Machanon
Home to study and worship of the Twelve, Machanon makes a point of never closing its borders, even during times of crisis and of disease. The eleven cities within its vague borders, each named for one of the gods, welcome all travelers, and serve as the new gateway between the two continents. With the most eastern-facing ports, Machanon also looks to the horizon to find new lands to the east, though no voyages have found anything yet.
NOTABLE JOBS
- Turon sees many Astrologians enter its observatory.
- Archaeologists, Historians, and Explorers hold Thalatte in high regard.
- The finest Time Mage trainers reside in Mechon.
- Dancers from Itami are afforded the highest respect.
RUMORS & POINTS OF INTEREST
- The next Year Walk is attracting all sorts of people to Machanon.
- An exiled Time Mage claims the Mechon temple’s clock is slow.
- A month-long concerto competition is scheduled to start soon to determine the new Twelfth Chair in Somnus.
- The library of Bresha University in Caelonde is guarded by two stone iguions, named Integrity and Intellect. Students refer to them instead as Pain and Panic, particularly around finals.
Government
Machanon is led by the Arithmagician. Each Arithmagician rules for twelve years. The thirteenth year sees multiple would-be Arithmagicians undergo rituals, pilgrimages, holy quests, and any number of trials to become the next ruler of Machanon. These journeys, successful or not, have come to be known as the Year Walk.
The current Arithmagician is a tonberry named Samaje Batson. The next Year Walk is set for 1255.
Infrastructure
Each city inside Machanon has, at their center, the temple for the corresponding god. Beyond that, each city freely grows as it wishes.
- Turon is built at the highest elevation inside Machanon and boasts the world’s finest observatory.
- Somnus has a different instrument chime each hour of the day.
- Saroni is the easternmost city, with every building required to have an east-facing window with which to see the rising sun.
- Kuganepo has multiple quality universities, and every year attracts thousands of young eager minds.
- A third of Caelonde is underground, for safe storage of books.
- Thalatte holds the Explorer’s Guild and the harbor leading to the eastern ocean.
- Koehnta has a tower of fire that has been burning without fail for four hundred years.
- Yinha’s airship dock sees more food shipments than anywhere else in the world.
- Itami is equally renowned for its yearly combat sports tournaments as it is its award-winning dance academies.
- Mechon’s temple is a three-hundred-foot grandfather clock.
- Yoshuelje’s residents have fully switched to sleeping through the day and living at night.
History
While the cities within Machanon’s borders have existed for hundreds of years (the oldest confirmed is Koehnta in 333 AY, though unverified documents put Mechon as early as 55 AY), the country of Machanon did not officially exist until 644 AY. Discovery of a passage to the eastern ocean revitalized a explorer’s community disillusioned after the lack of progress defeating the Rinkan Mountains and the Burn, and religious community leaders saw a spiritual need and filled it.
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