The Origins of the Amazons of Arandolia
Heraea, the long lost birthplace of the Amazon People
~1600 - 1162 B.C.
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Both the written and the spoken forms of the amazon language display a blatant similarity with the earliest attested form of the Greek language, known as Mycenaean Greek. The Amazon Deities are also the very same feminine ones of the Greek Pantheon, and a lot of the amazon culture and mythology are remarkably similar to Ancient Greece. None of those things are coincidences, because that’s exactly where the amazons are believed to come from: the ancient land of Hellas, Greece itself.
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Although no one knows the actual location of the legendary Amazon city of Heraea, it is believed to have been situated somewhere along the margins of the Alpheus River, at the Peloponnese region of Hellas. Originally founded by the small Amazon tribe under the rule of Hippolyta, the first Amazon Queen, the ancient amazon city grew in size and importance rather fast, becoming an important city during the late Bronze Age.
The Achaean Greeks settled all around Heraea and lived in relative peace alongside the gorgeous amazons, believing them to be foreigners from beyond the northern Balkans, even though they spoke the same language and shared the same greek culture. The fact that the amazons stopped aging at 25 years old was something many greeks considered nothing short of divine, and that only contributed positively for the general acceptance of the Amazon mythological creation story, in which the Amazon Seed-Woman Goddess Lirith impregnated greek women with her own offspring, originating the Amazons right in the heart of Greece as demi-gods no less.
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It was a period of great peace and prosperity for the Amazons of Heraea living amongst the Achaean Greeks, where tolerance and mutual understanding was stronger than the racial and cultural differences amongst those peoples. However, not all greeks were as tolerant as the Achaeans. Little did the amazons know what lied in their future.
The Fall of Heraea and The Great Amazon Exodus
1161 B.C
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By the time of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Peloponnese was invaded and taken over by a new, fierce greek tribe. The Dorians, self-entitled Descendants of Heracles, pushed the Achaeans out of the region, subjugating everything on their path. Their strongly patriarchal, militaristic and misogynistic society was much less tolerant than the other greek tribes of the period, so the matriarchal Amazon society at the city of Heraea were something utterly unacceptable for them.
Heraea was invaded in the year of 1161 B.C., completely overwhelmed and razed to the ground by the Dorian invaders. Amazon womb-women were taken as slaves, while the seed-women were slaughtered without mercy for being women without wombs. The scattered survivors of Heraea barely managed to get on their boats in time to flee all the way down the Alpheus River, leaving everything behind and heading as far away as possible. The Dorians were way too strong for the pacifist Heraean Amazons to fight them, so little other choice did they have, other than sail across the Mediterranean Sea in search of a new place to call home.
Arandolia, the new homeland
1094 B.C.
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After the Amazon Children of Hippolyta were violently pushed away from their birthplace in Heraea by the relentless Dorian Descendants of Heracles, it took decades for them to find a new suitable place to call home. The amazons tried to settle down on many places along the Italian, Tunisian and Iberian coast, but the locals time and again pushed them away from their shores. Etruscans, Phoenicians and even Gauls tried to either raid or conquer the defenseless Heraean Amazons, diminishing their numbers further each time, but also hardening them, slowly turning those peace-loving women into fighters. That was the only way they could survive out there in this world, because the weak were caught as slaves, while only the strong managed to fight their way out and remain free.
By the year of 1106 B.C., the remaining Amazons set a makeshift camp by the Galician shore in Northern Iberia. No longer did they try to settle there. They were too tired of trying to leave calm lives. Instead, they started raiding the locals, taking what they needed by force. They sacked by morning and sailed by night, surviving out of spoils and plunder, while they kept looking for somewhere away from the European continent, secluded and isolated enough for them to finally leave in peace. As far away from the rest of mankind as possible.
A full decade of raiding their way across the shores of Gaul and Britannia, and an Amazon explorer venturing the endless Atlantic Ocean finally found the perfect new home for the now once again growing and prospering, battle-hardened amazons. They called if Hyperborea at first, beaning “The Land beyond the Northern Wind”. And archipelago so far away and hard to reach that no army or navy would be able to attack it. At least with the contemporary technology.
The amazons flocked there all at once, colonizing those islands and making it their new home. Until they found Celts already inhabiting it, though by then going back was no longer an option. Tired of being sheep, the amazons became lionesses in that new land. With superior metallurgy and tactics learned back in Greece, they had the upper hand. So before being kicked out, they attacked and conquered the native celts, who already called those secluded islands “Arandolia”.
The celts were defeated and assimilated by the amazons, simply outbred from existence within a couple of centuries. The local females forced to marry their foreign seed-amazon conquerors, producing lighter skin amazons with blonder and redder shades of hair. Thus were born the Amazons of Arandolia, a miscegenation people of Hellenic ageless warrior women and subjugated celts in an island nation beyond reach of Europe. Deeply changed by their ordeal during the exodus, they became an increasingly militaristic society throughout the ages. Their isolation allowing them to live in peace and prosperity for almost 2 millenia, actually fighting amongst their own factions until once again their fate took a grim turn to the worse.
The Andrastian Invasion and the Seed-Amazon Genocide
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The Reclamation of Arandolia
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The Arandolian Civil War
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