I have about five kingdoms in Southern Ayenee that I had started in Ychat after Velusia was successful and began to annoy me with the people in for ooc reasons. Then Yahoo dropped the no user chat rooms three years later and I had to find some place to put them, which for a short time was the forums, then I moved them to my tabletop game.
Funny you mention Starthra being in the south, the Blackthornes had an alliance with them, met them on a few occasions in chat and forums. I haven't heard from or of Starthra since 2004 or 2005. Is there anyone still around from there?
Roleplayed there. Naturally. Much the same as Eden, Tenaria, Zoir, Dystopia, Ayenee, Rydin. Since 1997. It was also a belief amongst the majority of role players that each section of Yahoo Chat inc the user rooms were all components to form a whole. Most didn’t regard Ayenee as a planet just another component of a realm. A central region.
Most didn’t care to define it, we were all too busy writing it from our own prospective in respect to our own stories and those whom we chose to interact with.
Tech in 97/98/99 was utterly shunned in Ayenee in the majority of the user rooms because there were those out there that used it to simply make pests of themselves. And room kill and all that nonsense.
Clans definitely dominated certain parts and some clans still control those areas undefeated especially if members of those clans are still active in any roleplay community with the characters that took hold whether by conquering or it being handed over merely for nostalgia and/or continuation.
No one can force any demographics of Ayenee as a planet, realm, whatever because Ayenee merely being Arts & Entertainment in Yahoo Chat, and is Freeform. Its definition rests in the hands and mind of the writer. Was this way from the beginning and hopefully to its end.