Editing Iridos (section)

==Culture==

The city is governed democratically, with one faction elected every seven years that is then responsible for running the civic bureaucracy and arranging for civic works. Each faction has its militia, but they often become unruly mobs protesting when another faction is in power.

-- by Kakita Kojiro

In Iridos, there is a small collective of artists who use psychedelic drugs. They claim that they view images of kaleidoscopic wonder. Their paintings are certainly a testament to such visions. It is suspected that they have a terrarium full of colorful, hallucinogenic frogs.

-- by shanoxilt

====The Festival of All Colors====
This holiday was popular in the time up to the Second Shattering, but has fallen to the status of minor festival in [[Diaphane]], while becoming the major annual celebration in Iridos. The Festival is celebrated as the means to enter communion with all the hues.

Food is the focus of the festival, but it is a specific, day-long meal. In each course of the meal, the foods served are always of one dominant color.  In Iridos, there are seven full courses. The red course is bloody meats and pomegranite wine. The orange course is tomatos, gourds, orange fruits and their juices. The yellow course is grains and yellow wine. The green course is herbs and leafy vegetables, and bitter absinthe to drink. The blue course is pale seafood, and if poorly prepared is often poisonous (an ill omen, indeed). The indigo course is purple fruits and vegetables -- grapes, aubergines -- and purple wine. The violet course is edible flowers, violets and others with hues of deepest purple.

-- by Kakita Kojiro