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The Rotturan flag is a combination of red and blue, the colors associated with Rotturans & Rotteros/Wetlanders, as well as the country's famous sunsets.
Nation Overview & Government
The Rottura Wetlands are home to some of Dysium's finest fruits, spices, jewelery, and performance, while housing some of the continent's foulest slums, brothels, and drug dens. Because of this, there is a deep-seated caste system and power dynamic in the country, which has created two cultures -- The artistic, cultured landowning merchant-lords, ruling houses, and their vassals, known as Rotturans, and the impoverished sailors, criminals, and itinerant workers who are called Wetlanders. Due to the country's lack of available work and high population, many Wetlanders travel around Dysium by way of boat, camping on riverbanks and under bridges which has given them the popular monicker "Muddies". Because many are willing to work for low wages, which are sent back and worth more in their native country, Wetlanders make up a large amount of the continent's fishermen, maids, farmhands, cooks, and laborers, while making up an even larger amount of the continent's pirates and smugglers.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity, and the percentages that create different ethnicities is a closely examined feature in the culture of the Rottura Wetlands. Those that identify as Rotturan -- or at least, the wealthy landowners who are Rotturan -- are descended from early Gattanian settlers, and have light skin, hair ranging from golden to dark brown, and are typically blue or brown-eyed. Their features are round and soft, to the extent that a common descriptor for a round jaw throughout Dysium is a "Rotturan Chin". Almost all are tall and full-bodied.
Wetlanders, on the other hand, have a large range of skin tones and features but have universally black, curly hair and dark brown eyes. They are commonly short and wiry as a result of malnutrition, though the well-fed pirates and thieves grow to be tall, fat, muscular, or any combination thereof. Because a large number of them can trace their ancestors to inbred Ranuun slaves, many generally have pointed features, thin lips, and hypodontia, a genetic condition causing them to naturally be missing teeth. As a result, many Wetlanders wear orthodontic cosmetics, such as golden tooth-caps, metal grills, and false teeth. Many Wetlander pirates and mercenaries sharpen their front teeth.
There is a caste system in place in the Rotturan Wetlands, which restricts purchases that may be made -- Rotturans, for instance, may inherit or buy property, farmland, and indentured servants, whereas a Strotero may only inherit farmland worked by regularly paid peasantry. This caste system is borrowed from their earliest Ranuun and Gattanian ancestors, which has allowed the Rotturans to remain comfortably in power since the country's inception.
• Rotturan • Stromatero (Half Rotturan and Half "Foreign") • Strogaturan (Rotturan descended from Non-Rotturan foreigners) • Strotero (Half Rottero and Half "Foreign) • Rottero (Rotturan of mixed/ambiguous ancestry, considered a catch-all term for Wetlanders by Rotturans) • Oruneno (Half-Isa raised by traveling Rotteros as part of a drug-bartering based tradition) • Gartero (Half Rotturan and Half Rottero, considered untouchable by Rotturans)
Geography
Capital City Rotturan City Wetlander City
The Rottura Wetlands are the most tropical of Dysium's regions, and is the continent's sole producer of tobacco, sugar, and many types of fruit and spice. Closer inland, the landscape is hot and humid, with thickets of rainforest filling the space between the country's innumerable swamps, marshes, and bogs. Where there is arable land, there are swathes of tilled fields growing tobacco, cotton, or various spices, whereas farms closer to the country's many bogs grow sugarcane, rice, and water chestnuts.
The Rottura Wetlands are also known for their wildlife, which ranges from the everyday foxes and hares found in all of Dysium to tropical birds, venomous insects, and exotic, colorful fish. In particular, the most noteworthy of the animals in the Rottura Wetlands is the mosquito, a feared harbinger of disease. The "Mosquito Basket" is a creation which has become a common sight on the Rotturan countryside -- long nets attached to hoops on tall poles, meant to catch and trap the pests as they fly. Abandoned mosquito baskets fill with thousands of mosquito carcasses and frequently attract bats, the second most common pest of the Rottura Wetlands.
