Element:Floral
Sub-form: Medicine
Strong against: Wisteria (earth)
Strengthened by: Bandi (water)
Strengthens: Melos (air)
Weak against: Neelix (fire)
General
The ethnicity found most here is: Francophonie
Language spoken: French
Capital: Hyacinth a colorful valley filled with never-ending fields of flowers; Home to downtown Rodzina and the royal palace life is vivid here. All of Rodzina's good cultivation occurs here because it hosts the richest soil and the mother tree. In fact the Palace was crafted on the grounds of it with a large wall keeping it fenced in to make it easier to keep a watchful eye over it.
The royal castle is: Situated right in the middle of the capital, the pulse of the country.
The Royal Family right now consists of:
-King Vervain Merlot Vernon, was a lord who captured Gazania's heart when he saved her from an attempted assassination, though gentle and soft, he was deadly quick and lethal. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, the vast garden's that surround the castle walls. Gazania is seven years younger so when he rescued the girl she was quite young and caught in his garden ever since.
-Queen Gazania Vernon, Gardenia's mother who is the true air to the throne, her father married her and gained his title as King of Rodzina. Anyone from their kingdom would know because of the physical traits the queen possesses which she has passed onto her daughter. Though quiet often, knowing a woman's place she is a bit of a shot caller because she has great influence over her husband whom wants more than anything to make her happy and keep Gazania and Gardenia safe. Gardenia's name is a direct variation of her mother's both named after beautiful flower's with middle names referencing the green that makes up their kingdom.
King and Queen
-Princes Gardenia Esmeralda Vernon, Denia has lived a very sheltered life growing up mostly around people like her having the best of everything, lessons, living quarters, food you name it. These things did not go to her head for while her people are sticklers to the rules they are humble because they attribute their auras to their land. She has never been kissed, and not used to intimate touch and because of it she is quite innocent in the world. She is a flower that has not yet bloom but received all the nurturing it needs. She is slow to make friends because words do not come easy for her and her body often works against her getting flustered and over exerted.
-Princess
Gentiana Mignonette Vernon, Tiana is the four year old miracle child. The king and queen where never supposed to be able to have children again after their first. There are some whispers that Tiana's birth was made possible by Denia whom was consoling her mother one day whom spoke about her fertility as her daughter hugged her a glow escaped her hand and some months later her mother was able to conceive. Some believe it is because of her unique pheromone manipulation Denia doesn't quite believe the lore. Regardless the young babe is treated just as carefully as her elder sister.
Succession: Eldest male, then eldest female, if the eldest is a female and there are no males in the family whoever the female marries becomes the holder of the throne (however this person must hold some title).
Imports: This that are less fruit and flora based and grow in different climates that Rodzina does not support. Like coffee beans,bananas, coconut, pineapples from Neelix. A part from that mostly materials such a glasswares, clothes, stones and building materials apart from lumber. Technologies, Rodzina does not host many who specialize in things such as ship-making or arms making since their focus is on foods and medicines so things with large constructions are greatly imported.
Exports: Flowers: Gardenias, Amaryllis', Calatheas, Lotus', and Annual Delphinium's to name a few . Exotic fruitss: Dragon Fruit,Sweet and crunchy it is often eaten fresh or for juices and frozen drinks. Not to mention as an ingredient for fruit salad. Pomegranates;Durian, a fruit with a distinct smell odor produced from a fruit which does not bear fruit until fifteen years after planting making it quite pricey; Bushukan, grown in the winter with a scent opposite the Durian it smells of lilacs resembling a lemon in shade used for jellies, alcohols, and perfumes. Cherimoya, with a with a custard-like consistency it can cut and consumed raw after scooping the inards out, in salads, for desert as mousse, pie or tart filling, or frozen and made into ice cream. These are just a few. Medicinal herbs and remedies are also exported which are specially made in the Sunflower region by Rodzinians who have studied for many years and have the greatest knowledge of plants species.
Things that make this kingdom different
Schooling: Denia's home is very prim and proper, private tutors for those of the higher ranks, a class above the rest. Manners are held high men and women don't touch each other in capacities apart from shaking hands or say dancing. The lower ranks learn by way of guild ship, apprenticing a skill with a master.
