#penday

Since the continents are separated by climates and terrain, the architecture in each region is also different in necessity and style.

Westerners have houses made of bamboo or slate; they get a lot of rain. Government buildings are made with slate and are usually two stories tall; records are on the top floor, protected in case of monsoon floods. Government buildings are painted in jade or red, with gold accents.

Central regioners live in houses usually made of colorful mud or clay, or bright green bamboo imported from the West. Their houses are made to be cool in the sun. Government buildings such as the magistrate’s office are long rather than tall, and the outside of the buildings are made of mud or clay and the walls are intricately carved with Western symbols and bright colors.

Easterners are a boat peoples. The east has many rivers and lakes, and most people live on the water or the water’s edge, in wooden houses. Further out, they also have wood houses. Government buildings are located in the middle of the biggest or most central lake.

Southerners have the mildest climate and live in the trees, with branches as their roofs. The government treehouse is painted in royal colors.

Northerners live in igloos or underground caves. imported from the East and government buildings are huge, intricate, ice houses made by the best ice carvers.

Humans: Humans do not have any magic, although there is the rare human that has meditated for 100 years to receive magical abilities, then they are called namthan.

Humans have many different colored eyes, from blue to gray to green to brown to black to even orange or purple or pink, although the warm colors are more rare. Humans tend to stay in their regions from when they are young, or make a migration maybe once or twice and choose to stay after that, as work is also divided among the regions. Those who live in western regions tend to have golden skin with yellow undertones and dark hair. Central regions have dark skin and dark, curly hair, as they get the most sun. Easterners tend to be very pale with light skin and light hair and light eyes. Southerners tend to be caramel colored with light hair and light eyes. Northerners are pale with dark hair and dark eyes.

Nuthan: Silver eyed, or gold eyed if very powerful. It is impossible to steal the life force of a nuthan unless you are also a nuthan, or a high immortal yeuthan. Nuthan are immortal and stay youthful forever, although they died if they are physically killed, such as by stabbing, beheading, hunger, sickness, etc. They have various magical abilities, although the basic of these is healing, travel, weaponry, elemental, and sense enhancement. They heal faster than humans and namthan, and some can even regrow limbs if given enough time. They cannot a head, although if they are powerful, they can regrow a liver or even a heart. Traveling abilities manifest in either cloud travel, the ability to breathe underwater, super speed, or teleportation. They can wield a magical weapon of choice, which contains some of their life force. They can usually conjure up a fire or shield themselves from rain or stay cool in the heat. As for sense enhancement, this can manifest in different ways as well; some have gifted vision or hearing or are able to scream in sonic waves; some can communicated with animals or plants or the ocean. Some have telepathy, some can even wield mind control. It all depends on the power of the nuthan and how much meditation they have done. Nuthan are not supposed to kill, therefore they don’t eat meat either. If they must kill for the sake of war or self defense, they must meditate after to cleanse their life force.

Namthan: Generally bronze eyed if they are very powerful, but usually have the same color eyes as any other human. These humans with magical abilities have longer lifespans but are not necessarily immortal; they must meditate and not kill or steal for 400 more years to achieve immortality. They could also be the children of nuthan and humans. These can wield 3 powers at once at a smaller degree, such as gifted sight, hearing, and strength, at once, or perhaps yielding fire and cloud travel and healing, or hone one power to full strength, such as controlling a tsunami or teleporting continents away or shapeshifting.

Introducing: Penday (from the Cambodian “phendei” for “earth”)

Penday is an Earth-like world, except with magic and magical people. There is a race of immortals called “Nuthan” (from the Vietnamese “nu than” for “goddess”) who have varying degrees of power. On some continents, the nuthan rule as nobility and kings, and choose to live above humans in the skies or in the mountains. In other countries, nuthan live among humans as equals and it is not looked down upon to befriend or wed or work for them. The Sky Emperor is the most powerful immortal of them all, though it is rare even for an extremely powerful nuthan to ever meet the Sky Emperor. Among the population there are also mortals with powers who are called namthan. They are those humans who have meditated for thousands of years to gain magical abilities or animals who have meditated thousands of years to become human, although they do not have immortality. There are also yeuthan, or the children of yeuthan, who are humans or animals or immortals who have sucked the lifeforce of another to become human or to become immortal or to gain power, and lowly regarded.