Fanon:Hekatonschoinos
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Hekatonschoinos is the capital world of the Church of Alexandros. It is currently underdeveloped, and most residents are either the followers of the new religion or immigrants seeking work.
Hekatonschoinos, despite the relative underdevelopment and underpopulation, has scores of opportunities for work, featuring infrastructures for work in all fields of careers, as well as multiple shops and merchant work. The major force in the neighborhood is the supposed creators of the landmass and certain founders of the new city, the Union of the Insane in which Kallisto is a part of, and despite its split to maintain their hold over their old domain at Sunset Valley, Union of the Insane remains the most powerful household in Hekatonschoinos. Most houses available are largely middle class dwellings, and land is plentiful in the region.
In terms of style, Community rabbit holes are mostly surprisingly non-Hellenic, which is not surprising due to the lack of community buildings supporting the Greek style. However, there are many Hellenic style buildings, such as a park/temple Naiskos tou Propatros, or a small temple of the Forefather, and an incomplete segment of the Agora, where the first segment with its food vendor, public baths, and a Chapel, at the central islet of Hekatonschoinos. As for residential lots, there are some modern buildings sprinkled around, but the 4 dominant styles are the Naos-Strapedon style buildings usually reserved for the faithful and almost all of them located at the Gulch of the Faithful at the northwestern side of the city, the Agroikotatos style building which has that rustic feel, the "Attic" style, a semi-modern style that is planned to be redone to fit the Hellenic style, and the rather Greek-style dwelling with a large barn for animals as well as huge space for gardening.
Geographically, Hekatonschoinos is divided into 7 distinct parts: There is the Northwestern Islet, which is the smallest Islet of Hekatonschoinos, and there is only one lot: the second Palace of Pella-Syrakousai which is marked as a exclusive lounge, without its exclusivity. Bordering that is the Cradle of the Faithful, which is shaped sort of like the Triskelion, and it is quite densly laid with residential lots, most of them developed. It is the only segment of the Hekatonschoinos to have the Naos-Strapedon style dwellings, and the more traditional Ancient Greek-style houses are also common in the said region. It is also the most important, as it is where the Hekatonschoinos Chapter of the Union of the Insane lives, but also because of the strategic Tiberium field just below their dwelling along with the Palaistra Stratotike (the Martial Arts Academy) which is designed to have more of the Eastern feel, the Art Gallery and the Junkyard. Below that is the Islet of Governance, which is insignificant for the most part, with only the City Hall and another Traditional Ancient Greek-style house located at the islet, although with some fishes and collectibles there. Below that is what ended up being the East Asian Enclave, and there was most of the unoccupied residential lots, as well as it being the center of small-scale employment, although it also housed the Theatron, the Science Lab, and a Mausoleion. Moving Southeastward is the Military islet, housing one residential lot, the Military Base, and the Rocket Assembly. Moving East is the Lower Nome, the largest portion of Hekatonschoinos, housing the Plumbbob Film Recording Center, the Eastwind Trade Center, a Gymnasion, and a Library, as well as the Central Park, and it too has a number of residential lots, 4 of them of the semi-modern "Attic" style, as well as a Epiteichisma style (which was more of a medieval castle influenced lot) housing that was used by the Scholars' Union and the Alkmaionids back in Sunset Valley, both relocated to Hekatonschoinos. Connecting from the Lower Nome is the India Islet, jokingly named because it was located the farthest to the east with few large lots, and the second largest islet above it (and connected to the west by the Cradle of the Faithful), where some businesses and school existed, as well as an library and a public Nectary, alongside a few residential lots, most of them empty, although at the southern jut, there is the Stadion, the Hospital (named Asklepeion), and the Attalid dwelling in their Palace resort style. Connected to it alone, is the Central Islet with its large beach and the Agora.
Mass Immigration
However, it was only a matter of time before sims were attracted to the once isolated neighborhood like moth to the flames: jobs were plentiful, the place was fairly large and countrylike rather than suburban, and the buff established by the rumors around its creation led to some immigration just for curiosity. The "Attike" style house were quite readily available from the beginning, and Kallisto and the others also went around building more houses, thus a ready availability of housing and low prices due to underpopulation inevitably led to mass immigration.
Notable immigrants not initially related to the Union of the Insane are mostly what the Greeks called the Klerouchoi, East Asian immigrants drawn to Hekatonschoinos due to cheap land and work opportunities, as well as the presense of the Union of the Insane itself. The first two Klerouchoi families are the Kang Family and Kagawa Family of Korean and Japanese origins respectively, both settling at what would be the Asian Enclave, to a point where in the Union terminology that part of Hekatonschoinos was called the Klerouchia, and call the immigrations Doron Pragmas, or "gift of work".
Trivia
- Schoinos means rope, and the plural form is Schoinoi. The region in Ptolemaic Egypt named Triakontaschoinos, meaning 30 ropes, is the basis for the name, and hence the usage of the singular form schoinos at the ending rather than schoinoi. This is because numbers above 3 does not have inflections. The name might be unfitting, since Hekatonschoinos imply that is is much larger than the region, as Hekaton means 100. However, since Schoinos does not have an exact measure (the unit historically varied between region), the name might make sense if the unit was drastically smaller, sinice Hekatonschoinos is a large city at best, Triakontaschoinos an entire region.