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‎Hiberan Color Laws

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Treadwell: /* Local Economy */

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‎Local Economy

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 ==Hiberan Color Laws==
-Fairies of both [[Old Hibera]] and New Hibera are subject to the [[Hiberan Color Laws]] that fully dictate a demanding caste system based on the coloration of each individual fairy in the two kingdoms.  Rumor has it that other, more distant fairy kingdoms that are populated with descendants and relatives of the Hiberan fairies have heard of the [[Hiberan Color Laws]] and implemented them, as well.
+Fairies of both Old Hibera and New Hibera are subject to the [[Hiberan Color Laws]] that fully dictate a demanding caste system based on the coloration of each individual fairy in the two kingdoms.  Rumor has it that other, more distant fairy kingdoms that are populated with descendants and relatives of the Hiberan fairies have heard of the [[Hiberan Color Laws]] and implemented them, as well.
 == Public Service ==

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 Red and orange fairies are solely lower occupations and manual labor; they are the only ones restricted to the lowest flight paths in town unless necessary for their work. The majority of fairies are yellow-wings; they may hold most jobs available to average members of society, including hunting and manufacturing, and must travel accordingly in the middle of the air. White fairies are born into the upper classes, ranging from highly respected physicians to lawyers to magic-users who live only to make life simpler, safer, and more comfortable for the populace; they are the ones with the strongest inherited magical abilities, and magic is crucial to common life in Hibera. They are restricted to the uppermost flight paths, so they rarely see any connections with the lower classes except, as with the red- and orange-wings, for what rare dealings might come from their contact with others from their work.
-Finally, there are exceptions to the typical rules enforced on well over three-quarters of Hiberan society. Green-winged kingdom and royal guards, blue-winged messengers and officials of middling status, and the pink-winged King [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]] may travel as he wishes or needs within the city; historically, any in the royal family have favored travel by a coach pulled by trained, enchanted honeybees that are cared for in an environment tightly controlled by a sizeable number of white-winged fairy mages. No other fairies enjoy such costly, expensive, and simply ludicrous luxuries.
+Finally, there are exceptions to the typical rules enforced on well over three-quarters of Hiberan society. Green-winged kingdom and royal guards, blue-winged messengers and officials of middling status, and the pink-winged King [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]] may travel as he wishes or needs within the city; historically, any in the royal family have favored travel by a coach pulled by trained, enchanted honeybees that are cared for in an environment tightly controlled by a sizeable number of white-winged fairy mages. The King maintains such method of travel, just as [[Richard Aengus]] and [[Dr. Orin Barrin]] do in [[New Hibera]].
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 {{Infobox location
-| name           =   Formerly Kingdom of Old Hibera; now The Western Reach of Hibera
+| name           =   Kingdom of Old Hibera
 | image1         =
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 | demonym        =   Hiberans
 | government     =   Monarchy
-| ruler          =   King [[Oswald Aengus]] and Queen Mother [[Marian Aengus]]
+| ruler          =   King [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]]
 | currency       =   Cap
-| religion       =   [[Priesthood of the Great Fae]]; [[Church of Tubbius]]
+| religion       =   [[Priesthood of the Great Fae]]
 }}
 == Name of the Kingdom ==
-The marriage of King [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]] to Queen Mother [[Marian Aengus]], formerly of [[New Hibera]], has led to the reunification of the two separate kingdoms under the combined title of Hibera.  References to Old Hibera and [[New Hibera]] thus are slightly complicated: historical references dating before the marriage will generally reference the older names for the formerly divided kingdom.  References that specifically post-date the marriage will refer to the two lands by their newer names of The Western Reach of Hibera and The Eastern Reach of Hibera.
+Old Hibera was established first as Hibera, prior to an eventual split in the realm as some left to found what would become [[New Hibera]].  The two kingdoms remain divided, with Old Hibera being ruled by [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]], who sometimes goes by the name of Oswald Aengus to honor the Aengus line that founded the kingdom, despite his not being of Aengus blood.
