Editing Narcissus (section)

==Colony Cities==

===Liriope, sapling colony city===

Liriope is the daughter-city of Narcissus, a colony called the City of Women because it was founded by women. It is still governed by matriarchy, and only women are allowed to rise to the levels of guild mistress, high priestess, or city matriarch. The city was founded for caravans to depart overland to trade with the roaming tribes of the west, and it remains the trade gateway for the Narcissus hegemony. The culture of the city is very much like that of Narcissus, although more vital and less decadent. Liriopeans study reflective magic, but the city lacks the infrastructure to use advanced sciences such as mirror-fishing, and although the city has many mirrors, they remain only reflections and not gateways into the mirrorworld.

Men in Liriope are regarded as too emotionally unstable to handle important matters. Their role is in contests and war, and in demonstrating their worth to their women, and of course in pursuing women. Only women are regarded as being practical and stable enough to raise children and to rule others. Although men work in all professions, it is always women who are the rulers and leaders. Even the city’s militia is commanded by women, though it is men doing the fighting. Liriopean women claim that they are only following the path made by the Twin Sisters in this. Liriope was founded at the same time as the Seven Sisters order, and most outsiders believe the colony was founded because of a schism in the leadership of that movement; the women who left the Seven Sisters, founded Liriope.

Occupations: Scholar, Scientist, Matriarch, Entertainer, Merchant, Sorceress, Priestess
Suggested Skills (for women): Area Knowledge (Liriope), Current Affairs, Games, Leadership, Teaching, Thaumatology (reflective magic)
Suggested Skills (for men): Area Knowledge (Liriope), Brawling, Carousing, Combat Art, Erotic Art, Thaumatology (reflective magic)
Social Background: Cultural Familiarity (1 pt., Narcissus), Glossa (native language), Literacy
Suggested Quirks (for women): Chauvinistic, Proud, Refined* (dislikes vulgarity)
Suggested Quirks (for men): Congenial, Distractible, Proud
Sample Contact Groups: Matriarch Patron, Cult or Religion
Suggested Spells: Hide Reflection (IQ/Average)
Rumor: “The original founders of Liriope were far more radical than history portrays them, and the first generation after leaving the Seven Sisters the Liriopeans followed a heretical castration cult. Narcissus quickly suppressed the castration cult under the pretext of a flower-war, and all records of the heretics were erased by the newly-appointed matriarchs. Nonetheless the Seven Sisters still have records of that time, which could shame the city matriarchs if revealed. This is why the Seven Sisters are treated very favorably in Liriope, and why the need for this blackmail has never arisen.” 

-- by Kakita Kojiro