Eladoms

Eladoms is a fictional ancient civilization created for speculative fiction, tabletop role-playing games, and world-building projects. In these works, the Eladoms are depicted as a coastal-urban society renowned for seafaring, metallurgy, and a network of city-states linked by trade routes.

Descriptions place the Eladoms in a temperate coastal region with inland river valleys that support commerce and agriculture. Political life centers on city-states ruled by councils and merchant elites, while guild organizations regulate craft production and port administration; public festivals and ritual assemblies are common features of civic life.

In most narratives, the Eladoms emerge in the early to mid-second millennium BCE and reach a cultural peak before fragmenting under external pressures and natural disasters. Key cultural markers include bronze and tin metallurgy, shipbuilding, writing in the Eladoms script, and a polytheistic religion led by a sun deity.

The Eladoms language is described in fictional sources as part of their canonical lexicon. No real-world archaeological evidence supports the Eladoms as a historical society; references appear in novels, game manuals, and fan fiction. Timelines and details vary among authors and editions.

The Eladoms have influenced fantasy world-building and game design, appearing as a setting in novels, tabletop RPGs, and video games. The term also appears in fan discussions and derivative works as a baseline for cultural flavor or geopolitical context.