Phrygiean Dynasty

(TBU)

## General

Phrygiean Dynasty rules over the mass landscape to the East. They were once part of the Old Empire of Human, which has won the Millennium War, now an independent nation which prefers strength above all else, especially military forces.

During the last half of the war, this Dynasty has conquered many small kingdoms and other tribes from the cold North to the humid South. Their cultures hence vary quite distinctively. However, thanks to their greatest conquest over the dwarves of the Onyx Gorge, their clothes are imbued with linings of metal, soft as silk and tough as armor.

Their society is divided into small units of Houses, either bonded by blood or by oath. Head of each House has total control over their family and by that, the army force (if they possess one). Because the majority of the population follows matriarchy, these heads of the Houses are usually women. Some are fighters, some are purely political figures, all of them retain the power. Their husbands therefore take on the role of a steward. In the circumstances of their passing, their husbands have no right to take the place if they are gone without a will of inheritance. The ruling position instead passes onto their firstborn daughters or anyone named in their will.

## Head of States

### The Scion Council

Their ruler was not a King, for one may succumb to corruption. Instead, it’s a council of 5 called the Face or the Council of Nu'ur, 3 members of which are always present to make a decision. And to go to war against anyone, all 5 members must agree on it. The head of this council is the Family of Xiong, also well known as the Mouth of the council, who has always remained in power ever since the founding of the nations, as all of their children are to pass the brutal gauntlet to assume their place in the council.

The other members of the Face council are 2 Eyes (one to look upon the past, and one heading towards the future), 2 Ears (one to listen to what the great house and their interests, the other is to know all that was whispered among the common people). The eyes are each head of the religions system and the scholar facility. The Vicar and the Headmaster of Maestro Institute. The ears, however, are two separated corporates of spy. With one who is always known to the people, while the other is only known to the council.

Their massive military forces are called Terracotta Army. And their elite forces are Tooth Fairy, loyal only to the Mouth as this is the only army they’re allowed to have. However, when assigned to an individual of importance, those guards will be loyal to that person to the death. These bodyguards are called Fang who are clad in the heaviest and toughest armor that their Dwarf ally can produce. Furthermore, they possess a special weapon that is specifically customized to each of the Fang to best their capabilities in defending their master.

### Scion Gauntlet

To be accepted to be the heir to the throne of the Phrygiean Dynasty, the sons and daughters of the House of the Mouth must pass 3 challenges from the Council. All offsprings of the noble in the nation can choose to participate themselves in this gauntlet, their reward however is a slot in the Royal Guard called Tooth Fairy. First, the Ears will tell 3 or any number of clues regarding the whereabout/identity of the spies that have taken part in the gauntlet, respectively. Then, participants must solve the riddle given by the Eyes while the spies will do their best to sabotage them (killing is not an option). Those attendants can now choose to eliminate the spies by pointing out their whereabout, their names, or catch the spies themselves. Or they can use their knowledge to their advantage and turn the spies against each-other. Thirdly, all who pass the mind game will enter a combat tourney, where the winner will be deemed worthy of the crown.

\*\* IF however, the last contestants have to end the fight with a draw, both will enter an Endurance test of Meditation. They will be locked inside a room with no water and food, whoever forfeits first loses and the other will take the crown. On the occasion of there is a winner of the combat trial, that contestant will instead meditate on their own for 3 days to purify themselves and be the true heir of the crown.

## Capital

Dragon's Seat or Ryunoz'a is the largest city of Phrygiean, and its current capital, the seat of power and home to the royal family.

Located nearly south of the Dynasty, the city is very close to any point of power, both political and military. The city was rebuilt after the first war had sacked the city to its core. As legends told, when the war spread to the place, the city was burnt in just days, to its very last bricks. Then from the leveled ground, an azure serpent-like dragon rose up to the sky, roaring. The storms began that days lasted for many weeks, up until the arrival of the Emperor of Human himself. When the Emperor arrived with his enmass legions, the storm just stopped and dry out. Seeing this as a sign, the Emperor order his men to rebuild the city while he went on conquering the surrounding are to secure the city position. Some stories says that it took the men 3 times to build it, but they did. And they did the city with such design that earned its name as the Dragon's Seat, for the city wall runs like a spiral like a serpent crouching on its own, waiting to raise up.

After the fall of the Empire of Humanity, the Grand General Xiong Wang took his armies back to the city, and call it home. From there, another Dynasty rose as the old one broke apart.

## Economy

Agriculture was the main force of labor here in the country, beside being soldier.

## Political Power

As the most powerful military force, the Phrygiean weight very heavy on every decision regarding the continent.