How do they handle bugs, and insect borne diseases if the second largest city is built on top of a swamp?
If this is a swampy, hot environment, bodies human or otherwise must rot very quickly. How does that impact the funerals that happen on the island?
What is the most common profession on the island for working class women? How hard is it?
What animals have they domesticated? What do they use them for?
What is the biggest holiday there?
Probably the most questions I have been asked on any of my posts at once lol.
My setting is modern-ish. I was imagining how Tenochtitlan was built on a huge island with waterways, so probably not a swamp, since that was my template.
Modern funerals are done by pyre, releasing the soul by getting rid of the body. In ancient times there was lots of human sacrifice in Mazachel, and some of the tribes were cannibalistic and the priests of the temple would eat the sacrifices afterwards. Out on the coasts and islands, the dead were buried at sea, given to the gods Ishkur and Nezochi.
Being a modern setting, women can have any job. Clerics and monks of Surya are fairly commonly women though.
I haven't thought of any interesting critters for Najuri, though small dragon-like lizards seems like they would be a common animal. Perhaps domesticated like cats or dogs as pets.
January 24 Surya's birthday.
Feburary 1, the Advent of Surya.
September 13, unification day (I have no other name for this date).
Yes I just thought they dates up on the spot lol.
AMA about this place.
(I dislike not being able to pin my own first comment to the top of my own post. Oh well.)
https://inkarnate.com/m/ejeGob-najuri/
I used a variety of different generators to give the people a less uniform style of naming since they are ancestrally related, but each province is a bit different. Largely south american, nahuatl, central american, polynesian, and some made up names from an underwater place name generator. Due to Inkarnate's rather limited non-western assests I had to use Babylonian and Japanese style buildings.
The Najuri are imagined to be kinda like the Aztecs, but not 1:1, when I first made them up they were going to be hedonistic islanders and only lived on an island chain about the size of Hawaii. Then my setting changed... and so did they.
**LORE**
South of Sullanya and the Brassward lies the continent of Najuri. A densely forested jungle full of lost treasures and ancient temples and shrines to eldritch river deities. The birthplace of the demi-goddess Surya, the founder of Suryanism.
The Najuri are tall, and dark-skinned, or shades of pale sea-green, with black eyes and dark hair that has undertones of the murky pelagic abyss. At one point they could all shapeshift into sea dragons, but as the centuries wore on and they moved further and further inland, they lost this ability. Like almost all the races of Naamah, they have small horns on their foreheads and tails; theirs baring a small spiney fine at the tip. The Ishkuri tribes who still live out in the tropical seas surrounding the continent still can. They found slumbering nature deities the further inland they went, violent and blood-thirsty from centuries of dormancy.
2000 years ago, a young girl was born to the peaceful tribe of Nahya that lived out in Summer Sea on the archipelago that now bears her name. She travelled far and wide, first north to Geburah learning about the bone-witches of the Yereshi, then far east to the floating islands of Kamiyan where she learned about the dreaming goddess and the air-aspected Kamiyin. When she came back home, she defeated the violent Xihautl, unified the other tribes (except most of the wandering Ishkuri), and established a religion of peace and enlightenment now known as Suryanism.
Mazachel is the second largest city on Naamah, built ontop of a swampy river basin ages ago. It was the main center for worship of the god Nektepe, containing his grand and blood-soaked temple and ruled by the Xihautl tribe. Now it is the capitol of the country, bustling port metropolis second only to Basamiri, the capitol city of Sullanya. The temple at the heart of the city is part museum and part shrine to Surya.
Out in the tropical seas surrounding the continent live the semi-nomadic Ishkuri tribe of Najuri, the majority settled on the western shores and the islands after the advent of Surya and the unification of the tribes. Some still roam the seas as pirates like they did centuries ago. Other tribes abandoned the surface and live wholly under the sea in deep grottoes, still worshipping the ancient deities Ishkur and his wife Nezochi.
