Sea and Sun, the Great Dragon, the Moons, the Wolf and the Monkey, lots of incestuous God children.
Gaetan Archives
What Monkey can do for you, to you, and with you, why, how, and whose thumb she herself lives under.
Gaetan lies to the south of Tympania, beyond the marshes of Orsinia. Geographically, it is divided into several regions: Yaakni’ Páyyatha the Coast Region the Coast Hills the Marches Capital Island the Inner Channel Yaakni Payyatha, the Coast Region, and...
The shadows are a relatively weak form of monster native to Gaetan. They appear as shadows, but are capable of motion independent of their source. Generally, they are only capable of frightening and confusing, but at their greatest strength, they are capable suffocating and killing the old, the weak, and the particularly susceptible.
A folktale in which Monkey meets Man and Woman at the river. From the Monkey crone oral tradition.
A longish survey of Monkey social structure and magical properties. This is what Sonata will hear if Ilba gets her brother's bones from Calvus.
If anything seems terribly incompatible or awry, jump right in. There's nothing in here on the Monkey God himself, just sociology.
The Judge is the incestuous child of the White Moon and his sister, the Pole Star. The Judge sits in waiting for the end of the World, when he will judge the souls of the dead, feeding those with whom...
A rough contour map of Gaetan, with regions named.
Life blood of Gaetan, the salmon are the great gift of the Sea (mother of three of the Celestial Gods) to humanity. They boil through the narrow straits of the Inner Channels, and practically throw themselves into the nets of...
Gaetani taverns are generally located in the center of the village. They are not Inns, but they serve as the nearest equivalent. If you arrive in a Gaetai village and you don't have friends to stay with already, you go...
The coast hills are a mix of low mountains and narrow valleys lying between the Wide Valley on the North, the Great Channel on the South, the Coast lands to the Dawn and East, and the Inland Channel to the...
The coast region of Gaetan consists of the lands lying between the coastal hills and the ocean. The small valleys and low headlands of this region support numerous small and isolated communities. A lack of land based trade routes and poor ocean-going vessels prevent reliable or speedy communication between these communities and the central regions of Gaetan.....
The Great Dragon, parthenogenic daughter of the Earth, created many children in imitation of the Celestial children of the Sun and the Sea. Most of these were merely monsters, some of which still haunt the Gaetani countryside. However, four of...
Known in Gætani as: Ninak Tobhi’; Tobhi’pa’: the White Moon; White Moon priestsNinak Homma; Hommato’pa’: the Red Moon; Red Moon priestsNinak Hattak; Hattako’pa’: the Green Moon; Green Moon priestsHashaatabookoli’: the South Star, the Pole Star The White Moon priests are...
The lover priesthood is the most powerful that is predominantly female. There is a male adjunct to the lover priesthood, the hunter priesthood (which is actually not primarily concerned with hunting), but it is much smaller and less powerful. Hunter...
After the slaughter of the Miller Priests at the end of the war, the Prince created an order of officials loyal to himself, and outside the usual priestly order. These officials fill the non-magical roles of the Millers, milling grain,...
The village priesthoods of Gaetan provide the backbone and organizing principle of the common Gaetani society. Almost everyone in a Gaetani village belongs to at least one priesthood, and the priesthoods oversee almost every aspect of village life. The priesthoods...
The Wide Valley of Gaetan, home to the covenants of Nimus Animae and Manu Tenere, showing the location of the Capital, Cliffside, and Riverbend. Also showing the nearest loyalist Gaetani city on the Fjord.
The Wide Valley Kingdom.
