Cúrovi

== Overview ==
Cúrovi was both a continent and a kingdom, situated to the west of Bolassoa and to the east of Kisaya. The kingdom was large, being dominated by forested expanses and boreal plains. Being tantamount to a psychocratic rule, its culture was an orchestrated fabrication undertaken by its ancient ruling Velners (a deity like master family of the kingdom known to have ruled for over 2000 years by 301 AG, whose incumbent ruler was known simply as 'The One'). Its people, as a consequence, were at the mercy of their regional families' and the Velns' cultural fictions which obsessed in sustaining the notion that they lived to make the Velners pleased, whether through their work or other forms of subservience. In spite of this, they generally lived happy and largely dispassionate lives. The kingdom rarely partook in migration owing to their society's strictly self-sustaining terms. However, the wealth of the Velners was primarily attributed to its fiscal connections to other continents: rife trade, made possible by the Cúrovi people, sustained almost unshakable bonds of trade with locations such as Dubravier, Nagsing, and notably the Grenthyx Dynasty. 
== Geography ==
== Societal Structure ==
Cúrovi had a strict social structure second to none across all known Continents. The Velners, and The One in particular, were far above the others, elevated to the position of gods in their artificial, curated culture. Dzıąš-Kiįūn referred to the sum of all the important families who presided over the continent's various regions. This sum did not include the Velners, who were not regarded as mere mortals by the Dzıąš-Kiįūn. Below them were the common folk, who worshipped the Velners and worked to generate trade and prosperity for their regional families (and the Velners themselves). 
==== The Velners ====
With the Velners being akin to deities, they possessed ultimate power over the only language spoken in the continent, one which they themselves manufactured, known by outsiders only as Rovi Speech. Nobody could or knew how to speak a language over than this in the entire continent, apart from their own Council of Emissaries or in rare exceptions individuals who were required to in the interest of dealing with other continents - though only with the divine sanction of the Velners. A nebulous evil energy was attracted by the Velners, affording them supernatural qualities such as long life in the process, but at the expense of disfigurement and disturbing distortions - especially The One. Determining the nature of their rule became incredibly difficult given their long age, with succession rites occurring in bizarre ways. Nonetheless, it was known that upon the death of the present ruler, the eldest child would represent the Velners' divine authority, thereby conferring to them rule and ultimate power over the kingdom. Away from Cúrovi, members of House Veln outside of the leader of the kingdom were unknown lest they succeed the present ruler. Due to their unnatural long life, it was thought that the kingdom had dozens rulers by 301 AG. 
===== The Council of Emissaries =====
As per the divine nature of the Velners, their most trusted council, the Council of Emissaries, was similarly presented as part of the 'beyond' through a cleverly constructed misty guise of divine sanction. Their essential purpose, to act as translators to communicate the interests of The One abroad, necessitated this for all language save for Rovi speech was forbidden and unknown to all else in the continent. Its members numbered around 20, and were indoctrinated in their divine duty to the Velners, being taught that the purpose of their lives was to repay the Velners for gifting them the right to speak another language by advancing their interests abroad for them. They lacked any recognisable humanity or individual identity; pleasure, disgust, gender or sexuality were either utterly irrelevant or otherwise thrown into vacuity through being reducible to 'whatever the Velners wish'. 
Their lives were mostly solitary, though they were in many ways glorified translators, a longstanding sense of mystique created an entrenched understanding that they were akin to scholars of Cúrovi, particularly when it came to arbitrating over the often entirely fabricated history behind Rovi Speech. The council's members were all hereditary; women were randomly selected to produce an heir to their position on the council. Following their selection, each member was deprived of any parental affiliation and promptly blinded at birth with the purported purpose of honing their senses, the cruelty of which attracted the Dark Cúrovi Field to them. Aside from physical contortions, this gave them access to dark powers, largely a matter of mere speculation among outsiders. The absorption of written information was among these powers, whether by intense engagement or physical contact, allowing them to read without seeing. In addition, the emissaries were responsive to beings around them in a state of quasi-vision which harnessed the mysterious dark energy. Due to their emptied eye sockets, they wore ornate masks to conceal this fact, reinforcing their intimidating presence all felt around them. All this made them a collection of highly efficient diplomats, all the while acting as unwavering servants of the Velners. 
==== Dzıąš-Kiįūn (Important Families) ====
The Dzıąš-Kiįūn represented a collection of 14 families entrusted by the Velners to represent and advance their status across Cúrovi. In essence, they presided over relaying local information, mainly in the area of trade, to The One themselves. In turn, The One gifted them vast residences in the regions they were entrusted with. Much was unclear regarding how they attained such high status, though it was thought that they must have entered such positions around the time of the continent's cultural revolution some time around 2,000 BG. Much like the Velners, they bore physical contortions, affording them an appearance that could be regarded as disturbing. However, though they attracted some of the dark field to their being and names, it was generally accepted that their immersion was not as strong as that of the Velners' or even their Council of Emissaries'. 
The Dzıąš'ɕ (families) were as follows:
* Aizšau
* Aurksta
* Diev
* Džov
* Klis
* Laimsal
* Lūzial
*Līčus 
* Seiį
* Stoša
* Suur
* Čoveh
* Šlovėh
=== Common Folk ===
== History ==
== Rulers ==
Epochs of rule in Cúrovi history were segmented into canonical 'authorships' in order to afford ultimate providence of reality. There being little in the way of change as a means to distinguish between rulers, this schematic became the norm concerning scholarship and understanding of Cúrovi, even in other Continents. 
Authorship of Belỏr 	Authorship of Belỏr 	Authorship of Belỏr
The OneBelỏr Veln7 BG - 149 AG 	 	
Authorship of Kurbad 	Authorship of Kurbad	Authorship of Kurbad
The One<Br>Kurbad Veln149 AG - 302 AG