The Tervan Isles

Carroway is climatically similar to London. It sits on an archipelago, with the most important buildings often sitting on their own island.

Tervan Juary Guardsman - an instantly recognisable class of soldier in the Tervan army, typically stationed as elite captains or royal escorts. Notable for slate grey jackets, singular bronze epaulette, tricorn hat and bronze monkey motif embroidered on the back of the jacket as sign of military status. Not uncommon to see them mounted. The Rampant Primate is the highest military honour a Tervan can receive. I suppose all Tervan soldiers with the exception of regular infantry have their station in the form of a native animal embroidered on the back.

The Tervan macaque is quite the zooanical anomaly. Their fur is slate-grey and bronze. Needs more description. About as rare as a golden eagle??

Tervan humour (essay why the thief entering the Deep Vault is a scumbag)

Current monarch is King Williard IV of the Bancroft line. Preceded by King Hamish and Queen Martha.

One of the exhibitions at one of the World Fayres, the House of Artifice was hosted to much excitements, causing several minor copycat buildings across the world. The best one belongs to a Setter probably. Also, since industrial marvelism is a thing, I guess that folding contraptions and luxuries and shit are in fashion amongst the upper classes.

Reliance on tide mills

Since Alteross employs Mernian as its first language, I'm guessing that Alteross used to belong to the Tervan Empire. It shrank after the Great War, including the rebellion of Alteross and Antimen. And I suppose Alteross was acquired around 1420 after a series of small wars. Small civil wars in Alteross then petty kingdoms allowed the Tervans to step in and sweep up the land.

Kaye is the capital of Ormeunne. Ormeunne, unlike its flatter southern cousins (Hasse, Tulester, Sullham, Briery and Gottland) is the largest set of islands and is made up of pretty much sheer cliffs and mountains, like Gont or Berk. Perching mountaintop villages. Huge fishing industry.

Carroway decided one day to invest more in its financial district, Jurshaw, and construct a system of automated steam pipes for heating and power. A young Vincenzo Coscello was commissioned for the project but unfortunately, he overlooked a critical piece of the system (salt buildup?) and as such the steam backed up and the system exploded. Scalding steam and twisted metal was thrown and sprayed into crowds and offices, killing 134 and injuring many more. Coscello quickly exited and now resides in Acrefell after banishment from the Tervan Isles and religious persecution in Gravenia.

Architecture
Some of the more glamorous buildings incorporate gold trim into their designs, and this tradition has become less and less subtle as time has passed.

Both men and women wear unisex scents. For example, men wear floral perfumes to attract women.

Zweihanders

Industries are primary and secondary, with heavy industry, manufacturing and finance. Carroway Stock Exchange one of the biggest. Has a long history of warfare so often has little disputes with other countries. Used to rule the Tervan Empire, including most of the Thwaitian countries. However, it is still on rough grounds with the West due to its major role in the war and in slavery, and is one of the most prejudiced countries out there. The political structure is similar to the rest of the continent, with aristocracy and monarchy. No meritcracy or interest groups like in Bolscemena. Religion is mostly Bradleyan Dallanaist and is experiencing a steady decline in religous influence. Why and what are the effects?

The Tervan Isles are quite homogenous and ethnically undilute. Clothing pretty much just temperate Europe. Formality highly prized and well as on cleanliness, so people dress best for most outings. Currently in fashion are pastel colours and updo hairstyles - follows the fashion cycle pretty heavily. Embroidery is very common, typically stylised images of plants and animals (smoking tiger). Beauty focuses on splendour and thinness (anorexia?) and with striking features.

Architecture is quite diverse but mostly neo-gothic and Victorian. Budapest Parliament Building and central Europe. Lake Bled? Art pretty much European, with an impressionist style currently favoured. Stories and literature tend to be very down to earth and grounded, never caught onto supernatural/spiritualist fad of the mainland. Even with children, fancy eloquent language (?)

Flat riverine terrain in the south and hills/mountains in the north. Mostly farmland in the south, buildings spread out. With industrialisation, more exotic goods are being imported and food is getting more extravagant. Probably English/Western European food. European livestock. High importance placed on the aesthetics of food.

Ormeunne
Drophounds

Used to have an execution method where the criminal was spread-eagled on lengths of rope, connected to the edges of those signature gulleys. A fire is lit beneath them and left for the public - it can be put down if the public was sympathetic to the culture, or it can be built in order to billow smoke into the criminal and cause more pain/discomfort.

Crevasses - Thingvellir National Park

A current favourite of Tervan fashion, inspired by the folk dress of Kiyik (in turn from tropical birds like the spatule hummingbird) is the wrist fixed dress like what Montaigne wore in Best Freestylers. Kiyik traditional dress less showy and more designed for festivals, made with local materials.