Further away from the rice paddies and tobacco fields of the Rottura Wetlands are its cities, which are as stark a contrast as the rest of the country -- Rottura cities are known for their remarkable design, featuring elaborate aqueducts, hanging garden-style citadels, and tremendous theaters, concert halls, and coliseums. Rotturan cities are patrolled by city guards and kept well lit by crown-paid lamplighters, with architectural design emphasizing open space and symmetrical design. Wetlander cities, however, are known for their cramped shanty-town conditions and use of improvised construction materials, such as debris of wrecked ships, driftwood, and hand-crafted mud bricks. Many are built on ports to aid in smuggling, jutting hundreds of feet outwards onto ever-extending docks and harbors. Floating gardens are popular methods of farming, though aside from fishing, virtually all business done in Wetlander cities is illicit.
Culture/Society
To most outsiders, the Rottura Wetlands house a single, homogeneous culture; They are a limp-wristed, oily-haired folk who spend their days eating mangoes, lounging in the sun, smoking exotic drugs, and buggering men. Most from the Rottura isles found elsewhere are Wetlanders, which has made the popular view of the Rotturan that of a swarthy, hot-blooded lout. At the same time, their reputation is affected by those who have visited the Rotturan cities, adding "musical", "liberal", and "effete" to their long list of stereotypes. They are largely seen as godless criminals by more pious countries due to the Rotturan crown's lax stances on prostitution, homosexuality, and religious freedom, which has incited many to blame them for the arrival of the color.
Those more versed in the culture and history of the Rottura Wetlands can make a slightly more accurate, if biased summation of the two groups; The Rotturans are wealthy enough that their culture centers around high art and philosophy, while the Wetlanders live in such poverty that their culture is one that focuses on drugs, violence, and crime. The two groups just so happen to live in the same mosquito-laden orchard of a country.
A few hundred years ago, the nuances of Rotturan culture had a far more basic explanation -- The Rotturans were masters, the Rottero were their slaves, and that was that. Rotturans, who were freed from labor by virtue of their use of slavery, were free to pursue higher intellect, a facet that is ingrained in their culture, even now that the freed grandsons of their slaves call themselves "Wetlanders" and live in squalor and debauchery. The Rotturans however, for all the buggery, hallucinogens, and binge-drinking the rest of Dysium use in their japes, were among the earliest intellects. The early Rotturans were the first to build sundials and chart the stars, the first to study human anatomy, and if a Rotturan was asked on the subject, likely the first of Dysium's spear-throwing tribesmen to hit two rocks together and make fire.
The Rotturans are a very musical people, who favor the concertina and accordion, as well as common stringed instruments such as the guitar. In addition to music, they are known for their penchant for theater, opera, and a type of political satire theater native to the country called "Statodroma", which has been historically used to mock unpopular low lords, clergymen, supporters of race-mixing, leaders of foreign countries, and the gentry of the Rotturan Wetlands. Because Statodroma is only performed in the country's native language, Rotturan, it is considerably less popular overseas.
Typical Rotturan dress is one meant to announce the wearer's wealth without becoming gaudy or tasteless -- Long, white robes and colored belts or sashes are popular as a demonstration of the wearer's cleanliness, while retaining modesty in the country's hot, humid weather. From their first "flowering" until their marriage, women traditionally cover their hair with a red scarf to denote their availability, whereas men are expected to shave their facial hair until they have fathered an heir, at which point they may grow beards or mustaches.
Rotturan food uses a number of ingredients considered exotic delicacies despite their local abundance, making the cuisine a highlight of the country. Rice, flatbread, and pastas are more popular than bread, while most meat used is goat or poultry. Olive oil, mangoes, peppers, and goat cheese are all considered stereotypical Rotturan ingredients. In addition to their sought-after delicacies, there are many items on a typical Rotturan plate most denizens of Dysium would stray far from -- Roasted insects, raw fish, and snake meat are all fairly commonplace in the country's kitchens.
