Tenysia

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A purely fantasy blend of David Edding's Nyssans softly wrapped with islander cultures and the Ji'Ken of Comraich Original.

Tenysia lies in the far southeastern corner of Essealas and is likely to be one of the main arrival ports for those escaping the invasion 1100 years ago. Due to dense jungle overgrowth, Tenysia appears significantly older than any of the other city-states. The architecture varies significantly; pan-Asian elements blend harmoniously with older Mayan style structures and newer Mediterreanean-Desert builds. No matter how well built, structures in Tenysia do not long survive the invasive jungle of the Mvau Marshes.

Due to a wide selection of native spices, the Sythian diet is unusually spicy and exotic. The native diet runs high to all manner of fresh and saltwater fish, rice, and bamboo. The wealthy have access to their choice of unusual imported foods.

Personality

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

Appearance

Tenysia is a blended city that has become home to all the various people of Essealas. The native people, the Sythians, have had a long history of intermarrying with immigrants. While the native people tend to be brown-skinned with flat noses and slanted eyes they run high to an unusual albio-like gene which produces very pale or ashen-skinned people, white hair, and unusually pale eye color. Sythians admire the unusual, encourage the bizarre, and applaud the mysterious.

Consequently, it is easiest to tell a Sythian by how they dress rather than how they look physically. Sythian style is vain, flamboyant, androgynous. Clothing choices are often selected to complement their pet snakes. They prefer lightweight loose colorful garments of cotton or silk, gold and bronze jewelry, and colorful glass beadwork. Garments range in style from fantasy Persian, Indian, and the southern Far-East.

Sythians can further be distinguished by permanent and temporary facial markings, ceremonial war masks, chalk-white body paint, bald heads, or complex hair-locks. War masks and Persian armor are still a part of military dress.

Traditions

What are their gods
What is their burial and afterlife
What are some traditions

The Sythians worship a goddess by the name of Ji'Kalana who is a many facetted diety. Ji'Kalana has male, female, and androgynous facets. Dark skinned, pale-skinned, and grey-skinned aspects. Aspects of war, peace, harmony, fertility, commerce and more. She changes her aspect with her skin every few months, and this new aspect influences Sythian culture and politics. Read More