Mulfloric People

Early Mulfloric Tribal Flag

### Found in

Democratic Realm of Valvirium, Principality of Kaosaria, Fortress State of Liberon

### Religion

Chaoism(cult of Cisero), Mulfloric Paganism

## Common Phenotypes

### Eye color

Emerald

The **Mulfloric People** are the two main people groups of the nations of Kaosaria and Valvirium, who are located on the Cynerian peninsula. Their name, "Mulfloric" comes from their word for the long winding river that led them west, the "Mulflores", which means many flowers in their language. Mulfloric people are humans generally characterized by their emerald eyes and brownish hair. The mulfloric people were originally a small yet populous collection of three tribes that inhabited a flower forest in what is now currently Halga. The mulfloric people groups diverged when the first migration event happened, where the King of Kaosoria moved his people west, eventually to the Kingdom of Tiemolar.

## Origins

While Kaosaria and Valvirium seem to have very different styles of governance, they emerged from a common idea of how to govern. The mulfloric tribes decided who would run the country by having a brutal athletic competition where the three leaders of the three tribes would be chosen. The winners were each given a golden crown of leaves that was said to give them strength and longevity, that signified that they were the leaders. The competition happened each year, meaning that the incumbent winners could not grow lazy while they were governing. The divide in governance started when a fatal accident happened that led to the deaths of everyone involved within the competition. This led to a period of turmoil, in which the mulfloric people were effectively leaderless and in anarchy. Eventually, things stabilized, and two schools of thought emerged, one believing that the competition should be abolished and instead replaced with a dynasty of the latest winners' families, as they believed that leadership and strength were hereditary, while the other believed the competition should be turned into a contest for the peoples support where the potential leaders instead had to compete for popularity among the people. The tribes were split amongst these ideas, leading to one of the tribes, the Kaosarians to split from the others and establish their own realm, with rulers being chosen off of familial ties. The remaining tribes, the Val, and the Viri, decided to follow the other idea for ruling, creating Valviriums current ideas for governance. Relations between the two tribes stayed mostly positive despite the differences in ideology, however now, with less land, the Kaosarians had less farmland, making them more susceptible to famines. Eventually, a famine would come...

## The First Migration

The Kaosarians had very little arable land and relied very heavily on the Valvurs for food. The tribes were very underdeveloped, living in temporary small huts and campsites, causing them to both rely on both farmers and hunter-gatherers for food. This system started to collapse when a mysterious blue, black and yellowish weed started to spread throughout the ecosystem. The plant, often referred to as "Delite", ate through crops and made the already barely arable land even less productive. This plant, however, was mostly in the Kaosarian's land, leading to the Valvurs experiencing little of the effects. Famine quickly engulfed the Kaosarians, and unfortunately the Valvurs, due to a growing population, were unable to meet their demand. This lead to the Tribal leader of the Kaosarians to issue an order for all Kaosarians to help contribute to a large raft which he hoped would be able to get the Kaosarians to better, more arable land. We know very little about what the Valvurs were doing or how they reacted to what the Kaosarians were doing at this time. The tribal leader who issued the order died before he could see the raft finished, leading his sun to be the one to lead their people to new land. The journey down the river was a long and deadly one, as the Kaosarians still did not have much food for the journey, leading to an estimated 43% of the Kaosarians to die. Eventually, theKaosarians landed in the Eastern part of the Diu peninsula, where they were greeted with open arms into the Kingdom of Tiemolar.

