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The geography of Crease is profoundly difficult to determine. While not as ancient as [[Enclaves]], Crease has had many thousands of years of shift-dispersal to migrate. Nevertheless, the majority of the ancient kingdom can be found within the confines of the Great Southern Range. Crease occupied a caldera three to five times the size of the Sea of Vaumark, unassailable by land and highly defensible by sea. Engravings indicate the Kingdom of [[Cyrus]] (pronounced 'Sirrus,' as the Verogod - another early dravic territory) lay to the North. Other borders, natural or political, are indeterminate. From its founding, the country only grew to encompass the caldera, despite its great wealth. At the last recorded point in its history, Cyrus had successfully taken a single city on the northern tip of the caldera island. Tablets from the tomb of a Cyrric General indicate a massive shift around this time. | The geography of Crease is profoundly difficult to determine. While not as ancient as [[Enclaves]], Crease has had many thousands of years of [[shift]]-dispersal to migrate. Nevertheless, the majority of the ancient kingdom can be found within the confines of the Great Southern Range. Crease occupied a caldera three to five times the size of the Sea of Vaumark, unassailable by land and highly defensible by sea. Engravings indicate the Kingdom of [[Cyrus]] (pronounced 'Sirrus,' as the Verogod - another early dravic territory) lay to the North. Other borders, natural or political, are indeterminate. From its founding, the country only grew to encompass the caldera, despite its great wealth. At the last recorded point in its history, Cyrus had successfully taken a single city on the northern tip of the caldera island. Tablets from the tomb of a Cyrric General indicate a massive shift around this time. | ||
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An ancient kingdom that predated the Marran Empire in the Sea of Vaumark.
Geography
The geography of Crease is profoundly difficult to determine. While not as ancient as Enclaves, Crease has had many thousands of years of shift-dispersal to migrate. Nevertheless, the majority of the ancient kingdom can be found within the confines of the Great Southern Range. Crease occupied a caldera three to five times the size of the Sea of Vaumark, unassailable by land and highly defensible by sea. Engravings indicate the Kingdom of Cyrus (pronounced 'Sirrus,' as the Verogod - another early dravic territory) lay to the North. Other borders, natural or political, are indeterminate. From its founding, the country only grew to encompass the caldera, despite its great wealth. At the last recorded point in its history, Cyrus had successfully taken a single city on the northern tip of the caldera island. Tablets from the tomb of a Cyrric General indicate a massive shift around this time.
History
Crease is thought to have been founded around -5,000 DGC by one Queen Hitti. Artifacts from the Kingdom speak of her as a "Warrior Queen" and "Descendant of Orien." Her tomb has not been located. Her daughter Maion, second Queen of the Creaseans, was buried within a simple barrow excavated by Archeralds in 1652 DGC. The tomb of a Cyrric general from the waning days of Crease indicates an immense respect for the navy of the Kingdom, as well as a burning envy for their wealth. While not evident in the historical record, scholars of Creasean History believe it was Cyrus that eventually overcame Crease.
Coinage
The (relative) wealth of Crease was a virtue attested by both the nation itself as well as the neighboring nation of Cyrus. Crease is the first documented nation in the world to use gold as a currency (Sigil being restricted to nickel, silver, and platinum.) "Rich as Crease" is a popular Dravic expression to describe a very successful enterprise.
Historians
Crease is historically relevant to the Marran empire; it's one of the first recorded dravic civilizations (The other being Cyrus). The depictions and limited remains from the dig sites do not show any traits distinctly different from modern Dravon nor any features that indicated a recent divergence from human genetics.
Marran Law does not protect Creasean artifacts from private ownership, instead treating what are commonly pottery and low-grade weaponry as private salvage. Citizens (to the despair of historians) are free to use and abuse Creasean artifacts the same as any debris found during exploration.
