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Aotearoa |
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AFRICA
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ASIA
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AUSTRALIA
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EUROPE
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WESTERN
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HISTORY
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| ::Bioculture:: |
Aotearoans are Maori. They live in small villages
scattered about the islands. The village consists of a swath of land
around which the villagers wander, and a communal hall. People will go
to the hall every few days to meet for religious activities and to get
decisions from elders. There is one very large capital city where
foreign defense and the most important guilds are headquartered.
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| ::Totem:: |
The Covenant of the Aotearoans is with the katipo, the one
poisonous spider of Australia. The Covenant is not considered to be
very important. People attempt to gain the services of the katipo
whenever they can, but ignore it when it isn't going to help them.
Aotearoans have bodies more-or-less the same as pre-Covenant humans,
with the exception that they have sacs in their mouth that spray an
extremely toxic venom.
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| ::Religion:: |
The Aotearoans practice the only surviving strain of
Australian Pantheism. Shamans appease dead ancestors and other ghosts.
There is an earth goddess and a sky god.
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| ::Government:: |
The few Aotearoans who survive to get old join a council of
elders which makes decisions for villages of a few hundred.
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| ::Gender:: |
Aotearoans practice gender equality.
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| ::Guilds:: |
Each village has a small guild which usually specializes in
some kind of miniaturization. Aotearoans are especially fond of
jewelry, and produce the very best that the world has to offer. The
guilds of the capital produce large powered suits, similar to those of
the Noosaquin, but much larger. The suits consist of a layering of
several sheath-like animals. A driver enters the suit which mimics the
driver's movements. The suit can be used to lift heavy objects like
huts, and can be used in warfare.
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| ::Military:: |
The Aotearoans are extremely war-like. Villages constantly engage in
sorties and skirmishes with each other. Every adult who is not an elder
is a warrior. When warring against each other Aotearoans will wear
masks which deliver their natural venom against enemies. They will
carry no other weapons. In combat against foreigners, Aotearoans will
always employ powersuits, each one outfitted with a mask which houses a
wide array of weapons.
After the destruction of Australian life, a number of hives were
established on Aotearoa. The Aotearoans viciously fought the
Australians for a century, and eventually succeeded in sacking the hives
and killing all of the people there.
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| ::Shashi:: |
Shashi live in a parallel, nomadic society. When entering the
lands of a village, their elders will meet with the elders of the
village and make gifts of mana in order to take some small amount of
food from the land. In the capital city, the shashi have a permanent
community, a ghetto from which they trade mana in return for some
wealth. The shashi outside the city have no wealth.
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| ::Geography:: | Aotearons live in the two large islands to the southeast of Australia. |