## The Second Migration

Around 70ish years after the Kaosarians migration, the Valvurs were also put into a situation where they had to migrate. The Delite had spread into their western lands, and there were rumors of massive beasts that seemed to be related to the plant called "Custos" roaming the east. At first, the tribal leaders ignored the rumors of the beasts and continued to govern as normal. However, in the coming summer, the rumored beasts attacked a settlement in the center of their homeland. The battle was bloody, as the beasts had powerful attacks that could go through walls and seemed to be unkillable. The battle spread to the rest of their lands, leading the remaining Valvurs to hide out in the northern highlands. It was at this point that the leadership decided that they had to leave, however unlike the Kaosarians they had no time to make a raft, nor the ability to reach the river, as the beasts had conquered the river side. With no plan in or even time to plan, the Valvurs decided to rush northeastward, hoping that the beasts wouldn't follow. The northeast was cold and covered in snow, a substance the Valvurs had rarely seen. It was basically impossible for them to settle here, not that it mattered, as the Custos and Dilete ended up following them north. Thus began a series of desperate pushes eastward, in attempts to finally leave the beasts behind and find warm and arable land. Neither of these hopes were satisfied, until they started moving Southward. The beasts were relentless and ended up killing over half of the remaining Valvurs. The Valvurs finally found habitable land, however it was controlled by the Tiemolar. Over the following seven centuries since their arrival, the Tiemolars had cracked down on the Kaosarians, leading them to start a revolt and war for independence against the Tiemolars. Right before the Valvurs had arrived, the Kaosarians had finally won their independence, however this lead to very, very discriminatory laws, practices, and mandates against the remaining Kaosarians in the country. Due to this, the Tiemolars reacted to the arrival of the Valvurs, who were still very simular to the Kaosarians, with swords, bows, and death. The Valvurs were forced to go around the Tiemolars land, however due to the presence of the Tiemolars, the beasts finally stopped following them, and instead started to attack the Tiemolars. When the Valvurs reached Kaosaria, tears of and cries of joy were head throughout the capital city. The Kaosarians recognized their lost brothers, and immediately helped them in, bringing them to land in the east where they settled and founded what is now the city of Valvirium

## The Final Battle Against the Dilete and Custos

One of the first things the Valvurs told to the Kaosarians was the threat of the Custos. The Kaosarians still remembered and taught about the great dilete famine that brought them to Diu, and when they heard about the custos, they went into panic mode. While they were more prepared then the Valvurs, living in walled cities and using more recent weapons the Kaosarian's did not have a standardized army nor truely good armor. Worse, rumors were already spreading that most of Tiemolar's cities were completely dead and abandoned, and cities on the edges of the Kingdom were already reporting sightings of the Custos. However, the King of Kaosarians twin sons, Cisero Insanius and Arealian Insanius, claimed that they had a plan. The twins were mostly seen as outsiders as they followed a completely foreign religion to that of the nature-orientated paganism that majority of the mulfloric followed. However, seeing as they had no other option, the King of Kaosaria and the first two consuls of Valvirium decided to listen to them. Their plan was to release all the murders, thieves, and prisoners at the gates of the city and to set the forest surrounding the gates on fire. Seeing little choice, the King obliged, and the Valvurs sent people out to set the forest on fire. The following morning, the city was swallowed by the foreign screams of the custos. The murderers and thieves distracted the beasts while the fire spread to them and the dilete, leading the custos to be greatly weakened. Around midday, Cisero and Arealian ordered the King to send out the army, as they claimed they could feel that the hordes of custos were weakened. When the army marched out, there were very little custos left, and the ones that remained were massacred by the army. The custos and dilete, which had haunted the mulforic people for decades, were finally dead.

## The Founding of Chaoism

Following the defeat of the custos and dilete, the Insanius twins were celebrated as heroes and their ideas started to spread throughout both the Valvur and the Kaosarian populations. One day after the defeat of the custos, the King of Kaosarians announced that he was converting to Chaoism, and urged his citizens to do the same. Overnight, Chaoism became the largest religion in the Kingdom, and by the second day following the defeat of the custos, it spread to the newly founded Democratic Realm of Valvirium. The Insanius twins started to spread their work throughout the population and declared that the day the custos were defeated as the Day of Chaos, a day in which all laws are made void. The founding of Chaoism can be also seen as the start of the decline of the original mulfloric culture, and the start of a new one in the Diu peninsula.

## Original Culture and Important Symbols

The Mulfloric people originally worshipped natural a plethora of nature orientated gods before the founding of Chaoism, due to their original location in a biome with lots of flora and fauna. These gods still make exist somewhat in the culture of Valvirium, as despite Chaoism being a large religion there, much of the Valvur population see the Insanius twins plans as flukes, due to their past and much longer experience with the custos. While the two populations disagree on who to worship, both the Valvurs and Koasarians have a golden laurel wreath as an important symbol. In Koasaria, the wreath is a symbol of the monarchy, while in Valvirium, it is a symbol of the two consuls who are elected yearly.

## Timolarian Influences

Despite being repressed by the Timolarians, Kaosarian noblemen, and by extension lower caste Kaosarians, were quick to adopt the Vinitican language spoken by the Timolarians at the time. At the same time, much of the remaining native Timolarians live in Valvirium city, as it was captured by the Kaosarians shortly before the custos were able to raid. Due to this, Valvirium has a hefty Vinitican and Timolarian culture that still influences its politics to this day.