Algeronian

Key Characteristics¶

Cuisine: Plain, frugal food for daily life, with lavish feasting saved for when the rich display their standing
Arts and Culture: Civic pageantry of processions, masks, and staged ceremony that turns politics into public theatre
Clothing and Attire: Ceremonial dress strictly graded by office, so a person's place is read at a glance

One Crown: A guide to power that fuses strategic realism with the science of bias and influence, deeply rooted in the Algeron constitution, showing how to turn these insights into tools for controlling and unifying people.

The Crown and central officials: the electoral king and his growing bureaucracy, the rising power the aristocracy is losing ground to
Nobles: often decadent, aristocracy is dropping, while central government is rising
Priests: an esteemed class, stable for the moment and they handle the bank
Merchants and Crafters: rising class
Notaries and clerks: the legalistic professionals who keep the contracts, records, and law that the state and trade run on
Soldiers and mercenaries: hired companies who do the fighting, with the internal company trusted to guard the cities
Labourers: low class in the city
Peasants: lower class in the fields

Sigest, Hern, Harth, Rhoadan, Raimon, Rundel (an old volcano)

Unseen Affairs: How people see and talk about government. The dealings of power faking democracy and justice. Using technicalities to do their bidding. The powerful keep faking things to manipulate the people. And people are somehow aware of this, knowing the Unseen Affairs. Also known as the Unseen.
End of story. => to close the concept. Focus on effectiveness and completion.
Low hanging fruit can still be delicious => no need of too much effort
Life is like that.
Juice is not worth the squeeze
Troubles always come back knocking
Cut the rope
Three times down, three times up
The first time is the challenge
Two temples in the same plaza are a call for war
Get tough or get plough => either get strong, or others will use you

The Sirefeast: days of masked processions for the Four Sires, the one time commoners may mock their betters from behind a mask

Only men allowed as soldiers, currently mostly mercenaries, with only an internal company allowed to safeguard the cities

The O'Eh Sisterhood: an order of women versed in forbidden magic, made an official institution

Queen Itis: founder who sent the envoy that established the city
Astergius: the first podestà of Itis, the lawyer who won its independence
Maelus: the outlaw who built the Kleg's power and engineered Itis's rise
King Daer Voltan: first king of the unified Algeron, who wrote the Constitution
O'Eh: head of the witches whose blood sacrifice won the final battle
Jorgen (an ancient electoral king), more recent, not of the Voltan line