PHANOSH

The City of Celebration

Tone: A festive city of eternal reveling.
Timeframe: -1500 to present
Artifice: Standard
Region: Tears of Vrylakos
Capital: Phanosh (~450,000 natives; half again as many tourists)
Notable Settlements: None.
Government: Unrepresented Democracy
Ruler: None
Races: Human (60%), Merren (30%), Ælves (10%).
Languages: Vrylakian
Religions: Tearic Pantheon
Coinage: Coins from almost everywhere you can imagine, traded by perceived value.

Synopsis

Phanosh is a city peopled with entertainers, dancers, artisans, and folk of culture and learning. The people of Phanosh tend to have a lust for travel and new sites. Many natives make their way to other nations as part of traveling shows or even lone minstrels. The Phanoshani as a people love glitz and glam, and are appreciative of flair and panache. Therefore it is hardly surprising that even their martial studies contain as much performance art as combat effectiveness.

Phanosh is considered to be part of the Nine, but it is by any reckoning the least powerful and influential. However, practically everyone dreams of vacationing in Phanosh and it holds a place near to many hearts that gives it stature far beyond any political measure.

Phanosh is haven for artsy types from elsewhere as well as native inhabitants...in fact its a running joke that nearly everyone in Phanosh is from somewhere else. As a result its a very eclectic place full of interesting, unique, and bizarre people.

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Magic

Winding: Many people in Phanosh dabble in Winding sufficiently (first rank) to learn some useful Purple Lore with which to work entertaining illusions.

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Details

Style of the Ribboned Blade: The Phanoshani Ribboned Blade style is the predominant Fencing school of Phanosh. It is most easily recognized by the long colored ribbons attached to the practitioners sword hilts, and the strange dance-like katas employed therein. This Phanoshani technique focuses on swirling, highly energetic foot and blade work, and the snapping of the long ribbons in the face of opponents to cause confusion.

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Adventure Seeds

Carnivale De Lux: The 'Tween Winds around Phanosh run the gamut of colors normally, but every three years or so the higher spectrum Winds (Yellow, Orange, and Red) are in ascendancy for at least a week straight. Whenever this occurs, by tradition a city-wide celebration commences for the duration. Almost all work (such as there is in indolent Phanosh) ceases and people party until they drop, only to awaken and rejoin the festivities when they can function again. It's a wild time, famed across the Tears as an event to remember.

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