Brune
People: a Brune, the Brunes, Brunish people. Characteristic: Brunish things
Governance: Monarchy, Feudal Guilds
Stability of Rule: 250 years. Prior to that, the country suffered a tumultuous 44 years of unrest and coups. The previous monarchs were the Coombs for over 300 years. The Coombs were slaughtered during the unrest.
Population: 380k-420k
Capital: Wellv (pop:54k)
Leaders: Scarletta monarchy.
Major Settlements: Willow Vale(pop:38k), Agradon (pop:25k) Reeshi (pop:20k), Oakree (pop:19k), Vikado (pop:18k), Quain (pop:17k), Verdant (pop:16k)
Crops: green rice, pistachios, black walnuts (nut and wood), shagbark hickory nuts, winter plums, avocados
Resources: copper, tin, tungsten, zinc, antimony mining; scarlet beryls (rare), pink and rose beryls
Trade Imports: iron, silver, gold, Farthing route products (spices, silks, dyes, art, fruits, jewelry)
Trade Exports: wines, beers, ales, grains, tin, zinc, black walnut lumber, pistachios, walnuts, hickory nuts, dried plums, avocado paste
Society: Financial classes within society dictated by family nobility and rank within the guilds. Strong reinforcement of avoiding competition. Wealth and age are related as the elders maintain their advantage through law, commerce, and markets.
Markets: Markets and fairs are controlled by the monarchy and sold as rights to guilds in specific cities. Markets are kept tight and fewer to prevent competition and drive villages and towns to each city. Fees to and approval from guilds are required to sell in a market.
Cultural: Deep craft/work focus. Your craft defines you. An emphasis on expected stereotypes, aka dwarven miners, elves living in forests, halflings living in dirt home, orcs are big and brutish. Variances from expectations are looked at with suspicion.
Social: Excess weight, long meals and fine foods are symbols of wealth and success. The food present is always in excess. It would be rude to make guests feel as if there was not enough food. Lower classes maintain this as well, focusing on plenty of breads, rice, grain meals, dough, roots and pasta served with richly spiced, savory or sweet gravies and broths for dipping.
Cuisine: Reeshi cakes, green rice with every meal, pistachio rice pudding
Architectural: Square columns are common motifs, as are wide and flattened pyramid/hipped roofs. Deep roof overhangs are common, as are wrap around porches at each level of a building. Homes often have decoration related to crafts of the family. Glass windows are less common due to mild winters. Windows will have indoor and outdoor shutters—the inner ones solid, made to insulate against weather extremes and barred from the inside. Black Walnut woods are used for accents, signage, decoration. Carved signs are often metaled; i.e. carvings are filled with soft metals, tin, copper, or pewter.
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Climate: Humid subtropical with hot summers and mild winters. Multiple valleys between low mountains. Hardpan clay under soil in the crescents of land along the southern edge of mountains. An inland seashore and a major sailing river are borders.
Precipitation: 30-45in
Frost-Free Days: +275-310 out of 377 days for most common elevations
Holidays:
Reeshi cakes are discs of sticky green rice wrapped around a patty of ground meat, vegetables, mashed roots or beans. They are fried to char the rice, wrapped in paper, and sold as street food. Every city and most towns sell reeshi cakes as a popular hand food for workers to carry with them. They originated in Reeshi where they come in bewildering combinations. But outside of Brune they are more often call Brune cakes, char cakes, or green steak. Green steak refers to ones specifically stuffed with only stewed red meats and have pistachio paste mixed into the green rice giving it a bright green under the bits of burnt rice. Green rice is a variety grown throughout Brune and well suited to their land south of the mountain rises. The fat end of the rice kernel has a dull green spot. Once boiled, the spot becomes a bright green and indicates freshness of the rice. The rice is fatter at one end, giving it a bulb shape and a slightly greater chew. There is a slight floral note to the flavor. Winter plums are a large bush/small tree variety that is earliest to bloom with off-white to yellow-white flowers. The 3/4 inch round sweet plums are red, orange-red or yellow and can be eaten fresh, dried (as dark amber prunes) or made into jams, jellies or sweet wines or vinegars. In the wild, excessive suckering forms a wide 3-10 foot tall bush with many of its unique zigzagging, thorny branches. Bushing produces smaller 1/4-3/8 inch plums. When cultivated, the tree form can reach heights of 25 feet and greater quantities of the larger 3/4 inch fruit. Black walnut trees are prized for the deep color of its wood as well as its nuts. Easily reaching 200 years old, the walnut is wide-branched, reaching heights between 70 and 150 feet, Black Walnut does well in open fields, on sloped land and a diversity of sites if the soil is well drained and rich. The 1"-1.25" nut has a high yield and is covered in a dark and hard husk that protects a flavorful nut. A single mature tree can produce hundreds of nuts each season. Walnut roots are dense and heavily branching. They choke out other plants growing beneath them. Walnut shells inhibit plant growth when used as mulch but do well to increase yields of the walnut tree itself. Walnuts fall when ripe, so easily harvested. However, the hard shells falling from a tall tree hit hard. If the fall on roofing or structures, it causes loud drumming as they hit structures during harvest. The leaves turn red and orange before becoming wholly bright yellow. After the yellow display, they shed their leaves within 13 days.
