Zoteppian Domian

Formed from the wish of a brother Mourtonne (More-ton), Zotep was created and has flourished as a tyranny for the past 7000 (AM 6854) years. The rulers have formed from the descendants of Alburt Mourtonne himself, and continue to be the job of the eldest child to this day. Other children are typically given other jobs throughout the kingdom, such as leading the military or running the agricultural trades of the kingdom with a few stragglers choosing a more modain, townsfolks lifestyle.

**The King**

The King of Zotep is currently King Marius and is responsible for several things. One is commanding the leaders of the other factors of Zotep, this mainly pertains to the counsel, but also the individual governing factors of the several regions of Zotep. They are not directly in control of the military, but do have to sign off on outer countries expeditions and other larger activities and are in general knowledge of the ongoings of higher ranked officials. They spend most of their day managing the operations of others and working on committees. They also spend quite a bit of them making and keeping alliances, easily done in such a plentiful Kingdom. They are always raised to worship Terrabis and spend a significant time on that practice.

The counsel is made up of the following representatives:

Grand Marshal, who is in charge of the military and defense.

Minor Marshal, who is in charge of the internal law keeping.

Agricultural Chair, who is in charge of the keeping and distribution of crops.

Head of Tradesmen and Commerce department, in charge of outer country trade.

Treasurer, in charge of taxes and kingdom finance.

High Mage

And the individual senators from the several regions of Zotep.

**Regions of Zotep**

**The Forgotten Mountains,** a small mountain range on the easter edge of Zotep. The mountain range is wrapped in stories of mysterious disappearances on foggy nights, but most people who have seen it  just believe it is a beautiful mountain range with plentiful foliage. There is no representative of the mountains because there are no villages nearby, they just are.

The Forgotten Mountain range is actually home to a gate to a mirror plane called “Lengiph” (lin-gef), the gate opens up on nights of the Just moon, when it’s particularly foggy, and leads any visitor straight into a mountain village known as necklace, which is actually just a necklace on the Just god’s fireplace. The gate only works for people who are running to or from something and allows them to live a happy, simple life in a self run village (like a commune, but more renaissance-y). People in the village know nothing about how they got there, or where they are, but most seem happy after an adjustment period.

**Eriesis (Air-e-es-is)**

This region is made up of five villages, the largest of which being East Ritfield. Largely known for their tomatoes, East Ritfield is the largest farming village in the entirety of Zotep, probably the world. E. Ritfield is home to the largest temple to Terrabis and has a sophiscated farming lifestyle. While the smaller farming village favor a more laid back farming style, the farmers of East Ritfield, especially closer towards the center of the village, are monks of Terrabis and see farming as a spiritual practice. They work from dawn to dusk practicing their worship and take a day of rest in the middle of the week as an act of respiration, this is not taken super seriously. They also host the harvest festival, as they are the second closest town to the inner city. The actual closest town to the village is West Ritfield. On the outer city banks, lays the lowly town of West Ritfield, it is the smallest farming village in all of the Zoteppian Domian and produces the lowest amount of crops. Sad and drabbed, most of the farmers there are former monks/monks in training of Terrabis, who just couldn’t keep up with the intense lifestyle in East Ritfield.

**The Ports**

Drac

Leno

Pilux

Ostea

**Agriculture**

Zotep was blessed but the agricultural god, Terrabis, is largely known for its plentiful and great farmlands on the outskirts of the city. Most towns have temples to Terrabis, with few towns having smaller temples and shrines to adjacent gods such as Lamius (the sun god) and Cobbles (the child-like protector of farmers). Most farmland has rock structures of Cobbles placed around local farms and straw made structures of him hung from wood in fields. Farmers would self 75% of their crops to their town, including the crops they keep for himself, and the rest would be transported back to the city to provide substances for the city dwellers. The king themself has a personal home farm, along with a personal garden master ( a gm hehe), who is typically also a higher up in Terrabis’ ranking.

**Secruity force**

While the military is responsable for outerkingdom defense, the secruity force of each village/town/city is in charge of innerkingdomn defense. Mostly, the secruity force works as private hires, with the governement training and assigning indivuals to a village/town/city and indivduals looking to press charges or pursue an investagation have to pay a goverment regulate fee. Secruity may be hired by the government itself for large events or issues of great importance.