Thermidore

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The Floating Cities of Thermidore

Thermidore
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Flag of Thermidore
Motto: Everyone is a blank page born
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Region Gay
Capital Thermidore
Official Language(s) English and Thermidorean are used to trade but most flying cities have their own language
Leader Arch Primate Casmeer
Population 4 billion
Currency Pilot Stones 
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Thermidore: Thermidore is the name of the country coming from "The lands contained in the Treaty of Thermidore" where a deed proclaiming the three people's unity was signed in the dead Mountain city of Thermidore. The Floating city people sent representatives in the form of tribes people. In order to understand the nation of Thermidore one must understand the nature of "Floatstone"

Floatstone is typical rock that while being a solid and durable rock, it floats. This is owing to the special properties of the gases in its crystals as well as distortions in the magnetic fields around Thermidore. It is believed that the conditions that change rock to float stone are only found in the mountains of the region. However magicians believe that this strange magnetic energies are no more than the powering of ley lines by the nomadic tribes down south. Another thing about Floatstone is that it slowly loses its gas and eventually returns to earth, however this takes thousands of years. The gas also seems to affect people's minds (see later) and it is illegal to mine this gas in Thermidore.

Down south there are vast tundra plains and lakes before reaching the icy shores. In this vast desolate area there is the most astonishing phenomenon of Floating cities. These cities follow paths mystically lain down in special stones called "pilot stones" by the wandering tribes or "terranauts" that people the desolate landscape. These tribes trade with the people of the mountains and the people of the cities. Although none will reveal the reason for their ever changing paths.

The Floating cities of Thermidore are made on islands that are the logical conclusion of the natural mountain building phenomenon of isostasy which is further increased by the upward drag of veins of floatstone. Areas around these veins will eventually break off with some float-stone and float as an island from the mountains to the Tundra. These islands are generally more ambient owing to the heat storage capacity of floatstone, and the movement of the island.

Thus eventually the islands become occupied and like in a life cycle, the island grows from village to city, and in this stage any political system is possible, and eventually the gases in the floatstone are all lost and the city founders, lists, and sinks under it own weight back to land. Upon landing, most city denizens die with shock, or roam the land in tribes forgetting who they were and their original identities (it is possible they form the basis for new cities). This behaviour along with the tendency of floating city denizens to die of shock if they ever leave their cities, is though to be caused by Floatstone Gas. However in their cities these people can be the most... well anything, the cities are as diverse as all the regions in gay, with even one city which believes life is an entire act and they are (literally) given their parts each morning.


Location: The Floating Cities of Thermidore are located in the southernmost tip of the Region of Gay. The nation deliniates its boundaries to the south by the area its floating cities roam across the breathtaking tundra, and to the north by its mining interests in the majestic mountains of Overhang.


Society and Politics: While most of the population lives in the floating cities of the Tundra plains, there is a growing amount of both sessile city dwellers to the north, most notably the city of Thermidore, and nomadic tribes in the eastern and northern tundra, including the famous terranauts.

Societies and governance vary incredibly between each floating city, and it is generally advisable to research a destination thoroughly before visitng as what can be a common custom in one city may be completely taboo in another. The sessile cities are somewhat more sedate and less dynamic than their floating cousins, and tends toward more beurocrasy and hierarchy in their social structures. Lastly the tribes are typically formed of "adults" and "young". The ritual of transition from "young" to "adult" is generally performed by undertaking a year-long survival mission away from the tribe.