Art: Unique to Rodzina the art of floral arranging, more than simply putting flowers in a container it requires discipline and balance between nature and humanity. Emphasis on multicolored arrangement of blooms, as well as other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, with focus on form. The container very important and can make of break a delicately created balance.
For those who make their living out of it, the cultivation of such works is a time for patience providing a renewed closeness to nature relaxing mind, body, and soul.
Music:
Specialization in Operetta which grew out of opéra comique to satisfy a need for short, light works in contrast to the full-length entertainment of the increasingly serious opéra comique. Usually containing tragic plots they are meant to be something closer to a portrayal of real life representing tragedy and comedy. Those who can't afford the luxury of such music partake in listening to minstrel music on occasion.
Sports:
Rugby union, a contact team sport. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field. As well as the traditional football. With a smaller crowd enjoying Cricket a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players each on a field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch.
Battle:
Rois Hommes all of the King's men, soldiers armed with muskets and hand picked in their youth to protect the royalty and their kingdom. There are three classes:
The Enquête
Ranked among the most elite soldiers, they are tasked with holding the borders should any foreign nation attack. They suffer relatively low losses and often time due not face much adversity since the kindgom of Rodzina is quite peaceful internally and externally. The only problem would arise should a nation be unwilling to first try and negotiate any troubles at which time these soldiers are tasked with doing whatever it takes to maintain Rodzina's integrity.
The Evacuateurs
Protectors from natural disasters and a response unit they are responsible for patrolling and protecting the countries structures and citizens. They are set the task of evacuating citizens and dispatching for emergency structural repairs to important pillars.
The Musketeers
The Kings men are in charge of protecting the King, royal family and the ministers. Each is assigned due to their important function as guardians of the most important humans, only the top are taken each year from the training class. The one of the highest rank is assigned to guard the next heir to the throne.
God(s):
Four Fairies
Spring -
Vif Printemps
The Maiden
The very fairy who represents purity and childhood innocence. The reason that those from Rodzina still retain elemental powers due to the belief in magic children have and hold. Without the belief in such possibility magic cannot be wielded. A free spirit Vif the youngest of the four fairies who created and cultivated Rodzina decorated that field that makes up Hyacinth being the first user of flower manipulated a direct extension of her colorful soul. She was also the first goddess to fall, legend has it she was kidnapped by a elf who wished to wed and bed her. In her absence the flowers all began to wilt and nothing grew until her liberation came for her three sisters and even since Hyacinth has lived in permanent spring.
Summer -
Nourricière Eté
The Healer
The middle sister taking a liking to the region of Sunflower Nourri tended to slip through the cracks in making a name for herself. But in the process she found she was good at taking care of people one day when her sister Grand got injured during her risky activities to a point that was almost fatal the family was under a great period of distraught. It was then she discovered that their abilities granted by mother gaia could be used to grow plants to cultivate and create medicines. She began to use her free time to study what plants worked well together and could best be applied to wounds and ailments and become one the most well-versed persons in medicine in Rodzina. A sect of healers was established by her who live in the sunflower region and bottle medicines year round to keep their people healthy.
Fall -
Lunatique Automne
The Mother
The eldest of four sisters it was always up to Luna to keep her sister's grounded and of course fed, with her growing closest to her youngest sister Vif. Her powers manifested in that of the harvest,grains and the fertility of the earth. When her sister was kidnapped she left Rodzina alone to search the ends of the earth for her leaving Grand and Luna to care for it. During the time she was gone food ceased growing and began to die due to infertile soil. The elf who held Vif had to let her go because without Luna playing her part his own life sustenance came risk and he was shut out by his people as a result of bringing famine to the land. Upon her sister's safe return and remain she granted year round fertile soil for growing in Redleaf.
Winter -
Grandiose Hiver
The Warrior
Loving to hunt animals for sport she was the competitive sister who the cold never bothered. Grand loved the winter because the snow made for great camouflage with her natural features and the other seasons always made her quite sluggish. In fact she guiltily relished when her two sisters left. She is associated with both the evergreen plants of the Yule season in Snow Chiono. During some of her games and dabbling in powers her other sisters had already perfected she discovered the ability to affect pheromones and used it, first on animals it stopped when her sister Nourri began to take care of all the animals she had played with as they evolved to ones that could not survive in the harsh cold. Finding she had a flare for using it on humans she lured them to her woods to fight against each other for her own entertainment which never stopped because it became a tradition, the Winter Games.
