Atlantis (City Beneath the Waves)

The Atlantean Empire was an empire, with the city Kleito as capital, that ruled for a very long time over a large portion of the world, causing the world to be somewhere between 2000 and 5000 years more advanced than in our timeline.

Early history
In the beginning of its history (5000 BC) the continent of Atlantis was split into 11 nations: S’tket, Tlan, Tui, Yoral, Yara, Ouwre, Kodour, Khun, Seles, Tradil, Eavel. These 11 nations had a similar relationship to each other as did the ancient Greek city-states, they spoke the same language (Atlantean) and had the same culture and gods.

The year of unification
In the year 4318 BC the 11 nations of Atlantis unified into one empire, bringing their collective knowledge together to form the Atlantic empire, this year is known as The year of Unification and is year 1 on the Atlantean calendar (the main global calendar), the Atlantean people kept mostly to themselves up until the year 4003 BC when Atlantis invaded the Iberian peninsula.

expansion
Atlantean expansion began with the establishment of several colonies on the Iberian peninsula. These colonies quickly began expanding towards eachother.

History
Over the next 2000 years the Atlantean Empire expanded and took control over a large portion of Europe, North Afrika and the east side of America. The Atlanteans spread their culture and religion to the people they control, who they call the Echmastra (insiders). Emperor Methonis II decided to stop the expansion of the empire in the year 2013 BC and instead focused on unifying the empire and teaching all the inhabitants Atlantean.

The End
In the year 847 BC (3462 AA) a cataclysmic earthquake near the continent caused a tsunami and later the continent sank into the ocean. In a mere two days the entire continent disappeared beneath the waves. After the sinking of the capital, the Atlantean Empire began to crumble, the local populations started revolutions, ’the outsiders’, the people not controlled by the Atlanteans, attacked the empire on all sides and the regions and provinces of the empire began fighting against each other, a mere ten years after the sinking of Atlantis the empire collapsed.

Aftermath
After the collapse of the empire, many of the provinces became their own independent empires. Atlantean (the language of the Atlanteans) was mixed with the surviving local languages, creating the Atlantean language family, which included nearly every language in the eastern side of America, Europe and Africa. The empire was very technologically advanced (having steamships, primitive cars, air balloons, early small planes) and the locals adopted the technology causing the world to be far more advanced. The Atlanteans had a polytheistic belief system because of their power monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) ever becomes as popular, Christianity and Islam are never even invented. In the year 1000 the scientific advancements cause atheism to become the most popular.

Mythology
The Atlanteans had a very complex mythology with a lot of gods, demigods and demons. But there are, as in most mythologies, a few more important than the other ones, namely: Xados, the creator of everything; Igyn, goddess of life; Lonos, god of death; Eta, goddess of destruction; Ides god of creation. All the other hundreds of gods are less important and usually a single temple is used to pray to as many as ten deities at a time.

Creation Story
In Atlantean mythology, in the beginning Xados was all that was, Xados was a genderless, limitless and lonely god, and because he was so lonely he decided to make the ’four secondary deities’, Igyn, Lonos, Eta, Ides. But even these got lonely so they began creating the other gods, who eventually created the solar system, all the gods began living in the sun (the Atlanteans were aware that the sun was in the middle of the solar system.

Gods
Here‘s a list with some gods of the Atlantean mythology.

administrative division
The Atlanteans split their empire in several ways, but instead of using the Atlantean word here we will use a literal translation. First, the empire is split into the ‘Center’ (Atlantis) and the ‘Edges’ (the rest), the center was not further divided but the edges were. The edges were split into four ‘areas’: Zara, Zuch, Kara, Kuch. These areas were split further into regions, which were split into provinces, which were split into sectors and finally, those were split into sections, which are basically agglomerations.