Nenfi Remuj
Nenfi Remuj
Religion
Traditions
-15% Cavalry Cost
-0.05 Monthly Autonomy Change
The Northern Homeland"Sing to us, great mother! Sing of our lost homes, of the great river and green pastures that never wither!" - Traditional Nenfi Song\nThe tales of the Manimatu speak of three mothers who led the people south from their ancestral homeland to escape the coming of the gnolls. While the other cattle mother tribes built a new home in the south, the Nenfi never forgot the fields of their ancestors, and never forsook the desire to someday reclaim them.
-10% Shock Damage Received
Cow Custodianships"By receipt of this cow, the Témeneda village is obligated to provide fifty fighting men at a time no fewer than five years and no more than twenty-five years hence. If they should shirk from their contract, may the cow die and may the Great Mother withhold her rains from their lands!" - tattoo on a cow in the village of Miafré, circa 1231\nUnique to the Nenfi people, the system of Cow Custodianships consisted of an exchange of cattle between villages as a form of loan, where the contract involving the cow was tattooed on the cow’s skin. Crucially, the cow and its accompanying contract could be passed from village to village, creating a form of debt market. This system of credit allowed the Nenfi people to mobilize more wealth than their neighbors and eased the later transition from pastoralism to a mercantile economy.
-0.5 Interest Per Annum
Magnificence of Radi Su Er"Where are the towers of Radi Su Er, which once scratched the sky? Crumbled to dust. Where are the Queen’s Arches? Their stones now lie in the river, which is made greater by our tears. Where once was the greatest of cities, now only ashes and memories remain." - lament for the fall of Radi Su Er, mid 15th century\nThe Nenfi queen Glele the Builder achieved many things during her three-decade reign. To scholars of Manimatu literature, she’s remembered for her poetry, but most historians know her for her construction of the new Nenfi capital of Radi Su Er. While all the architecture of Radi Su Er from this time period was impressive, the most striking was the renovation of the island of Dugusiraw. Previously an uninhabited bar with the occasional migratory gnoll caravan in the middle of the Koningab River, Dugusiraw became the seat of the Nenfi Government, home to the Queen’s Palace and more importantly the toll collection office. Queen Glele imported architects from Kheterata and as far away as Bulwar, and built a pair of immense bridges connecting Dugusiraw to either side of the river. The Queen’s Arches, as the bridges became known, were the largest bridges in Sarhal outside Kheterata at the time, and wouldn’t be equaled for over a century. From the toll center complex on Dugusiraw, Nenfi tax officials extracted tolls on any merchants traveling across or under the Queen’s Arches, making the Nenfi Queendom staggeringly wealthy. But in the coming decades, the wealth of the capital drew the eyes of Nenfi Remuj’s neighbors, and a series of cataclysmic wars eventually depopulated the once-grand city.
-5% Construction Cost
-5% Development Cost
Princes of the Overland RoutesNenfi merchants in the eastern and southern Salahad began aggressively encouraging merchants en route from Koroshesh and Horashesh to Cannor to travel through their newly-built trade infrastructure at Radi Su Er. It’s hard to dispute that state sponsored merchants from Nenfi Remuj played a large part in the growth of trade routes centered on the new Nenfi capital.
+20% Caravan Power
+2 Merchant Trade Power
The Shelter Tree"May the great mother grant us rain when the days are dry, relief when the days are wet, and safety beneath her arms forever." - written prayer left below the Tree of the Mother at Kumsdat\nThe songs of the histories of the Manimatu say that the Shelter Tree of Kumsdat was planted by Dojawo Iru Iyyagaba and watered by the tears she shed for her lost family and homeland. What’s not in doubt is that it’s the largest tree for hundreds of kilometers in any direction, and a key site of pilgrimage for people across the lands inhabited by the Manimatu. Tradition says that Dojo Iru Iyyagaba answers prayers for rain left at the tree by the faithful. The presence of the tree in Nenfi Remuj has long given the Nenfi people a sense that the Great Mother holds them in particular favor, that she shelters them under the branches of her arms.
+2 Tolerance of the True Faith
WindlordsThe Nenfi people have always had a special affinity for the wind. The great winds that sweep across the plains of western Fangaula bring both nurturing rain and biting dust storms, and since time immemorial those Nenfi planetouched gifted with control of air have tried to bring the former and abjure the latter.\nIt was not until the broad spread of Nenfi Remuj’s mercantile influence that the applications of wind power for travel were fully realized. The tailwind provided by a planetouched could increase the distance traveled by an oxcart by kilometers per day - a vital distance in the time-strapped world of military logistics.\nAs the approach of a Nenfi army would often be preceded by a storm of sand and dust blown ahead of them, the generals of the Nenfi armies (although often not planetouched themselves) became known to the denizens of the Gol plains as Windlords.
+15% Movement Speed
Windspeaker Merchants"Beware the tongue of a windspeaker, for she will buy the clothes off your back for tuppance and make you think it was your idea" - advice from an anonymous merchant in Radi Su Er, circa 1380\nThe Nenfi Planetouched merchants known as Windspeakers became famous across Sarhal - or perhaps infamous - for their supernaturally compelling words. A combination of training in rhetoric and planetouched powers helped the Windspeakers - backed by the Nenfi monarchy under Glele the Builder and her successors - to convince merchants to move their routes through the growing trade hub of Radi Su Er. The trade dominance established in part by the Windspeakers helped make Nenfi Remuj in general and Radi Su Er in particular fabulously wealthy, although the growing estrangement between the opulent mercantile class of Radi Su Er and the traditional Nenfi pastoralists in the countryside, combined with the jealousy of Nenfi Remuj’s overbearing neighbors, would eventually herald the decline and collapse of the Nenfi state.
+10% Global Trade Power
Ambition
+2 Max Promoted Cultures
History
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Strategy
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