LL Lore : Montelupine

The next country... Montelupine!! You'll have to forgive my notebook sketches. These are scanned directly from my planning notebooks for the series!

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MONTELUPINE:

• MOTTO: “On wings of gold.”
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Ruled by a Merchant Guild (Crows/Falcons)
  • Members are those who control the largest and wealthiest industries.
• RACES AND LAND:
  • Includes the Lands of Crows, Falcons and Jackals
  • Hillside and mountainside villages and cliffs
  • Racial Distribution:
    • Humans 70%
    • Jackals 25%
    • Panthers 5%
• INDUSTRIES:
  • Entertainment: They excel in entertainment of all kinds. Performers, actors, books, acrobats, circus, music, fortune telling, gambling and pleasure. Etc
  • Trading: all kinds of goods bought and sold locally and imported.
  • Mining: The mountain mines contain a vast amount of jewels and minerals.
  • Jewelry: made from jewels and gemstones mined by Jackals
  • Technology: Inventions from the Falcons.
  • Pelts and animal goods hunted by the Jackals.
• DIET:
  • Wine, particularly fruit wines
  • Fish and shellfish are fished abundantly from the sea
  • They trade for food from other nations and have a large variety.
  • Crops farmed in Luroro: Cabbage, carrots, turnips, kale, sprouts
  • Meat that the Jackals hunt for in the mountains
• BANNER:
  • Purple with two gold feathers

GEOGRAPHY______________________________________________________________________

• POKOKO VILLAGE:
  • Home of the Jackals
  • A snowy mountain village nestled high in the mountains.
  • Most of the villagers are miners in the caves all throughout the Howling Peaks
  • House Style: traditional japanese
• ROCCA NOMI:
  • Home of the Crows
  • A cluttered city on the cliffside by the sea.
  • Filled with entertainment and merchants.
  • Beautiful by day but known to be unsafe with crime at night.
  • House style: Oia Santorini villas
• ARENA:
  • Home of the Falcons
  • The Capital of Montelupine.
  • A massive, sprawling, rich and extravagant city.
  • Known for its libraries, museums and trade shows.
  • House Style: Mediterranean manors
• HOWLING PEAKS:
  • Very high snow capped mountains.
  • Difficult for outsiders to traverse.
• MANDERE RIDGE:
  • A forested mountain range.
  • It’s a little difficult to pass over, creating a natural barrier.
  • Good for hunting.
• NORS CUESTA:
  • Steep countryside populated with vinyards, rich properties and manors.