He has managed the hang on and see the conflict through, but has not been fighting much, letting the men who want to give him these robes do it instead - they all have some of the Sun's blood, and they wouldn't dare spill her's so why each other's. However, already in his late 50s at the time of the ellection and now nearly in his 90s with always ailing health many think one of his other men might take up the case. Or the faction might crumble when he speaks no more.
Faction 2
Young, competent, rising star general
Chinih Saraywixuniing was only coming up to 30 at the time of the election, very rare for an
Izij King who most are at least in their 40s, and that is still relitavely young for them. He still fights his case and is most likely to win, many a Ugane bookie has said, although he is more often strategising than fighting now with his sons (most of whom inherited the competence and a fraction of the military genius their father had) now leading in the field.
Faction 3
Rikuvas Nurihimigyuha is now dead, but his banners still fly to represent part of the Uvivuuryang struggle, but now with Parang Pirir, a former doctor but serving as judge under Ugya
Fizat Tabafuhamuj in the Ahiranazivi region. The fight is waining for them, perhaps it will be extinguished like the Siramaxut's cause but for now, they insist to holding onto hearts of the "people", meaning the nobility.
Faction 4
Tuhuli Afifuhiziwis, while a member of the noble caste, has so-called impure blood. He is a bastard, his father a Keeper of the King's codes, who was welcomed into the caste by
Fizat Tabafuhamuj, and practicies his mother's craft of pottery. Many of the King's burial goods, and the moving court's marrital dolls have been made by him ever since he could craft. He also, as like Chinih, because he is "young", he able to fight in field. Surprisingly for a rather meek-looking man, he has developed a knack for battle but especially guriella warfare.
No town in Tixan wants to be visted by this man's horde. Ever, I promise you.
Faction 5
The People are weary - this is a big man's conflict in the end - but some are willing to fight. However, not in the factions' ranks. The faction is a broad term for a bunch of rag taggle groups
Faction 6
The final faction does not fight, or well believes it should not. It is the fire priests, who despite the
Izij's reverence for Isi, their goddess, see faction members pillage and rape, and most of all destroy temples and libraries, the sacred places the upper castes make a vow to protect. They like the 5th faction, the People, wish for no more fighting and fleeing. They have seen enough of their kin on boats to Ugane and Yapani, entering by land in the icy north of the Empire,
Luze or the uncomfortable tennaments known in
Otlera metropolises.
Money given to the temples, tithed only to keep them running and the flames burning, is distributed to the needy and to the hospitals set up by the wealthy and unvolved of this fight. They try to heal the differences that caused this hell they are living through now.
Consquences
There are many consequences of the ravanging of the Tixan, especially of the
Izij homeland of
Kunasviing. Crops lay untended and rotting as the population begins to dwindle. Many villages have also gone silent, turned into army bases and nearly abadoned by their previous populaces.
Alaamuwiing is untouched mostly simply becase it is Ici's city rather than there's but that doesn't mean the residents can sleep easy.
Tikan flight
Tikan flight is the name given to mass exodus of peoples thanks to the Uvivuuryang. Though they have fled to where they are able to go, most have fled either to the Empire, or to enclaves within the Yapani valley.
Yapani Valley
Doors that can barely fit me. Crampt apartments where my children, 7, cram up together, and my husband is alowed all the space in the house. A stare from an old woman, as I violate their purdah, as I dare to even call myself by name or for my dres, or maybe even my thunder-like hair. That is what my life is like.
Otlera people aren't used to outsiders entering their lands as much and staying. Of course they are used to merchants, so long as they follow rules, comply like soiliders.
Izij women, while still limited, have a lot more rights than their
Otlera counterparts and when it is written into the law codes, it is difficult to function, especially if like a lot of
Izij families - it is only the women and the children who have gone up ahead.
Religious tension have also been a problem. Many a Mipanu priest in
Otlera on the prowl to convert, with their brand of
The Mipanu Faith being a lot more evangelicial than others. And many do convert, mostly half-heartedly as
Otlera law states you can discriminate to 'infidels' by denying them the worse housing. Most urban
Otlera in the south are used to cramped housing and many
Izij are but it is still uncomfortable to.
Not to say that the Yapani valley is a horrible place for an Izijian to throw themselves into, work is easier to find than in the Empire for example and due to the rigid law codes is more likely to protect you despite often being slung into the lowest wealth bracket.
Ugane Empire
Though my reason as to why I am here, widow of Engwa Hodenay and now known for philanphropy, is not because that horrible thing ravaging my homeland, I feel compelled to speak on it, to rise up my bretheren from the slum quarter. After all, there is no person from any caste and is Izij who have got even an ounce of influence enough to cause big men's neck to snap to them.— Lamij Hodenai
The Empire is more welcoming than Yapani, it is more used to diversity than the valley. Many have arrived in port cities like
Luze, of which hosts the largest
Izij community in their [QUARTER] quarter. The Luz Tuxuzuviing is also present, serving to teach in the
Izij fashion, allow some religious practise and as a cultural centre, allowing the culture to be a lot more present than in the conformist Yapani.
More so due to
Lamij Hodenai but
Izij fashion has been readily accepted into the upper-class. While Ugane corsetry existed, it has blossomed thanks to the influx of
Izij women. Unlike pottery, wealthy Ugane citizens will gladly pay the high prices of an
Izij corseter now the upper and merchant classes are more inclined to a more curvy figure. Plus even then, it's better bust support than their old garments anyways.
However, jobs in the fields that most
Izij wish to partake in are scarce in the Empire due to burgening industrialisation. Businesses get set up but not many people who could afford pottries. Plus many
Uganë folk see
Izij pottery and crafts to be 'ugly' like how they did prior to
Otleramainia with
Otlera silks and pattenry.
Another problem has been how they bury their dead. Unlike Ugane belief where cremation alongside a
Bemuchem is valued, the
Izij would be mortified if you dare suggest to burn corpses. After death, the spirit still remains and needs to be coaxed out in ritual but should be able to return, therefore many people choose to bury. Corpses decompose less and therefore the spirit, for any reason necessary, often to find relitaves again to pass on guidance. However burial is a tightly restricted and sometimes outright banned practicse so it is difficult.
Funnerary dolls
Those who choose to follow the law have invented a new practice; Funneral dolls. Like marital dolls they store a piece of a spirit's story and are heirlooms, but they are specifically for the purpose of spirit inhabitance. Unlike maritial dolls and their bright-ish colours and details, they are simply a cast in the form of a human but with talismans on and markers of the spirit they are trying to coax to their door.
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