Cinpruxt
History
The history of the civilization is ancient, and its people have lived here for longer than records can show.
Demography and Population
The organization Cinpruxt is synonyms with the ethnicity Cinpruxt. The people of the Cinpruxtkhaj Grasslands all share one culture, one common structural system, although their political divisions are many.
Military
The military class were brutal, hired soldiers working for their lord. They wear leather armor, but minerals and metals are difficult to find. They most commonly use stone weapons, such as stone axes and spears. The class polices local farmers and collected taxes, as well as warring against enemy lords, at their ruler's discretion.
Leaders of the armies of a lord were called pchxiintl. They bear symbols of their lord and carry not only the tactics of the battles but also symbolize the strength of their rulers. Tales of some of the most powerful cities always come with legends rooted in epic battles and their powerful leaders.
Leaders of the armies of a lord were called pchxiintl. They bear symbols of their lord and carry not only the tactics of the battles but also symbolize the strength of their rulers. Tales of some of the most powerful cities always come with legends rooted in epic battles and their powerful leaders.
Technological Level
Within the walls of the city lies a hospital complex. The oldest at the complex have passed down knowledge and also act as the doctors of the city. Their homes reside in the complex, along with the maternity home, where expecting mothers will stay until they give birth, and for eight days after. This is also where the celebrations and naming baptism will be on the eighth day. The last structure in the hospital complex is the infirmary, where the ill reside separate from the vulnerable mothers. The lord funds all those in the complex in order to get workers laboring again as fast as possible, and in order to bolster their population as quickly and safely as possible.
Religion
The Cinpruxt way of life is inseparable from their belief system and their pantheon of elemental deities. Every aspect of their culture is influenced by their worship of the world.
Agriculture & Industry
During the 9 months of summer and spring, the farmers work along the river, irrigating the land in order to produce various crops. Crops grown along the river include: staple grains like cereals, wheat, and legumes; luxurious fruits like dates, pears, apples, figs, plums, and pomegranates; cooking herbs such as dill, peppermint, basil, and peppercorn; vegetables such as gourds, squash, beans, and pumpkin; along with flax for weaving linen, and tobacco for smoking. During this time is also when the river is full of fish, providing for fishermen as well. Shepherds tend to bison herds and collect Shepherd's Peppermint.
In the 3 months of Cthuung winter, the workless farmers and fishermen will become hunters and form hunting parties to travel out in the dry wilderness of the western Cinpruxtkhaj Grasslands in leather tents to hunt for various game; some more for food, such as wild bison and deer; others more for pelts, such as wolves, foxes, and rabbits.
In the 3 months of Cthuung winter, the workless farmers and fishermen will become hunters and form hunting parties to travel out in the dry wilderness of the western Cinpruxtkhaj Grasslands in leather tents to hunt for various game; some more for food, such as wild bison and deer; others more for pelts, such as wolves, foxes, and rabbits.
Trade & Transport
Products move along the river by boat and by cart with a bison. The trade network will take minerals and metals from the mountains and sell them down river, buying other goods such as food, leather, linen, spices, tobacco, and metalwork to trade at the end of the river, where they collect paper and literature, sea resources, and luxury goods to then take back up the river. Internally, some Cinpruxt cities also purchase the metalwork, especially the more southern cities. They also trade clay, pottery, and Shepherd's Peppermint. Products vary in value as they move along the river. Up river, metal work and jewelry is much higher value, whereas down river, tobacco, spices, and fruits are much more valuable.
Heavy items, such as timber, metal, leather and pelts, and linen are traded by boat so that an animal does not need to try to pull a heavy cart. Lighter or more valuable products, such as grains, manuscripts, jewelry, tobacco, spices, and gems, are traded by land in carts pulled by bison.
Whenever a trader passes or stops at a city, they must pass pay tax for all items they are not selling to the city. The city controls the area the merchant or trader is passing through, so in order to pass through it, they must pay for whatever goods they are carrying. There's a tax for each person, including the trader; goods like gourds, wood, spices, and grains have a low tax, whereas more valuable goods such as gems and jewelry, metalworks, linen, leather and pelts, paper and manuscripts, Shepherd's Peppermint, and tobacco, have a higher tax.
Because of this, traders generally do not travel very far. Instead, they sell their goods at a city and other traders purchase them and continue along the river. As an alternative traders are also prone to smuggling--that is, hiding gems inside barrels of grain, throwing some rabbit pelts over the top of iron ore, or burying tobacco leaves under the figs. Fleeing nobles, lords, criminals, and generals also get smuggled along the river. The idiom "trading far by river" comes from this relation between long-distance trading and smuggling goods.
Because of religious beliefs, traders cannot trade corpses or bones of any kind, including fish and meat, but do so anyway when smuggling exotic sea fishes to the wealthy Cinpruxt high class. Most aper and literature comes from down river the literature capitol of the area.
