Old Astellia

Old Astellia is the name given to a geological phenomenon that occurred when Astellia, at the time still part of Albion, ripped itself from the planet and ascended into the sky.

History
Until six thousand years ago, Astellia was part of the surface of Albion. However, when the king of the time, succumbing to fear and paranoia, called on the power of Merodii and Makari to rip the continent from the surface, it caused a series of cataclysmic events that came to be known as the Bronze Age Collapse.

As the Astellian landmass lifted itself from the planet's surface, it tore up the crust around it to an extreme degree, permanently altering the land in its wake. Around the rim of its former location, mountain ranges and crags were wrenched from the seafloor, and the ocean, flooding into the space left behind, created an enormous inland sea. Small towns on Astellia's extreme edges, left behind in the Departure, learned to make do with what they had, eventually rebuilding (for lack of a better term) and forming a number of small, independent city-states on the ring of land that came to be known as Old Astellia.

Culture
Old Astellia's culture and entire aesthetic is reminiscent of the American 1950s. Their level of technology is largely equivalent, but they possess firearms from what would be the early 20th century.

In order to keep themselves going, the citizens of Old Astellia prayed to Calystegia, the first queen of Astellia, for deliverance. They believe that, someday, Calystegia will come back to bring them all home.