Thursday, December 8, 2022

Lupegarthe Culture

 Lupegarthe is a kingdom of 100,000 Square Miles, known to the world for being shut off. 

Dialect

The Lupegarthe dialect has a few unique quirks. Firstly, if a word has the letter "o", they usually pronounce the "o" as "oh". Even if the word isn't pronounced with an o, like "do" or "move".

R's are rolled, and are breathy. Some say that r's at the end of words are said with "sch". Like Fenrirsch" or "watersch". 

Words that come in multiples but are said as singular are said as multiples in Lupegarthe. Examples are: "Bloods", "waters", "butts", and "hairs" (Thanks @Kieral for this suggestion) or "furs". 
 
Any d is said as "th". So "saith", "harth", "guarths". 

Any idioms with noncanines are prohibited.

Sire is used the same as "bitch". The main reason was ironic politeness where people would say, "Yes, my sire." So sire ended up meaning, roughly, "little bossy brat." 
 
Harbringer instead of harbinger. 

Culture

Unlike other dire cultures, or dire based cultures, corporal punishment is exceedingly rare. At the very least, at border towns. Most aren't said to frown upon the practice, but weren't raised that way and therefore don't hit their kids. Even judicially, the practice wasn't said to be necessary as other methods work just fine. 

Swillow: I'm pretty sure a major reason comes from the fact we were enslaved peoples by the Crimsons. Since Crimsons, well, beat people, we kept away from the practice along with a lot of other traditionally Crimson ideas - even if we shared those ideas. However, in my case, I was also simply too rich to be spanked. 
 
Wasting: I'm actually against the practice. I dislike hearing that Macheel's gotten a spankings from Citrus.

Border towns are usually richer parts because soldiers were meant to guard them. Merchants moved in to provide foods, waters, and armors. Eventually, the border towns had the most stable economies from war. 

Unfortunately, most of the kingdom is inhospitable and extremely cold. 

Some peoples don't live amongst civilizations, known as hermits, and live amongst themselves. Some even form unofficial micronations. 
 

Religion

 
Crimson influences have led to the main religion being the Old Pantheon of Crimsons, however with a dire twist. Most believe the Crimsons drew the gods in their images, and so they reimagine the gods as being wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, or painted dogs. 

Chil, god of Burning Passion and Artistry is usually worshipped by cults as an evil figure. However, instead of portraying gods of darkness as evil, they are usually worshipped and revered as much. 

Swillow: I'M not particularly religious. 

Wasting: I think there's something nice about having belief. Going to a temple every month. We only worship six main gods, and we have different opinions on whether a god is evil or not based on how Crimsons lied and what we believe the truth actually is. 

Swillow: Misinterpretations of a religion are great proof to not worship such a religion. 

Wasting: Misinterpretations of peoples manifestos are great reasons to not worship those manifestos, Fenrir. 
 

Military

Harbringers are soldiers known for scare tactics when hunting.
 

Art

Much of art in Lupegarthe is now "plagued" by abstract colors. The idea of using color as a metaphor, instead of painting literally. One of the greatest modern paintings is known as portrait of the death god, but instead of the death god, Golden Apple Rotree is painted in green, her lower half as a tree, and the branches are impaling various crimsons. The portrait is seen as offensive by many as implying she is an evil being, but others are saying she had to manifest that part of herself. 

Some religious art is painted of Ascendeds in Wysdom. Particularly, of Sumhyr. However, Snofall has gotten a fair amount of artwork because of her involvement with winter. A replica of her, created from snow, is still preserved in Bloodveil Museum of Arts. 

Horror art is very common, especially about isolation. One horror play is entirely done with a cardboard box, and waves in the back, as someone is on a boat sailing the sea ("The Ocean Speaks".)

 

Politics

Politics in Lupegarthe range from two extremes. More liberal actors are known as "fenrirs" as they are believed to be the end of the world. Any border town tends to be against liberalism. 

Royalists are the other main party in Lupegarthe. 

Swillow was a Fenrir. She actively spoke out against the police and against police corruption.
 
Swillow: Some of those that work forces...

Wasting: I want to note that we kicked her out because a police wolf working for police talking about how she hated the police, is not a good look. I was told by a superior that she had to be rid of, so that's when I framed her for murder. 
 
Swillow: Yes, seems we both got what we wanted. The Green Flag movement in Wysdom showcases a lot of my views - a return to a primal way of living. And more importantly, no hatred towards other species. 
 
Wasting: Regrettably, we should talk about that. 

History

600 years ago, Crimson slavers took Dires from islands and brought them over to what will be Lupegarthe but was known as Bloodveil.
 
They toiled until one wolf led a revolution, known as Golden Apple. Golden Apple and her band of rebels helped overthrow an oppressive government, and she installed herself as first queen. However, after her death, her lineage was split between two branches of her appletree: Grun and Rot. The fight between the apples went on until eventually Golden Apple Rotree married Cyder Grun. Golden Apple Rotree also ordered the hunting of any crimsons in the land and said anyone who wasn't a dire must leave the kingdom forevermore. 
 
From then on, nobody who isn't a canine is allowed. Golden Apple hired several Marquis to guard the borderlands and towns. 
 
Several great texts were written during the time of Golden Apple's call against Crimsons, known as "Proclamation Era". The four major texts are the Dialogue of Hasselana and Yew, a story on the meaning of freedom. The Epic of Goltere. The Poem "Ripping the Veil", and finally, "History of Lupegarthe". 
 
All four are thought of as the basics of their common ideals: Freedom, liberty, the right to protect the homelands and support of borders, and purity. 
 
Swillow: I wonder how you can have freedom when you support borders, for, is supporting limits not the same as supporting chains? And you cannot maintain purity if everyone may do as they please. 


Immigration

Wasting: Believe this or not, we do allow others in... If they fit the canine criteria. 
 
Swillow: Adoption of orphaned pups from other parts of the world isn't entirely rare for us. We're actually probably the biggest foreign adopters, however, this is founded by the wrong ideals of course. We also usually don't allow adults in, because of the belief they won't be capable of integrating. 
 
Wasting: Some have immigrated however. This isn't that out of the box. There are still some rumors of Crimsons still living within the lands of the hermits.
 
Swillow: I remember a lot of time in an alley with Citrus, and we'd be smoking, and we'd see some kid show up. I remember one time, the kid was all like, "oh you shouldn't be smoking that, that's against the law". I was like, "Sire, I am the law." Then Citrus said, "We should follow him to his daddy and see what you can get daddy arrested for." I'm like, "Girl, slow down."


 

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