Pindorama

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## The Monarchy of Pindorama

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Neighboring Pindorama are the nations of Medeina, Argata, and Blackcliff.

The pindoran people are made up of two species, the kashai and the tasophii, close relatives of the kashai that lack developed tails. Of the two, tasophii are the most abundant; most populations of kashai lie close to the border shared with modern Medeina.

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## Geography

Territory of Pindorama lies solely in the Eastern Tropical Forest ecoregion and experiences heavy rain throughout much of year.

## Languages

The common tongue of Pindorama is **pindorii**. Pindorii has a subject-verb-object word order.

Examples of various words in pindorri.

*Example:* Radii Ivii IV y ü ladaii ö Kokirii ö Pindorama.

(King Ivii IV is the leader of the Kingdom of Pindorama.)

### Other key terms:

* The Book of Light (a text holding religious significance) = /Robaa ö Phidaa/
* The Great Overseer = /Oi Talradii/

## Politics

The kingdom is structured around a council composed of the two ‘lead’ members of each noble family and is presided over by the monarch. Every two years, a Consul is chosen from among the nobles, who is responsible for helping lead the Monarch’s, formerly His Majesty's, government.

Peasants/commonfolk have the right to elect a representative who has the prerogative of veto over the decisions of the consul and council. However, the monarch can dissolve the council whenever they like.

The priests and priestesses of the Great Watcher govern themselves and the council of nobles has no claim on them. Religious people are more connected with the people in general and, therefore, exert great influence on political decisions.

Following the peaceful death of King Ivii IV, turmoil brewed over who would fill the monarch’s role. With no obvious heirs in the line of succession, control was temporarily placed in the hands of a noble elected by the council in a process similar to the election of a biannual consul. After influences of the recently reformed Cult of the Watcher and general public crept their way into the council’s discourse, a new faction emerged to propose the ascension of Samili ö Ivii, King Ivii IV’s daughter and sanctified priestess of the Cult. Under their ruling, the line of succession could continue onto the daughter, if and only if she was a sanctified member of a cult, a status that would confirm their heightened moral evolution. And so, after a brief bout of controversy in the highest echelons, Samili ö Ivii ascended to the role of Monarch. May her reign prove the potential of those under the watchful eye of the Great Overseer.

## Religion and Culture

### Moral values and principles

*Slavery among the children of Pindorama is totally prohibited and frowned upon by all of society*. This vision is due to the teachings of the Great Overseer, as all of its creation was created for the purpose of being free. Thus, no person is allowed to truly enslave another living being. However, for animals, those beings whose spirits are regarded as formative or in moral limbo, an exception of guidance and sustenance is made.

The more faithful people of Pindorama also believe that it is their divine duty to bring the light, the truth, of the Great Overseer to all peoples in the world. Thus, war is seen as an option to achieve this goal. Because they believe that the spirits do not have an explicit sex, it is expected that men and women take in arms to defend the greatest god and its people.

Pindorama’s religion requires moral evolution in order to achieve godhood. Because of that, a set of high virtues is worshipped by the people. The following text is an excerpt from the Book of Light:

> *Where there is anger, let there be peace.*
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> *Where there is disorder, let there be harmony.*
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> *Where there is disturbance, let there be serenity.*
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> *Where there is envy, let there be peace of mind.*
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> *Where there is hate, let love be made.*
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> *Death is not the end, it is just the beginning.*
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> *May the Great Overseer and all friendly and kind spirits be with you.*
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This excerpt, transcending the reality that full copies of the Book of Light are rare things indeed, is taught to and remembered by children across Pindorama.

### Traditions

The biggest festival of the year in Pindorama is held before the beginning of the rainy season and is the Day of the Spirits, where the people go out into the streets to have fun and honor the thousand gods that make up the nation's pantheon.

There is also an exclusive day dedicated to the Great Overseer that occurs at the height of the summer solstice, when the torrential rains reach their greatest downpour. This is a more religious festival, without fairs or parties, where most people prefer to go to the temples to pray. On this particular day, it is common for mothers and grandmothers to make one of the dishes most loved by children in Pindorama: nhacoxi. Nhacoxi is a fried dough stuffed with shredded chicken whose origins are not well understood; it is not uncommon for a white, cheesy cream produced from boiling a species of golden mushrooms to also be added.

