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Daily life in Flannary is highly dependent on social status. The wealthy spend the majority of their time socializing, networking, and intermarrying through elaborate parties, hunts, and ceremonies. Religious figures spend much of their time administering and maintaining the traditions of the nation through education, adherence to tradition, and historical documentation. Craftsmen, servants, and the poor, on the other hand, spend virtually all of their time laboring to meet the demands of the nobles. Their only respite comes through the elaborate holiday celebrations, morality plays, and religious education and observances. | Daily life in Flannary is highly dependent on social status. The wealthy spend the majority of their time socializing, networking, and intermarrying through elaborate parties, hunts, and ceremonies. Religious figures spend much of their time administering and maintaining the traditions of the nation through education, adherence to tradition, and historical documentation. Craftsmen, servants, and the poor, on the other hand, spend virtually all of their time laboring to meet the demands of the nobles. Their only respite comes through the elaborate holiday celebrations, morality plays, and religious education and observances. | ||
Nobles and sophisticates worldwide are envious of the high fashion, culture, and blessed life of Flannarian royalty. Many others, however, see Flannarians as inflexible and extremely arrogant, and more concerned with pretense and appearance than any more noble quality. The fiercest and most critical opinions are reserved for [[Fresia|Fresians]], whose reverence for resilience, rugged individualism, and practicality clashes fundamentally with the pretense and frivolity of Flannarian culture and has fueled centuries of conflict between the two nations. | |||
Like Fresia, much of the northern less populous lands were lost during the [[Calamity]] and remain wild and dangerous but the core of the nation has recovered to a position of prosperity through trade and crafting. With maritime connections to the Petarans and a border with Fresia, it serves as a hub for both the the "Silver Road" and "Gold Road" making up the main trade routes between the coastal nations of Odessan, Celstia, Pwelldyn, and Petara with the inland trade from Fresia and overland trade with Hakan and Gildenhome and even the wilds of the Ulan. Flannary luxury trade goods still remain in high demand and high markup among the rich across the Mainland. | Like Fresia, much of the northern less populous lands were lost during the [[Calamity]] and remain wild and dangerous but the core of the nation has recovered to a position of prosperity through trade and crafting. With maritime connections to the Petarans and a border with Fresia, it serves as a hub for both the the "Silver Road" and "Gold Road" making up the main trade routes between the coastal nations of Odessan, Celstia, Pwelldyn, and Petara with the inland trade from Fresia and overland trade with Hakan and Gildenhome and even the wilds of the Ulan. Flannary luxury trade goods still remain in high demand and high markup among the rich across the Mainland. Many of the nobles from the lost regions retreated to safety in the city and have remained there with whatever wealth they fled with. The increase in the power of newer mercantile interests and increasing desperation of many noble families has lead to a lot of intermarriage between those groups, creating a "new nobility" of up-and-coming nobles. | ||
==Flannarians of Note== | ==Flannarians of Note== | ||
[[Marrwyn Collar]] | [[Marrwyn Collar]] | ||