Lumis
| The Kingdom of Lumis De Küningsraach Lumis | |||
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| Motto: Am Interetze vän Allen | |||
| Anthem: Küningsläid | |||
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| Capital | Witzenbourg | ||
| Largest city | Witzenbourg, Tousons | ||
| Official language(s) | Common tongue, Lumisian, Corcois | ||
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| Demonym | Lumisian | ||
| - Adjective | Lumisian | ||
| Government | Constitutional Monarchy | ||
| - King | King Wilhelm I | ||
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| Establishment | 1229 AN | ||
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| Population | 1,958,195 | ||
| Currency | Zaikir (Ƶ) | ||
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| Driving side | left | ||
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| National animal | Haven Hawk | ||
| National food | Schnitzel | ||
| National drink | Mead | ||
| National tree | White Oak | ||
| Abbreviation | LUM | ||
I have only been to the illustrious Kingdom once, but it was one of the most enlightening experiences I've ever had in my life. The people there live in the most pastoral way, with the most technological device in any home being the cursory light bulb, powered by a link to the fusion reactors in the cavern ceiling that also power the monumental light show of the sky.—Edward Coldstone, Cira: A Legacy (1675 AN)
The Kingdom of Lumis (Lumisian: Küningsraach Lumis) is a nation and independent territory subject to the sovereignty of the Ciric Confederacy. Located in a massive underground cavern, the kingdom exists almost entirely within the governorate of Wrighthaven, though it technically occupies none of the same land. Lumis is commonly thought of in confederate consciousness as an idyllic land under the ground of the confederacy that calls to mind the fairy tales of stoic knights and tranquil villages, with the entire kingdom rejecting the technology of the confederacy except in two instances; the first being a system of artificial lighting and fog generation at the cavern's ceiling to give the kingdom the appearance of a surface country, and the second being an elevator at the capital of Witzenbourg, called the Himmelswagon (Sky Chariot) by locals, which is the only way in or out of the kingdom.
Geography
Physical Geography
The Kingdom of Lumis is located entirely underground, in an area that was once a mining colony in the early 1200s, though the caverns that Lumis expanded into eventually underwent heavy terraforming to force the land to succumb to the desires of the miners. The caverns were transformed into five distinct layers, each with their own biomes specifically imposed upon them to fit the desires of the settlers.
The first layer, closest to the surface, is the layer of Brunsheim. The area encompasses a traditional mediterranean climate with lakes and two major rivers, the Otros and the Sämeck, breaking around the hill upon which the city of Witzenbourg lies, which is just one of the many rolling hills of the layer. The gentle rolling hills are only broken by a series of three lakes in one of the lower valleys, and the range of small mountains that bounds the layer, crawling around the cavern wall, called the Addelbeck Mountains. The southern and lower regions of the layer are dominated by the Hazelbark forest, which contains no actual hazel, but is mainly made up of various decidious trees along with some pines.
The second layer of Lumis is called Ärd, and is accessible through switchback path that descends through a cave in a mountain of the Addelbeck range. Ärd is far more mountainous than Brunsheim, with the centre of the region comprising a much taller and rockier alpine type mountain range called the Frostspëtzen. These snow-capped mountains are criss-crossed by the beaten paths and rocky trails of the kingdom, and are surrounded on all sides by an expansive tundra with evergreen forests and frozen rivers. Nestled among those high mountains lies the layer's largest city, Osterfeld, capital of the County of Zossen.
The third layer is the smallest, and it is called Cours. Cours, being the centre of the Corc region of the kingdom, is very similar to Brunsheim. It possesses the same mediterranean climate and geography, though the hills of Cours range from more prominent than those of Brunsheim in the north, to near nonexistant in the southern part of the region. Cours also only possesses one lake, though it is much larger than the lakes of Brunsheim; this lake, Lac Grandeur, is also the location of the layer's largest city, Tousons, capital of both the Duchy of Aquitaine as well as the entire region of Corc.
The fourth layer is the largest one, called Beauport, and it consists mainly of the Verdant Jungle, which is a hilly rainforest that grows many different types of plants and animals, including some genetically engineered for artificial biodiversity by the confederates on the surface. The jungle is sparsely inhabited by humans, with most tending to live in cities surrounding the Mer de Verre (Sea of Glass), including the layer's largest town of Port Blanc, capital of the Duchy of Côte Blanc. The sea had already existed prior to the terraforming of the layer, as it had been an underground lake connected to the frozen rivers that run through Sypyr on the surface.
The fifth layer is the last one inhabited, and was barely terraformed because of its proximity to some of the lower depths that contain large pockets of magma; the best that could be done for this layer, Elodia, home to the Archbarony of the same name, was to transform part of it into a desert as opposed to leaving it as a volcanic wasteland that it had been prior and still is partially, in the areas in the northwest that surround the shield volcano called the Montagne Rouge. The city of Morósse, capital of Elodia, lies near the entrance to the layer, and is pretty much the only connection through which the cities in the desert can have access to agricultural materials.
