Rani Heriven

**Rani Heriven** is a nation in the southwest of Illinata, its human barbarian inhabitants that occupy the frozen wasteland are called Herivayns or Heriveni, while the dwarves who live underground are called the Rani or Ranians. To its right is The Silent Sea and to it's left is Sa'hasa, to the north is Azzamar and Solmera.

## Culture

The human barbarians live on the surface, eking out a living, with the royal family living in an extravagant ice palace. They used to be a large and fantastical nation with ice magic used to create their buildings and keep themselves safe from the elements. They are now few in number, outnumbered by the dwarves that live in ice and stone caves underneath the whole country. The surface humans, and few dwarves that left for the surface, now inhabit a city of ice that is extremely old, held up by magic, and when trying to build new things, they make poor and ugly imitations that do not last very long, and thus the cities have not expanded.

The ancient inhabitants, ancestors of the current humans, were immune to the cold, had access to great ice and water magic, and were very artistic but secluded, while they wiped themselves out from infighting, and the only remaining people of their blood are the ruling family, and some bastards, some of which have the powers of their ancestors, though diluted.

Shallowly underground the caves are ice, there is another set of caves and tunnels, deeper and of a rock that steals heat, except for certain pockets of almost burning rock that create strange moods and visions. Some take these rocks to heat their homes, but must find ways to mitigate the effects. The human barbarians rarely leave their homes, instead relying on the dwarves to do their foreign trading for them.

### Ranians (Dwarves)

They breed large blind hairless docile rodents for food, have farms of mushrooms and mold. They later tunneled underneath Sa'hasa and developed a good relationship with them, and facilitating trade between them and the Heriveni, and they often changed sides in skirmishes between the two depending on the current King, or they stayed out of it, and other times they were split among themselves.

### Heriveni (Barbarians)

They are prolific fishermen, and eat a lot of meat, jellyfish, and sea mammals, as well as some birds and bird eggs. They export fish and ice, as the blue type of ice that is found on the highest ice mountains does not melt for weeks, and is suspected to be either magical or alive. While the country has many mountains made of ice, not nearly as many as they used to due to over harvesting, though they tried to take seawater and pour it on top of the harvested top to replace it, though they found it would not have the same properties. They do not use fire, except for cooking meat which they do slowly and with lots of smoke and imported coal for the rich. The ice of the buildings retain heat and have a blue glow. They sleep on blocks of ice, and there are bear pelts everywhere. Their fur clothes are white, as are their polar bear mounts, so during storms they appear to come from nowhere. Their clothing is usually white from fur, or white from being wool or felt or woven from the long fur of snow wolves and rabbits. They often swim in the ice cold water, building up a tolerance. The royals import large horses as white as the snow, with icy blue eyes and long rough fur. Though they work well together, with their own backwards traditions that few outsiders could understand, and have a hardiness for a life that few would willingly endure. They often fought the Sa'hasangs as they encroached onto their land to kidnap people as slaves, and later viciously fought them back when they returned to recover their people or enact revenge, they fought off and on, with a subculture forming that made their home in the mountain range, made of peace-lovers and those who intermarried, and where all half-breed children were dumped. Its climate was quite favorable compared to the two extremes on either side, and both sides fought over who it belonged to, leaving the small villages that lived there to pick sides, be conscripted based on which race they took after the most, or caught in the crossfire as casualties that each nation was both sad and not sad about, as they were half part of their people, though they were often discriminated against and could not live anywhere else.

### Death

The dead are encased in ice as soon as possible, and are kept posed and well-dressed to be looked upon by their family in giant glowing blue caves. When room is needed for more corpses, they attempt to revive the cryogenic corpses, and some of the time they succeed.

### Government

Unitary State. Band Society. Bannana Republic. Nepotocracy. Kleptocracy.

* This nation is ruled by a small family with a semi-informal hierarchy, positions of power are given to their relatives regardless of ability, and the family keeps any wealth for themselves, and often exploits their people to take all they can from them, thus they live in outrageous ice palaces, while the majority of the population lives in squalor. This family government has supreme power and is the central ruler for the state. The nation depends on the export of their few resources such as fish, and there are stratified social classes and a strict caste system, this nation is often politically unstable.

### Language

Samoan

* Sefulu (ten, samoan) - the noble council of Ranians

* + Tasi (one, samoan) - Title of King for Heriveni
	+ tessera (four, greek)
	+ aso (days, samoan)
	+ enaena (brown, samoan) - Capital of Mago Abyss
	+ meamata (green, samoan)
	+ lautele (wide, samoan) - Lautele Wastes
	+ leaga (bad, samoan) - Sa'hasangs
	+ taugata (expensive, samoan) - capital of Rani Heriven
	+ moa (chicken, samoan) - name for Heriveni spouses
	+ aiga (samoan)
	+ teine fomai (nurse) - Order of Healers
	+ tau (weather) - The Heriveni God
	+ aisa (snow) - Rani Heriven
	+ tusiata (art) - Predecessors of the Heriveni
	+ **mea**
	+ se'evae (shoes)
	+ o fea (where) - Battle Cry
	+ ata (picture)
	+ nofoa (chair)
	+ moega (bed)
	+ gata (snake) - Gata Abyss
	+ isumu (mouse) - farmed rodents of the Ranians
	+ serafi (giraffe) - Ranians
	+ aeto (eagle)
	+ maile (dog) - Name for Heriveni mounts
	+ lakisi (lettuce) - Lake Lakisi
	+ aniani saina (garlic)
	+ mago (dry) -

## Geography

### Locations

* Amanglee Coast
* Gulf of Jeryn

## Notes

The shape of the nation is that of a portion of Antarctica.