Khonzhou

Khonzhou is intended to be a multicultural asian city that borrows heavily from Mongolia and Northern China. Further fantasy elements have been gleemed from The Dothraki, The Last Airbender, and the Empire Series by Raymond Feist.

(Asian - mongolian, snow, high temples, white tigers (Asian tea house in the gardens), northern china, steppe, Jin dynasty blended with mongols became the dominant city state, a multi cultural asian city state. Kochi, Sami and Massai.)

Khonzhou lies in the northeastern corner of the Essealas continent. The city is an architectural marvel, which like most of the northern cities, covers most of the mountainside. Below the city is a bustling sea port and lower villages. The steppes lie between the dark pine forests of Halberg and the murky woods of Fendahl.

• What is the architecture like
• How do they gather food

Personality

• What is their personality
• How do they organize themselves - The Eight Banners
• Which city-states do they like and dislike
• What is their political mindset

Appearance

• What is their physical appearance
• How do they dress

Traditions

• What are their gods
• What is their burial and afterlife
• What are some traditions
• Notes: I think I'd like to do a pagan religion either similar to the Mongolian religion or borrow the red god from the Tsurani.

The Juchen follow a religion known as the five ways or the five paths. Their religion is a synthesis of an early shamanic religion and the most popular of the new philosophies. The five ways ties five elements to medicine, philosophy, divination and daily life. The five elements are earth, fire, wood, water and metal.

• Fire - sun god, god of changes, and chaos
• earth - The Earthmother, the Bringer of the Harvests; Sleeper without Dreams, Silban (Ma-wan-ta) or Umay
• wood - god of the sky, either Lashima or Tengri
• metal - red god of war, aka Daichi Tengri or Turakamu, underworld
• water - moon god, soft changes, healing, unity

Basic idea -- all five gods are worshiped equally but also based on the situation or the person's need. Based on the concept of generating and reducing, one might for example pray to the earth god to keep war from forming, pray to the metal god for success in war, and the god of water to end war.

Expanded Lore

Further reading and links for the culture obsessed.

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