The Sea Has a Government
Atlantia
The stones are not the oldest things on this planet.
Britannia tried once. The fleet that came back was smaller.
A sea power in the far south, rich in Etherium, too strong to conquer and too divided to conquer anyone. Its founder sealed something at the bottom of the world and refused to explain.
Atlantia sits far south of Volaris, big enough to be its own continent and old enough to treat every surface nation as a recent arrival. It has Etherium under its seabed, a navy that appears where it has no right to be, and a court that has kept the same treaties since before Britannia had a name.
Britannia tried to take it once. The war lasted a season. The Britannian fleet came home smaller and the empire changed its language to trade partner. Atlantian diplomats are never surprised.
The danger is inside. Two houses claim the trident, the old one that holds it and the younger one that holds the shipyards, and every treaty signed abroad is a move in that argument. A weak season for one house is an opening for the other, and Britannia knows it.
The most guarded site in Atlantia is a structure at the bottom of the world, sealed by Atlantia's founder, who said one thing about it and nothing more. The stones are not the oldest things on this planet.
- Posture
- Submerged
People
- Adamari, The Drowned Captain