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Pickpockets and Newsboys:Main Page

2008-01-29T13:34:23Z

Lighthouse: /* The City of Atlantis */

[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Steampunk]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Pickpockets and Newsboys is a Fast, Furious, Fan! Savage Worlds setting, centered in the lives and whereabouts of the likes of Oliver Twist, Gravroche, Ye Artful Dodger and the newsies.

== The American Empire ==

=== The City of Atlantis ===

The capital of the American Empire, the City of Atlantis resembles a mix of Vienna, London, Paris, Venice and New York.

Pickpockets and Newsboys:Main Page

2008-01-29T13:32:43Z

Lighthouse:

Pickpockets and Newsboys:Main Page

2008-01-29T13:28:37Z

Lighthouse:

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-28T13:42:41Z

Lighthouse: /* Slavery */

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Category:Ancient]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Regions List ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]

Welcome to the proud land of the wealthy men!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]

Greetings traveler, may your wisdom enrich our sages, may our sages make you wise.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

Blessings pilgrim, may your path be a proper service to the gods.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Oska|Oska]]

Hello, stranger. Come and share a beer, a good story and a friendly fight.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Adolek|Adolek]]

Hi. Are you hungry?

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Wesanna|Wessanna]]

Welcome, may sun shine on your fields and water be kind on your soul.
Or mead if water if lacking!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Aeelia|Aeelia]]

Nice to see you, mainlander. I am bringing all the family to a feast. You are welcome to join! Please do!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Eus|Eus]]

The open lands of the horses...
Hail stranger, may your heart be pure or censored...

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

=== Generalities ===

As a general rule most people use stone, wooden and bone utensils in their daily activities. Even in the most advanced societies copper, bronze and metal are reserved for the wealthy. There are no armor nor weapons shops as known in many fantasy worlds; instead you have to trade with a local, contract a local artisan or make them yourself.

Bronze weapons require reparations after each combat, else they do -1 damage after the first combat, and -2 after the second and later combats.

Iron weapons have an AP of 1 against bronze, bone or softer armors.

=== Gear List ===

=== Coins ===

Only some of the advanced societies use coins, the rest need to take some form of barter. However in the FFF! spirit, gold and silver pieces will be universally accepted for its weight value, unless otherwise stated.

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===

In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is common place. In other regions, up to 15% of the people are slaves.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

=== Rules ===

New Hindrances: Slave (Major)
Slaves are at -1 Charisma, are Poor, must designate a Rich or Noble PC to be his master, and their experience points are spent by the GM.

Milk and Honey:Oska

2008-01-27T19:06:22Z

Lighthouse:

This is a ferocious area of cold hills and frozen mountains, but also of fertile valleys and mines of coal, copper, lead, tin, silver and gold, for which the various warlords compete in eternal strife. This is a land of warriors.

Oskan's clothing is based on wool and leather. Here the cold makes nudity out of the questions. Oskans' tattoos describe their biography and they are completed as the first of the funeral rites, copied on wood, and then engraved on the rocks of the clan mountain.

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T15:37:21Z

Lighthouse: /* Region Lists */

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T15:36:57Z

Lighthouse: /* Region Lists */

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Category:Ancient]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Region Lists ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]

Welcome to the proud land of the wealthy men!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]

Greetings traveler, may your wisdom enrich our sages, may our sages make you wise.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

Blessings pilgrim, may your path be a proper service to the gods.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Oska|Oska]]

Hello, stranger. Come and share a beer, a good story and a friendly fight.

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Adolek|Adolek]]

Hi. Are you hungry?

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Wesanna|Wessanna]]

Welcome, may sun shine on your fields and water be kind on your soul.
Or mead if water if lacking!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Aeelia|Aeelia]]

Nice to see you, mainlander. I am bringing all the family to a feast. You are welcome to join! Please do!

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Eus|Eus]]

The open lands of the horses...
Hail stranger, may your heart be pure or censored...

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

=== Generalities ===

As a general rule most people use stone, wooden and bone utensils in their daily activities. Even in the most advanced societies copper, bronze and metal are reserved for the wealthy. There are no armor nor weapons shops as known in many fantasy worlds; instead you have to trade with a local, contract a local artisan or make them yourself.

Bronze weapons require reparations after each combat, else they do -1 damage after the first combat, and -2 after the second and later combats.

Iron weapons have an AP of 1 against bronze, bone or softer armors.

=== Gear List ===

=== Coins ===

Only some of the advanced societies use coins, the rest need to take some form of barter. However in the FFF! spirit, gold and silver pieces will be universally accepted for its weight value, unless otherwise stated.

