Feanoria

Feanoria is a very large island chain also referred to as a subcontinent in the far east of Micras. Throughout it history, it has been known by many names. Its respective islands are commonly called North and South lsland in the common tongue. It is also known in Batavian as the Rode Antillen, "Red Antilles". The Vanics called the island Sólareyjar (Islands of the sun).

Origins and Etymology

Feanoria was added to the map along with the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere by Series 3. It was named after Elentari Sirithil nos Feanor of Menelmacar, a country that made the earliest claim on the full subcontinent and has left a cultural mark. Sirithil's name itself derived from the name Feanor, the elf who forged the Silmarils in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Silmarillion".

Landscape

Feanoria consists of two big islands, North Feanoria and South Feanoria, and many associated smaller island chains. To the North of the subcontinent is the island of Balar. Further south is the Coprian area (once Gaer Edhilond), and then Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity Islands, collectively known as Terra Firma and once the easternmost outpost of the Treesian Empire. The southernmost chain are known as the Anterran Islands.

Feanoria is a volcanic island chain, and is split by a range of mountains - the island's highest peak is Mt. Oiolosse (3590 m). It is home to many mountains and large forests, but also contains areas of (highland) plains and desters.

History

Feanoria was first occupied by Alteria on the now-lost Series Two of maps, and only ruined Alterian cities such as Dundee spotted the landscape until it was taken over by the Menelmacari in 2002. The Menelmacari period was a golden age for Feanoria. The Menelmacari capital, Caras Menelmacar, situated on the southernmost part of the north island by the Sirithil Straits, became the center of a great empire. After the Menelmacari Civil War, Feanoria was briefly split among the rival factions; the whole chain later became the Dutch Red Antilles. This was the last time all Feanoria was united under a single empire; the area was long a patchwork of Beaugian and Stormarkian claims, as well as the small Antican colony of New Brannum. The complete North Feanoria, including Balar, is now home to the Three Kingdoms of Nidaros, Riskai and Celebarad.

South Feanoria is occupied nearly in its entirety by Adrestia, the earliest recognized claim dating to 1675 AN. The island's capital of Gondolin serves as one of the capitals of the Imperial Federation.