#gedrinas

I'm home sick and bored and on my phone so I'm gonna write out some messy tidbits

The gedminian diasphora is mostly located within the port cities the merchant ships frequent on trade routes

Istellen in particular has a large gedminian population in the city of Rhiss and in the seaside settlements dotting the docklands

Great House Halieus and Great House Charis are the two main gedminian mercantile forces when it comes to commerce with the rest of Paudaun. Great Houses Deresse, Photizo, and Matxum aren't too big on that sorta thing.

Halieus and Charis both have established house estates within other countries to act as a sorta foreign base of operations and embassies, of sorts.

Toying with the idea that the common trade language/ the language from Narrani would be p much Esperanto. Fantasy Esperanto. Idk. I'll sleep on that.

So I have this human society that's ruled by 5 great houses where the divine family heading each are directly descended from the gods. Knowing that royal families, especially ones that have a connection to higher powers (like the egyptians), are rife with incest and associations of incest, I have actively incorporated a deeply-rooted cultural disgust for incest.

This is based off of how incestuous relationships were one of the (many) things recorded as being part of the degeneration of the Old World. The gods also never married each other, and always outside of their family. The divine family, living by the examples of the gods, replicate that and it's p much part of their law. This has bled into the other, lower classes and became a deep-seated cultural hatred and aversion of "blood laying with blood." It is illegal and doing so will probably get you branded as a degenerate. And ive already hashed out other punishments depending on what tf went on when it comes to this sorta thing based off of social status, age, consent, ect ect. Even if you were born from such a union.

But now I have a thorough reason why incest would never happen in this society, but I haven't fleshed out any other huge cultural DO NOTS yet. Because of this, it has the impression that this society is obsessed with condemning incest. Which, in turn, implies there might be a problem of it happening on some scale when it simply doesnt. Its too taboo.