The end of the pindoran year is also marked by great rituals. In the last month, no meat or food from living beings, those creatures said to carry a spirit, is consumed. It is a time of maximum connection with the spiritual plane. Women sew the most beautiful clothes representative of animals and spirits for their children, always in cheerful tones like yellow, green and blue. During the first weeks, children and teenagers dress in these clothes and act out scenes one might find in nature between different animals and spirits. On the last day of the pindoran year, adults gather the children and, in a feast that involves a wide array of plants, animals and people, the raised and free spirits descend to feast with mortals. This final day is known as the Day of Shadows, or .

### Religion

The people of Pindorama believe in a myriad of gods who rule the world around them, with these divine beings often not having names or even faces. These gods are seen as spirits who once walked in the physical world and who, upon reaching a high degree of moral evolution, were taken to the spiritual plane to stay with the **Great Overseer** (also referred to by some as the Great Eye, the Great Architect, or simply the Watcher), or ‘**Oi Talradii**’ in pindorii. These raised spirits are often used to explain certain auspicious events, or acts on the physical plane fitting of the benevolent beings they are regarded to be.

While most agree that the Great Overseer is also a spirit, their exact origins are often contested. Some tell tales of a world before Oi Talradii, full of chaos and misdirection, while others vehemently hold the belief that the Great Overseer created the world from the ground up. The only reconciliation for these differing views is the universal agreement that Oi Talradii is responsible for the world as it stands today. To many outside of the highest echelons of Pindorama’s priestly class, it does not matter if there was a before—for the Great Overseer gave existence meaning.

All living beings, or rather anything regarded as having a mind and will by most, have a spirit and it is believed that after centuries of moral evolution across different lives on the physical plane, they too can ascend to divinity. Because of this, the priests and priestesses of the Great Overseer enjoy a privileged status among Pindorama’s society. It is said that these individuals have an above average spiritual evolution and that, supposedly, they can come in contact with the high gods and even the Great Overseer himself. Priests and priestesses often belong to any one of the various god cults across Pindorama, but the most prominent and widespread of which is the **Cult of the Watcher**, a group dedicated foremost to the Great Overseer.

The noble families of Pindorama and the royal family also use the religion for their own purposes, as individuals often claim that their bloodlines descend from ancient spirits that ascended to godhood when the world was still young. It is told that in the long history of Pindorama, some kings even claimed that they were sons of the Great Overseer. Alongside that, it is not uncommon after the death of a King for him to be considered a new god and whole temples be built to honor him.

Some well known gods and goddesses are the following:

**Babii**, the goddess of love, fertility and harvest

**Valerii**, the goddess of wisdom and justice

**Rogii**, the god of knowledge

**Letii**, the goddess of the children and innocents.

Above them all: **The Great Overseer**, or **Oi Talradii**, father of the world and Primary Cause of All Things.

### Art

Pindorama is especially known for its beautiful temples located deep in the rainforest. Due to the large number of spirits worshipped by the people, the temples differ in style and almost always have large statues representing the spirit worshiped there. In addition, the people of the kingdom are sympathetic to the creation of large mosaics representing people, landscapes and animals. Due to the diversity of the rainforest, the paintings have a wide variety of strong colors, which are highly appreciated by the people.

The pindorans also developed advanced gardening techniques to cope with the often rugged limestone terrain found in parts of Pindorama, creating gigantic gardens in the heart of the forest in order to adorn their palaces and temples with bounties of food, spice, and dye.

Perhaps the best known book is The Great Book of Light, a compilation of teachings from the spirits and the Great Observer. Pindorans, however, are quite fond of writing novels about spirits.

Body paint and face markings of a range of colors are also popular. While the practice has died off somewhat among the urbanizing groups of Petrópolee and its nearby villages, it remains a centerplace feature of priestly class rituals and skin adornments, the most common of which being the ‘eight streaks,’ a showing of one’s spiritual shade.

### Prejudice

The people of Pindorama see foreigners as poor individuals who have not (yet) been reached by the light of the high spirits. On first contact, Pindorans are very kind and eager to introduce their culture and religion to outsiders. In a general context, Pindorans understand other civilizations as uncivilized barbarians who need divine light in their lives. It is common for the people of Pindorama to treat foreigners like children who know nothing.

War is seen as a means of spreading civilization and the teachings of the Great Observer to others. The average Pindoran truly believes that when they are at war with other people, they are actually doing them a favor and bringing a better way of life. Pindorama has a cultural assimilation strategy for those who are dominated by the kingdom. Foreign gods are portrayed as enlightened spirits - just one of several that Pindorans worship - who are subordinate to the Great Watcher. This is a way of making subjugated peoples more easily accept foreign rule.