Though "Wetlander" seemingly applies to one group of people -- the peasants and laborers of the Rotturan Wetlands -- it is a culture with two distinct splits; The Wetlanders who remain in the Wetlands, and the Wetlanders in the rest of Dysium, which are more than double the number of natives. This is due to the high number of Wetlanders, who are typically the impoverished descendants of slaves, and the low amount of legal work there is to be done in their home country. Because Wetlanders are a very nautical culture, they travel the coasts and rivers of Dysium where there is work to be found, giving them the derogatory term "Muddies" due to their common practice of running their small boats aground in shallow banks in order to camp freely amongst themselves rather than for a fee at a dock or inn.
Native Wetlanders live in coastal shantytowns of their own design and rule, too far and too unlawful to successfully be governed any further than their infrequent tax contributions and meager support in wartime. Those who own boats frequently live in them, while the rest live in tightly-packed hamlets by the shore. Because of their distance from the crown, Wetlanders have even greater numbers of brothels and drug-houses than the refined variants found in Rotturan cities, though the Wetlanders can undeniably say theirs are the cheaper options. Wetlanders also have a very "loud" manner of dressing, preferring frilled collars, vests, and ornate copper jewelry and piercings to the more modest dress in the rest of the world. Wetlander barmaids and singers are frequently bare-breasted, whereas many Wetlander males wear little else than pants. Dye, beads, and braids are all commonplace in the hair of both sexes, as well as piercings and coal-based eyeshadow. Many Wetlander pirates have tattoos, filed teeth, and other forms of body modification, one of the most popular of which being the removal of the front teeth which had once a mark of slavery.
Wetlanders speak Common and Rotturan, as well as a pidgin dialect known as "Low Rotturan" used to communicate amongst themselves. Low Rotturan employs a mix of Common and Rotturan words, as well as complex slang and words used in Old Gattania, Ranuun, and Middenland. It is illegal to speak Low Rotturan in front of Rotturan nobility, as it is essentially a criminal's language and considered probable cause for dissent.
Wetlander food is similar to Rotturan food, with an emphasis on shelf stability moreso than flavor. Fried fish is a staple of their diets, as well as porridge and pickled vegetables, fruits, eggs, or meats. Drinking, smoking, and all forms of drug use are commonplace, which frequently aid in the enjoyment of their cuisine, which foreigners usually describe as "sour". Because of the commonplace use of seawater as an element of stewing, Wetlander food can cause an outsider to vomit, even if it is cooked properly.
Economy/Industry
The Rottura Wetlands are the continent's source of luxurious goods -- Namely several types of fruit, wine, sea salt, spices, incense, tobacco, sugar, and mind-altering drugs. In addition, the two cultures both seem to export two very different types of itinerant labor; Rotturans give the world travelling bards who sing in the courts of kings and concert halls, Wetlanders give the world cheap labor for construction, cooking, and cleaning. Many travelling Wetlanders are also used as shock troops for hire in times of war, though they are not considered any more skillful than local peasantry and are mostly hired to gain an advantage in numbers. In terms of imports, the Rottura Wetlands is the largest purchaser of livestock, fur, and wheat in Dysium. Due to their low number of mountains, there is very little metal to mine in the Rottura Wetlands outside of bog iron, so metal is also a considerably in-demand commodity.
Exports • Wine • Incense • Fruit & Vegetables • Various Spices • Tobacco • Sugar
Imports • Livestock • Vegetables • Stone • Bread & Wheat • Fur • Cheese • Metal
Military
The Rottura Wetlands, for all the chaotic disarray they are in, have lost surprisingly few wars. Despite lacking a standing army or siege weapons, the Rotturans have historically held strong advantages over opponents due to the high number of itinerant Wetlanders living in the ports, rivers, and cities of each of Dysium's countries, who can be swayed by the Rotturan crown for relatively little money to slow their work pace, sabotage tools and ships, steal, malinger, spoil crops, act as spies, incite riots, and outright murder. This is a reason Rotturans are viewed as untrustworthy -- They are not only a clannish folk who speak a secret language and live amongst themselves in other countries, but they have historically worked against these countries during wartime.
Aside from their cultural history of working as saboteurs, when the Rotturan crown calls men to war it boasts one of the world's largest armadas, and though it is an armada unlearned in the ways of naval warfare, it is an armada nonetheless. The Rotturan navy for this reason has been referred to as "Merchants and fishermen given grapeshot and swords" by historians.
