====== Settlement ====== ^ //**Cantara**// ^^ | || | Location | -1385,64,1765 \\ http://dev-urandom.eu:8123/?worldname=world&mapname=surface&zoom=5&x=-1396&y=64&z=1802 | | Local Languages | English | | Government | Techno-Egyptian Serpent Dynasty | | Leader | midriatic | | Establishment | 5/8/2021 | | Population | ~1 | | [[nations:asc|ASC/S]] | XXX | The Serpent Cult of Cantara, a land that belongs to a race of hideous desert reptiles, skilled in the arts of archery and alchemy, mining and trade. ===== History ===== === founding/time period === Cantara was founded by midriatic soon after first arriving on the server and sailing south from spawn to a small island where he landed, finding the island surrounded by a natural double harbor, he decided to build a simple house there, and then from that point went on to build a fort across the bay. === major event/time period === This desert territory has been inhabited for centuries by a royal line of Serpent folk, gifted in the arts of alchemy and sorcery, they typically live underground in cavernous warrens. ===== Landmarks and Surroundings ===== [{{ :settlements:cantara-catbox.jpg?}}] Bordered on the north and south by rivers, and to the west and east by seas. A naturally generated pyramid lies north over its border, and the Banu Hashim tribe's territory lies to the east. ===== Economy ===== Fishing, livestock, wheat and other crops aided with the use of a hydraulic farm, as well as having chicken-dispenser farms. Cantara is also home to what is innocuously referred to as the "Toy Factory," an arsenal complex employed with slave labor, that produces a range of high quality weapons and hazardous chemicals which are sold by the DRACO Concern. ===== Local Life and Issues ===== Inhospitable desert aside from the few farms and trees established, started as a sleepy fishing village. ===== Government ===== Run by a royal line of Serpent demigods who inherited their magical skills from the djinn, that live in the off-worlds, however, a degree of democracy and open debate and free assembly are tolerated from potential residents. ===== Residents ===== Word is that dozens of yevs toil in the underground mines, being whipped with leads daily as they bore out mineral ores from solid rock for their benefactors.