Ivory Kingdoms (TCG)

The Ivory Kingdoms consisted of a collection of smaller principalities, from where fleets had arrived and eventually attacked the Emerald Empire. Smokeless Fire, by Katrina Ostrander
== Contact with Rokugan ==
It was known that the Mantis Clan had reached its coasts. Legend of the Five Rings: Roleplaying Game (Beta), p. 104 The local tongue was known as Ivindi, The Mantis Clan which was also the Rokugani term to identify elements belonging or relating from this place. Dark Tides, p. 26 The Ki-Rin's Road connected the Kingdoms with Khanbulak, a Rokugani city of the Unicorn Clan. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 77
== Politics ==
The Ivory Kingdoms were a sprawling, shifting mosaic of monarchies, religious territories, and city-states united under the rule of the maharaja. In reality, this ever-changing patchwork of political entities, mostly payed only lip service to the maharaja's rule. The result was a long history of strife. Various ethnic, cultural, and religious groups rose to great power and prominence. Path of Waves, p. 196 There were eight to ten major factions or kingdoms, each was nominally ruled by a monarch known as a rajah, but over time, the actual leadership of these kingdoms had varied between individual sovereigns, ruling councils, religious leaders, and even, in a few
cases, mercantile guilds. Path of Waves, p. 199 There were five Ivory Kingdoms factions that have risen in prominence: the ruling Sheelavaan, the Mukka religious sect, the Saamrajya monarchy, the Tajir traders, and the Naga serpent folk. Each faction has their own seat of power, ranging from the City of Splendor, Bhavyatapura, to the delta of the Heeratand. The Ivory Kingdoms (FFG Web)
== Geography ==
Located south and west of Rokugan, the Ivory Kingdoms were broadly defined by an expanse of gently rolling plains, bordered on three sides by the ocean, a massive mountain range to the north, and by thick, swampy forests to the northeast. The fertile plains gave way to salt flats, which themselves dwindled into the rocky barren wastelands and desert of the Burning Sands. The central interior of the Ivory Kingdoms was dominated by the Sonagiri or “Golden Mountain,” until it ended at a mountain range that dominated the center of the Ivory Kingdoms region. Shaktimaan Deevaar, the Mighty Wall, was the impenetrable mountain range that marked the northern border. The northeast was low-lying and poorly drained, with a warmer and wetter climate, which resulted in a lush expanse of thick, tangled rainforest, the Ghostlands, that separated the Ivory Kingdoms from the southernmost reaches of the Shadowlands. South of the Ghostlands, on the Ivory Kingdoms’ eastern coast, a great river irrigated the land of a host of independent cities and villages, many of which were rich with trading partners from foreign lands. The southern tip of the Ivory Kingdoms was a great swampy delta, sheltered on one side by a small mountain range and on the other by a thick mangrove forest, where the naga folk were most numerous. The rich and fertile soil in and around the forest that lined the western coast and wide south-flowing river was the place where many kingdoms have built themselves up. The Himapaat, or Snow River, the Heeratand, and the Nadati were the most important rivers of the Ivory Kingdoms.The Heeratand and the Himapaat represented the divine and secular journeys of mortals through life respectively, with one leading toward a region of mystery and the other toward the heart of civilization, and the Nadati metaphorically represented the separate path of constant struggle against evil and temptation. Path of Waves, pp. 197, 199 The Haunted Jungles, one of the two subregions commonly recognized as existing in the Deep Shadowlands Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 13 bordered the Ivory Kingdoms. Mask of the Oni, p. 10
== Climate ==
Climate varied greatly across the Ivory Kingdoms. Warmer and wetter weather prevailed in the south and east, with a drier and cooler climate on north and west. The southern Kingdoms were generally tropical: hot and muggy through most of the year, and particularly wet during the monsoon season in the summer and autumn, with frequent, drenching rain-storms rolling in from the ocean. Away from the ocean, the amount of rainfall diminished. The northern border was the point at which rainfall became so scarce that no crops could be reliably grown. Path of Waves, p. 198
== Religion ==
The Ivindi temples used to have an amalaka, a notched stone disk, on its top. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 84
=== Pantheon ===
This is a list of the known gods of the Ivory Kingdoms:
* Aarav
* Ayaan
* Banhi
* Chandi
* Kahri
* Neha
* Sahil
== Known Schools ==
* Ivory Kingdoms Dancing Blades Tradition (Bushi)
* Ivory Kingdoms Sage Tradition (Sage, Bushi)
== History ==
=== Purple Horde ===
During Shinjo's journey the Ivory Kingdoms were visited by the Purple Horde. Across the Burning Sands, by Daniel Lovat Clark
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