information on the realm of faragorn
major shoutout to my friends sarah and rosalee for sitting down with me and coming up with pretty much everything here lol. (i did edit some things in post but yknow)
Finn disapproves of the peoples of this Realm bc of theyre hatred of radishes (he loves them)
the names for the different types of animals still need to be worked on, as well as maybe adding more. please dont judge what i have right now, its a wip.
species
animals
more in-depth lore
humans--- tribal. They live all over. Earrings/piercings have huge cultural ssignificance and different piercings mark different tribes.
unopedics--- one footed, incredibly unhelpful and annoying but occasionally spout out prophecies that are very true and should be heeded. tho mostly theyre just spouting nonsense.
explanations of animals
dinoaurs--- big and fluffy. Just a fact of life. Some are tamed, others arent.
mooshroom--- mushroom possessed cows. needs to be renamed... unlike in mincraft, you cant milk them for stew, theyre pretty much just zombies. think of when ants get possesed by mushrooms. you know, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus. but with cows.
rabbitshrooms--- also needs a better name. unlike the cows, they arent possessed or anything, theyre just magical bunnies with mushrooms on them. living their best lives.
general info
There was a pig named Borf that ate something contaminated with some sort of demonic poison (idk) that gave him the ability to speak but not the intelligence that is needed to form a coherent thought, so he just started spouting gibberish and the surrounding farmers took it as super important prophecy but it was really just random stuff so now the people of that area have beef with talking animals lmao
A tree split in two once and the two halves became children bc one of the gods wanted a childs so now theres a couple tree kids and nobody really likes them or knows what to do with them so theyre nomadic and kinda just vibe
Everyone hates radishes for unknown reasons and blame them for any bad things that happen. They use onions ward of radishes. Zuchinni is believed to attract radishes so there are special laws that you have to plant onions (or garlic, but that doesnt work as well so def not first choice) around zuchinni plants and there are inspectors in steampunk outfits and goggles/masks that make sure that these laws are followed and theyre really annoying but really respected and ‘important’ so its the kind of job lots of people wish they had.
Along with denoting which tribe you live in, piercings also help to show how tough you are. Every time you survive a radish attack, you get a piercing. So its really good that only like two people have had that happen otherwise the tribes would get really confused lol. The nobility pierce their hands. There was a tribe that had toungue piercings and they mysteriously disappeared one day because of “radishes” (bandits lol) and that has only fueld the radish hatred. There are still remnants of the tribe but they would rather cut out theyre tougues instead of face all the other people <3
Theres a weaving tribe that sees having absurdly long fingers as a beauty standard so they uhhhh do that, and they also make everything out of weaving. Houses, tools… weaved. they make a lot of weaving puns.
There are 47 tribes, there used to be 50 but not anymore.
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A traditional dish is stale toast, peanut butter, jam, and goat cheese. is it good? idk, i never tried it. maybe. try it and tell me.
There was a ginormous war between all the tribes (back when there were 50) and after the burning of the books (as its known) they all realised that they realllyyyy didnt like war so they all sent a peace child (and a backup one, just in case) aged 10 to the very center, most sacred town known as Kirksa, which is supposedly beneath the cloud palace of the gods and the sole entance to the Otherworld. The peace children all decided that they didnt really wanna be controlled by 47 different representative groups (of five, the holy number) so they banded together and got in a huge fight (outnumber 3-1, if my mathing is right) and they won bc the representatives were nobitlity and most were really bad at doing anything, especially fighting. So now Kirksa is the home of the unofficial 48th tribe, made up entirely of peace childs. They are now considered the holy tribe, as theyre right underneat the cloud palace and in the most sacred of lands and theyre very respected. They help any who need it and even accept people into the tribe after they go through special trials to prove that theyre trustworthy. Because theyre made of a bunch of different tribes, the peace childs dont do piercings anymore, they switched to tattoos. There was a group of people from the peace childs’ tribe that heard from one of the gods about the Five Realms and they wanted to find a better place than faragorn to live, so they traveled to the Ice Wall and got into a fight with the GUARDIANS and killed about 15 of them thanks to that same god helping them out a bit bit they ultimately got captured and had to wait for all the gods to decide what to do and then yell at the GUARDIANS to release them so now the GUARDIANS have beef with the peace childs lol
There are realllllyyyyyy bad blizzards in faragorn, like supernaturally bad. Very bad.
Every once in a blue moon a magical human is born. Shapeshifting ageless baby lol. Without training, their magic manifests itself as looking really good and always having the perfect jam for the occasion. Also shapeshitfing lol. Apollo disapproves of them, he sees them as a disgrace to shapeshifter kind lmao (damn i mustve found this really funny when i put it in the google doc)
In one tribe (the jammers), having good jam is a point of pride and not offering jam to guests is considered rude and incredibly offensive, nobles can even have a person thrown in jail for that. The nobility have huge orchards and jammories and jam making is a noble profession.
Since the bookbinding tribe was the only tribe who knew the art of bookbinding, the art has been lost so now everthing is a scroll. Bound books are so important that theyre considered to be sacred, and the art to be sacred as well. Bound books cannot be kept all together under one roof, instead they are spread out and a single book is gifted to families who have proven themselves trustworthy. If someone has a bound book, it is theyre most closely guarded secret. If you were to lose one somehow, you would have to tell an official and be publicly shamed and executed painfully. There are still some who are distantly related to the bookbinders of old and they claim that all bound books should belong to them and get into fights with each other and other tribes and are trying to recover the art of bookbinding.
The economy is incredibly fragile, there is no guarantee that any money will be worth anything the next day, and theyre all slowly transitioning back to a barter/trading system.
Every family is gifted a huge plot of land, so each family all lives on the same plot of land and is very large and distinctly separated and form theyre own clans, occasionally theyre own villages.
When someone gets married, the guy is married out of his family and takes on his wife’s sirname and moves onto her plot with her family. They live in a matriarchy, and the second oldest woman in the clan/family is the one in charge. Men want equal rights so masculinism exists, but since women are really cool and smart they kinda dont have any problem with it and let the men be pissy about being bossed around while knowing full well that the men have equal rights and are just whiny babies and wanna go to a patriarchy. think of caul from miss peregrine's home for peculiar children.(in case this comes off anti-feminist- i just thought this was funny and it has nothing to do with feminism, i fully support that.)
Tastetesters are also a noble profession, they taste food and make sure it aint poisoned.
One tribe lives in a really windy canyon and is a tribe of mainly priests.
A dufflepod once accidentally ended up in the otherworld and got shoved into anarian and becuase it chose that monet to spout a prophecy (that came true almost immediatly) the people of anarian treat it like one of the gods and the gods put up with it but reaaalllllyyyyyy hate it lmao
There are a lot of jungles, and there are also a lot of deserts with really big canyons. Wild westy. There are a lot of abandoned mines and steam engines are used for travel. Horses are also used. but there are 2 biomes in this realm, and its jungle and desert (mesa? badlands? you know, the minecraft biome). theres also a couple oceans.
Name for the people of faragorn — farans