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Revision as of 13:13, 7 March 2013

Melangia
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Feudal Status: County
Capital: Sakatra
Largest Cities: Sakatra

Local Leadership Title: Count
Local Government: County
Current leader: Cla'Udi

Local language: English
Local Religion: Cedrism - followers of Sakat

Melangia was the leading county of the Barony of Atterock and the private county of Andreas the Wise for all his time in Shireroth. After he left, the Melangian Cla'Udi took over as Count, and has been count ever since.

History

Inhabitance of the island dates back to the coming of Sakat early in time, and his creation of the first Mel'anje. Since then they have served him as priests and historians, including predicting the plague that swept Kildare, and ensuring much of the history was preserved within their libraries.

The Mel'anje People

They are quite comfortable in the water, swimming and diving around. They're shorter than normal humans, and often look a bit like they're sneaking. They have a great respect for seers, having produced a number themselves, and especially like divination from looking at clouds. They're also good with history and knowledge and so on. They produce the best historians.

Temple to Sakat

Sakat, Squid god of Time, and patron god of historians, has his temple in Melangia. In it are kept many sacred and historical scrolls, and the sacred ink. The current high priest is Andreas the Wise.

Cloud Divining

Nobody knows quite when the principal of Cloud-Divining started on Melangia. It just appears to be something that 'was always there'. A pre-eminent Gralan-Atterockian Historian mused that the Mel'anje people were created around the time the Etruri, some Gralan mortals with god like powers, were at the height of their power. The Etruri were known to have communicated to their followers with lightning. And they were known to have been active on the Kendall Isles, so close to Melangia. Who is to say they didn't also communicate with clouds, and the Melangians learnt to read it.

But that time was long since past, and what may once have been a practical method to read the emotions of god-like people had long since become an artform that the most devout Melangians all swore by. There was, apparently, no end to what could be read in the clouds - in their shape, form, thickness ... and in the colours they formed at sunset.

Anyone familiar with chaos theory, and the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in Toketi New Shirlan could cause a storm in Magna Novatainia would feel comfortable with much of what he talked about - clouds picking up disturbances in the weather patterns, air currents etc, which would allow a Cloud-Diviner to predict the weather several days ahead, and up to a few hundred kilometres away. They might shy away from his other comments though. He talked about the weather influencing people's moods (which was obvious), but also about people's moods influencing the weather. He talked about different emotions producing subtly different pheremones and gas structures into the air, which, in large enough volumes, would be reflected in the particular shape of the borders of clouds. He talked about reading pollutants in the air, or an increase in the number of cows, or even that he could predict a war, by the shapes the clouds formed when much gunpowder was in the air from increased training exercises.

The Atterock

A huge stone fell from the sky in the twelth year of the Reign of Raynor XI. It was named the Atterock, and revered by locals. Eventually it was discovered to have been from a satellite exploded by Locke, under the influence of the Remnant, in an attempt to recreate the Eve of Destruction.

Melangian Naming Conventions

Melangian Naming Convention 101:
There must be a ' after the third letter in the word.

Melangian Naming Convention 102:
There do exist further subtleties beyond a '. For example, it's thoroughly innapropriate to name someone Xxx'wassisnameIdunnohowlongthisthingisgonnagobutitstoolong.
The subtleties, as currently known, are:
There will only be three or four letters after the '.
The first letter of the name cannot be a vowel (preferably there is only one vowel in the first three letters, though two in the second is appropriate).
Significant names include parts (or a variation thereof) of Melangia or Sakat (as in Mel'Kat).
Melangian naming is quite similiar to Hau'Oli naming (though it tends to use more vowels) but is not, despite the ', bearing any relation to Micron naming.
The ' indicates a slight pause, nothing more.

Prominent Citizens

Mel'Kat - Commander of the Atterockian Navy, and veteran of the Bosworth War, the Kildarian Civil War (aka the Gong Li Rebellion and various others. Cla'Udi - Chief Cloud Diviner of the Melangians, and one of their most respected elders. Ramus the Farsighted - A great seer of the Melangian people, and the seer who foretold From the North. Andreas the Wise - High Priest of Sakat and Baron of Atterock.