Tsolyánu

## Tsolyánu—the Empire of the Petal Throne

"The government of the Empire is a form of authoritarian bureaucracy. The power of the Emperor is absolute, served by the ever-vigilant eyes of the Omnipotent Azure Legion and its agents."

"Tsolyáni males average 1.68m in height, and are generally of slender-wiry or medium builds. Complexions range from coppery brown to a golden tan; noses are aquiline or straight; hair is fine and straight, always a glossy black; and there is relatively little body hair. Muscular, square-jawed and hawk-featured is the Tsolyáni male preference. Women are 1.57m in height on average with rather voluptuous figures; the common standard of female beauty is Tanulé, one of the Aspects of Avánthe, who is depicted as a slim girl with long black hair, triangular and piquant features, a retrousse nose and wide cheekbones. Curly or brown-streaked hair is considered unbeautiful, and light-coloured eyes are thought to be a sign of dishonesty."

"Tsolyáni have a predilection for elaborate ceremonial, visual display, and the security brought about by knowing exactly where one stands in the social order."

source: https://www.tekumel.com/eoasw5\_06.html

> **The Eye**: What are the principal virtues admired by the Tsolyáni?
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> **MARB**: Noble action dictates you should behave as you say you will behave. Be honest and straightforward. Laziness and venality are disapproved of. Gamblers who venerate Niyunen, the Giver of Unexpected Wealth (ne of the aspects of Hrihayal—Ed.) should spend their money, not hoard it up. Treachery is really bad—nobody regards it as noble. (Worshippers of Ksarul who dissemble are only honourable if their lies are for the purpose of Ksarul’s eventual release from the Blue Room.) Slavers and moneylenders are looked down on by everyone.
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> **The Eye**: How do the Tsolyáni know which dais to sit on at parties?
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> **MARB**: Tsolyáni parties are distinguished by a series of daises which are assigned to various social levels. An empty seat and Imperial Seal are always at the top, princes and princesses just below this, and so on down to the lowest levels of the outer garden, where the common folk are served chunks of roast meat from spits.
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## Tsolyáni Political Parties

### The Imperial Party

The Imperial Party is centred at Avanthár under the leadership of the High Provost of the Omnipotent Azure Legion.

It is comprised of the most influential courtiers, palace officials, and Tlakotáne in the empire. Its lords and ladies are the most committed to continuing the traditions and continuity of the Seal Emperor of Tsolyánu. The Petal Throne is its emblem and spiritual heart.

### The Military Party

Made of of major Legions and their backing Clans. The Military Party is split because of the growing strength of temple-funded legions.

### The Priestly Party

The bloc is split between the devotees of Stability and Change, but cooperation has come about at times when common goals are meet.

The Priestly Party has immense power: the temples fund some of the Empire's best legions; a communications network of telepathic relays which rivals that of the Omnipotent Azure Legion; own vast lands, collect tithes, and receive donations of the pious.

### The Royalist Party

The Royalist Party is so-named because its people are descended from the ancient royal families of the Bednálljans and the Mridleneláni. This bloc of families and clans seeks a decentralization of the state, and more power-sharing.

### Foreign Parties

Envoys and Diplomatic Missions, Human and Non-human. (Examples: Livyani Delegation, Haida Pakallan Delegation, etc.)

## Eastern Tsolyánu

#### Hekéllu, city

Anchi'ke, small town

Chaigári, village

### Chaigári, region

#### Fénul, city

Farthest east city of Tsolyánu. Boarders Salarvyá to the south.

*Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group*

Fénul: Two roads lead from Fénul northward. A minor one skirts the Kákri Midallu Peak highlands and the Ssǘ enclave, and a major provincial highway skirts the Salarvyáni border then follows the provincial border through the highlands between Tláni Hidallu Peak and Kákri Midallu Peak to Hekéllu. Most of the mines in the highlands of the area north of Fénul are owned by the Imperium, but there are clan as well as personal ownership of some. The mines employ free men, but the heavy labor is done by slaves. These are purchased in Tsolyánu, loaded with supplies and marched to Hekéllu and/or Fénul and thence to the mines. They are then worked until they die but not in the way the Nazis or Soviets did. Discipline is not a problem as those who are a problem are placed outside the compound at night and nature takes its course. There are gold, silver, copper, tin, and a very few small iron mines in the area.

