Oceans: Indian Ocean, Indonesian Islands
Defining Culture: Indonesian
Religion: Evenly divided between Pasiphaen and Water Worship
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Who to contact: Sarojin - Decemvir

The Pandion Decemvirate is the oldest of the Pacific Decemvirates, representing the very first settlements of the Third Migration. The Amarisians were the first to reach this area of the Southern Ocean, passing around the horn of the Dark Continent. They found a Ocean that was nearly as fair as the Middle Sea of the Tritons and a chain of thousands of Islands that bore fabulous riches. The Islands of the Pandion Decemvirate were the first and to this date, the richest find that the Amarisians ever discovered. The Amarisian Traders used the Pandion Islands as a springboard for their further expansion into the Southern Pacific and established settlements upon the Island Chains...soon, these waters became the gateway to the Pacific. As the settlements became more permanent, the Amarisians of the area became more interdependent of there brethren in the South Atlantic. About the time that the Varati Reign of Fire ended, the Amarisians discovered a long rumored route opposite of the Dark Continent that allowed them and the Ormani to continue their expansion into the Great Sea. This event lessened the significance of the Pandion to the Amaris. By this time, the original Amarisians had been there for almost five hundred years and they were a Decemvirate in their own right. The Pandion Decemvirate came into being shortly thereafter.

The Pandion Decemvirate in some ways represents the Amaris Decemvirate, for whose population claims heritage. They share the same gentility and general social divisions and customs of the Amaris and the Atlantic Decemvirates, and they also share the wanderlust that the Amaris were noted for. However, the Pandions generally do not hold to the worship of Pasiphae, but rather worship the water as a life-giving source. This 'new' religion is roughly similar to the naturalistic worship and reverence found amongst the Sylvan people and one wonders if this is wear the Atlanteans got the idea. Whatever the case, this creates an imbalance due to the fact that this new worship originates amongst the 'commoner' cast and makes the Clergy irrelevant. At the moment, there seems to be a balance between the new religion and the old within the Pandion.

The Pandion Decemvirate maintains a fairly robust economy and trades quite extensively with the other Pacific Decemvirates and the Atlantic Decemvirates. However, the Pandion are best known for their extensive Navy. The gentility of the Atlantic Decemvirates causes their forces to be far less developed than is necessary to police their waterways without assistance. The Pacific Decemvirates had need for Navies in order to explore the more wild and unknown waters of the Great Ocean. The Amarisians were the first to hire out the Pandion Decemvirate to supply warships to assist in policing the waterways of Pirates. Soon, the Ormani grew warm to the idea and negotiated rights through the Amaris and now Pandion Navy can be seen patrolling Ormani waters as well. The Pandion Navy is the largest Navy of the Atlanteans, with the Tritons lagging close behind. The ubiquitous teak Catamarans of the Pandion are a common sight upon the oceans of the Aether, bringing order to the waterways.