Denado

Denado was sometimes coloquially called the "land of exiles," referring to its name's meaning in Zorredrian. It is said that Denado was founded by people whose wings were clipped for one reason or another -- worshipping "false gods," being too outspoken of the government, discovering secrets that the highest of high sought to keep hidden, and so on; they were cast out of the high-reaching cities of Tico, refused shelter in Drio, kept outside of Fadhado's walls, and then they were left to fend for themselves in the wilds. By gathering others like them, the exiles survived, and they created their own country. Flight was prohibited in Denado, and there were numerous coming of age ceremonies involving "casting off the sky" by disfiguring one's wings to symbolically become part of the exiles that had founded Denado.
Due to the Denadans' isolationist nature, and also because they could not fly away to escape the spores, Solçãoraldos' spread was especially devastating to Denado. Many of them still remain in lands technically part of Solçãoraldos, but they have remained on the coasts where the toxic spores are carried away by the ocean winds. Though life expectancies are low among the scattered survivors of Denado, their pride remains unbroken and at an all-time high; they refuse to leave the nation when their ancestors endured so much worse at the hands of their persecutors.
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