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Culture, Arts, and Music in Zygethia

 

Culture is the true heart of a kingdom. It's what makes your land worth fighting for, worth ruling, and worth celebrating. Tradition, art, and music comprise the bulk of the cultural force within Zygethia. Monuments to kings and gods, celebrations in the streets, tournaments in grand stadiums, gardens you can get lost in, or just a simple tavern to make your stomping ground. These are not simply intangible benefits but they can create real economic power and be exported in a form of soft-expansion. It's a form of conquest thats battleground lies in the subtle workings of the human spirit.

 

Zygethia's Administration Branch has an entire section devoted to cultural production. This can be through many avenues from planning holidays and cyclical events to funding community centers and attractions like; taverns, monuments, theaters, places of worship, and places of fantastical interest within the kingdoms borders. The goal of which to provide the best backdrop for your adventures in Elyria.

 

 

 

 

Tradition and Holiday

 

Traditions and holidays in Zygethia will reflect many of those found in Norse and English culture. We have yet to decide how the cycle will be represented in Elyria. With such short year cycles planned and seasons at such short breadth we may have to create our own cyclical calender for holidays and days of deep seated tradition. Of course, you are free to practice your own traditions and holidays as you please but we will have a state sponsored cultural tradition and set of holidays.

 

Religion in Zygethia

It is not yet divulged the exact workings of the Zygethian religion but it depends on the religious offerings within Elyria. If nothing suites our taste we will simply follow a religion more rooted in the tradition of Norse cultures. This religion will reflect in similar ways to existing religions such as Odinism. 

 

The Place of Worship

We have a distinct style in where and what types of places we will worship. In order to further connect with the gods and the forces of nature our places of worship will be built into the landscape in unique and iconic ways. This will add a fantastical image of Zygethia that other kingdoms won't offer. While they have their simple and boring churches we will have fantastical gardens and structures full of life and our traditions will be filled with far more passion and enjoyment than the stale offerings of other lands.

 

The Bardic Arts in Zygethia 

Zygethia understands the true importantance of artists and great minds in the day to day existence of citizenry. It's in the greatest kingdoms of all time that the most important aspects were it's contributions to the world through it's culture, it's science, and it's artists. So it's in this light that we call upon all artists and thinkers to pledge their instrument of choice in the name of the kingdom.

 

The Zygethian Support System

Pledging your fealty to the kingdom of Zygethia is not a ball and chain, you can travel and you can experience the world of Elyria how you choose. Pledging simply garners you steady work through connections with the upper eschelon of this great society. But, it's not just in providing connections that Zygethia can support your craft. Creating a home within our borders will bring unique benefits beyond simple protection and a steady supply of resources for purchase.

 

House Sponsorship

If you make your connections well and are truely devoted to the arts or sciences in Elyria, it is a tradition of great importance that artists and scientists be hosted by the nobility. In hosting a musician the nobility offers artists and thinkers the chance to truely hone their craft without having to bother with the day to day worries of food and shelter. No man of talent or intelligence shall go hungry in Zygethia. Whether you stay to practice with an instrument, creating paintings of great beauty, or research the science of astronomy or the mechinations of boats, siege machinery, or how to harness the power of wind and water.

 

In this program it is customary to provide a room and the necesseties for survival in order for the artist or scientist to be able to devote their entire time to their craft and it's many facets. The abilities of your house artist or artists is a form of competition between the houses of Zygethia and great events are held in which such musicians show off their abilities, this representing the sponsored house. The findings of a sponsored researcher is not only ascribed to the history books in the scientists name but it's noted the house that gave them the tools and provided them the lifestyle to do so.

 

 

 

Would you like to be a part of the artistic engine of Zygethia, or maybe you'd like to be the head of research for architectural marvels or naval wonder?

 

Check out our Discord chat and contact members of the Administration Branch and we can decide where you best fit into our network or connect you with the right people for your goals. 

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