Character Detail
- Name
- Headwiz
- Desc
- #194=|_|_|_In the heart of the sweltering jungle beats a lively drum: the city of music and art, Rosia, capital of luxurious Oradia. Deep within the rainforest, accessible only by boat or on wing, its virtues are oft recounted in poetry and song, summoning eager visitors from the continent wide. Its great plazas, paved with quarried river rock streaked with pleasant pale green, are wide and open, a sharp contrast with the nigh impenetrable treeline that surrounds, and punctuated with statues that embody the long history of a royal line never broken and a capital never invaded. In the shade of these chiseled icons, bathed in the aroma of tropical flowers, hopeful virtuosos ply their harmonious trades and preachers sweating in the heat bicker and debate.|/|_|_|_Visible city-wide are the Hanging Gardens, by far the tallest landmark in a level city built on marshy ground, abundant with blossoming vines that whisper when they sway in the wind as though echoing the hubbub below, dispersing their perfume. At its peak is the palace of the Rani or Queen, famed for its frequent galas and events, where those who vie below dream of being invited. Her fashions and tastes are changeable and eclectic, or so it is said, serving only to encourage ever more daring aesthetic experimentation.|/|_|_|_Of all lands, Rosia is most welcoming of divergent peoples, beliefs, and religions, most notably a reclusive but powerful vampire aristocracy. But there is one condition: all must accept the divinity of the royal family. Local legend has it that when Eradia, Goddess of Purification, despaired at the war that sundered the world, she cast off her sadness by becoming a serpent, symbol of rebirth, and shedding her skin. That molted skin became the first royal of Oradia and their serpent cult, this country. Those who question the veracity of these dubious claims are not punished overtly, but they need not be: the royal family is so popular that those who spread such talk are ostracized.