Traditions:
The Festival of Colors
It starts with a Vifka bonfire on the night before where people gather, sing and dance. The next morning dyes from flowers are gathered and a free for all carnival of colors occurs. Everyone plays, chases and colors each other with dye as well as colored water in all forms. Such as water guns balloons. Anyone and everyone is fair game, even the royals or lords and ladies, especially them. In fact it becomes a game to see who can get the King who has avoided falling victim since almost the beginning of the festival. In fact only two kings have gotten caught with dye on their face, which makes the celebration all the more fun.
The Winter Games
During three months a competition is held for anyone who like to enter in which participates participate in a series of games to win a kiss from the princess and a place in the musketeers. The games in which the participates go through are brutal and life threatening though no one has ever died because there is always a team of healers on stand by, its usually good fun to get the inhabitants of Snow Chiono through the colder parts of the year.
Summer Latern Festival
Once a year when the flowers open their fullest the sky is sprinkled with hundreds of lanterns to resemble the flowers and remind everyone of the joy summer and their biggest import brings. The lanterns are decorated with wishes for the next year This is also a time during which the castle doors are opened and everyone is invited in for a giant celebration which culminates in the naming of the new or renewed ministers.
The Fall Harvest
A time of celebration and dancing until the sun goes down the fall harvest is a festival in which citizens come from all over the kingdom to share with them their best recipes. There are food competitions, special sales, and constant music to go with the background of the celebration. This is a week in which everyone was the week off to experience the wonders of Rodzina exhibition style.
Anything else:
-Rodzina's landscape: Rodzina is accessible mostly by ship with a land bridge from the large island out. However this means if the bridge where ever be compromised the only way to access it would be by sea. The waters can be quite harsh which is why the bridge was reinforced with an actual bridge, also for safety. Piracy was initially a huge problem. Though surrounded by water on all sides but one Rodzina is quite large and hosts four different guilds of person with the royalty falling in its own category. The fairies as cultivators of flowers and landscape condensed all the wonders they had bestowed on the earth which led to the guilds creation. They are respectively named.
-Sunflower where the suns shines brightest and animals roam freely alongside people; here no game is allowed and people vacation.
-Redleaf a beautiful forest with neverending hues of red and orange with the freshest sources of water. It is home to the shopping and trade district where goods from the meadow are bought and sold daily, crafters and hunters make a good living here. Though the regulations for hunters are quite strick to preserve species, there is a big movement in Rodzina to protect endangered species.
-Snow Chiono a cold wood that only those with the thickest of blood can live in and also a place where criminals are banished to it is the least inhibited area. During winter it does host a large arena in which winter games are held for entertainment due to the fact that most other outside activities that Rodzinaians enjoy participating in are put on pause because it often snows. During this time families are closer and many festivals and celebrations are had to keep people warm physcially, mentally and emotionally.
-People may be poor but no one starves due to their powers. Some specialize in flowers like Denia some specialize in food cultivation.
Crime is quite low, they have a no tolerance policy. Criminals of high treason die. But it's usually not a problem since things like hunger or poverty is what lead to criminal activity.
-Rodzina is ruled over by two entities, the royal family and the chamber of ministers. The ministers hold the titles of lords and ladies and are hand selected from the masses by the royal family on merit and portfolio alone.
History
The Land of Rodzina was cultivated early on by a now extinct race of forest fairies. All of the fairies were female spirits who lived in the world as minor godesses who resided over things such as forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. It was them who created all of the beauty we find in nature, plants, flowers, trees and very thing that grew from the ground for sustenance, and to marvel at were creations of their hand even rock formations. However there was one great feature of the earth that they did not create. This was where they planted their roots in the world for many centuries. They made home around a tree which they found sacred, legend says that it is the oldest tree in existence and it holds magical properties which are shared with the inhabitants of Rodzina, if the tree were ever to be cut down it is said that everyone who has special abilities would cease to have them and revert to regular ordinary human beings. It is for this reason that rhey hold a great respect for nature and all it's wonders. Those who rise above the rest and call themselves royalty are said to have a blood line which extends to the forest fairies making them such is some aspect of their being.
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