History
Self-explanatory. This doesn't need to be long; just informative. We encourage players to collaborate and create shared history, in fact, it is almost necessary. No nation exists in a vacuum.
Relations
• The Trade Union of Isang Tribes
Instead of competition in the face of a shared market, there is an unusual bond between the Isa and Wetlanders. For centuries, traveling Wetlander merchants, sailors, and pirates have relied on mind-altering drugs from the Isa when their coffers are dry, either by way of smuggling to other Isa and Wetlander distributers, or selling the Isa's products themselves on the streets of any Wetland city. It is a mutually beneficial relationship -- The Isa, who are otherwise considered outsiders in Dysium and have some difficulties selling wares, have a steady consumer in the Muddies, who would otherwise have to openly farm their drugs, which the Rotturan crown has been meeting with increasing force.
Additionally, the two groups share a strange custom known to the Rotturans as the "Oruneno", or "Golden Babe". Due to the Isa's harsh stigma against children that have only an Isang mother, these children are frequently given to Wetlanders to raise in exchange for a large gift -- as is custom for the Isa traders -- usually in the form of drugs, spice, or food. The family, crew, gang, company, or even sole caretaker who raise the Oruneno use the child's presence in business agreements with Isa for the rest of the child's life until it is matured to gain favor, receive bargains, and command a bare standard of respect or hospitality in Isa households.
• The Ranuun Dominion
The Rottura Wetlands and the Ranuun Dominion have a fairly strained relations, despite their long-standing trade relationship wherein the Ranuun trade the Rotturan Wetlands flatbreads, nuts, and medicinal herbs in exchange for Rotturan spices, wine, and jewelry. Aside from their fiscal relations, however, the two countries have had escalating conflicts in the past year alongside the Rotturan Wetlands' eastern border, where Wetlander cities farthest from Rotturan rule have become breeding grounds for the country's biggest criminal syndicates, which then periodically spill over into Ranuun's western territory, pillaging secluded villages and trading drugs in cities.
Characters
Wetlander drug lords are typically Rottero, and thereby lack a proper surname. When their illicit trades begin to make them rich and powerful enough to have their name be differentiated from others, they typically choose flamboyantly intimidating names, such as "King Reaper" or "King Skin-Taker". In the eastern marshes, King Mosquito has recently won a territory war with King Gelder, in the north the arrival of the color has forced King Blood into hiding, and so on. It comes as a great surprise to many that one of the richest drug lords in the Rotturan Wetlands is known as "King Rice".
Before he was called the rice king, King Rice was called "Hector", a rice farmer and Kocho smuggler from Calitrian, the northernmost Wetlander city in the Rottura Wetlands' famous "Bay of Pleasure". Little is known about him but three things -- He is constantly surrounded by an entourage of Oruneno guards while displaying his own weapons in plain sight, he commands a fleet of twenty ships, and is known for giving locals sacks of rice wherever he goes to gain favor. King Rice's whereabouts for the past year have been unknown, though he is rumored to either have been killed in Gattania, staying with an Isang tribe negotiating a large trade deal, or imprisoned in the Amorian Desert.
The Rotturan flag is a combination of red and blue, the colors associated with Rotturans & Rotteros/Wetlanders, as well as the country's famous sunsets.
Nation Overview & Government
The Rottura Wetlands are home to some of Dysium's finest fruits, spices, jewelery, and performance, while housing some of the continent's foulest slums, brothels, and drug dens. Because of this, there is a deep-seated caste system and power dynamic in the country, which has created two cultures -- The artistic, cultured landowning merchant-lords, ruling houses, and their vassals, known as Rotturans, and the impoverished sailors, criminals, and itinerant workers who are called Wetlanders. Due to the country's lack of available work and high population, many Wetlanders travel around Dysium by way of boat, camping on riverbanks and under bridges which has given them the popular monicker "Muddies". Because many are willing to work for low wages, which are sent back and worth more in their native country, Wetlanders make up a large amount of the continent's fishermen, maids, farmhands, cooks, and laborers, while making up an even larger amount of the continent's pirates and smugglers.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity, and the percentages that create different ethnicities is a closely examined feature in the culture of the Rottura Wetlands. Those that identify as Rotturan -- or at least, the wealthy landowners who are Rotturan -- are descended from early Gattanian settlers, and have light skin, hair ranging from golden to dark brown, and are typically blue or brown-eyed. Their features are round and soft, to the extent that a common descriptor for a round jaw throughout Dysium is a "Rotturan Chin". Almost all are tall and full-bodied.
