Northwest Region: The Maize Confederacy
The Maize Confederacy is an association of autonomous territories united by a common economy. The Maizies control the most fertile and accessible land on the continent and work it efficiently. They supply all of their neighbours with food in exchange for weapons to protect their land and luxury goods to satisfy their workers. Despite extensive farming encroachment, several wildernesses survive within Maize territory, mostly due to Human fear of exploring them, though a few bands of Humans who are bored by the farming life have established niches in these hostile regions. Halflings enjoy the pastoral pace of Confederacy life and have been left free to manage their own villages, providing grain quotas to the Human territorial government in exchange for protection.
Races: Human, Halfling (Hairfoot)
Common Tongue: Gonga
Classes: Fighter, Ranger, Bounder, Survivalist, Paskwaw, Merchant, Thief, Medicine Wo/Man, Witch, Clerk, Martial Advisor
Structure
The territories of the Confederacy operate the same as feudal societies with the exception that titles are not inherited. Instead, members of the merchant class buy their position in the social hierarchy by bribing others to recognize their authority or hiring enough personal mercenaries to take a lordship by intimidation or force. Use of violence for social climbing is, however, highly frowned upon and may result in censure by the Council of Corn, the body that manages the confederate economy and intervenes in disputes between territories or merchant-nobles.
Mythology & Lore
Deities:
Hunahpu – chief god, god of maize, agriculture, and culture
Coyote – god of strife
Estakwvnayv – god of divination and serpents
Hagwendyu – god of tobacco
Hastseltsi – god of racing
Hastsetzini - god of fire
Heng - god of rain and thunder
Hotoru - god of wind
Napioa - god of the sun
Nookomis – goddess of earth
Raven – god of sky, creation, and destruction
Shakak - god of winter
Tobadzistsini – god of war
Tulok - goddess of the stars
Type
Political, Confederation
Demonym
Maizies
Government System
Oligarchy
Economic System
Mixed economy
Currency
Corn-notes (representing quantities of grain), Beads, Vaquerian Coinage, Tobacco
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