Before anyone starts to use Ideas that I came up with first I shall write a few of my Ideas concerning the Story with Kefenste, Jia and Lee Lee I'm currently developing now.
Well first of all, the name of the land the main story takes place in is called Endobas.
Endobas is taken from the words End of Blood and Sanity.
It is a country that neighbours the continent Pekura. I still haven't decided if Endobas will be part of Pekura, but it connects to another country to the right and that land is part of another big land mass. So yes im still deciding.
I had a few names here and there that i was going to call Endobas originally. Names such as Chotle, Cotle, Eobas, Egis, Eroes, Gofpuri, Wayo, Wayol, Wayon, Votna, Yseav, Noyaw, Naof, Vabeu, Rofset, Raien, Rebor, Norein, Rosein and Teom.
In the end I chose Eobas, Teom and Endobas as the three top choices. Of course I chose Endobas, and that is how it came into being. All of the names above were taken from words i punned together just like how I formed the name Endobas. But the above mentioned names will be used for other things, for example Wayol (Way of Leaing) became a martial created in Endobas.
Hmmmm I am afraid Endobas sounds to much like the Fairy tale manga's Edolas. Anywho, I am sticking with Endobas and thats final. I drew the map before I came up with the name in truth and I am almost finished with a cg version of it. Will post it up some day.
Concerning the names mentioned above, Teom which is taken from the words The End Of Mortals, is a major ancient deity of Endobas. Teom, is a masculin portrayed deity but he has other forms that are portrayed as femmine. The ancient Deity is also associated with Darkness and the night, but he is not associated with wickedness and overall Teom is more similair to a Hindu deity in Reality. Is is also known to have 3 Star-consorts which gave birth to other spirits which are also worshipped like deities.
Leaings and Corleings are originally from Endobas. There are also many Shabasium in Endobas, and almost rival the numbers of leaings in Endobas. leaings where the first beings to be born from the trees of Endobas (which were in truth the 3 star's children which took the form of trees). They have distinct long ears and they are in tune with nature and as such can talk with many things that most others cannot understand, such as animals, plants etc. Only the first generation of leaings were born from the ancient trees and were scattered across all over Endobas. The formed their own clans and only lived in the forests. From there leaings were born from each other.
The first tribes were carefree, not even caring much for structures or clothes and usually basked in the many lakes and rivers. They worshipped the spirits , the children of the 3 stars, the stars themselves and Teom. As their numbers and knowledge grew, some of the tribes and their clans developed into Forest Villages. These villages also remained in the forests, but were grand feats to behold. The very trees and lakes, rivers and mountains become their structures. Their faith remained very similar to their original one. But even with these new villages many leaings remained to living with their ancient ways and moved deeper into the forests to keep themselves 'pure'. Coreleings, who are directly related to leaings, that live in large masses of water like the sea were originally leaings that spent most their lives in bodies of water worshipping the water spirits. Their children in turn were born differently and moved to the sea and created a grand kingdom not far from the shores of Endobas.
Havbasiums (races that are usually half Basium or humanoid) also lived alongside with leaings and were some of the animals that the spirits gave power too, so many of them have are also related to leaings.
Endobas like countries from Pekura, such as Raulo, Ameternia and Glaseal, does have some asian cultures present, albeit much less than the aforementioned countries. It is more like Lunailell and Rosenia, which takes inspiration from Medievil Venice, portugal and england. Endobas also takes many cultures from South africa.
In the end, one must try imagine Southern Africa in a European fantasy-forest like land. With a dash of some Asian cultures here and there. The languages consist of Southern African like languages and very few Asian.
In terms of Size, Endobas is at least a quarter more bigger in land mass than South Africa is.
The story that I referred to in the beginning takes place in a era of a leaing-race and havbasium-race opression and colonisation.
Just to give a bit of backstory to this; when a lot of shabasium's of the north and east of Endobas came to the land to colonize it, the leaings of course did not stand down and fought against the invaders.
Shabaisum from Lunailell had already settled in in many parts of Endobas already, but Lunailell had become a strong ally of Endobas a few decades before the Shabasium of the north lands and east lands invaded. As such , in Pekura, there are many leaings in Lunaillel because of this alliance.
The leaings of Endobas and the shabasium of Lunailell fought together to protect the land from the invaders. But after many wars and a few decades, the invaders took most of the west, north-west and South-west of Endobas from its original owners. The east contained the few kingdoms of the Shabasium of Lunailell and villages of the leaings. From this age onwards, many leaings took on a lot the cultures and ways of the Lunailell people and lived in their kingdoms.
But of course, the original leaings, now known as the Dark-waters, the leaings who made homes from the nature around them, now known as the Forest-weavers still exsisted in the deep forests of Endobas.
The colonized parts of Endobas had many of the Dark-waters and Forest-weavers intergrated with their soceity and with time; created segregation laws restricting leaings and havbasiums to live in poorer areas, not allowing them to go to certain areas of the found in the colonised kingdoms and many more laws that almost sometimes treated them like slaves. Also the west, trades with a few counrties from Pekura, the biggest contributor would be Rafana and thus their are a lot of other races that make their home in the bigger west part of Endobas.
These laws parallel the laws of the Apartheid era of South Africa. Also the colonized kingdoms spoke 'united' langauges which are almost identicle to many South African languages. The colonized west Endobas still plans on taking control over the free east Kingdoms, hoping to bring 'peace' with their rule over all of Endobas.
This is the setting that Lee Lee, the boston terrier, Kefentse, an 10 year old boy from mabopane and Jia, a 10 year old girl from capital park pretoria shall experirnce when they arrive in a village in the west of Endobas.
In my next post I will talk a bit more about Endobas, but i will focus on describing the overall plot of this story in progress.
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