Faktumberg

The Kingdom of Faktumberg is a sight to behold. Carved into the side of a massive mountain and spilling out into the valley below, the Kingdom of Faktumberg is nestled between snowcapped peaks. The surrounding villages are quiet and pleasant, compared to the rambunctious, cosmopolitan city life. It is a long, difficult path to reach the isolated mountain kingdom, but many people in the region make the journey due to the city’s cultural and religious importance.
               The Kingdom was founded many years ago by Hondor Shillelagh, a child of the God Enya and a demigod in his own right. Considering herself unfit for motherhood, she locked Hondor in her own parallel world with no hope of escape. However, trapped within his mother’s realm, he was granted access to The Million-Year-Old Demon, who made a deal with Hondor Shillelagh. In exchange for the demigod of beauty’s penis, The Million-Year-Old Demon would help Hondor escape his mother’s clutches.
               Once in the material plane, Hondor came to an understanding with his mother. She said he can remain in the material realm if he doesn’t go too far from his mother’s temple. Hondor founded the Kingdom of Faktumberg nearby.  Hondor Shillelagh rules as a tyrant, there is no semblance of democracy. He does not have much of an appetite to govern, however. The real governance of the city is run by a ruling class of philosophers and debaters called Loremasters.
               The Loremaster class, which is exclusively male, is obsessed with being correct. Loremasters are defined by their ability to argue, to correct, to administer. They are said to have a general disdain for average, everyday people. They have legal rights over everyone in the city, but are kept in check by the Separators, a group of undead women based out of the Temple of Enya focused on beauty and aesthetic purity, whom the Loremasters cannot look directly in the eye. The Loremasters have their own temple, the Temple of Progress, a byzantine clockwork machine of billows, gears, and crystals that has created something that resembles an early computer. To rise as a Loremaster, you must be good at one thing. Tracts. This is their main cultural export, as the Tracts of Faktumberg are read far and wide. These are essentially posts, rants and hypothetical one-sided arguments that are widely quoted and beloved.
               Culturally speaking, Faktumberg is a divided society. The Separators provide a counterbalance to the sexist and classist Loremasters, but then it is further muddled by the powerful demon presence within the city. These demons are chaotic neutral, they love to party, they are beautiful – and they are a fundamental part of the underbelly of the city and have been since Hondor founded the Kingdom. The Loremasters don’t acknowledge the presence of the demons, and the demons and Separators view each other as rivals. There is only one singular person that binds these otherwise incompatible entities – a religious position known as The Unsatisfier.
               The Unsatisfier is chosen as a young man during a holiday known as Oafenpog, a male-only feast that women throw for men. The young man who can eat the most apples is then taken into the Temple of Enya by the Pleasurers, a group of still living female worshippers of Enya, who give the Unsatisfier his every wish and desire. Not only does the Unsatisfier have sovereignty over the temple, but he was also sovereign of the entire temple. An early Hondor idolized The Unsatisfier that existed when he first came to the material world and allowed the Unsatisfier to be waited on hand and foot by the entire Kingdom. Why do they do this? They encourage gluttony and indulgence until the Unsatisfier dies, whose soul crushed and turned into the divine energy called soulfire that turns the living Pleasurers into the undead Separators.
               Faktumberg has a positive reputation in the region. They are the largest civilization in their area, but also decidedly non-violent. Lesser nobles from other regions venture here to pay tribute and contribute generously. Many people find themselves pulled to this entire other world amidst the city and end up moving here after visiting. The common people work cultural capital jobs, selling food, tracts, masonry, and the Temple of Progress is the biggest employer of locals. However, the common people idolize the Separators, who live a happy, bohemian existence in a separate palace, free from any responsibilities, and they often spend their time contributing to their communities.