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The World of Illyris Hello to all the SimCity-ers in Simtropolis! I'm excited to share with you my first journal entry for my tentatively titled world. Sorry it took so long! I finally tried Modds for the first time Wednesday which led to one of my major cities crashing, and me being unable to successfully uninstall the modd I ended -- and literally wiped one of my largest cities off the map -- so I had to re-install sim City and rebuild ALL of the South east part of Continent Red. It was not a pretty day, but I did trial and error a few basic modds and added some nice new additions to my cities =) So, while I'm working on getting my region up to the population is was (one city had 117,000 residents) before a new Modd destroyed it, I thought I'd give you my first entry. So, on the journal! I decided on a world name -- it is called Illyris (EE-LEE-RIS), a combo of two names I was thinking of making it -- but decided on this one and to me, the name seems brand new, instead of "borrowed." Just to remind you if you haven't read the background on this city journal... I like stories, so I decided to create story around the cities that I'm developing -- currently on Sim City 4 - my favorite of all the Sim city games thus far. The world consists of 5 landmasses, 2 at the poles are uninhabitable. This entry will be about the peoples of the middle and most populous continent called Red. You can read the background and history if you want to know a little more about the world in my first entry in this city journal called "A Background and Short History." I've recently added a few important dates to remember. So, if you're ready to read on, I will start with the story of the Amarians! The Amarians - ENTRY #1 The Amarians are a race of people in Illyris, who are nonmagical. They survived and won a civil war, know little about their heritage, and are of two religions: The Stiles and Trists. They are the largest, uber-confident and most powerful race on Illryis. Their history is known only from the time of the earthquake of 1427 where all the elders of the community were wiped out. They were a religious group of people who gathered shortly before sundown every 7th day of the week for prayers while the children played. As far as what is known, a 8.5 magnitude earthquake destroyed their monastery/church and all 2,000 people in that building perished. The very old men and women who could not climb atop the great mountain, had stayed at home that day, survived and took care of the remaining Amarians. This was 71 years after the start of the Red Rail Road -- most of the railroad was destroyed in the quake. Shortly after the earthquake, a civil war erupted between the two races of Red City -- Ruskins and The Amarians. The Amarians won, and most Ruskins fled. The Amarians then completed their forefathers work and built the Red Railroad to the Snake river where they settled Red Port city. The year 1510 brought The Great Exploration of Illyris, during that time, a group of people from another race and 2nd land mass, the magical Elgers, traversed their Europe-sized continent to the South West end, and established London. Current Populations of Major Cities: · Red Port City: 60,000 · Padua: 55,000 · Allistar: 59,000 · Note Dame: 38,000 · London: 68,000 · Baghdad: 22,000 It is currently the year 2100 in Illyris... The Amarians from time immemorial were a resourceful, and intelligent race. They learned the secrets of metals and electricity are equipped with modern technology. They've developed personalized computers, and rudimentary electronic communication devices called Oz, which can text message like today's smart phones and send voice messages, but cannot do voice/video steaming. They have not yet developed that broadband nor satellite technology since a few of the oldest races on the planet rely on magic and have no need for electronic communication. The Oz devices are useful for the businessman, the teenager, parents, and farmers alike. However, only specialized technicians know how the Oz really works. Here is Red Port city, a lively, bustling port city which sits along the bank of the Snake river neighboring one of its tributaries. Here is Padua, slightly smaller than Red Port. It is a beautiful city with both an urban suburban side. Below lies Allistar, a great urban city on the banks of the Snake river with a commercial airport of it's own. Notre Dame is one of the geographically larger cities on the coast of Red. It also contains Farlington (renamed to Notre Dame), also a sizable commercial center. Here we have London, the first urban city established by people of the Elger race which contains 2 major health centers. Baghdad, a smaller city population-wise, contains an inter-city-railroad for its industrial community. I'll be experimenting with different ploppables and road networks this week, and working on re-growing my previously destroyed inland cities of Red. Please let me know in the comments below what you think of my city-story so far and I hope you have a great week! other info: I didn't want to start an entirely new 1+ million population region, so I imported Farlington (now Notre Dame), and Allistar from a previous game play a few years ago, along with a few others, which I'll let you know when I write an entry about them. I started the port of Red continent on a pre-made region called Timbuktu, but it is actually the intersection of Red continent and The Land of the Elgers. The rest of the entire continent of Red is in 3 other regions, which I terraformed myself using a region creating application. I tried my best to make the edges of each region match up to the port or inland regions. Small portions of it will just have to be left to your imagination. =)