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===

In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is common place. In other regions, up to 15% of the people are slaves.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

Milk and Honey:Redis

2008-01-27T15:19:15Z

Lighthouse:

In Redis clothing tends to be close of that of classic Greek. Footwear use is far more common from the middle classes up and their sandals better made.

Nudity in Redis follows the same lines as in Altes. However their priests in their daily rituals and the whole people a yearly ritual go completely naked. The reason is unknown, some priets say it is to show repentance for their misdeads; others that it is a tradition set by the gods themselves; others that it is to remember the days in which humans were as animals, the days before the gods instructed mankind; finally others mix these three explanations.

These three regions are relatively close to each other, separated by barren lands inhabited by nomadic tribes, collectivelly called the 'Eh-peeroo, but with little actual connection to one another. Altes, Veniam and Redia are blessed with a fertile soil, large rivers, lakes and a splendid sun which makes their agriculture rich.

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T15:14:17Z

Lighthouse: /* Slavery by region */

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Category:Ancient]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Region Lists ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

=== Generalities ===

As a general rule most people use stone, wooden and bone utensils in their daily activities. Even in the most advanced societies copper, bronze and metal are reserved for the wealthy. There are no armor nor weapons shops as known in many fantasy worlds; instead you have to trade with a local, contract a local artisan or make them yourself.

Bronze weapons require reparations after each combat, else they do -1 damage after the first combat, and -2 after the second and later combats.

Iron weapons have an AP of 1 against bronze, bone or softer armors.

=== Gear List ===

=== Coins ===

Only some of the advanced societies use coins, the rest need to take some form of barter. However in the FFF! spirit, gold and silver pieces will be universally accepted for its weight value, unless otherwise stated.

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===

In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is common place. In other regions, up to 15% of the people are slaves.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T15:11:41Z

Lighthouse: /* Milk and Honey Gear */

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Category:Ancient]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Region Lists ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

=== Generalities ===

As a general rule most people use stone, wooden and bone utensils in their daily activities. Even in the most advanced societies copper, bronze and metal are reserved for the wealthy. There are no armor nor weapons shops as known in many fantasy worlds; instead you have to trade with a local, contract a local artisan or make them yourself.

Bronze weapons require reparations after each combat, else they do -1 damage after the first combat, and -2 after the second and later combats.

Iron weapons have an AP of 1 against bronze, bone or softer armors.

=== Gear List ===

=== Coins ===

Only some of the advanced societies use coins, the rest need to take some form of barter. However in the FFF! spirit, gold and silver pieces will be universally accepted for its weight value, unless otherwise stated.

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===

In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is more common place.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T11:35:49Z

Lighthouse:

Milk and Honey:Veniam

2008-01-27T11:29:42Z

Lighthouse:

Clothing.
The Kadasah, which could be described as a knee length, sleveless shirt a loin clothing and nothing more is the mark of the Veniam male. Women wear a local version of the Mazka under the kadash.
For the Veniam footwear is only for travelling outside of their own city, soldiers, the noble and little else. Most people go barefoot for the entire length of their lifes.
Nudity is taboo in Veniam; even in children. Only criminals on their way to the fire pit would suffer such a fate, short before their execution.

The fire pit is the place where the residents (normally slaves) throw their trash to be burnt. The remains of the worst criminals are thrown here.

Warfare
The Veniam Royal Army uses this formula
Axemen 20%, Spears 20%, Close Order Bowmen 15%, Light Chariots 20% Open Order Bowmen 15% Heavy Chariots 10%

The vassal and secondary states use this formula

Axemen 0 to 10%, Spears 0 to 20%, Close Order Bowmen 0 to 20%, Light Chariots 10 to 20%, Open Order Bowmen 0 to 20%, Javeline men 20 to 90%
Barbarian Warriors 0 to 70%

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T11:28:09Z

Lighthouse: /* Slavery by region */

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Region Lists ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===

In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is more common place.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T11:27:37Z

Lighthouse:

[[Category:Setting]]
[[Category:Savage Worlds]]
[[Category:Campaign Setting]]
[[Image:SWFanWorkLogoB.jpg|right|thumb]]

== Introduction ==

Milk and Honey (M&H), is a low fantasy but high adventure setting, set in a fictional ancient world. The technological level ranges from the early neolithic to the beginning of iron age. Most nations are small, comprising a dozen of "cities" at most, and even empire are more akin to loose "confederation" of vassal states bound together by the army of a larger, meaner kingdom.

== Regions ==

=== Generalities ===
Milk and Honey is a vast world, yet in a time and age in which most people travel by feet and roads are rare, most have never abandoned their home region, or even town. In M&H parlance a region is an area of land that comprises several nations that interact with each other.