### Kaijá Protectorate

#### Jakálla, city

Setnákh: Small town at the junction of the Sákbe roads from Jaikalór and Thráya to Jakálla. Woven Whip clan and Turning Wheel clan have clan houses on the ridge over looking the town where the transient slave pens and great Chlén-beast barns are. Round Rock clan has a house and farms in the area. Wicker Image and Black Mat clans remove garbage from the town.

#### Pála Jakálla, city

Tirikelu 2e - Land Of The Petal Throne p.140-146

### Káija, Kerunán and Chaigári, cities

"Imperium vied with Salarvyá (and with the vicious Hlutrgú) for control of them. The Salarvyáni are too busy with their own interminable feuding, however, to offer much off a threat."

### Setnakh, town

"Located where the Sakbe Road splits north-east to Thráya and south-eastish to Jaikalór. It is "an unlovely, muddy place,filled with ferryboats, Chlen-carts, warehouses, and goods-merchants, who make it noisy, dirty, crowded, and generally awful (spelled offal)."

Population: 5-7 thousand

Hnálla, Avánthe, and Belkhánu predominate in the southeastern corner of the Empire.  The usual clans listed in the Sourcebook may be found, although only a few have permanent clan-houses in this small town: White Stone,Great Stone, Amber Cloak (Belkhánu), Rising Sun, Green Bough, Blue Stream, Green Forest, Open Hand, and several more low clans. Of the "Dark" clans, Black Pinnacle and Black Monolith come to mind.

Might of Ganga has a commercial depot here: transhipping goods to barges to go south and then out to supply the islands in the southern sea. Nobody else I recall, but several medium-high clans (see above) have small establishments here, mostly as way stations for their members travelling up or down river.

A Hnálla monastery is located just a few Tsan on toward Jakálla, but it is not very distinguished. Also a temple of Thúmis that is distinctly tatty.

Most of the older buildings of this area go back only a few hundred years. Anything older is buried beneath alluvial mud. There were great cities here during the Engsvanyali period, but with the sinking of the southern tektonic plates and the drowning of Ganga itself, most of these remnants were buried. A few buildings go back to the early days of the Second Imperium,and there are stories about artifacts that were saved from the floods and hidden away here and there. No idea whether any are in Setnakh or not.

#### Notable items of Setnakh

"The place [has] the stench of dirty river water, mud, dead fish, and soggy." There is a "land bridge to get from one river to the other" but it's not very pleasant.

### Thráya, city

"Is there a secondary highway east from Thraya to where the Sakbe Road crosses Rananga heading further east to Sokatis.  Why is this obvious link in the Sake Roads missing?  Is there a village there where the Sakbe crosses Rananga?

There was a Sakbe Road link there, but it was destroyed some centuries ago and never rebuilt -- problems like money (graft), lack of clan support, poor qualities of local stone (the great alluvial plain is mostly dirt and clay, down to a depth of many feet), etc. and political squabbling have prevented the restoration of the Sakbe Road. The secondary road is pretty good, except in the worst of the rainy season."

#### Products sent by this route

"From the east: forest products (wood, pitch, woven basketry), Salarvyani wines, Salarvyani cloth, copper ingots, Dlel-fruit, and gold; from the west: Jakallan wine, fancy glassware and pottery from Urmish and Katalal, Chlen-hide weapons and tools down from Katalal and Hauma, sea products from Jakalla itself, paper, inks, and paints, gems from all across Tsolyanu, agricultural products (grains, leather, etc.) -- a host of minor products."

Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group

Thráya is pretty much run by the Temple of Belkhánu.

