Demetria
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| Universe | Sigilverse |
| Notable locations | Meridian |
| Continents | Floating Islands
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| Notable races | Human |
| Creator | Mark Alessi |
| Genre | Children's Fantasy |
Demetria is a fictional planet, situated in CrossGen comic's fictional universe, the Sigilverse. It features rimarily in the American comicbook series Meridian. Demetria is an Irish/Scottish name meaning Earth. Demetria is also a Greek name meaning Goddess of fertility.
[edit] Geography
Demetria lies in the "Bleak Zone," on the edges of the Sigilverse's main galaxy, where the universal energies are at their weakest. At some point in history the planet experienced a great cataclysm that caused large sections of the ground to fly up into the sky, becoming floating islands, suspended in the air by the mysterious anti-gravity properties of a certain type of ore.
[edit] History
These islands each became city-states, most ruled by Ministers, with power and responsibility little different from that of a monarch, while those areas of the surface that remained settled seem to consist primarily of mines, logging operations and the like, more industrial or mercantile than residential or political. Most, if not all, of the communities of Demetria operate on a technology level approximately equivalent to that of the Renaissance in real history. Trade and travel are accomplished primarily through flying ships, built by the expert ship-builders of the island city-state of Meridian.
