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Peanut
3:53pm, March 15, 2010
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[Delete] | I thought I should expound on a few things now that applications have been submitted.
Firstly, I'd like to make it clear here that in Dakkarta and the rest of the world - the other four city-states - things are very much male-based. Women are not held under lock and key and are not seen just as breeding stock, but the majority of their professional skills learned in a Crafter's Hall are oriented toward more genteel trades. Women born in the cities typically never leave, unless of course they are married or born into a family of Traders, or have taken up the Teacher's burden. Those who go to battle are men, and those who serve the Father-God Parshta as Priests and warriors are almost strictly men. Exceptions do occur but these are rare.
Secondly, I thought I'd give a few notes on how a common citizen would be able to tell members of certain factions from the rest.
Bright Guard:
Personality: These men (and one woman!) come in all shapes and sizes, coloring and personality. Parshta does not seem to be overly discriminating in this regard.
Uniform: The Bright Guard all don the same gold robes and white leather armor when out in the city. This is their "common" garb and distinguishes them from the City Guard. During training and battle, they don masterfully colored gold plate armor that has strange and unique properties all its own, crafted in the Champion's Forge. The curious power of this armor is unknown outside of the Forge and the Hall of Light.
Healers and Doctors:
Personality: Doctors, like merchants, tend to run the gamut of looks and personality, but the one innate trait that all Doctors and Healers possess is compassion. Perhaps not kindness or politeness, but compassion.
Uniform: Doctors don a vibrant green robe or sash that clearly proclaims them to be of the healing arts. The shade of green in singularly distinct and only produced by a single dyer per city. Healers wear the same green robe, but choose to distinguish themselves with a gold or black sash according to the deity they choose to affiliate with.
City Guard:
Personality: Again, city-guard are vastly diverse but their common ground and unifying force is a fierce love for Dakkarta and the Sands that surround it, and an unyielding desire to be protectors of their fellow citizens and their borders.
Uniform: City guard are the people's protectors. They wear tan robes and tunics beneath black leather armor; not fancy, but effective and distinctly Dakkartan.
Priests of Parshta:
Personality: Vibrant, outgoing, energetic, fascinating, and kind. Generous with their time, their resources, and themselves. They always seem to have more energy than can be used in a single day. In all other regards, they are as diverse as the Guard.
Uniform: Priests of Parshta wear pristine white robes augmented with gold trinkets and accessories. Acolytes who have not yet become priests wear gold with no adornment. Many priests and acolytes wear bracelets or armbands of jet beads to remind people that they too worship Grimslaine.
Priestesses of Grimslaine:
Personality: Thoughtful, curious, clever, crafty, cunning and cool. They are soothing, polite, quiet, and to most appearances reserved. Though their temple never sleeps, it often appears as if it has disappeared come nightfall; this is of course just a trick of the light. As with many other factions of life, they are otherwise diverse and all have their own character traits.
Uniform: The ladies of the Night Goddess clad themselves in a blue so dark that in certain lights it appears black. Acolytes who have not yet become priestesses wear black robes that are easily distinguished from the deep blue. They often adorn their robes with jet-colored accessories, though many don necklaces of gold or silver to remind all that they too worship the Father God.
Champion Forge Apprentices:
Personality: Any man (or woman) who gives himself over to the art of Godcraft, or forging the weapons of the divine is a little possessed, a little off his rocker. He or she is so driven and passionate for the art that the world outside the Forge holds little meaning or worthiness. Forge Apprentices wear gray robes and are required to wear two heavy gold bands around their wrists.
Think that covers it. More to come as I think of it. |
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