 == Topography ==
-The portion of the fairy kingdom formerly known as Old Hibera sits in a forested area adjoining the lands south of [[Westenford]], [[Amasynia]].  This part, now known as The Western Reach of Hibera, covers approximately the same space as its [[New Hibera|other half]], which is in a cave surrounded by [[Myrken Wood]].  However, the contents of this grassy stretch are both shielded and kept invisible by a fairy ring of stones at the edge of a forest clearing.  The exact location of this region is well known to inhabitants of [[Westenford]], and the space is normally avoided out of fear.
+The portion of the fairy kingdom known as Old Hibera sits in a forested area adjoining the lands south of [[Westenford]], [[Amasynia]].  This part covers approximately the same space as its [[New Hibera|other half]], which is in a cave surrounded by [[Myrken Wood]].  However, the contents of this grassy stretch are both shielded and kept invisible by a fairy ring of stones at the edge of a forest clearing.  The exact location of this region is well known to inhabitants of [[Westenford]], and the space is normally avoided out of fear.
 == Location ==
-The entirety of this half of Hibera is contained within the fairy ring that surrounds it.  It has no visible exterior entrance or exit, although if shrunken to fairy size and permitted inside the fairy ring, then a thriving town otherwise invisible can be seen.  As with [[New Hibera|The Eastern Reach of Hibera]], the sole town that comprises this half of the kingdom is divided into regions based on the colors of the fairies who live there, with the royal castle being set at the center and all other districts built around it in a roughly circular arrangement.
+The entirety of this half of Hibera is contained within the fairy ring that surrounds it.  It has no visible exterior entrance or exit, although if shrunken to fairy size and permitted inside the fairy ring, then a thriving town otherwise invisible can be seen.  As with [[New Hibera]], the sole town that comprises this half of the kingdom is divided into regions based on the colors of the fairies who live there, with the royal castle being set at the center and all other districts built around it in a roughly circular arrangement.
 == Climate ==
-The climate around the region ranges from moderate and temperate to cool being so near the Amasynian coast.  The currently slim fairies themselves thus tend not to leave their forested area, not being very well adapted to colder temperatures.  This may change in the near future as the beliefs of the [[Church of Tubbius]], the faith newly expanded to the region from its sister area, gain acceptance.  Otherwise, the magical shielding over the region prohibits most external precipitation from affecting the town, although it fails to keep out everything.
+The climate around the region ranges from moderate and temperate to cool being so near the Amasynian coast.  The currently slim fairies themselves thus tend not to leave their forested area, not being very well adapted to colder temperatures.  The magical shielding over the region prohibits most external precipitation from affecting the town, although it fails to keep out everything.
 == Transportation ==
-The Western Reach of Hibera is designed, like its sister city, with fairies in mind: buildings are arranged both vertically by tiers accommodating flight and regionally by the caste system based on fairy colors.  Buildings are multi-leveled, with doors and landings up and down their outermost walls. Most fairies go around individually on their wings, and there are three levels for flying on each thoroughfare in the city. However, that all depends on social class. A strict caste system exists based on inherited wing and aura colors, and it regulates everything from job selection to marriage to inheritance laws to travel.
+Old Hibera is designed, like its sister city, with fairies in mind: buildings are arranged both vertically by tiers accommodating flight and regionally by the caste system based on fairy colors.  Buildings are multi-leveled, with doors and landings up and down their outermost walls. Most fairies go around individually on their wings, and there are three levels for flying on each thoroughfare in the city. However, that all depends on social class. A strict caste system exists based on inherited wing and aura colors, and it regulates everything from job selection to marriage to inheritance laws to travel.
