Imbushid
Imbushid
Religion
Traditions
+1 Diplomatic Reputation
+15% Movement Speed
Jewellery BanImbushid only retained its autonomy from the Khet Empire by agreeing to pay an annual tribute in gold. The Khet considered the tribute mostly symbolic of fealty as the actual amount was negligible. They didn’t realise quite how deep the gold mine of Imbushid was. Whenever Khet administrators visited the region, they were struck by the modest lifestyles the people lived in. This was because the leaders of the Imbushid enacted strict bans on gold jewellery to hide the extent of their golden horde. An Imbushid Medaka, or ruler, would conduct diplomacy with the Khet wearing the most plain clothing their wardrobes held.
+0.1 Yearly Inflation Reduction
Lakanya the TricksterMost heroes of the Gunzemo people are great warriors, but one of their most beloved figures is Lakanya the Trickster. In a famous story often told to children, Lakanya distracts a genie with a long-winded nonsense tale in order to steal his magic lamp. The story is intentionally full of holes, errors, and contradictions (Lakanya will change genders multiple times in the story) and the storyteller must come up with increasingly elaborate explanations for these errors if challenged on them. The story is commonly told by grandparents to young children at dinner while sneakingly stealing food from the child’s plate without them noticing.
+20% Spy Network Construction
Speak Your Neighbour’s LanguageThe people of the mountains around Imbushid lived in scattered, isolated villages. This led to wildly different dialects being established, not all of them mutually intelligible. This is where the local idiom "speak your neighbour’s language" comes from. From Khetist to Common, the people of Imbushid became masters at communicating through language barriers.
+15% Improve Relations
The Imbushid GuaranteeThe people of Imbushid are fantastic storytellers and keen diplomats, but great warriors we are not. Especially when compared to our neighbours. Our brothers in Iqhekabi are dangerous guerilla fighters. Great Saqraxat warriors have been honed in combat from decades of thwarting gnoll raids. Ikilshebe soldiers are the region's traditional bulwark against the feared lizardfolk. We can use this to our advantage. All will fight for us if we can supply them with coin.
+10% Mercenary Discipline
Syncretic FaithA travelling Cannorian merchant once claimed he had met followers of Corin deep in the Muhmukis mountains. They had been converted to Corinite by a missionary some decades earlier, or so he claimed. What had actually happened was the Gunzemo people had a long history of assimilating beliefs of other religions into their own faith, as they did with the tenants of Khetism. For them, Corin was another heroic figure, blessed by the creator Zuvanofa, and her tale could be easily incorporated as another legend in the Noukahi Pantheon.
+2 Tolerance of Heathens
The Mountain BreathesA dwarf is a rare sight in Sarhal, but the famous explorer Bolin Strawbeard visited the region in 1512. In his book "Seghum Yôrth" about his travels through the continent, he had a soft spot for the people of Imbushid. He wrote that they "understood that mountains are alive" as they spoke of the heartbeat of a mountain and the veins through which something more than gold and iron flowed.\n\n Modern scholars think Bolin Strawbeard may have gotten over-excited, as he frequently did in his writings, and that the locals were merely talking about cattle tracks. That didn’t stop him from giving the Imbushid people the highest compliment he could think of: He compared them to dwarfs.
+10% Production Efficiency
Ikashe’s BlessingAmong the many heroic tales in Gunzemo folklore, the one that instils the greatest patriotism is of Impdulu, the hero of Ikashe. A humble miner who took up a spear to defend his village from bandits. He was blessed (or cursed, depending on who tells the story) to rise from the dead again and again to fight off the bandits. During the short and unsuccessful Imbushid independence movement of 1779, his story was the subject of their proposed national anthem.
+15% Recover Army Morale Speed
Ambition
+15% National Manpower Modifier
History
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