Heavy items, such as timber, metal, leather and pelts, and linen are traded by boat so that an animal does not need to try to pull a heavy cart. Lighter or more valuable products, such as grains, manuscripts, jewelry, tobacco, spices, and gems, are traded by land in carts pulled by bison.
Whenever a trader passes or stops at a city, they must pass pay tax for all items they are not selling to the city. The city controls the area the merchant or trader is passing through, so in order to pass through it, they must pay for whatever goods they are carrying. There's a tax for each person, including the trader; goods like gourds, wood, spices, and grains have a low tax, whereas more valuable goods such as gems and jewelry, metalworks, linen, leather and pelts, paper and manuscripts, Shepherd's Peppermint, and tobacco, have a higher tax.
Because of this, traders generally do not travel very far. Instead, they sell their goods at a city and other traders purchase them and continue along the river. As an alternative traders are also prone to smuggling--that is, hiding gems inside barrels of grain, throwing some rabbit pelts over the top of iron ore, or burying tobacco leaves under the figs. Fleeing nobles, lords, criminals, and generals also get smuggled along the river. The idiom "trading far by river" comes from this relation between long-distance trading and smuggling goods.
Because of religious beliefs, traders cannot trade corpses or bones of any kind, including fish and meat, but do so anyway when smuggling exotic sea fishes to the wealthy Cinpruxt high class. Most aper and literature comes from down river the literature capitol of the area.
Infrastructure
The civilization resides along the life-giving Txiin River running straight through the Cinpruxtkhaj Grasslands and along smaller rivers that feed into it from the north east. Feudal lords own the farmland which the low-class irrigate and cultivate. During the summer, they plant and grow all sorts of crops, and fish while the river is populated. It is the center of their structural system.
The upper-class live in a walled city, called a cunk (meaning "tower" in Cinpurxtlal). Within the walls contain craftsmen and artisans, including hatters, stone cutters, merchants, weavers, and other craftsmen. Also in the city is the hospital complex. In the center is the Tower, a tall structure where the lord of the city lives. The tower is usually at least three wide stories. It is constructed of a dark stone found through the grasslands; it is sleek, shiny, and smooth. Smelters will melt it into black bricks for their homes. The walls around the cunk city have two entrances: one by land with metal gates, and one by river with chained nets stretching horizontally. The gates stayed lifted for travelers, merchants sailing along the river, and the like, but during invasions the peasantry flees inside, and the gates lock shut behind them.
The area around is populated with various food producers: farmers, fishers, and shepherds. Directly along the river live the fishers. Along the river and up to thirty miles inland resides an extensive system of irrigation and canals in order to sustain farms. Farmers lives sparsely and work a large portion of land. The square structures of the lower-class farmers, fishermen, and shepherds are one-story, and made of stones harvested from the earth.
Continuing inland from the river, after the wet, systematized farms reside wide, flat, barren shepherd land. Here, herd watchers guard their grazing bison, migrating around and guiding them to new fertile areas. This area also holds the entrances to batx, the deep, cold caves where the dead rest.
The upper-class live in a walled city, called a cunk (meaning "tower" in Cinpurxtlal). Within the walls contain craftsmen and artisans, including hatters, stone cutters, merchants, weavers, and other craftsmen. Also in the city is the hospital complex. In the center is the Tower, a tall structure where the lord of the city lives. The tower is usually at least three wide stories. It is constructed of a dark stone found through the grasslands; it is sleek, shiny, and smooth. Smelters will melt it into black bricks for their homes. The walls around the cunk city have two entrances: one by land with metal gates, and one by river with chained nets stretching horizontally. The gates stayed lifted for travelers, merchants sailing along the river, and the like, but during invasions the peasantry flees inside, and the gates lock shut behind them.
The area around is populated with various food producers: farmers, fishers, and shepherds. Directly along the river live the fishers. Along the river and up to thirty miles inland resides an extensive system of irrigation and canals in order to sustain farms. Farmers lives sparsely and work a large portion of land. The square structures of the lower-class farmers, fishermen, and shepherds are one-story, and made of stones harvested from the earth.
Continuing inland from the river, after the wet, systematized farms reside wide, flat, barren shepherd land. Here, herd watchers guard their grazing bison, migrating around and guiding them to new fertile areas. This area also holds the entrances to batx, the deep, cold caves where the dead rest.
Type
Geopolitical, Clan
Power Structure
Feudal state
Major Exports
- Food, mainly vegetables and grains, and mainly down river
- Metal and metalwork, such as armor
- Gems and jewelry
- Leather, linen, and pelts
- Spices
- Tobacco and Shepherd's Peppermint
Major Imports
From down river:
- exotic foods, including seaweed and sugar
- Pearls
- Literature, such as manuscripts of poetry and epics
- Paper
Official State Religion
Location
Official Languages
Controlled Territories
Related Ethnicities
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