 Red and orange fairies are solely lower occupations and manual labor; they are the only ones restricted to the lowest flight paths in town unless necessary for their work. The majority of fairies are yellow-wings; they may hold most jobs available to average members of society, including hunting and manufacturing, and must travel accordingly in the middle of the air. White fairies are born into the upper classes, ranging from highly respected physicians to lawyers to magic-users who live only to make life simpler, safer, and more comfortable for the populace; they are the ones with the strongest inherited magical abilities, and magic is crucial to common life in Hibera. They are restricted to the uppermost flight paths, so they rarely see any connections with the lower classes except, as with the red- and orange-wings, for what rare dealings might come from their contact with others from their work.
-Finally, there are exceptions to the typical rules enforced on well over three-quarters of Hiberan society. Green-winged kingdom and royal guards, blue-winged messengers and officials of middling status, and the royal family pink-winged fairies (King [[Oswald Aengus]], Queen Mother [[Marian Aengus]] and any of their children) may travel as they wish or need within the city, the royals usually favoring travel by a coach pulled by trained honeybees that are cared for in an environment tightly controlled by a sizeable number of white-winged fairy mages. No other fairies enjoy such costly, expensive, and simply ludicrous luxuries.
+Finally, there are exceptions to the typical rules enforced on well over three-quarters of Hiberan society. Green-winged kingdom and royal guards, blue-winged messengers and officials of middling status, and the pink-winged King [[Oswald Aengus|Oswald Grimley]] may travel as he wishes or needs within the city; historically, any in the royal family have favored travel by a coach pulled by trained, enchanted honeybees that are cared for in an environment tightly controlled by a sizeable number of white-winged fairy mages. No other fairies enjoy such costly, expensive, and simply ludicrous luxuries.
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 == Leisure Activities ==
-With the region once called Old Hibera's being based in a forest, unlike its counterpart, many of its fairy citizens are used to navigating the nearby trees and flora for survival reasons.  Otherwise, most fairies from this region have little time for leisure, arguably even less than those in [[New Hibera|The Eastern Reach]]. To that end, they have even less in the way of cultural centers and entertainment than their fellows.
+With Old Hibera's being based in a forest, unlike its counterpart, many of its fairy citizens are used to navigating the nearby trees and flora for survival reasons.  Otherwise, most fairies from this region have little time for leisure, arguably even less than those in [[New Hibera]]. To that end, they have even less in the way of cultural centers and entertainment than their fellows.
 == Local Economy ==
-The fairies of The Western Reach of Hibera have long since taken their economic pursuits in a very different direction from their relatives.  Their currency is the ''cap'', so named due to their historical use of acorn caps as currency.  With acorns and other nuts being used for food, the caps attached to them were put to use as shields, armor, house decorations and protective surfaces, and especially money.  With the advent of [[Westenford]] and a gradual increase in human/fairy relations, the use of actual acorn caps was slowly replaced by small, wooden coins engraved with the current king's or queen's face on the obverse and an acorn on the reverse, although the older currency is still accepted, mostly for larger denominations and payments.
+The fairies of Old Hibera have long since taken their economic pursuits in a very different direction from their relatives.  Their currency is the ''cap'', so named due to their historical use of acorn caps as currency.  With acorns and other nuts being used for food, the caps attached to them were put to use as shields, armor, house decorations and protective surfaces, and especially money.  With the advent of [[Westenford]] and a gradual increase in human/fairy relations, the use of actual acorn caps was slowly replaced by small, wooden coins engraved with the current king's or queen's face on the obverse and an acorn on the reverse, although the older currency is still accepted, mostly for larger denominations and payments.
 Such human/fairy relations were brought to a severe and sudden halt in [[Anno_Regalis|AR]] 207 when a shrunken human dignitary visiting from [[Westenford]] accidentally infected Old Hibera with a form of plague that killed approximately three hundred of 1,300 fairies before it was contained and cured the next year, leading to Old Hibera thus adopting isolationist policies even more extreme than its sister kingdom at the time.

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 == Public Service ==
-The green-winged [[New Hiberan Guard|Hiberan Guard]] protects the people of Hibera, serving as police and military with their specialized emphasis on their human-toothpick-sized pikes. Red- and orange-wings take care of construction (and the rare demolition), whereas a few white-wings serve as capable physicians.
