Vosqis

Vosqis is one of the island nations in South-East Arlec. Standing on its own and very far away from the main continent, not much was known about it until they decided to venture outwards. It is unique since no records state when the nation was established.

## Leadership

The leadership of Vosqis has changed hands over the years since its creation. Since the beginning of **600PR** though it has been held by the Florencio family. While the religion of Libertas, the main religion in the nation, preaches freedom, the Florencio family is not the case.
For members of the Florencio family must always act royal, as it is believed they were the original family to hold the crown and simply won it back through marriage.

This means that many of the members stay in the Florencio Palace, rarely leaving, even for festivals and events.

Because of their isolation, their succession crisis's only happen internally, leading to very little death and damage to the nation.

## Military

The Vosqinese military is unique, being isolated for so long that they have rarely had conflict. The only conflict they did have was during the tribes period where the nation was slowly unified through negotiation and war, or the very rare succession crisis occuring outside of the nobility.

It was only when they opened up properly to the world in **640PR** that they began organising a military force, which was originally just guards and police.

### Organisation

With the military organisation in **640PR**, two major branches were created, the Vosqis Fang, which represented their army and the Vosqis Serpents, which was their navy. Both are directly under the command of the current monarch, which is Donato Florencio.

#### Vosqis Fang

The Vosqis Fang are the infantry branch of the military. They are made up with soldiers trained in ground combat, broken up into 2 divisions. The divisions are simply called 1 and 2, each containing 5,000 soldiers mixed with ranged and infantry. Of the infantry, they are mostly made up of heavy, though they do have light in order to make up for their lack of cavalry. They are mostly made up from Highlanders.

The entire Fang is lead by Commander Maxence Florencio.

Division 1 is commanded by: Captain Matheus Camara

Division 2 is commanded by: Captain Irene Bettencourt

#### Vosqis Serpents

The Vosqis Serpents are the naval branch of the military. Being on an island, they are the most powerful and influential of the two. They have a fleet of ships, made from some of the hardwood found in the highlands and a special oakwood found below.

On the ships they use a special type of ballista, one that chooses quantity of quality. The reason for this is they focus on speed in battles, meaning if they can fire as many bolts as possible before moving out of the way, it becomes more effective.

A small group of melee troops are reserved in each troops, made up of strong Coasters (As Highlanders are prone to sea sickness), who have trained in melee on uneven ground.

The Vosqis Serpents are commanded by Carl Henriques.

## Society

### Coasters

The Coasters are quite literally anyone who lives on the coast. They have a slightly different culture to others, enjoying the rich sea air much more than anything in land. They also live much closer to one another, with their houses even touching. Most of the coasters are middle to high class in terms of wealth, giving them more freedom when it comes to complaining about minor things or pursuing a hobby.

### Frais

The Frais are the people who live away from the coast, enjoying the fresh air and having a special connection with nature. Only in towns are their houses built more modern, while in villages they are often made of logs and allow nature to reclaim a lot of it to strengthen their house. They can be seen as less advanced socially and technologically than coasters. Some of this is because they are stuck in their ways, making them very conservative.

### Highlanders

The Highlanders are a tough breed of people that live in the mountains. They are not classed as either poor or rich, simply making everything themselves. Highlanders often dont come down from the mountain, believing having more access to air makes people stupid. They are incredibly tough fighters, often fighting against one another like tribes. To make money and a better life for their family, many Highlanders join the Vosqis Serpents, making them respected individuals but still seen as weird.

### Nobles

The nobles are the rich and connected families in Vosqis. One way or another, most of them have some claim to the throne, simply fighting small battles amongst one another when a heir cannot be found. They were the ones that pushed for opening the island up to the world in order to get better trade deals and make more money.

## Geography

### Climate

The climate of Vosqis is very humid, getting colder the higher up the highlands you go. This makes the two major forests they have rainforests, breeding all different types of animals and plantlife. Their summer is from Caesan to July, reaching an average high of 30, and an average of 25. This means their winter begins in Novollo and goes through to Janu, with an average low of 10 and an average of 15.

The nation is unique for its rainfall almost all year round, making the weather very horrible to a lot of the visitors who come in their Summer.

### Cities

* Deki (Capital)
* Calchester

## Commerce

### Exports

Fruit, Hardwood, Hemp, Medicine and Rubber

## Culture

### Clothing

With the high humidity in Vosqis, a lot of their clothing is very light and loose, ensuring that their discomfort is not amplified by wet clothes. This means the clothing between men and women is not that different, amplified by the freedom provided by their major religion, Libertas. Because of this, hemp clothing is very popular.

Other than everyone wearing hemp clothing, it is the difference in pattern and colour that makes each person different to one another. Along with if they choose to wear a hat or not. A lot of the colour in the summer periods though is white and light, avoiding dark colours that can absorb the suns light.

