Pieua Pioh

Alia Pieua Ahl Piohil, Pieua-Pioh for short. they are a pacifist nation of artists and priests, living a life of peace. Pieua-Pioh is under the protection (and taxation) of Calai of Three Lakes.

Basic Statistics

## Languages

The Pioh speak Ilpu, *The Ilpu language includes 3 consonants(p,h,l) and 5 vowels(a,e,i,o,u). Double consonants become f,k,d respectively and double vowels are pronounced twice. To the pioh (the people) it is deemed unrespectful to use gender pronouns and only use those in medical or sexual cenarios. The 2 kinds of text are the casual and formal, the casual, or day to day writing is the one the people use to trade and write letters in. The formal one is only used in art and religious works and is often blended to the piece as a part of it.*

## Politics

*The governing family are the bures (pronounced dule by commoners who only know ilpu), the family are said to be descendants of  Barim himself before he was killed. The current leader is Phaki, an artist who believes that the only way to find the banished gods is to share the religion of the pioh with others from outside Pieua-Pioh. The government sits in the temple in Alia,  and includes Phaki, two artist ministers, one priest of the dead and a lore-keeper. The council are the complete leaders of  Pieua-Pioh. The council room is a big room, in the middle sits the leader. To the right sits the artists and to the left the lore keeper and priest. In other cities the council room is mostly empty. The city leader sits on the right of the king's throne, leaving the other four seats empty. The laws are enforced by the Marraw-eaters. A group of commoners that act like the police in the name of the throne. Marraw-eating is not considered fighting so the enforcers of law still count as respected dead after they pass.*

*The educated classes are divided to the artists of Poliau, the ruling theological class, the lore keepers, worshippers of Hadae and keepers of all pioh knowledge, and the priests of the dead, worshippers of Viven and the only class allowed to touch the dead.*

## Religion and culture

### Moral values and principles

*The pioh believe that all war is wrong, and that all the warriors go to the kingdom of Bacce. They are usually peaceful,  centered around art and storytelling. There are four main social groups that exist in the society and The commoners are taught to treat the educated classes with respect, and usually believe that the only way up in the social ladder is to marry one. Marriage is not allowed between the educated classes. Lore keepers cannot marry artists or priests, priests of the dead cannot marry artists etc.*

*A child born to a high class will learn to worship his specific god above all, dressing in their colors(red for Poliau, blue for Hadae and white for Viven), although in the three holy days they must forget their rivalry and celebrate the current god.*

### Traditions

*The pioh celebrate the three holidays mentioned above, each involving a specific age group and their families. The Pa celebrate the stories of the people, told in paintings and ilpu on the temple walls, each year the brightest of the Lore keepers children is crowned the storyteller, and is in charge of telling the stories to the commoners who cannot read the ilpu formal writing. The Kape is the holiday of puberty. By that age the teens already know their lifelong partner and their social status for the rest of their life. The educated classes paint upon their heritage columns, 12ft tall white stone pillars, and the commoners teens all paint together on the community column, 25 ft tall pillar with a diameter of 10ft. It is said that when there is no more white on the pillars in Alia , the banished gods will return.*

*The commoners game is the hehal, a game played in two teams, each player has an elongated, two teeth only fork made out of wood, and each team goal is to throw the ball into the other team basket, which is hanging 2ft above the ground.*

*From around the age of 10 the educated classes children are discouraged to play hehal, and it is custom that the educated teens compete in writing poetry.(architecture stuff might need to wait for some tech advances*

### Religion

*At the beginning there was nothing. Nothing but the barren land and wine red sky. It is not clear how things came to be in our world, but the pioh theologians tend to agree that for the world to end eventually,  the world needs to begin, so it is only logical that the sprout of life came out of the waterless wasteland. The vine plant grew for eons until it reached the sky's dark red cape and penetrated it, impregnating the sky with the first five gods, the children of the fruit. But the earth grew jealous,  because it itself wanted to become the bearer of life.*

*Once the plant-father fell asleep the earth took advantage of it and became the mother of the thorns, the underbelly gods who  feed on ones too daring to get close to the father itself.*

*But the Piohil, the piohs ancestors were neither children of the fruit or the thorns, because they came out of the pure  vine parent. After the vine had grown complete and ejected his 15 children upon the world, five of fruit above, five of the thorns below and five of the kings to be.*

*Just like their mother, the thorn gods and goddesses disapproved the other children of the vine, and schemed to kill them and  take their place as rulers of the sky and land themself, they understood that five cannot rule over three kingdoms, so they fought among themself until Bacce and Marraw. The remaining gods of thorn then went and took control of the land, killing Barim of the fruit gods, and three of the Piohil, leaving behind only Poliau and Hadae.*

*Tuzum, the new ruler of the sky, banished Duma, Kilup, Buima and Tzadim.*

*Rano, killer of the Piohil, took over the earth and chopped off father-vine, leaving only small remnants of him, the forests that grow today.*

*Viven never left the undergrounds  and is not involved in the godhood war, only serves as a gatekeeper of the dead, who belong in the kingdoms of Bacce, Marraw and Barim, the dead gods.*

*Today the main godworks is the work of Poliau, the waving of stories and prayers into the fabric and painting on the temple walls, praying for the banished gods to return and free them from the cold, war and sickness of the thorns.*

*The worship of Viven is done by the priests of the graves, a small cult inside the Poliau temple who are the only ones allowed to touch dead bodies, and to assist them to their afterlife.*

*There are only three main holidays celebrated.  The “Pa'', a day that all parents take the young children to the temples and let them learn the myths of the Pioh, The “Kapa '', day of puberty. Once a year all the 17 years old teens gather in the main hall and draw upon their family pillar.*

*The last holiday is the day of the gone, where all people go to the streets and paint the ground from the graveyard to outside the city in red to guide the dead spirits to the kingdom of Barim, their heaven.*

### Art

*The main art of the pioh is wall drawing, although some enjoy waving more. All the people and animals in the painting are drawn as black outlines only, as only respected spiritual and civil leaders are painted with green or red marks. Around all the paintings the artists write the legend in the piece  in formal ilpu, seeming like vines surrounding the paintings to outsiders.*

*All Pieua-Pioh cities have a big temple in the middle, built the same as any other temple in any other city exactly as the lore-keepers writings explain, if you were to find yourself in a random temple the only way to discover what city you're in is the column paintings.*