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Owaji Islands

Race Position (Communities): Completely Intermixed

Race Position (Segregation): Common Districts

Race Position (Rights): Primary Race is dominant, Secondary race is equal.

Race(s) (Primary): Human (Owaji)

Race(s) (Secondary): Elf (e.g., Scentstacia Hurinashi)

Languages: Owado (Native), Anishinabe (Trade), Common

Literacy: High

Technology Level: Middle Ages

Industries \ Trades: Weaponsmithing (master-level), arcane universities, fishing, agriculture.

Arms \ Equipment: Katana, Naginata, Samurai Armor.

Government System: Hereditary Autocracy

Ruler(s): Emperor Owaji Musashi & Empress Owaji Tomoe (as of Y182)

Came to power by: Hereditary Ruler (descended from Divine "Seeding" in Y0)

Social Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Civilization Archetype: Feudal Japan

Settlement Type(s): City, Small; Villages

Settlement Population: 6000; 200

Cultural Archetype: Oriental: Japan

Rebelliousness: High (due to Sundered Isle history/Y82 betrayal)

Brigandage: Moderate

Weapon smith: Scentstacia Hurinashi

Huinashi is the first elf to settle in the location that became Owaji. He is also a master smith. He has worked with the dwarves of Hosteki to gather the finest metal and forges that metal into the finest weapons. He has also started to experiment with exotic materials and forging them into strange weapons and armor.

Blacksmith: Kurishima Ashimura

Ashi, as he likes to be called by friends, has been at the Temple of the Great Wyrm for 30 years. He was trapped once he received his prophecy from the Great Wyrm that filled him with a false sense of importance. After learning humility he has been able to leave the temple and enter the world. He is a grand master swordsman and an incredibly gifted weapon smith having the culmination of 4 generations of weaponsmithing having been taught to him by his father. He has not returned to his lands having left them in his younger sister's control before heading off to the Temple of the Great Wyrm so many years ago.

University: Owaji Wiru

This school teaches the use of arcane spell casters and mystics. They have classes for each class and robes to match each field of study.

Gold is Wizards; Red is Sorcerers; Blue is Warlocks; Green is Bards; White is Mystics

The Dawn of the Three Brothers (Y0)

When the Fifth World was born, the gods did not create a single, blank slate of humanity. Instead, they took the "cultural soul" of a single, ancient, and long-lost human civilization and split it into three, seeding each piece onto a different island chain.

Each seed was given a different core virtue from that ancient culture, a different path to greatness.

The Owaji

The third group, the Owaji, were given the most painful, and perhaps most powerful, virtue: self-sacrifice for the whole. Their "Japanese" cultural seed took this concept and forged it into a rigid, Lawful Neutral society of hereditary rulers (Emperors) and warrior-protectors (Shoguns).

For the Owaji, honor was not an abstract concept; it was the only concept. The good of the nation, the protection of the Emperor, and the duty to one's lord were the highest callings. This absolute dedication to self-sacrifice is what allowed them to build a powerful, complex civilization in just 80 years. It is also the very virtue that would be so catastrophically betrayed by Emperor Krikerin Kushen in Year 82, and so perfectly embodied by Shogun Owagu Kerin, who died trying to stop him.

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