Seonians

The Seonians were a human people and civilization which existed during the Second and Third Ages. Their reign began with the founding of Seonamun, the capital of the Seonian Kingdom in 45 LE, and ended with the dissolution and exodus of the Seonian people from Seonastera at the end of the Second Age, beginning in 759 LE.

Summarily, the Seonians identifed themselves as the descendants of the Scions of Seon--a few thousand Amunateans who were the sole survivors of the Flood, a catastrophic event which destroyed the Amunatean Empire in 1 LC. Their account of these events (as well as their telling of the story of creation) is written in a text called the First Book, a canonical document held sacred in the beliefs of the Seonians. As it is the only surviving description of the events which took place in Seonastera directly after the Flood, and its author or authors is unknown, the historicity of the First Book is debatable; nevertheless, throughout history, it has been accepted by most scholars as a historical document.

According to the First Book, at the end of the First Age, the Heralds of the Greater Pantheon personally approached each of the Scions and warned them of the impending Flood. They were to travel to an island off the coast of Amunatea. There, they would be watched over as the Empire was overcome by a multitude of disasters, culminating in a flood which submerged the region of Amunatea, obliterating the entire civilization.

At the end of the event, the waters receded and the island became part of what was now the region of Seonastera (hundreds of miles west of its alleged original location in what is now the Angalian Sea--the apparent movement of this island during the Flood is itself a source of much debate among historians). Eventually this spot was where the first Seonian city was founded, Seonamun.

Over the course of the next few centuries, the Seonians, the sole inheritors of the Amunatean Empire, grew from a handful of survivors into an entire culture unto themselves, establishing the Seonian Kingdom, which spread throughout the Seonasteran basin by the middle of the Second Age.

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