Cardelios
Structure
Cardelios is ran in a traditional style of ruling. There are only a few hierarchies:
- High Elders
- Advisors of the Court
- Citizens
Culture
Cardelios, being a nation of seclusive elves, has a culture revolving around beauty and grace. The people of Cardelios have a great distaste for anything considered by them to be uncultured or ungraceful. This is one of the reasons why Cardelios was formed in the middle of a massive forest. The elves of Cardelios spend their long lives working on the arts, not giving too much of a care to the things they dislike.
Assets
Cardelios does have a defense force of archers that keep intruders at bay. Other than that, the country doesn't have too many valuables. Art pieces are very common here but the elves rarely put monetary value on them.
History
Cardelios, like Stocanburg, was founded and built inside a large forest. The forests were supposedly enchanted by powerful druids to make sure that intruders couldn't enter to taint the citizens' everyday lives. Cardelios was fully established in the year 55 and has more or less remained unchanged culture-wise. Even during the rise of the Time of Technology, Cardelians only use technology akin to pre-3rd century tech.
Demography and Population
Cardelios is populated entirely by elves. The types of elves are a mixture of high elves and wood elves. Drow do reside in Cardelios, many of which are refugees that managed to crawl out of the horrors of the underworld. The population spread is pretty evenly spread. The towns of Cardelios are symmetrically built around the central capital.
Military
Cardelios doesn't have any real military beyond a very basic yet mobile defense force of archers. They are ordered to find outside intruders and ward them away if the forests haven't warded them. Their tactics will go from persuasion to straight-up attacking.
Foreign Relations
Cardelios' relations towards the outside world is, like Stocanburg, very limited. Trades are rare and only ever consist of trading between food items and art pieces. Cardelios does not take kindly to strangers entering their forests unannounced. This has caused some problems with neighboring states where diplomats and merchants reported getting shot at.
Founding Date
55
Type
Geopolitical, Country
Demonym
Cardelians
Government System
Monarchy, Elective
Economic System
Traditional
Neighboring Nations
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