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=== PASSAGES === | === PASSAGES === | ||
- | Gethamane consists of hundreds of twisting corridors that connect countless rooms. Its | + | Gethamane consists of hundreds of twisting corridors that connect countless rooms. Its large halls are covered in intricate and beautiful carvings of unknown plants and beasts, strangely designed pictures that haunt the memories of visitors. |
- | + | The passages of Gethamane are square shaped, their floors and ceilings carved from the dark gray, slightly rough, stone of the mountain while other forms of stone or concrete sometimes cover the walls. | |
- | + | While smaller rooms are generally plain, larger rooms and halls are covered in intricate and beautiful carvings. Some rooms have stone doors, while others have newer doors of timber or stretched hide. Timber and hide are also frequently used to erect partitions across rooms or passageways or to mark the limits of a family’s territory. The older or wealthier families have heavier, metalnailed bulwarks or elaborately painted screens, while poorer families must make do with roughly tanned leather, pieces of wood cannibalized from merchants’ carts and other temporary makeshifts. | |
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+ | Some rooms have stone doors; others have new makeshift doors of wood or leather. Gethamane’s current population exceeds that of the old City of the Mountain Gateway. Many Gethamanians live in apartments formed by partitioning larger chambers or passages. Wealthy families mark their compound with screens of metal or elaborately painted wood. The poor make do with makeshifts such as leather, cloth, paper or scraps of wood salvaged from a merchant’s cart. | ||
=== UTILITIES === | === UTILITIES === | ||
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== THE PEOPLE OF GETHAMANE == | == THE PEOPLE OF GETHAMANE == | ||
- | Gethamane has little direct contact with the rest of Creation. Few Gethamanians travel, and | + | Gethamane has little direct contact with the rest of Creation. Few Gethamanians travel, and few other people want to visit this remote bastion of civilization. None can conquer Gethamane, and Gethamane cannot threaten anyone else. Most Gethamanians know very little about the rest of Creation. |
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+ | Bethan Redeye’s people spoke Skytongue when they came to Gethamane and it remains the most common language of the city. However, Bethan was one of the more educated of her group and carried hidden knowledge from her divine parent. As such some citizens also speak Old Realm. | ||
It is easy to differentiate who go outside and the rest of Gethamane. The minority who spend much of their time outside (Guards, Hunters and Gatherers) show color in their cheeks, roughened skin or other signs of exposure to sun and weather. The majority who remain within Gethamane most (if not all) of their lives have unnaturally pale skins never touched by the sun and eyes adapted to shadows (exposded to sun and/or natural weather these 'albinos' are known to flinch, tremble or even break down into fits of hysterics). | It is easy to differentiate who go outside and the rest of Gethamane. The minority who spend much of their time outside (Guards, Hunters and Gatherers) show color in their cheeks, roughened skin or other signs of exposure to sun and weather. The majority who remain within Gethamane most (if not all) of their lives have unnaturally pale skins never touched by the sun and eyes adapted to shadows (exposded to sun and/or natural weather these 'albinos' are known to flinch, tremble or even break down into fits of hysterics). | ||
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== FOREIGN RELATIONS == | == FOREIGN RELATIONS == | ||
- | Though many desire the city, Gethamane has few outright enemies | + | Though many desire the city, Gethamane has few outright enemies. Most states have nothing Gethamane especially needs, and Gethamane feels safe remaining neutral. Given the insularity of the city and the safety of its underground location, many citizens fear the enemies from below rather than those outside. Only the [[Guild]] and the [[Bull of the North]] particularly trouble Gethamane. |
Currently Gethamane is pursuing a policy of cautious but proactive friendship with almost everyone. | Currently Gethamane is pursuing a policy of cautious but proactive friendship with almost everyone. |