The City of Santis

The City of Santis.
Santis is the current capital of the Southern Trading Alliance.It is the most populous and prosperous of all south-eastern city states.

Located upon the peninsular that leads to the entra

nce of Tradesman's Bay, the city is home to the council that rules the Southern Trading Alliance, along with many of Eris' major trading guilds and corporations.

Before the Golden Split, Santis enjoyed prominence in the south-east as Imperial Daencer's regional capital and a major recruiting centre for the Imperial military and bureaucracy. During the fall of Imperial Daencer, the city states of the east became de-facto independent upon the withdrawal of Imperial forces, and the city in it's current form was born, escaping the devastation that befell the west and north.

Santis is the largest and oldest city in Eris, founded millennia ago by colonists from a distant land, often thought to be the Akemas Isles, or perhaps an entirely different continent. It's population is undoubtedly the highest of any city on the continent, whilst it's economic output and architectural prowess is rivalled only by that of the capital of the Arystian Empire, Pentropolis.

History
Santis is the oldest known settlement on Eris, founded thousands of years before 0E. Although the exact date of its founding is unknown, it is suspected that the city was founded by colonists from the Akemas Isles, although a few scholars believe that the colonists merely stopped in the Akemas Isles, having come from an even further unknown land. Indeed, the Akemas Isles have folklore of "Sea People", giving legitimacy to this theory.

After its founding, Santis quickly grew and expanded due to the near limitless natural resources the colonists found on Eris. New settlements quickly sprung up, becoming the city-states that comprise the south-east of Eris today.

Eventually, the settlers found that the pleasant, yet arid regions they had landed in were no longer sufficient to support the growing civilisation, and major expeditions were launched north and west, eventually developing into the cities and towns that populate the continent in the current era. Although Santis had enjoyed nominal political control of all further colonies, the vast distances and populations of the new settlements meant that self rule, and eventual de-facto independence was inevitable, leading to an era dominated by hundreds of petty kings and noblemen that would comprise the years leading up to the unification of Eris by Imperial Daencer.