Kayama
Kayama views them self as above the rest of the world. Believing that even the poorest of people in Kayama are worth more then the richest person else where. There pride has lead them to close them selfs off from the rest of the world many times within history.
Kayama Trys very hard to keep its traditions alive, From tradional make up and styles. To keeping traditonal houses a popular chocie. Kayama even lets the other cultuers with in its borders celebrate their own culture. As long as they are still Pro Kayama.
Kayama is a large island that many other countries see as a continent. Kayama has many envoerments bamboo jungles, pine forest, and even wintery tundra's. Kayama is also a hot spot for magic and mana. As much as Koroblins hate magic, here they must live side by side with Fey and other magical creatures. All most every red blooded animal in Kayama can cast magic, Making it dangerous for unskilled koroblins to travel alone.
Culture
Kayama Cares deeply about the social hierarchy, with Age being one of the most definding parts of the Hierachy. Those older then you are automancly higher in the hierachy then you. The only thing that is a part from this Hierachy is warrors, fighters and those in the army. As those skilled at fighting are seen as someone who had sacraficed a safe life to keep others safe.
Kayama has many cultural tradstions some started in ways to try to ward off magic, others started in a way to pratcie there relgoion.
RonRoFa- A play with 3-5 performers where each time the play is preofrmed it can have a driffrent ending. As in a RonRoFa plays have the audience take the role of a God or Gods where what the audience say will effect the story of the play.
OwenRo- Rather then using and making ink. Traditional ink writing in Kayama uses the blood of the writing. Sense Koroblin blood is Black and heavy in iron its a fair ink to use. This practice is no longer widely used in modern Kayama, mainly used by artist now.
BoOwO- A food Philosohpy Held in Kayama whitch translate to 'Food Prayer". Where cooking is seen as a form of prayer. taking care and time to make dishes well. Many foods in Kayama take hours to make correctly and chefs are seen as one of the highest form of artist.
BoORo- Food with Blood, Eating raw food is very common in Kayama. It is seen as healther as you can tell how freash your food is. BoORo covers a wide amount of foods but most BoORo is thinnly sliced red blooded animals, where the bones are removed and crushed to be severed on the side.
HeJokEm- A set of body manipulation techniques used on koroblin kids when they start growing horns. Making horns grow together in a circle shape. Some noble families spilt the bones of the horns when they first start growing. In horder to make there kids have more horns, The more horns the more fashionable.
History
Kayama has a ravely with Duyong as the two countries often fight over land. Kayama dosent really care about what its smallers and less powerful neighbors, sense they dont have much say in the world wide cultuer. Kayama has a long history of taking over the small islands around its country. Some of these islands have not seen freedom in more then 100 years
Demography and Population
95% Koroblin
5% Humblin
All though most Koroblins living in Kayama are Gan, Native Koroblins from Kayama tend to be Dew or Vemi. With the Gan Bloodline coming from Luang, who 1,000's of years ago had many of there people travel to Kayama to take over there island. Many Southern Kayama culture and people come from Luang long long ago. These days most Koroblins in Kayama are mixed raced that have features of many types of Koroblin mixed togreather. The most common look of Koroblin in Kayama are Roi (Human like faces) with horns, Colorful or human like skin, and often the tails and ears from there Dew and Vemi roots. (Aka Cat and Dog girls are very common)
The most common types of Humblin that live here are Tanuki and Otter. Otter Humblins from Kayama tend to be much smaller then any where else.
Foreign Relations
Kayama has had a long history of taking over other countries, and forcing their vast island into one contry. But as time went on Kayama wanted to trun a new leaf try to pay attention more to sharing their culture with others.
Kayama is seen as a good alie as they are good workers and known for making good prodocts.
Mythology & Lore
Kayama belives that in the start of the world, The Elder god wanted to challange KoroKoro. This challange was to see if KoroKoro's favored Koroblins could live and thrive on a island full of dangreus magic and harsh natural disasters. KoroKoro was sure that her Koroblins could use their smarts to live on this island.
KoroKoro Blessed the Koroblins with two things, Knowalge of how to live side by side with magic. And the will to hold on hope and mental strength to live on the island.
KoroKoro said to her Temple workers that in order to keep these blessed strong they had to do two thigns. Build YunFo and YunRin, Temples and Shrines. YunFo where built in order to keep the knowalge of living with magic safe and alive. A safe place to keep the knowalge alive. While the YunRin are shrines to keep the hope and mental strength of people alive.
YunFo are temples built on or by Mana Hot spots. Temples are build with a IeFoRin. A Fey Gate. A thick gate with two statues on either wall. The statue on the left is a Fey. This fey is driffrent for each temple, being what ever strong fey lives closest. The statue on the right is on a demon, The demon depiced is a demon who promissied to protect this temple and near by town as long as the temple workers keep it happy.
After the gate is the FoSaBo a yard with places to sit and think, often filled with plants from the reagon. In the back of the FoSaBo is the main building of the temple. Vistors can only go to two parts of the temple. The Temple worker Window, where they can by charms that help with fending off magic, as well as where they can talk to temple workers. The other area is the UmIe. The UmIe is where the Temple Fey lives, Vistors can leave gifts to the fey, Pray to the Fey, or if they are worthy enough try to talk to the fey. The temple Fey can then send a Fey under there rule to go help the vistor with what ever ales them. As long as you give enough gifts to the fey and do a favor here and there for it. The Fey will probobly help you rather then harm you.
The other parts of the temple are where the temple workers live as well as the temple libary.
Each temple has a driffrent Holy Day that is clelabrated. This holy day is chosen by the Temple fey. Often being the Fey's brithday.
YunRin are Shrines built on places that have great culutral meaning. Like where a Hero or Temple worker have done a great deed, Where a imporant person was born or dead, or where a tragidy happened. These Shrines are to remind people to all ways keep hope and to stay mentally strong. A shrine has a thin black arch at it's entrecess, to enter you must bow at the gate to show your respect to the shrine. Next is the FoSaBo of the shrine witch tends to have statues of who the shrine is for, as well as the YunRin Building. The srhine Building it's self has a GonRo a Jar full of the blood of who the srhine is for. If there was no blood of the person that could be put in the jar, the Srhine Maidens poor there own blood in the jar. Vistors can pray at the jar to ask for the will to get through what is trubling them. Other rooms in the shrine are rooms for the Shrine Maidens to live, As well as rooms for vistors to
meditate and relax. Most Shrines have AdYuAg A wall where you can write and leave a note of all that bothers you.
Flag Vexillology
Depicting a sun raising in a dark night sky. Showing that Kayama belive that they are above others can do what many cant.
"We wlll Rise much like the sun"
Alternative Names
The Sun
Demonym
KaYaBlin
Government System
Monarchy, Absolute
Economic System
Market economy
Currency
CoGe, Metal coins with numbers engraved on one side, with drawings of animals and plants on the other. Some of the smaller coins have holes in them.
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