Yemotaferi
Yemotaferi
Religion
Traditions
+15% Fort Defence
+15% National Manpower Modifier
Between Hags and KingsTo the outside, Yemotafari is nothing but a useless frontier of barren, unsalvageable marshes. A land that greater powers don’t value. But the truth is there are people that live here. Up in the massive ebony trees in fact. The last few years have been chaotic, but the one thing that has remained intimately familiar to this tribe is the dense, repetitive swamp itself. Every branch, every hidden path, every dead end and every hidden fort, only the people of Yemotafari, even the children of the lands know.
-20% Land Attrition
The Swamp WardensFleeing from the violence in Simegasa’s newly acquired land, many scholars and warriors found their way to the swamps of Yemotafari. Surviving in squalor conditions, these refugees started off as simple foragers. However this simplicity of survival bloomed into academic intrigue. Foraging has led them to discover which food is edible and farmable, but it granted an advantage to survive longer in this shady wasteland. Soon these scholars soon found themselves in an unusual alliance of hunters, Deathsworn, and shamans, becoming the faction of the "Swamp Wardenship." Swamp-Wardens became experts of the terrain with a scientific understanding of the Swamps.\n\nBy 1444, The Swamp-Wardens currently rule Yemotafari. Ruling with a fair meritocratic system of governance. So far, they have returned the egalitarian status quo lost during the "Great Shame." Despite this, their actions during and after Tamrat’s fall are still seen with contention with some, even those who disapproved of the tyrant’s actions disliked their method. However most is indifferent with this change, since the issue now lies from within the Deeper Swamp.
+15% Reform Progress Growth
Our Friends, the TanizuThe Tanizu has always been an enemy of our old overlord, along with everything else south of their borders. But not us. It started with Violent Hearted Goose, a tribe also trapped on the Outskirts of the Dark Swamp, where we learned of their plight and learned of what to eat. Then the Friend-Helping Parrot with their gift of kindness. Then Forest Hiding Okapi and Work Doing Hippo. All of these tribes have given us a glimpse of their tether to humanity.\n\nAnd yet we took advantage of them. Deceived them. The Great Shame saw our friendships in tatters, as we dragged them into our misguided war. So now we are back to where we started. Let us hope we find forgiveness.
+2 Tolerance of Heathens
The Great Shame"In 1439, our tribe saw the ascension of Tamrat the Terrible. Riding off of a collective subconscious desire to leave the Shadow Swamps, Tamrat deceived our people and the surrounding Tanizu tribes to invade Kidsit Yiti to "regain our homeland." \n\n"However, the invasion was a mirage; the lands we held were short-lived. Riots were frequent and quashed brutally. Our poor treatment of the lands cost our Tanizu allies, as Kidsit Yitsi added salt to our wounds by isolating us and leaving us open to a counter-attack. Their invasion was quick and furious, and our tribe was close to collapse. If not for the coup by the Swamp Wardens, Yemotafari would’ve easily fallen. \n\nNow we reel from our wounds." \n\n-1445 Lami Fana, soldier’s memoir from the Great Shame.
+1 Diplomats
The Index of KadmuduukEven if the Swamp-Wardens are known for their distinct and deep understanding of the Shadow Swamp, even the most seasoned member acknowledges the exhaustive depth of the swamps’ fauna and flora. However it took an accidental mass poisoning in 1446 from a deadly mushroom (easily confusable and almost identical to a far more edible truffle) that the Wardenship had to finally untangle this mess of knowledge. \n\nLater that year, the Wardenship’s Sect of Scribes based in Kadmuduuk was formed to gather the swamp of studies into a coherent catalog. It was an exhausting effort, the Scribes sifted through hundreds of studies, some contradictory, some outdated, some right and wrong, a few completely gone or completely incoherent and had to be rewritten. But by 1449, the "Index of Kadmuduuk" was completed, and was an immediate source of importance to the Wardenship, enforcing the text on newer recruits. A century later, when the printing press was introduced to the Mengi, the Index became used to educate schools and the military in the Western frontier. Even then the Index has been continuously updated by the very same organization of scribes.
-10% Idea Cost
The Canopy FortsHigh up in the clandestine lies an unlikely space ideal for hiding and the creation of makeshift forts, the canopies themselves. Combined with the hardened, unchoppable ebony wood, and the great height combined with the labyrinthine twirls of roaded tweed and the flooded grounds makes it perfect for a fortress, a siege, and an easily battered army. Once the enemy learns of the fortress, the Yemotafari defenders trick them into the open space and lose a devastating volley.
+1 Attrition for Enemies
Deadfarm No LongerYemotafari means "Deadfarm," those two words are what defined the little tribe between the Trolls and the Mengi kingdoms. However, an incredible advancement has been made in the fight to settle in the shady wastes. For the longest time, the Swamp-Wardens believed that the shadow swamps must be purified; incorrectly believed that the swamps must be changed. But the truth is it was the approach of the Swamp-Wardens that was in need of change. \n\nEdna Ro, a Swamp-Warden botanist, began working with merchants for plant seeds that would be compatible with the Shadow Swamps. After trial and error, Edna eventually comes upon a special type called the Moonrice. The Moonrice, a rare type of rice from Haless that is perceived as useless due to its strict requirements of constant darkness and warm freshwater.
-10% Development Cost
Ambition
-10% Morale Damage Received
History
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