Victoria (kingdom)

The flying kingdom of Victoria, named after its elven Queen, came to the mainland one day to exploit the land of its valueable, natural ressource, Quinterzscence. Following its invasion the land was radically changed, with larger and smaller settlements sprouting up along the coast lines. Though, most of the kingdom's populace is elven in nature, humans and gnomes make up part of its original population as well, and later on even Kenkus and some Tieflings were "granted" the "opportunity" to live "among" them as well.

History
The kingdom wasn't always hanging in the air, but even before then a clear class structure was emerging from within its walls. Through sufficient Propaganda its people were convinced of the legitimacy of Victoria's and the elvs rule, or just convinced enough to not speak up to loud against it. From her castle atop a small mountain the monarchy looked down upon the people it deemed lesser, wiith evergrowing scorn. Even the other reigning neighbours were met with spite and so when scouts got back with a most potent fuel that was able to jumpstart industry it was only a matter of time until the royal alchemists found a way to shorten the delivery times from the imported good -- by using it to bring the kingdom to the continent.

Once it got lifted into the air the tension and segregation only got worse. Many of the people who lived too far away from the castle were simply left behind or seperated from their loved ones. It is unclear what became of them. In an attempt to keep the populace's resentment towards the forced relocation to a minimum, many propaganda camapaigns, describing the wonders and opportunities of the new frontier. For the still-unconvinced parts of the populace the monarchy only paid attention to in the form of quelching attempts of protest with force and fear. For the duration of the trip the most commonly used form of punishment was to throw the condemned over the rim of the city. Once the new continent was reached this sort of punishment got reserved for elven traitors of the crown, while others were just sentenced to work in the quinterz mines.

Life on Victoria
The kingdom can be sorted into four "ranks", divided by elevation. We have, at the top, the elven Castle and some aristocratic housing. This sector is for most all of the other populace off limits, including other elves.

Right next we have the "upper ring", reserved for the bourgeosie elves. Few and far between there may appear a human or gnome residence. Next in line we have the proportionally largest region in the city, the "middle ring".

It contains most of the "higher" industrial buildings and service job offerings, granting housing to most humans and gnomes. It may even spark the occasional 10 m² park.

Lastly, the outskirts of the city. the lower ring, reserved exclusively for a deemed-lesser workforce and the bulk of the remaining industry. After reaching its destination of the mainland and the kingdom's former workforce consisting mostly of humans have begun leaving the city to colonize the continent, the empty houses got filled with the native population of the mainland, lead on by false promises or fearmongering. The Kenkus and Tieflings worked largely on quinterz-processing in the kingdom.

The Fall of Victoria
Naturally, not everyone living on Victoria was or wanted to be complacent in the kingdom's horrid deeds. An underground revolutionary force has been working to help the opressed and after nearly 200 years of taking action, meticulous planning, and getting just the right people together the assassination coup on the Queen finally suceeded. With unforseen Consequences.

Queen Victoria, who had been extending her life using the same quinterzscence flow/connection that kept the city afloat, made herself an active part of keeping her kingdom in the air. And with her gone the kingdom slowly accelreated to the murky waters below. Luckily, most of the people were able to evacuate.

The mainland got flooded, both literally by the mega city falling into the ocean and figuratively by an influx of new people needing to live there now. Most of the once-higer ranking elves joined/re-founded the city of New Victoria, still clinging to the belief of their God-Queen, and resenting the chaos of the mainland. Pilgrim's Landing, though it was hit hardest by the floods recevied a greater boost in population and work force and only 5 years after everything went down it seems like nothinig ever hit the town.

Thanks to the now unregulated sea territory, piracy has also received a boom in the years after Victoria's Fall. The only form of an organized marine is posed by privately owned ships, trying to protect the trade.

Noteable People
The Queen has her own page.

Henry Esquire, the only human to ever have been in reach of the title of "Royal Alchemist", thanks to his breakthrough in the field of Mutagens. His revised formula granted the ability to use the same mutagen on a variety of people with the same result, whereas before mutagens needed to be concocted based on the receivers bodily structures and genetic makeup. However, shortly before his promotion an alleged accident caught his residence up in flames. Officially he was declared dead, however a body hasn't been found in the ruins of his home. Many people rumour that he couldn't handle the stress of his heiightened position or was so struck with guilt he tried to off himself. In reality he flew from the kingdom and adopted the new identity of Ace Finley.

Tion, otherwise known as Rachel Esquire, was the last defacto leader of the resistance against the monarchy and played a key role in the regicide. Other important key figures include:


 * Wren, a half-elven bard who got abandoned by her birth parents and adopted into the resistance
 * Voronoy Kruk, a blood kineticist
 * Sappho, an orc paladin serving the goddess Girls
 * Nikolai Karosu, one of the mainlands greatest magicians
 * Ace Finley, a human alchemist