Most of the hemp clothing is either long pants or a dress with a short-sleeved shirt. Currently, light-green is very popular.

The highlands are different, opting for more layers of clothing to sustain themselves in the cold. Though the highlander men are unique for not wearing shirts, instead weathering the freezing temperatures and conditioning themselves. This only happens once they are passed the equivalent of 14 years of age though.

#### Formal

For formal occassions, genders usually differ in what clothing they wear, but it is not shunned upon or even seen as different if they decide to swap what clothing they wear.

Men, or what is seen as mens clothing, is a set of long, loose pants, usually with a darker colour to enhance the look of the upper half. To keep air flowing though, they avoid shoes, either wearing none or thongs. For their upper half they usually wear a white, loose-fitting polo shirt, with a long v-neck. Patterns are acceptable to add to give them their own custom look. For hair-style, it is often very short and they come clean shaven, with darkened glasses during the day, and none during the night.

Women, or what is seen as womens clothing, is all about the dresses. The styles are all different, giving them the freedom to wear what they want. One common thing is that it ends just above knee-height, and has short-sleeves. This clothing is also loose-fitting, very rarely having patterns on it to focus on the single light colours instead.

The only addition to the normal clothing in the highlands is that they sometimes have trophies of their kills, such as bones or scales that they had collected. Teeth are very popular, with the bigger showing the stronger highlander that killed it.

### Food

Food in Vosqis includes a lot of fruit. For breakfast, they usually eat a mix of mangoes and bananas. Rather than some nations who add wine to every meal, Vosqinese add fruit juice, usually having a favorite such as pineapple or orange.

For lunch they have a mix of bread and meat, with different fruits being there for a snack but never for the full meal.

For dinner they have a mix of meat and vegetables, usually greens for the vegetables as it can be grown easier in the nation. Dessert is a mix of ice-cream and vegetables, but they often don't have the dessert.

#### Formal

For formal occassions, noodles and rice are very popular. Since they didn't know what it was until they opened up to the world, they have quickly loved it, but saved it for formal times due to the cost. Anything mixed with rice makes them happy,

### Education

Education has always been unique in Vosqis. Being isolated in the world for so long they never had many schools, only keeping it for the rich while the rest was just teaching people how to read and write. Once they opened up to the world things have changed, now schools are apart of every town, teaching people how to read, write, and some other general education including learning about the world around them.

The nobility still have access to higher quality schools, letting them have the general education everyone else has and include intense international studies and learning two further languages.

In the Highlands they have always kept active learning, but it is more about following the main parent doing their daily tasks and copying off of there. The literacy rate in the Highlands is very low, with only 1 or 2 of their people from each village/town knowing how to read and write.

### Arts

#### Literature

Literature has very little room in Vosqis, with even their history books severely lacking to the point no one knows when the nation was founded. They now mainly import books from overseas, letting them learn about new things and hear about the stories that went on around them. The books they get mostly come from Tamwull and Uhek.

#### Visual

Visual art has always been important, with many cave paintings being found to this day still and being accepted in the Highlanders culture. Rather than have a canvas though, Vosqinese people simply paint on their walls, using a special sort of paint that can survive their humid climate. While the outside of their houses may look boring, the inside is usually very colourful and in noble houses may include paintings from many generations prior.

#### Music

Other than the drums and singing, music wasn't very big in Vosqis culture. They only reserved it for special events and festivals. It is only now with visiting bards that the tales that can be told through music has popularized it. Now every event has some sort of music being played, with the newer instruments being used unless a very special event which are still reserved for the drums.

### Sports

With little access to international sports, the Vosqinese loved swimming and volleyball. Creating their own version, volleyball is very popular, with many beaches having big areas reserved just for the sport. With their humid temperature, these sports can help, with swimming outfits and nudity being mostly what is worn.

When they opened up internationally, the volleyball players found that handball really supported their style, and now have become a very strong team, even winning some events.

### Entertainment

Before their world access, entertainment away from sports included board games and tournaments surrounding them, the most popular of such being chess, war games and something called the Vosqis Knights.

Once they gained access to the world, they fell in love with theatre and music, having large venues dedicated to it. Nobles even spend large investments of money getting prominent musicians to come over and do public and private shows.

## Religion

### Libertas

The Libertas religion was not only established in Vosqis, but is their major religion. Almost every one of their population, even the highlanders, follow the religion in some capacity. Though there might not be as many churches as one would expect from a normal major religion, the faith is still there.

## History

**609PR** - Acacuati Massacre.

**640PR** - Vosqis opened itself up to the world. Removing the restrictions of international visitors and trade.