+The green-winged Hiberan Guard protects the people of Hibera, serving as police and military with their specialized emphasis on their human-toothpick-sized pikes. Red- and orange-wings take care of construction (and the rare demolition), whereas a few white-wings serve as capable physicians.
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 The fairies of The Western Reach of Hibera have long since taken their economic pursuits in a very different direction from their relatives.  Their currency is the ''cap'', so named due to their historical use of acorn caps as currency.  With acorns and other nuts being used for food, the caps attached to them were put to use as shields, armor, house decorations and protective surfaces, and especially money.  With the advent of [[Westenford]] and a gradual increase in human/fairy relations, the use of actual acorn caps was slowly replaced by small, wooden coins engraved with the current king's or queen's face on the obverse and an acorn on the reverse, although the older currency is still accepted, mostly for larger denominations and payments.
-Such human/fairy relations were brought to a severe and sudden halt in A. R. 207 when a shrunken human dignitary visiting from [[Westenford]] accidentally infected Old Hibera with a form of plague that killed approximately three hundred of 1,300 fairies before it was contained and cured the next year, leading to Old Hibera thus adopting isolationist policies even more extreme than its sister kingdom at the time.
+Such human/fairy relations were brought to a severe and sudden halt in [[Anno_Regalis|AR]] 207 when a shrunken human dignitary visiting from [[Westenford]] accidentally infected Old Hibera with a form of plague that killed approximately three hundred of 1,300 fairies before it was contained and cured the next year, leading to Old Hibera thus adopting isolationist policies even more extreme than its sister kingdom at the time.
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 Information on '''Old Hibera''' has yet to reach the ears or scribes of anyone in [[Myrken Wood]], the tiny kingdom from which [[New Hibera]] evolved being of no use to anyone there and a number of days distant, just outside the coastal town of [[Westenford]] in [[Amasynia]].  Old Hibera has a much richer history than its younger offshoot, however, having been around for a total of 738 years (bringing the year to 738 Aengus Reckoning in both lands).
-Old Hibera itself was founded under the reign of king [[William Aengus]], father to [[Richard Scott Aengus]] and grandfather to the current king of New Hibera, [[Richard Aengus|Richard Andrew Aengus]].  [[William Aengus]] ruled the kingdom for 150 years, with his rule being followed by his equally politically savvy son for the next 337 years.  Then the Richard everyone knows and loves came along. . . and, to say the least, he does not claim to be a political genius.
+Old Hibera itself was founded under the reign of king [[William Aengus]], father to [[Richard Scott Aengus]] and grandfather to the current king of New Hibera, [[Richard Aengus|Richard Andrew Aengus]].  [[William Aengus]] ruled the kingdom for 150 years, with his rule being followed by his equally politically savvy son for the next 337 years.  Then the Richard everyone knows and loves came along. . . and, to say the least, he does not claim to be a political genius, despite his secretly outstanding abilities in that area.
-Old Hibera, like its similarly sized sister nation, has no exports to [[biglings]], being extraordinarily self-sufficient--especially since it, unlike its sister nation, is above ground and able to make use of the resources there.  Otherwise, all of the same cultural restrictions and many of the same laws apply from one kingdom to the other, including the extensive, demanding social caste system.
+Old Hibera, like its similarly sized sister nation, has no exports to [[biglings]], being extraordinarily self-sufficient--especially since it, unlike its sister nation, is above ground and able to make use of the resources there.  Otherwise, all of the same cultural restrictions and many of the same laws apply from one kingdom to the other, including the extensive, demanding social caste system set down by [[William Aengus]].
 Old Hibera is currently ruled by Richard Aengus's former queen, meaning that a shift in year reckoning, as well as a shift in political practices, might be due reasonably soon.  Then again, as is often quoted among the little people of combined Hibera, "fairies don't like change."