Sheng Ti

Sheng Ti is mostly rolling hills, with terraces used for extensive rice farming. There are many deep caverns and small, thick forests, teeming with all types of creatures, good and ill.
The people of Sheng Ti are small, snubnosed, and extremely fastidious. This delicacy reflects in many aspects of the Sheng culture, producing fine poets, jade sculpture and elaborate ceremonies. The province is also famed for its beautiful women. Fine boned, elegant and decorative, the Sheng courtesan is the subject of much lyric song and poetry.
Sheng Ti is well known to have many hengeyokai clans and a large number of spirit folk living in this verdant, wooded area. It is rumored that the Sheng owe much of their elegant and diminutive stature to the influence of these peoples. Indeed, the cities of Sheng Ti are among the few in the empire where fox folk and other hengeyokai citizens walk about openly, even in their bipedal forms.

Structure

The governor oversees the province and the magistrates working under them.

Assets

A large producer of rice, Sheng Ti is an important agricultural province.
On the coast is Lo’Shan, a moderate sized seaport city with trade to Wa and Kozakura. Further inland is Hsi-Feng, the site of the second Imperial capital.

History

When the original inhabitants of the First Kingdom were driven south, they entered this area as exhausted refugees. The natives taught the survivors the techniques of rice farming, moving the Empire into an entirely new basis for food production (up to this time, the main food had been millet). Over the centuries, the two groups assimilated, though not without bloodshed. In time, this became the seat of the reborn Empire.

Type

Geopolitical, Province

Alternative Names

The Sanctuary province

Demonym

Sheng

Parent Organization

Shou-Lung