Wetlanders, on the other hand, have a large range of skin tones and features but have universally black, curly hair and dark brown eyes. They are commonly short and wiry as a result of malnutrition, though the well-fed pirates and thieves grow to be tall, fat, muscular, or any combination thereof. Because a large number of them can trace their ancestors to inbred Ranuun slaves, many generally have pointed features, thin lips, and hypodontia, a genetic condition causing them to naturally be missing teeth. As a result, many Wetlanders wear orthodontic cosmetics, such as golden tooth-caps, metal grills, and false teeth. Many Wetlander pirates and mercenaries sharpen their front teeth.
There is a caste system in place in the Rotturan Wetlands, which restricts purchases that may be made -- Rotturans, for instance, may inherit or buy property, farmland, and indentured servants, whereas a Strotero may only inherit farmland worked by regularly paid peasantry. This caste system is borrowed from their earliest Ranuun and Gattanian ancestors, which has allowed the Rotturans to remain comfortably in power since the country's inception.
• Rotturan • Stromatero (Half Rotturan and Half "Foreign") • Strogaturan (Rotturan descended from Non-Rotturan foreigners) • Strotero (Half Rottero and Half "Foreign) • Rottero (Rotturan of mixed/ambiguous ancestry, considered a catch-all term for Wetlanders by Rotturans) • Gartero (Half Rotturan and Half Rottero, considered untouchable by Rotturans)
Geography
Capital City Rotturan City Wetlander City
The Rottura Wetlands are the most tropical of Dysium's regions, and is the continent's sole producer of tobacco, sugar, and many types of fruit and spice. Closer inland, the landscape is hot and humid, with thickets of rainforest filling the space between the country's innumerable swamps, marshes, and bogs. Where there is arable land, there are swathes of tilled fields growing tobacco, cotton, or various spices, whereas farms closer to the country's many bogs grow sugarcane, rice, and water chestnuts.
The Rottura Wetlands are also known for their wildlife, which ranges from the everyday foxes and hares found in all of Dysium to tropical birds, venomous insects, and exotic, colorful fish. In particular, the most noteworthy of the animals in the Rottura Wetlands is the mosquito, a feared harbinger of disease. The "Mosquito Basket" is a creation which has become a common sight on the Rotturan countryside -- long nets attached to hoops on tall poles, meant to catch and trap the pests as they fly. Abandoned mosquito baskets fill with thousands of mosquito carcasses and frequently attract bats, the second most common pest of the Rottura Wetlands.
Further away from the rice paddies and tobacco fields of the Rottura Wetlands are its cities, which are as stark a contrast as the rest of the country -- Rottura cities are known for their remarkable design, featuring elaborate aqueducts, hanging garden-style citadels, and tremendous theaters, concert halls, and coliseums. Rotturan cities are patrolled by city guards and kept well lit by crown-paid lamplighters, with architectural design emphasizing open space and symmetrical design. Wetlander cities, however, are known for their cramped shanty-town conditions and use of improvised construction materials, such as debris of wrecked ships, driftwood, and hand-crafted mud bricks. Many are built on ports to aid in smuggling, jutting hundreds of feet outwards onto ever-extending docks and harbors. Floating gardens are popular methods of farming, though aside from fishing, virtually all business done in Wetlander cities is illicit.
Culture/Society
To most outsiders, the Rottura Wetlands house a single, homogeneous culture; They are a limp-wristed, oily-haired folk who spend their days eating mangoes, lounging in the sun, smoking exotic drugs, and buggering men. Most from the Rottura isles found elsewhere are Wetlanders, which has made the popular view of the Rotturan that of a swarthy, hot-blooded lout. At the same time, their reputation is affected by those who have visited the Rotturan cities, adding "musical", "liberal", and "effete" to their long list of stereotypes. They are largely seen as godless criminals by more pious countries due to the Rotturan crown's lax stances on prostitution, homosexuality, and religious freedom, which has incited many to blame them for the arrival of the color.
