Origins of the New Mazean Empire
Long before SimCity, at the dawn of Simvilization, there lived a young woman named Solana, who shone as brightly as the sun god she was named for, Solandros.
For as long as she could remember, men had dominated her world. She had seven older brothers, who were dismissive of her at best, and were downright cruel to her at worst. She watched her mother compete with sister-wives for the attention of her father, who didn't treat any of them with the respect and reverence they deserved- after all, they were the ones who brought life in to the world!
Even outside of her family's tribal lands, which she was barely allowed to venture beyond the borders of, men were in charge of everything the light of Solandros could touch. A girl like her would have no future outside of becoming another bride of some old war chief who already had four wives and bearing him sons to be raised as warriors, and daughters to be disregarded until eventually being sold to the highest bidder just like she was. Solana wanted to learn how to fight with a sword and shoot a bow and arrow like her brothers, to ride horses as fast as the wind, to explore new territories and build incredible buildings there. A life she knew she would never have.
But as miserable as Solana was, she was always extremely devout, spending multiple hours a day praying and communing with Solandros, her clan's patron deity. He was her best friend and closest confidante.
One morning, Solana awoken before the rest of her clan to watch the sun rise over the dunes.
And before her stood... a feminine figure. Calling her a woman would be downplaying it. She seemed to stand at about ten feet tall. She had huge feathered wings like a mighty eagles. Her skin was orange-gold and she radiated with firey light that made Solana squint, as if she was looking at the sun itself. She could not look at the figure directly for more than a few seconds.
She introduced herself as Amaz. The true goddess of the sun, not Solandros, a demigod son of Amaz who had attempted to usurp her sphere for himself, but ultimately failed.
Amaz told Solana that there was empty lands to the south that were without a ruler, and that it was Solana's destiny to restore the ancient matriarchal queendom of the Old Mazeans to the world, in a new land. Solana had heard of the 'Amazons', warrior women who were not dominated by men but in fact ruled but assumed they were a myth. Amaz informed her that they were not only real, but they were her chosen people. However, their name had been bastardized throughout the years, and 'Amazeanism' was the name of the henotheistic religion they practiced.
Amaz handed her a piece of golden fruit, and taught her how to cultivate it. The seeds of this fruit would bear a tree that would create more golden fruit, and with the money she would make from selling it, she could rebuild a glorious and prosperous queendom, in Amaz's name, once again.
And so, a maid of just eighteen years old, about to be married to the war chief of a nearing clan, Solana abandoned everything she'd ever known, intent on fulfilling her destiny and becoming the greatest ruler the world had ever known... In the name of Amaz.
