Cenedoiss

The kingdom of Cenedoiss is the representative government of the mysterious race of Ciloss. They are somewhat suited to warm temperatures and therefore can support some servants on warm provinces. The Ciloss are a brooding, somewhat inward turned race, who tend to keep their secrets to themselves and all this makes them somewhat isolated. They are masters of long distance operations and have some very powerful units e.g. units which are capable of rifting multiple times while carrying loads. Their heroes are much more independent and have a very long command range. They are specialized in guerrilla type warfare. This kingdom is of neutral alignment. The cenedian units consist mostly of ciloss.

The City of Cenedoiss

The City-state of Cenedoiss is a large city located on a group of islands in the massive lake near the southeastern volcano. The location is pretty idyllic even though there's very little land to farm on the island itself, but the farms on the mainland to the west from the city provide more than necessary to survive for the city. Also warmth from the volcano helps the growth in this part of the valley unlike in some other cities, like in the Atherton where the climate is very cold and farming hard. The lake provides the city with huge variety of fish for food and trade. Although the lake contains many dangerous water beasts too which occasionally bring trouble to the area. The island itself is considered to be very warm place as it contains many hot springs that constantly bring lots of warm water to the surface, mostly for the pleasure of the nobles who channel it to their bath houses.

The city was found shortly after destruction of Teladan, although there was already settlement on the island build by race called ciloss, mysterious squid-like race that is able to live both on land and water. They gladly sheltered the survivors in their city which was fairly small at that time but quickly after coming of the humans and other races it grew and prospered to its currently proportions. Most of them now live in the part of the city called the Mudtown, which is fairly poorly constructed and unkept unlike the other parts of the city. The living conditions in it aren't very good and has been some demonstrations against the ruling government to make the conditions better. Both the refugees and cilosses revered Albila, goddess of Water, in a form or another and this helped them a lot in settling in together. After some time the old mosque for the goddess, build by the cilosses turned out be small because of greatly increased population and with the combined efforts a new Grand Cathedral of Water was build in the middle of the city to form a single centre for the religion.

The city is reasonable lowly fortified compared to the massive citywalls of Vaerlon and Graemor but the surrounding waters serve as great way to keep possible attackers away from the city. The city is guarded by the Cenedoiss seaguard who scan the seas day and night from the walls. Key points of the walls are equiped with large ballistas that can sink any possible ships that try to approach the city. The seaguard is also skilled in fighting both on land and water as needed. Some of the mercenary firbolgs who lived in Teladan survived the catastrophe and moved to the Cenedoiss along with the humans and now serve as elite guard hired by the seaguard and some noble houses. They are mostly posted to the gates of the city because of their massive size. Also the Grand Cathedral of Water offers their services to the seaguard when ever needed.

The ciloss, being the rulers of the original city, retained control of the current Cenedoiss and rule over it arrogantly. The noble houses fight over the control in the court constantly and hold the key positions in the government. Although almost all of them being cilosses some other races have also managed to get into the court as long as they have mastered the mind games of ciloss politics who respect personal merit and power over such things as race. Curiously the highest ruler in the city, the doge, is rumoured to be a human but very few people ever get an invitation to seehim. Even most of the court nobles haven't met him in person and they have to deal with his aide who delivers the messages between the doge and the court. Still the doge doesn't usually intervene in the affairs of the court and lets the court rule the city as it pleases.

Fairly new player in state politics the City-state of Cenedoiss has stayed neutral in the politics between Valkor and Graemor, although some officials of Vaerlon have raised their concerns of this neutrality because the city is located a lot closer to Graemor than it is to Vaerlon. The City-state has also declared that it will not have any relationships with the City-state of Atherton, because of their fire revering population.

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