Those more versed in the culture and history of the Rottura Wetlands can make a slightly more accurate, if biased summation of the two groups; The Rotturans are wealthy enough that their culture centers around high art and philosophy, while the Wetlanders live in such poverty that their culture is one that focuses on drugs, violence, and crime. The two groups just so happen to live in the same mosquito-laden orchard of a country.
A few hundred years ago, the nuances of Rotturan culture had a far more basic explanation -- The Rotturans were masters, the Rottero were their slaves, and that was that. Rotturans, who were freed from labor by virtue of their use of slavery, were free to pursue higher intellect, a facet that is ingrained in their culture, even now that the freed grandsons of their slaves call themselves "Wetlanders" and live in squalor and debauchery. The Rotturans however, for all the buggery, hallucinogens, and binge-drinking the rest of Dysium use in their japes, were among the earliest intellects. The early Rotturans were the first to build sundials and chart the stars, the first to study human anatomy, and if a Rotturan was asked on the subject, likely the first of Dysium's spear-throwing tribesmen to hit two rocks together and make fire.
The Rotturans are a very musical people, who favor the concertina and accordion, as well as common stringed instruments such as the guitar. In addition to music, they are known for their penchant for theater, opera, and a type of political satire theater native to the country called "Statodroma", which has been historically used to mock unpopular low lords, clergymen, supporters of race-mixing, leaders of foreign countries, and the gentry of the Rotturan Wetlands. Because Statodroma is only performed in the country's native language, Rotturan, it is considerably less popular overseas.
Typical Rotturan dress is one meant to announce the wearer's wealth without becoming gaudy or tasteless -- Long, white robes and colored belts or sashes are popular as a demonstration of the wearer's cleanliness, while retaining modesty in the country's hot, humid weather. From their first "flowering" until their marriage, women traditionally cover their hair with a red scarf to denote their availability, whereas men are expected to shave their facial hair until they have fathered an heir, at which point they may grow beards or mustaches.
Rotturan food uses a number of ingredients considered exotic delicacies despite their local abundance, making the cuisine a highlight of the country. Rice, flatbread, and pastas are more popular than bread, while most meat used is goat or poultry. Olive oil, mangoes, peppers, and goat cheese are all considered stereotypical Rotturan ingredients. In addition to their sought-after delicacies, there are many items on a typical Rotturan plate most denizens of Dysium would stray far from -- Roasted insects, raw fish, and snake meat are all fairly commonplace in the country's kitchens.
Though "Wetlander" seemingly applies to one group of people -- the peasants and laborers of the Rotturan Wetlands -- it is a culture with two distinct splits; The Wetlanders who remain in the Wetlands, and the Wetlanders in the rest of Dysium, which are more than double the number of natives. This is due to the high number of Wetlanders, who are typically the impoverished descendants of slaves, and the low amount of legal work there is to be done in their home country. Because Wetlanders are a very nautical culture, they travel the coasts and rivers of Dysium where there is work to be found, giving them the derogatory term "Muddies" due to their common practice of running their small boats aground in shallow banks in order to camp freely amongst themselves rather than for a fee at a dock or inn.
Native Wetlanders live in coastal shantytowns of their own design and rule, too far and too unlawful to successfully be governed any further than their infrequent tax contributions and meager support in wartime. Those who own boats frequently live in them, while the rest live in tightly-packed hamlets by the shore. Because of their distance from the crown, Wetlanders have even greater numbers of brothels and drug-houses than the refined variants found in Rotturan cities, though the Wetlanders can undeniably say theirs are the cheaper options. Wetlanders also have a very "loud" manner of dressing, preferring frilled collars, vests, and ornate copper jewelry and piercings to the more modest dress in the rest of the world. Wetlander barmaids and singers are frequently bare-breasted, whereas many Wetlander males wear little else than pants. Dye, beads, and braids are all commonplace in the hair of both sexes, as well as piercings and coal-based eyeshadow. Many Wetlander pirates have tattoos, filed teeth, and other forms of body modification, one of the most popular of which being the removal of the front teeth which had once a mark of slavery.