Governance: Monarchy, Feudal Guilds
Stability of Rule: 250 years. Prior to that, the country suffered a tumultuous 44 years of unrest and coups. The previous monarchs were the Coombs for over 300 years. The Coombs were slaughtered during the unrest.
Population: 380k-420k
Capital: Wellv (pop:54k)
Leaders: Scarletta monarchy.
Major Settlements: Willow Vale(pop:38k), Agradon (pop:25k) Reeshi (pop:20k), Oakree (pop:19k), Vikado (pop:18k), Quain (pop:17k), Verdant (pop:16k)
Crops: green rice, pistachios, black walnuts (nut and wood), shagbark hickory nuts, winter plums, avocados
Resources: copper, tin, tungsten, zinc, antimony mining; scarlet beryls (rare), pink and rose beryls
Trade Imports: iron, silver, gold, Farthing route products (spices, silks, dyes, art, fruits, jewelry)
Trade Exports: wines, beers, ales, grains, tin, zinc, black walnut lumber, pistachios, walnuts, hickory nuts, dried plums, avocado paste
Society: Financial classes within society dictated by family nobility and rank within the guilds. Strong reinforcement of avoiding competition. Wealth and age are related as the elders maintain their advantage through law, commerce, and markets.
Markets: Markets and fairs are controlled by the monarchy and sold as rights to guilds in specific cities. Markets are kept tight and fewer to prevent competition and drive villages and towns to each city. Fees to and approval from guilds are required to sell in a market.
Cultural: Deep craft/work focus. Your craft defines you. An emphasis on expected stereotypes, aka dwarven miners, elves living in forests, halflings living in dirt home, orcs are big and brutish. Variances from expectations are looked at with suspicion.
Social: Excess weight, long meals and fine foods are symbols of wealth and success. The food present is always in excess. It would be rude to make guests feel as if there was not enough food. Lower classes maintain this as well, focusing on plenty of breads, rice, grain meals, dough, roots and pasta served with richly spiced, savory or sweet gravies and broths for dipping.
Cuisine: Reeshi cakes, green rice with every meal, pistachio rice pudding
Architectural: Square columns are common motifs, as are wide and flattened pyramid/hipped roofs. Deep roof overhangs are common, as are wrap around porches at each level of a building. Homes often have decoration related to crafts of the family. Glass windows are less common due to mild winters. Windows will have indoor and outdoor shutters—the inner ones solid, made to insulate against weather extremes and barred from the inside. Black Walnut woods are used for accents, signage, decoration. Carved signs are often metaled; i.e. carvings are filled with soft metals, tin, copper, or pewter.
Art:
Technology:
Climate: Humid subtropical with hot summers and mild winters. Multiple valleys between low mountains. Hardpan clay under soil in the crescents of land along the southern edge of mountains. An inland seashore and a major sailing river are borders.
Precipitation: 30-45in
Frost-Free Days: +275-310 out of 377 days for most common elevations
Holidays:
Reeshi cakes are discs of sticky green rice wrapped around a patty of ground meat, vegetables, mashed roots or beans. They are fried to char the rice, wrapped in paper, and sold as street food. Every city and most towns sell reeshi cakes as a popular hand food for workers to carry with them. They originated in Reeshi where they come in bewildering combinations. But outside of Brune they are more often call Brune cakes, char cakes, or green steak. Green steak refers to ones specifically stuffed with only stewed red meats and have pistachio paste mixed into the green rice giving it a bright green under the bits of burnt rice. Green rice is a variety grown throughout Brune and well suited to their land south of the mountain rises. The fat end of the rice kernel has a dull green spot. Once boiled, the spot becomes a bright green and indicates freshness of the rice. The rice is fatter at one end, giving it a bulb shape and a slightly greater chew. There is a slight floral note to the flavor. Winter plums are a large bush/small tree variety that is earliest to bloom with off-white to yellow-white flowers. The 3/4 inch round sweet plums are red, orange-red or yellow and can be eaten fresh, dried (as dark amber prunes) or made into jams, jellies or sweet wines or vinegars. In the wild, excessive suckering forms a wide 3-10 foot tall bush with many of its unique zigzagging, thorny branches. Bushing produces smaller 1/4-3/8 inch plums. When cultivated, the tree form can reach heights of 25 feet and greater quantities of the larger 3/4 inch fruit. Black walnut trees are prized for the deep color of its wood as well as its nuts. Easily reaching 200 years old, the walnut is wide-branched, reaching heights between 70 and 150 feet, Black Walnut does well in open fields, on sloped land and a diversity of sites if the soil is well drained and rich. The 1"-1.25" nut has a high yield and is covered in a dark and hard husk that protects a flavorful nut. A single mature tree can produce hundreds of nuts each season. Walnut roots are dense and heavily branching. They choke out other plants growing beneath them. Walnut shells inhibit plant growth when used as mulch but do well to increase yields of the walnut tree itself. Walnuts fall when ripe, so easily harvested. However, the hard shells falling from a tall tree hit hard. If the fall on roofing or structures, it causes loud drumming as they hit structures during harvest. The leaves turn red and orange before becoming wholly bright yellow. After the yellow display, they shed their leaves within 13 days.
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