Eitador Chronicles

Eitador is a large continent located a short distance west of Portugal and North Africa, between the Azores archipelago and the Canary Islands. Its settled history is long, with its first city founded in 2700 BC, and many societies and cultures have developed there over the centuries. Often considered strange and isolationist by the rest of the world, Eitador maintained relative independence even through periods of war and instability. Following technological advances made in the 21st and 22nd Centuries, and various crises around the world, Eitador eventually became the global center of neo-colonial wealth and power.

The Location of The Eitadorian Continent
Geographical Map of The Eitadorian Continent

Choose Your Own Adventures
A CYOA is a 'Choice-Image Game' where you count points and make choices to build unique characters and situations. Various CYOAs are set in Eitador and feature lots of worldbuilding and characters for you to come up with your own stories using, like solo- roleplaying experiences.
Click here to return to the CYOA index for a list of all CYOAs by jayemouse, including those not set in Eitador.

The Timeline
See a full timeline of Eitador's history and place in the world across the ages! This isn't required reading for Eitador's stories, and you don't have to take the events here as truth for your CYOA build, but it can provide context for them. Links throughout the timeline will take you to all the stories and additional lore pages in the setting where they're relevant.

History in Brief
The coast of Eitador is largely green and fertile, especially verdant in the south east. Head inland, however, and you will discover large areas of hostile desert. Due to climate change, these areas have only become harder to survive in over time. Mountains are more frequent the further west you travel, and the entire western coast is lined with beautiful jagged cliffs. Aside from the Canaries and the Azores, there are a number of islands surrounding the continent. The majority of the larger islands are on the west side, where they are known for having sharp and unusual shapes. The continent is warm for most of the year, generally speaking.
The first major wave of migrants to Eitador was sometime following the desertification of the Sahara. It then experienced a population and cultural boom when it began trading resources such as tin, discovered in the south east, with the Phoenicians. Many small kingdoms gradually appeared all over the continent. The Kingdom of Estrella, in the south, was one of the most powerful. It took a great deal of influence from the continent's Roman neighbors, many of whom fled to Estrella as the Roman Empire collapsed. In the west, Eitador's most ancient cultures were better preserved. This is where the native Eitadorian religion known as 'Ascendency' sprung up in 673AD. Further north, a raider culture developed, which lead to around 2/3rds of the continent being divided up amongst warlords around 800AD.
One of the continent's most famous historical periods begins with the Estrellan king, Valen the First. After overthrowing the tyrannical and unstable ruler before him, Valen proved to be both a savvy civil administrator and an effective military general. He began a campaign of conquest that his grandson, Valen III, would later finish in 1587, uniting the entire continent for the first and only time in history, although it was ultimately short lived.
One of Estrella's successor states, Brightfire, attempted to conquer the continent once in 1675, and again in 1785. Both attempts ended in failure. Brightfire was stalled in deadly stalemates with the northern nation of Puratova. The introduction of firearms and machinery to Eitador made these battles longer and bloodier than all that had come before them. Brightfire tended to side with Spain in international matters, while Puratova tended to side with Britain. They finally came together during the Napoleonic Wars to fight France, who they both recognized as a potential threat to the continent as a whole. They also found a common enemy in the many anarchist and socialist uprisings of the late 1800s. Some of these uprisings eventually lead to independence for minor nations such as Daybreak and Avosnia.
These minor nations generally did not fare well in the 20th century. Daybreak entered a long civil war that all of its neighbors immediately exploited for personal gain. Avosnia suffered from a series of authoritarian leaders as well as widespread corruption. Vast amounts of wealth ended up in the hands of businesses in the Avosnian city of Vitaria. When civil unrest swept the country, and the military failed to help, the Vitarian elite took matters into their own hands. They used battle mechs, which were being developed for the Daybreak civil war, to force Avosnia to recognize Vitaria as an independent city state.
Liberal democracies went into decline around the world when the economics of endless growth became unsustainable without government intervention and the climate refugee crisis caused a huge wave of reactionary sentiment. The rich continued getting richer, however, and Vitaria prospered most of all. By the time the United States collapsed and war spread through Europe and Asia, Vitaria had solidified its position as a global center of power. The rise of automation forced the implementation of UBI in many nations, keeping the unemployed and struggling masses from rebelling, while the rise of cybernetic and biological augmentation began to transform those with money into a new race entirely.