Wetlanders speak Common and Rotturan, as well as a pidgin dialect known as "Low Rotturan" used to communicate amongst themselves. Low Rotturan employs a mix of Common and Rotturan words, as well as complex slang and words used in Old Gattania, Ranuun, and Middenland. It is illegal to speak Low Rotturan in front of Rotturan nobility, as it is essentially a criminal's language and considered probable cause for dissent.
Wetlander food is similar to Rotturan food, with an emphasis on shelf stability moreso than flavor. Fried fish is a staple of their diets, as well as porridge and pickled vegetables, fruits, eggs, or meats. Drinking, smoking, and all forms of drug use are commonplace, which frequently aid in the enjoyment of their cuisine, which foreigners usually describe as "sour". Because of the commonplace use of seawater as an element of stewing, Wetlander food can cause an outsider to vomit, even if it is cooked properly.
Economy/Industry
The Rottura Wetlands are the continent's source of luxurious goods -- Namely several types of fruit, wine, sea salt, spices, incense, tobacco, sugar, and mind-altering drugs. In addition, the two cultures both seem to export two very different types of itinerant labor; Rotturans give the world travelling bards who sing in the courts of kings and concert halls, Wetlanders give the world cheap labor for construction, cooking, and cleaning. Many travelling Wetlanders are also used as shock troops for hire in times of war, though they are not considered any more skillful than local peasantry and are mostly hired to gain an advantage in numbers. In terms of imports, the Rottura Wetlands is the largest purchaser of livestock, fur, and wheat in Dysium. Due to their low number of mountains, there is very little metal to mine in the Rottura Wetlands outside of bog iron, so metal is also a considerably in-demand commodity.
Exports • Wine • Incense • Fruit & Vegetables • Various Spices • Tobacco • Sugar
Imports • Livestock • Vegetables • Stone • Bread & Wheat • Fur • Cheese • Metal
Military
The Rottura Wetlands, for all the chaotic disarray they are in, have lost surprisingly few wars. Despite lacking a standing army or siege weapons, the Rotturans have historically held strong advantages over opponents due to the high number of itinerant Wetlanders living in the ports, rivers, and cities of each of Dysium's countries, who can be swayed by the Rotturan crown for relatively little money to slow their work pace, sabotage tools and ships, steal, malinger, spoil crops, act as spies, incite riots, and outright murder. This is a reason Rotturans are viewed as untrustworthy -- They are not only a clannish folk who speak a secret language and live amongst themselves in other countries, but they have historically worked against these countries during wartime.
Aside from their cultural history of working as saboteurs, when the Rotturan crown calls men to war it boasts one of the world's largest armadas, and though it is an armada unlearned in the ways of naval warfare, it is an armada nonetheless. The Rotturan navy for this reason has been referred to as "Merchants and fishermen given grapeshot and swords" by historians.
History
Self-explanatory. This doesn't need to be long; just informative. We encourage players to collaborate and create shared history, in fact, it is almost necessary. No nation exists in a vacuum.
Relations
As above. Collaborate with other players.
Characters
Optional section. Put any info about any special characters here: kings or queens, military leaders, and hero “badasses”.
The BO has evolved ANTENNAE and SONAR. It is an FILTER-FEEDER that eats tiny insects attracted to its STENCH. It has also evolved a thick layer of FAT in addition to its body odor. How charming.
The RY has evolved appendages, including thicker legs for bipedal movement. It is an herbivore that eats dead leaves and fallen fruit. Way to go, guys.
The QX has mutated, and the dominant strain is now that of a fish-catching OMNIVORE that can sustain itself on seaweed for a short period. Not like it's four pages from the fucking APOCALYPSE or anything.
Next turn jumps timeline forward an extra few billion years, and gets to choose
• BO diet • +1 Environment of your choice • A number between 1-10 (Because of Reasons)
The RY has evolved the rounded teeth of an herbivore. The QX has evolved thin, fleshy appendages and increased mobility. The BO, which remains blind and immobile, has evolved stench.
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