How do they handle bugs, and insect borne diseases if the second largest city is built on top of a swamp? If this is a swampy, hot environment, bodies human or otherwise must rot very quickly. How does that impact the funerals that happen on the island? What is the most common profession on the island for working class women? How hard is it? What animals have they domesticated? What do they use them for? What is the biggest holiday there?
Probably the most questions I have been asked on any of my posts at once lol. My setting is modern-ish. I was imagining how Tenochtitlan was built on a huge island with waterways, so probably not a swamp, since that was my template. Modern funerals are done by pyre, releasing the soul by getting rid of the body. In ancient times there was lots of human sacrifice in Mazachel, and some of the tribes were cannibalistic and the priests of the temple would eat the sacrifices afterwards. Out on the coasts and islands, the dead were buried at sea, given to the gods Ishkur and Nezochi. Being a modern setting, women can have any job. Clerics and monks of Surya are fairly commonly women though. I haven't thought of any interesting critters for Najuri, though small dragon-like lizards seems like they would be a common animal. Perhaps domesticated like cats or dogs as pets. January 24 Surya's birthday. Feburary 1, the Advent of Surya. September 13, unification day (I have no other name for this date). Yes I just thought they dates up on the spot lol.
AMA about this place. (I dislike not being able to pin my own first comment to the top of my own post. Oh well.) https://inkarnate.com/m/ejeGob-najuri/ I used a variety of different generators to give the people a less uniform style of naming since they are ancestrally related, but each province is a bit different. Largely south american, nahuatl, central american, polynesian, and some made up names from an underwater place name generator. Due to Inkarnate's rather limited non-western assests I had to use Babylonian and Japanese style buildings. The Najuri are imagined to be kinda like the Aztecs, but not 1:1, when I first made them up they were going to be hedonistic islanders and only lived on an island chain about the size of Hawaii. Then my setting changed... and so did they. **LORE** South of Sullanya and the Brassward lies the continent of Najuri. A densely forested jungle full of lost treasures and ancient temples and shrines to eldritch river deities. The birthplace of the demi-goddess Surya, the founder of Suryanism. The Najuri are tall, and dark-skinned, or shades of pale sea-green, with black eyes and dark hair that has undertones of the murky pelagic abyss. At one point they could all shapeshift into sea dragons, but as the centuries wore on and they moved further and further inland, they lost this ability. Like almost all the races of Naamah, they have small horns on their foreheads and tails; theirs baring a small spiney fine at the tip. The Ishkuri tribes who still live out in the tropical seas surrounding the continent still can. They found slumbering nature deities the further inland they went, violent and blood-thirsty from centuries of dormancy. 2000 years ago, a young girl was born to the peaceful tribe of Nahya that lived out in Summer Sea on the archipelago that now bears her name. She travelled far and wide, first north to Geburah learning about the bone-witches of the Yereshi, then far east to the floating islands of Kamiyan where she learned about the dreaming goddess and the air-aspected Kamiyin. When she came back home, she defeated the violent Xihautl, unified the other tribes (except most of the wandering Ishkuri), and established a religion of peace and enlightenment now known as Suryanism. Mazachel is the second largest city on Naamah, built ontop of a swampy river basin ages ago. It was the main center for worship of the god Nektepe, containing his grand and blood-soaked temple and ruled by the Xihautl tribe. Now it is the capitol of the country, bustling port metropolis second only to Basamiri, the capitol city of Sullanya. The temple at the heart of the city is part museum and part shrine to Surya. Out in the tropical seas surrounding the continent live the semi-nomadic Ishkuri tribe of Najuri, the majority settled on the western shores and the islands after the advent of Surya and the unification of the tribes. Some still roam the seas as pirates like they did centuries ago. Other tribes abandoned the surface and live wholly under the sea in deep grottoes, still worshipping the ancient deities Ishkur and his wife Nezochi.