=== Region Lists ===

* [[Milk_and_Honey:Altes|Altes]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Veniam|Veniam]]
* [[Milk_and_Honey:Redis|Redis]]

== Milk and Honey Gear ==

== Slavery ==

=== Generalities ===

Slavery is common in all lands but Adolek. Slaves is not based on race but rather on power. They are often considered simply property and can be sold or traded.

Most slaves are born into slavery, children of slave women (the status of the father does not count). A second source is when the parents (in Altes, only the father; in Redia only the mother) sell their children (up to the age of 25 if unmarried). The third source is when somebody cannot pay his debts (and you have no more children to sell, or they cannot cover the price). The fourth source is war, raids and trade from enemy lands.

(Of course taking a free person into slavery is a criminal punishment).

=== Slavery by region ===
In Adolek war is rare and the adult prisoners will be treated as criminals and either outright killed or forced by oath to abandon the area; orphan children would be incorporated into the tribe without a second thought.

In Altes, Veniam and Redia slavery is more common place.

In Oska children of slaves are considered "second class" children of their parent's master; but they are still free; as are any children captured in raids. Selling your children as slaves is unknown of, and would be considered an abomination in their eyes. In Oska the only source of slaves is war and crime.

In Wessana the concept of slavery is unknown. Prisoners of war are considered third class citizens who cannot own anything and must work for the community for seven years and one day. Then they are free, but as second class citizens that cannot buy land, nor are permitted a tomb.

In Aeeliah slavery follows more or less the rules of Redia but as a general rule, master tend to be kinder, for in Aeeliah there is a god of the slaves who can (and will) curse you. Slaves dress as their masters, often but not always more cheaply made, though. Prisoners are never paraded nor humiliated.

Milk and Honey:Altes

2008-01-27T11:18:59Z

Lighthouse:

Altes

== Generalities ==
Altes is a region that comprises twenty seven city states. Traditional and ferociously independent, the Altesans are in a well developed bronze age.

== Life Conditions ==

=== Housing ===
In Altes most houses are made of adobe. Generally speaking houses have four rooms: Master Bedroom, Common Room, a storage room and a hall. Cooking and bathing is usually done on the azotea.

=== Clothing ===
Altesans prefer loose, long linen garments; coloured if they can afford it. Men and women wear the Mazka, which we would describe as an ankle length skirt and the Tookas, a knee length tunic, as for day to day living.
==== Footwear ====
Altesans consider the bare feet on the street the mark of the poor and the slaves. However that is not so at home, or for children. The most common footwear is the thong sandal, which can be quite elaborate the higher the social class.
==== Nudity ====
Clothing is expensive, and as such, it is valued and guarded. At home, specially in the poor classes, most people would wear nothing but a loincloth, if at all. Nudity outdoors in the streets, however, is legally punishable. To go nude in public is considered shameful and fitting of barbarians.
Slaves do not go naked, except in the rare cases when a defeated enemy city is paraded with the victorious troops. They are often marked with a cut in the ears and / or an earring. (Of course, free women do not wear earrings).

=== Warfare ===

Most Altesian armies follow this formula
Spears 30 to 50% (LCh) x 0 to 20% HCh x 0 to 10% Slingers or Javeline men 20% to 70%

Milk and Honey:Altes

2008-01-27T11:17:57Z

Lighthouse:

Altes

Altes is a region that comprises twenty seven city states. Traditional and ferociously independent, the Altesans are in a well developed bronze age.

== Life Conditions ==

=== Housing ===
In Altes most houses are made of adobe. Generally speaking houses have four rooms: Master Bedroom, Common Room, a storage room and a hall. Cooking and bathing is usually done on the azotea.

=== Clothing ===
Altesans prefer loose, long linen garments; coloured if they can afford it. Men and women wear the Mazka, which we would describe as an ankle length skirt and the Tookas, a knee length tunic, as for day to day living.
Footwear.
Altesans consider the bare feet on the street the mark of the poor and the slaves. However that is not so at home, or for children. The most common footwear is the thong sandal, which can be quite elaborate the higher the social class.
Nudity.
Clothing is expensive, and as such, it is valued and guarded. At home, specially in the poor classes, most people would wear nothing but a loincloth, if at all. Nudity outdoors in the streets, however, is legally punishable. To go nude in public is considered shameful and fitting of barbarians.
Slaves do not go naked, except in the rare cases when a defeated enemy city is paraded with the victorious troops. They are often marked with a cut in the ears and / or an earring. (Of course, free women do not wear earrings).

=== Warfare ===

Most Altesian armies follow this formula
Spears 30 to 50% (LCh) x 0 to 20% HCh x 0 to 10% Slingers or Javeline men 20% to 70%

Milk and Honey:Main Page

2008-01-27T11:12:06Z

Lighthouse: