MirthMantle Village(RPG: CAPTIVATED Prequel)

## Introduction

MirthMantle Village is the first major location in RPG:CAPTIVATED's Prequel Story. It is a large settlement in the rural and forested areas of a small cliffside land of Midgardis, Summer Empire. The village was founded by an unknown family around 300 years ago with its dominant families, such as the Everdawnn and the Geraniumm families. MirthMantle is famous for its lakes, forested ruins, celebrations and intricate tableware production.

## Founding

MirthMantle Village was established by a small unknown family that escaped from the war in some parts of Midgardis. Many of the people that lived in the settlement were refugees from the war and later raised their own families and businesses in the village.

It is known that the MirthMantle Village lacked weaponry and has been raided by outsiders every year but after 100 years have passed, they started to hand out the tradition of raising men to fight outside of the village and for the women to learn swordsmanship and archery as they took care of their children. This tradition later died down 20 years before Akram and Emilia were born, as the settlement was now resistant to raids from the outside world.

## Landscape

MirthMantle is famous for being a settlement placed on low cliffs near 4 crystal clear lakes, the settlement is surrounded by many hills and mountains and is abundant to strong and tall trees and iron relics. There are many shallow waterways in MirthMantle Village and small bridges. Many houses are mostly far away from each other so that they can enjoy peace within their houses.

The Landscape also offers colorful trees of vibrant red, orange yellow and green. The leaves resemble warm and colorful petals that fall from the trees. Dirt and pebble paths are found all over the village with a few torch posts to light up areas. Smokes of incense can be seen in the distance whenever cleansing is needed in the village.

## Ideology

#### Hierarchal Principles

The village people passed down the ideologies of helping only people who are beneficial. Due to the history of the village, people do not help others out of pure kindness. This is also rooted from the villagers desiring to maintain their peaceful lives that they will disregard others' lives in order to do so. The village also favors people with high paying jobs outside the village and people with complete families, they consider them to be the most fortunate and the treasures of the village. People in the village mostly help each other for beneficial purposes, as friendships means beneficial business between allies and families,

#### Family Principles

The village is known for strong family relations, family is above all. People place high regard on family put the importance of their bloodline before anything else. The adults of the families either work in the village or work apart from their families to feed and provide for them. Children are taught to work on household chores at the age of 10 and for any family members to take care of the children. It is common for families to have many children as they held the belief that children will provide the riches in the future, which puts a lot of strain to growing children. According to the Author, being a single child in a village is considered to be extremely rare, as the average off-springs of each household is around 3 children.

It is known that incomplete families are considered to be the shadow of the village. As they are viewed to have harder and unhappy lives by the village's population. Due to this, failed marriages are considered to be mortification to the village's population. Annulled couples are required to marry once again and bear at least one child to solidify their marriages. A woman being a single parent in the village is considered to be a harsh punishment to the mother's children, it is shown when Emilia's mother talked about her own experience when someone from the village worries that Emilia would feel empty as one parent is not present.

## Trivia

* According to the Author, MirthMantle Village's ideologies is loosely based off with the culture that she grew up on. With the most evident fact supporting this is family values.
* MirthMantle is known for is intricate tableware, from colorful porcelain plates to beautiful glass cups.
* According to the Author, The settlement is known to have large quantities of mana that some people develop decelerated aging, an example of this is Emilia's mother, Elita. Whom looked as if she was still in her early 20s throughout the decades.
* Only 20% of the village's population are hybrids or full-blooded beastmen, as humans dominate the population.
* The author stated that people that grew up together in the village ever so rarely fall inlove with each other as when they reach pass the age of 13, they travel to provide for their families and meet their future fiancés outside of the village.