Vilous | Nevreans in jail - Lore Education!

Hello, dear Vilous fans~! 

For today’s update, we would like to feature an artwork piece previously teased over at Mick's Patreon alongside a very healthy chunk of lore, some known already by enthusiastic fans, but also accompanied by a neat perspective and insight on how Nevreans were treated throughout their time in Gold Ring, all the way up to the modern era.

Please enjoy the read down below, and be sure to check out the HD Version of this art piece, available at Mick's Patreon!

Here we have a scene from Gold Ring, possibly around RC50. There are two Nevreans jailed, one of which, a male, drooping himself towards the wall and giving off a suggestive vibe as to his overall demeanor of deep sadness and chagrin at his situation, in contrast, the female is sitting down underneath the latticed window, displaying little to no emotion at all.

At first glance, the two might look like a couple, but they are actually not.

Both of them had committed some sort of crime, independently of one another, and the people thought they must have been related to each other. Despite the fact that they actually have no type of personal relationship between themselves, people did not trust their excuse and jailed them together after having them judged as accomplices.

This background story serves to explain the manner in which Nevreans had been treated during that time, and how Gold Ring's people viewed them. The people of Gold Ring had treated and judged all Nevreans in a stereotypical manner, alongside their own bad preconceptions and prejudice.

Nevreans are not a native race to Gold Ring, their history as residents of Gold Ring is much newer when compared to that of Sergals and Agudners, native, founding races of the nation. 

From the time in which Nevreans had immigrated into Gold Ring after RC33, they had passed through a heavily difficult life, undergoing big racial discrimination from native residents within the nation all the way up until RC70. Racial treatment for Nevreans was very unfair, merciless and they had suffered downright direful things for a long time, to the point of downplaying their own life, even.

Actually, people in Gold Ring had already seen Nevreans prior to RC33, as Gold Ring held friendly relations with the Western region, Vetla, up until the beginning of the Great War with General Rain and the Shigu. The people of the Western Musical troupe were limited to only visiting Gold Ring once every two to three years, in order to provide a performance in the greatest festival in Gold Ring. A part of this history is expressed in the Vilous Manga, Episode 3, At the Festival.

However, during this time period, Nevreans were known throughout Gold Ring as simply "beautiful people whom visit the city during special events." In essence, it just meant that the people of Gold Ring knew little to nothing about Nevreans beyond what they could see and gander from their theatrics programs.

Due to Nevreans originating from the exclusionary and isolated homeland, they have their own culture and tradition which is by far, vastly different from that of Sergals and Agudners. After they had immigrated and begun to live out life within Gold Ring, a big problem had started to materialize between native residents within the city, due to the deep differences in social and cultural environment.

There were quite a lot of Nevreans who fell quickly into carrying out improper activities such as theft and fraud, due to a difficult life marred by poverty and unfair treatment. Because of this, there was unilateral suspicion and distrust built against Nevreans, such as the one presented in the artwork.

Alongside that, this artwork even displays how gender differences reflect behaviour in Nevreans. Males are more prone to show their emotions and feelings, they do not usually try to hide how they feel or think. In contrast to this, females will always present a neutral, impassive expression in order to hide what they feel or think in a taciturn manner.

These great contrasting differences in genders was very new to the people of Gold Ring. As a result, it had even reached the point where it increased the unfair treatment against Nevreans, as Gold Ring people had difficulty understanding these differences and were confused by them.

Nevreans had gained human rights lawfully in RC70, thus finally joining the ranks of Agudners and Sergals alike as the third race of Gold Ring. In addition, their progenies born within a new generation has grown up in Gold Ring and it's environment from the beginning. They will still more or less keep to their own predisposition as a racial feature, but they are much more readily able to blend into the lifestyle among the native races of Gold Ring when compared to their parental predecessors and what they experienced. 

Due to these reasons, and all the way up to the modern era's present day, mistrust and suspicion against Nevreans has been dwindling down steadily over time, as opposed to pre 70RC times when they had little to no rights.