Gui Lin

Gui Lin is a planet of the Virasana Empire, best known for being the home planet of both House Virasana and Temple Jansahar, and birthplace of the Khusa Paga music style.

## Climate

* three moons
* arboreal oceanic, rivers, many islands, high humidity
* giant winged insects, moths / butterflies

## History

* Ancestral home planet of House Virasana and birthplace of Anandi Virasana, the Mother of the Empire
* Close ties to Temple Jansahar as it was founded here by Tagore Virasana. Home to Nanda Navana, the main temple of Temple Jansahar.
* Close contestant for imperial capital at the founding of the Virasana Empire, but lost out to Lagoona for its better position among the then-known worlds.

## Population

* high N'Ptalini population, including a minor N'Ptalini noble house under House Ndewane that rules a significant part of the planet's southern landmasses. Some rumours imply that there might be significantly more N'Ptalini than humans living on the planet.
* slave population appr. 40%

## Culture

Despite having been a Ndewane fief for centuries, Gui Lin has never lost the trademark Virasana hospitality and is still considered one of the more cosmopolitan planets of the empire.

Apart from traditional harp music, Gui Lin is the birthplace of a particular brand of upbeat pop music - Khusa Paga.

The forests of Gui Lin grow a major portion of the empire's most popular spices, and the local cuisine accordingly is hot and spicy.

With the countless temples and shrines dotting almost every other of the countless peaks of Gui Lin it is little surprise that their architecture is highly renowned across the empire. Lesser known but no less admired is the Guiner styler of landscaping - creating perfect proportions and vistas while retaining an utterly natural appearance.

The Guiner Phalapakaru poetry style is revered all over the Empire and is considered one of the highest forms of the art.

Swimming, hunting and spear-fishing are the main pass-times of the local population.

They have a middling but popular hoverball team, the Gui Lin Floating Dragons.

## Snippets

* Public transport between regional capitals happens mostly via large hover busses, whereas local travel is mostly facilitated by a vast network of small ferries.
* Due to the fact that there are mostly islands and barely no connected larger landmasses, highways only exist around the capital of Hajra Pula'am, where they take the form of gently curving, glittering arches that span from island to island. All those bridges have coined Hajra Pula'am title as 'City of a Thousand Bridges'.
* The old town of Hajra Pula'am covers several particularly steep islands that sometimes are barely meters apart from each other, causing the city to develop vertically rather than horizontally. At one particular spot, there are twenty-seven bridges above another, each connecting to another level of the neighbouring island.
* Hajra Pula'am is home to Gui Lin's only proper spaceport, Anandi Spaceport
* Buildings tend to be narrow and high, with curved roofs. For the general population, wood is the preferred building material.
* Narysjapur - capital of the earldom of the same name, home to one of the largest arts univesities of the Empire
* Kansiburi - large town in the earldom of Narysjapur, home to fishing industry
* Ollivendar - capital of the earldom of the same name
* While overall, the inhabitants of Gui Lin call themselves Guiners, the N'Ptalini population happily accepts Gui'Lini, a cognate of Gui Lin and N'Ptalini, as a moniker.

## Notable Guiner

 Anandi Virasana Mother Jadeeda Tagore Virasana
## Other Articles on Gui Lin

 Gui Lin Floating Dragons Khusa Paga Nanda Navana Red Claws, Blue Ink