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====== Pthora ====== | ====== Pthora ====== | ||
* Government Type: Dictatorship | * Government Type: Dictatorship | ||
- | * Symbol: | + | * Symbol: |
- | * Major Races: Dwarves | + | * Major Races: Dwarves, Kleemudor Lizards |
- | * Major Cities: **Polis** | + | * Capital: Polis |
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- | {{settings: | + | {{settings: |
- | Presided over by Agnes Aaronborn, the snowy mountain sides of Pthora | + | ===== Overview ===== |
+ | The far eastern reaches | ||
- | === Major Laws === | + | Since its founding, Pthora has known constant war - thousands of years ago, against the armies of Dahabu, and more recently, it has been locked in an arms race against Ley’Ork and the Oxis Alliance. In the intervening time, its struggle against |
- | * Every individual is assigned a class at birth based on their parent’s income (A,B,C,D,E,F), A being highest, F being lowest. Individuals may move up or down a class based on their income levels after the age of proper adulthood (25). | + | |
- | * Romantic Interaction is illegal for those Under 25. | + | |
- | * The drinking age is 12. | + | |
- | * Children Considered Property of the Parents Until 25. | + | |
- | * A citizen must be born within the country to obtain a work permit. | + | |
- | * Children may begin to work at age 12. | + | |
- | * Citizens may carry weapons starting at age 12, so long as they have a permit. | + | |
- | * It is Illegal to dress out of your class. | + | |
- | * Illegal to attend schooling past age 12 if parent’s class status is below C. | + | |
- | * Any able bodied citizen may enter the military at the age of 12, upon which their class will be upgraded to D should it be lower (this class boost may only apply once). | + | |
- | * F class citizens are not entitled to own property | + | |
- | * Upon committing theft, adultery, rape, romantic contact under the age of 25, dressing out of class, murder, etc. your class will be demoted. If you are a foreigner, you are sentenced to death. If an F class citizen is demoted, they too are sentenced to death. | + | |
- | * Once above the age of 5, citizens are required to either be in schooling or work. A two week transition period | + | |
- | * For citizens born into class F with higher aspirations, | + | |
=== Natural Resources === | === Natural Resources === | ||
- | Pthora is home to a wealth of natural resources, stone and ore, all mined from the Stili Mountains. Most notably of these resources is a metal called | + | Pthora is home to a wealth of natural resources: stone and ore, all mined from the Stili Mountains |
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+ | ==== Governance ===== | ||
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+ | Having switched hands rapidly from dictatorship to dictatorship over the years, the current regime in Pthora calls itself the **Ember Army,** led by their High General **Katerina Zimina.** She rules from the Winter Office, in the grand city of Polis, and is considered on the same level as a god by most of the Pthoran populace. | ||
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+ | Zimina employs a small cabinet of trusted subordinates, | ||
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+ | The Ember Army enforces a variety of laws through its stringent police force, and carries out many public executions. These are attended by massive crowds of people, usually taking the form of hanging or death by firing squad. Pthoran prisons usually take the form of work camps near the edge of Johtalit territory, and inmates are occasionally sent on expeditions into the wilderness - promised freedom if they return. | ||
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+ | === Laws === | ||
+ | * Theft of personal property: Incarceration for up to 30 days | ||
+ | * Theft of government property: Incarceration for up to 2 years | ||
+ | * Use of unsanctioned magic, non-divine: Incarceration for up to 10 years and fine of up to 2,000 gc. | ||
+ | * Use of unsanctioned magic, divine: Incarceration for 20 years - life, or execution. | ||
+ | * Speaking ill of the Ember Army, or sullying their name publicly: Fine of up to 500 gc and incarceration for up to 8 years. | ||
+ | * Assault: Incarceration for up to 4 years | ||
+ | * Assault on an officer of the law or Ember Army member: Execution | ||
+ | * Creation or patronage of “degenerate” art: Fine of up to 3,000 gc | ||
+ | * Murder & rape: Execution | ||
+ | * Illegal exit of the country: Deportation back to Pthora, incarceration for up to 8 years | ||
+ | * Treason: Execution, & incarceration of family members for up to 5 years | ||
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+ | For more information on the history and culture of Pthora, follow this link: [[https:// | ||
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+ | {{pthoraflag.png}} | ||
+ | == The national flag of Pthora under the Ember Army. == | ||
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+ | ===== Cities of Pthora ===== | ||
+ | **Polis, Everlasting Northern Star:** // | ||
+ | * **Svetagrad Town:** // | ||
+ | * **Kogot Village:** // | ||
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+ | **Czernobog, | ||
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+ | **Arkhivgrad, | ||
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+ | **Eastside Port, Gate to Mountains: | ||
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+ | **Korabel Port, Gate to Seas:** // | ||
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+ | **Rozmakhigrad, | ||
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+ | **Upirngivik, | ||
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+ | **Taqtu-Tasiq, | ||
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+ | This leyspring, flowing far more peacefully than the one in Ruefang, is a sacred site for the Johtalit. They call it Angiyok-Orpik, | ||
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+ | ===== Culture ===== | ||
+ | ==== Impenetrable, | ||
+ | Time and time again, including today under the rule of the Ember Army, Pthora has thrown its full weight behind a single ruler and their armies. War is arguably the glue that binds Pthora together; the country has hardly known life without it. The people of Pthora are hostile to outsiders, treating them distinctly as second-class citizens, and are especially cruel to any visitors from Dahabu. There is little to no social mobility in Pthoran society, with the poor remaining poor and the rich remaining rich over generations. Military demonstrations are common, with ceremonial marches through Polis occurring on a near-weekly basis. | ||
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+ | The daily attire of Pthorans is best described as austere, with most resembling military dress. Fur trimmings and soft textures are common, as guards against the cold climate. The cities themselves are grand in their construction, | ||
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+ | Though the arts of Pthora are tightly regulated by the Winter Office, the daily musings of people can never really be stopped. Operating illegally with support from Arenti’s famiglia, a rich culture of art and literature has formed. Books are smuggled within and without cities, with subject matter varying from fiction novels to anti-Army political treatises. The history of Pthora is difficult to decipher within, as every new regime has treated its own rise as a calendar reckoning and restarted the dates. | ||
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+ | ==== Religion & Magic ==== | ||
+ | Having never known Dahabi religion, Pthoran traditional belief is animistic and semi-monotheistic, | ||
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+ | Non-divine magic is permitted, but under strict regulations. No public arcane colleges exist in Pthora, with the only mages being those employed by the Army. Fire magic, especially valued for its ability to combat the brutal cold, | ||
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+ | ==== Southbound: Lands of Drifting Snow ==== | ||
+ | Defended by their natural environment, | ||
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+ | The Johtalit herd large animals called snowstriders (pictured bottom right), the name going back to their origins on Kleemudor - but here used to refer to an entirely different creature. The husbandry of these creatures is central to much of Johtalit culture, as snowstriders allow them to cross the land in relative safety and also provide much-needed hides and meat. Johtalit live mostly in small villages built from wood and brick, each led by a chieftain or shaman. Few elemental mages exist among the Johtalit, with magic practice being in the realm of divine or spiritual (the Johtalit make no distinction between the two); or, occasionally, | ||
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+ | Promised great rewards from the Ember Army, explorers from Pthora often venture out into the southern tundra. They hope to find something; a place to stake a proper claim for Pthora, or treasure, or the like. Few of these explorers ever return, claimed by Mother Nature or by… something else, perhaps. |
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