Mitlanyal p.54-55.
There are music academies dedicated to the 31st aspect of Avánthe, Jogái “The Songstress” in Jakálla, Béy Sü, Tumissa, and Thráya.

Mitlanyal p.55-56.
Avánthe's 50th aspect, Orodhún "The Paragon of Unimaginable Allure": Principle of beauty, grace, pure form and perfect dimensions. Patron of art, painting, sculpture and physical perfection. Her studios and academies are found in Thraya, Ferinara, Jakalla, Usenanu, Tumissa, and Chene Ho, but Her greatest shrine, with an extensive art school and museum attached, is in Béy Sü.

Mitlanyal p.66
Avánthe's 60th aspect, Weltíga "The Lady of Scrolls:
Her shrines in Mekú, Úrmish, and Thráya also function as scribal schools where calligraphy in many languages and styles is taught.

## Southwest Tsolyánu

#### Úrmish, city

Was one of the three City-States of the Fisher Kings (Jakálla, Pála Jakálla, Úrmish).

Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group

Morcháptla Swamps: The name for the swampy area (comprised of 7 partial or full hexes) west of Úrmish.

## Northwest Tsolyánu

### Cháka's, region in Western Tsolyánu

Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group

Kachor chiefs of the Inner Range of the Chákas.

Lighter colored eyes in the Chakás.

Some Chákan clans guard their women-folk as if they were piles of gold.

Mu'ugalavyá invaded the Chakas in 2369 AS.

#### Chéne Hó, large town

==== *Source: Mitlanyal p.55-56.*
50) Orodhún "The Paragon of Unimaginable Allure": Principle of beauty, grace, pure form and perfect dimensions. Patron of art, painting, sculpture and physical perfection. Her studios and academies are found in Thraya, Ferinara, Jakalla, Usenanu, Tumissa, and Chéne Hó, but Her greatest shrine, with an extensive art school and museum attached, is in Béy Sü. ====

##### Páya Gupá, large town

(PA-ya GU-pa): Name means “Red Mountain” in the dialect of Dó Cháka. Its walls and towers are of rufous sandstone along the summit of a low hill spurring out of the Chákan Forest. On the summit stands the palace of the local governor. The old, gray Thúmis Shrine that was frequented by the Grand Adept of the order is down the hill to the west.

#### Tumíssa, large city

*Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group*

During the Civil War the Vimúhla worshiping governor of Tumíssa remained loyal to Emperor Dhich'uné, later known as the “Usurper.”
Tumíssans have high cheekbones and broad foreheads.

Plaza of Heshtúatl by the gate of the High Arch of Hejjéka II near the Great Market is where caravans leave for Khirgár in Tumíssa.

To'om Unessu- Tumíssa in 1st Imperium Bednálljan, means the Place of the Crag.
To'om Ssa: Tumíssa in Éngsvanyáli.

Temple of Thúmis in Tumíssa has a great library of hoary fame, and also the image of “Thúmis Ascending to the Sun” carved by Marya of Tsámra.
The Temple of Thúmis in Tumíssa has a clockwork simulacrum said to have been constructed by Thomar.

*Source: Mitlanyal p.54-56.*

There are music academies dedicated to the 31st aspect of Avánthe, Jogái “The Songstress” in Jakálla, Béy Sü, Tumissa, and Thráya.

50) Orodhún "The Paragon of Unimaginable Allure": Principle of beauty, grace, pure form and perfect dimensions. Patron of art, painting, sculpture and physical perfection. Her studios and academies are found in Thraya, Ferinara, Jakalla, Usenanu, Tumissa, and Chene Ho, but Her greatest shrine, with an extensive art school and museum attached, is in Béy Sü.

#### Pán Cháka, region

"West side of Tsolyánu, changed back and forth in a long tug-of-war between **Tsolyánu** and Mu’ugalavyá, culminating in the Great War of 2,020 A.S. which ended in a stalemate."

*Source: http://www.tekumel.com/world\_lands01.html*

## Source

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 http://www.tekumel.com/world\_lands01.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 The Blue Room vol1 #1