform throughout the day. One such Pagfowl approached a party of travelers as they had passed through the city on their way to Yesmos, only to be threatened by the band's leader, Sir Io. This altercation led to the admittance of a misunderstanding by the knightly figure and his band, after which they departed on their business and made their way through the city to continue their task, which they had not revealed to anyone in passing.
The mountain range which separates Opron from the rest of the country is called the Minorian Mountains, after the Kitsune who had first discovered them during his race' expansion across the continent in the early years of their existence. This Kitsune was named Michi Minori, who's name translates to "Pathway Of Truth" which is an apt title for such a large range of staggeringly impressive mountains and the land which his race and others would go on to inhabit in the coming centuries. The same race continued along with Humankind through Opron, splitting apart along the way to begin their own civilizations where they could settle down together and grow their race. The humans founded Opron Center, located in a wide, lush valley between the hills that they had crossed.
The Kitsune continued across a second mountain range, and Minori announced that the land waiting behind it would belong to them, and he called the mountains The Great Stave, before they continued on and founded their own capital city, which they called Home. It was founded amidst a massive bowl-shaped valley capped by immense trees and a green canopy as tall as the sky, and it would be here that in the Second Age, more than forty-thousand people would live, work and call this city their home.
There is one large mountain in Opron that stands above all others and yet is not connected to any of the known ranges within the country. It's exact location is not charted on any maps, nor are other mountains similar to it that reside in other countries, as only six others exist on the continent. It is believed that these mountains hold an extremely religious importance to the world at large, and so they are given their own important titles to identify them when speaking in conversation about these towering natural structures. The mountain which resides in Opron is known as The Mountain Of Light, and is named in honor of the daughter of the Sun Goddess, Gyrasil, who's name is Le'hth, which literally translates to Light in Reethese. The Light Mountain is considered holy ground, but those with a strong belief in the Goddess and her power and existence make the trip to this mountain in an attempt to climb it and to reach the peak, where it is said that Le'hth resides in order to live close to her mother Gyrasil, who lives in the Pantheon above the mortal realm.
It is also believed that Yagi had given birth to a daughter before rising to the Pantheon, but this claim is unconfirmed. There resides in the Yagi Forest a woman with powers named Me'hthem'elae, which translates to Nightingale. She lives in the forest and speaks to the animals and cares for them, keeping the forest from the plagues of darkness that endlessly fight against her power in an attempt to destroy the world that the gods created for the mortal races to inhabit. She was one of a few people of note to have encountered Sir Io and his band and to have spoken and traveled at length with them for around two days before parting ways to remain in the forest in order to protect it. She is quiet, reclusive and will do anything to anyone if she feels that she or the forest or it's creatures are being threatened in any way, and will go so far as to kill anything that poses an imminent threat to the peace of the woods that she had promised her mother she would always protect no matter what. It appears as though she wishes to ascend to the Pantheon to live with her mother, but that she has suffered the same fate as Le'hth, being banished for an unknown reason.
Structure
The county is founded on a structure that sees the king as the very crown of political and official authority. Underneath his rule are the Prince and Princess, who run districts and other areas of land and city as their own personal territory where their own word is the law, even as the official last word comes from the King.
Underneath the rulership of the King and Queen who rule the country as a whole, Earls are given smaller areas of land to rule as their own. Their word within that particular area is supplied by the King. Although Garden and Kitsune are the only official counties in Rethium, the Earls are given lands with unofficial titles which allows the Earl to be recognized as an official ruler of an area of land.
Towns and cities may be run by Barons and Mayors, but can also be ruled by Dukes or Duchesses. None of these titles mean anything in the sense that one has more power than another, but rather they are based on the history of the town or city itself depending on what name their first ruler was known by or given when he or she rose to power.
Underneath the Baron or Mayor is the Representative, and alongside the Representative are the Magistrates and Viscounts, which act as the law and council to the Baron, Mayor or Duke (or Duchess depending). The official policing force and other peacekeepers follow suit in the hierarchy.
Culture
The culture of the people of Opron is a rather simple one. They live a life of the soil and the dirt, and find peace and entertainment in the growth and care of their crops. The people will often be found enjoying the fruits of their labors by attending plays and game events for teams that belong to the towns or cities in which they play.
The richer people in Opron, from the city of Home and Opron Center especially, will be known to enjoy the finer arts such as music, painting, masonry as well as a fine and delicate curiosity for the history of the world and the influence held by famous men and women from the old days of towns and cities across not just their own country but the surrounding continent as well.
The people of Opron perceive the world as a finer art which is meant to be changed and improved and added onto by the acts and events of everyday life in order to make it better than they had first found it. A hope that their work will provide a better tomorrow for the world around them is always a thought within their hearts no matter who you speak to.
Public Agenda
They seek to add to the history of the world by creating great artists and wise, influential philosophers and other men and women of the medias, in order to put themselves as a cultural hub on the map and grow their influence and power in the country.
They always hope to leave the world better than they found it before, whether by adding another painting to a museum, another song to a record of the arts or to place another name in the history books whether they practiced law, the arts, were a scholar or an influential scientist of any kind. They hope to create the world in which they first thrived and planted their seeds in the beginnings of history, to make the world a glowing representation of what the gods had supplied for them from the very beginning. They also seek to worship and revere the gods for the world that the mortal races were given, and always strive to do every little thing in the name of a god, because they believe in the end that without the gods, they would not be in the world at all, and their world would never have existed in the first place.
Assets
Fruits, Vegetables, Silk, Cotton, Books, Cattle, Alcohol and Furniture
History
Opron was recognized as a country in the year 3950 P.A. (Pantheonic Age) but was not officially instated and inhabited until the year 1 F.A. (First Age) When the Founding Races (The first five mortal races belonging to the world ) met at a council meeting and established borders and ruling councils for themselves and noted their official existence within the world.
The continent and it's land was known by a different name in the Pantheonic Age by the gods and the people who lived there, and was instead known as Valinor. The country of Opron was previously known as Ravenvale. The circumstances behind the renaming of the continent and the countries is unclear even in the religious texts, but some historians debate that Reethese was not an established language during the Pantheonic Age and so the current names were chosen possibly to reflect the land or the traits of the people who settled there, or even were words that had old meanings which have since been lost to time and history.
The exact reason for this geographical name change is unknown
"Eaohr Lemd Es Eaohr Lephae" "Our Land Is Our Life"
1 F.A. (First Age) - 2500 F.A (Fifth Age) - Sometimes listed as L.A. (Last Age)
Type
Geopolitical, Country
Alternative Names
Eafhream
Demonym
Opronians/Farmers
Currency
Lodarrs. Named after the God of Work and Equality, they are the only known and accepted currency on the continent, and have been accepted and used by all races in Rethium
Parent Organization
Official Languages
Related Ethnicities
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