11-02-2018, 02:22 AM
[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: nyala; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #000"]My brain: Hey Cae, remember when you were grade nine and you had a final assignment for religion where you pretty much had to do some worldbuilding?
Me: Wha—
My brain:
Me: Wha—
My brain:
Quote:Rionogo
“Rionogo is a floating island where people holds a deep link towards dragons, as there are humans and mythical creatures lives there and are treated as a family to each other. Rionogo is pronounced as rī.o/nō/ɡō/ —- rio means ride, as there are known dragonriders across the island, no means non-stop, when the people of Rionogo are born to never let anyone stop them from reaching towards their goals and dreams, go is when everyone of Rionogo should always make sure to keep themselves moving forward, despite any given struggles and don't go back as whatever happened is the a past. The Rionogo’s life motto is: you must go forward if you want to succeed with your lessons and mistakes used to guide you through your life.”
Location: It’s a 2,500,000 square kilometers floating island that is located above the entire regions about 10 kilometers/6.1 miles high. It is currently unknown as to how the island can float, generations upon generations says how the island is actually the most massive and powerful living creature who was created by the first four dragon siblings who sacrificed their powers and life to make a home for both humans and dragons that treats each other as families, rather than foes. They say that it rarely wakes up, but is still able to travel across the world in its sleep with the ability to sense the winds and follows the direction the winds are heading towards to. It does require aircrafts to reach to the floating island, but because of the island always travel across from one country to another, depending how fast or slow the winds are “pulling” the island, it takes time for the people to plan out the specific dates and times with the meteorologists
Population: 500,000, excluding the dragons, though there are many kinds of them to see. While Rionogo have the most beautiful landscapes to take the sights upon with clean and fresh lands, featuring various species of dragons, either similar to ones from the myths or ones that no one has ever seen before, as Rionogo is the first ever location that actually floats in the air, it does cost fifty thousand dollars ( in Canadian dollars ) for each individual who wasn’t born from Rionogo to visit for two weeks only, and one hundred thousand dollars ( again, in Canadian dollars ) for the rent of the houses in each month of staying. Therefore there are not a lot of people, especially from outside of Rionogo, who are able to afford their rental payments.
[ Can't get the photo of the flag, so visualize it if ya can haushjghjs ]
( The National flag symbol of Rionogo )
Meanings behind the national flag symbol: To start off, there are four known colours in the flag: red, blue, green and yellow. Each colour symbolize an element, from each of the four dragons who created Rionogo. Red is fire, blue is water, green is earth, and yellow is electricity. There are a circle at the center, meaning it is a family, and a family should always stay together and never break apart, no matter what. The symbol inside the circle represents it being similar to a dragon, with how it looks like a body with wings, as Rionogo does have dragons residing there.
Local symbols:
• The four mountains are seen as the four first dragons who sacrificed themselves with their powers to create Rionogo, marking their life to the island.
• The crowns are viewed as the Lord and Lordess of Rionorgo
• A droplet of blood symbolize as family ( as friends and companions does count as one as well ). You are willing to spill your own blood for those you are loyal and love to.
• Claws or fangs, belonging to any animals, shows people who are in high positions, or at the army, of the Rionogo or they are the most dominated ones of everyone else in wearing accessories of them.
Activities:
• Either for fun/friendly competitions or contents, there are dragon racings involved at random times. and there may be a gathered audience watching the race. So if you ever stumble across a large, random gathering and hearing them chant, you may want to check it out.
• Every Saturdays and Wednesdays, adults and teenagers, who are willing to volunteer on, would harvest and gather water near the villages.
• As the previous note, there are others who gathers the food sources, using their own abilities, and the help of their dragons who could catch birds and fishes outside Rionogo and bring them back to the food piles.
• Three times in each week, there would be a game, almost similar to hide and seek, that there are special items or few gems, a form of treasure that values a ton of money, being hidden somewhere at a deserted area across the whole regions and people who are willing to find them usually hunts for them.
Laws:
• To the Rionogo-born, do not force any dragons to be tamed under your control. When it is time, the link of your future familiar will come to you.
• Similar to the previous law, do not treat your dragon as your slave or servant rather than a family. They share the same experiences and emotions as you. However you treat them will impact their health and future.
• Do not litter or smoke at any locations of Rionogo, as cigarettes and drugs are forbidden.
• Infants, pregnant people and elders must be cared and fed first before anyone else. Though if you are not any of the said categories, but are sick and/or injured, you may eat along with them.
• Dragons in Rionogo are precious parts of life, therefore do not kill them in any under circumstances.
• Physical, psychological, emotional harms, or sexually assaults are never tolerante.
• Those who are born from Rionogo and is a newborn to at the age of eighteen can not leave the country. It is mandatory for them to take education under the responsibilities of people in Rionogo.
• For those who sells food, clothings, supplies, and other items, do not cheat, lie or beg to your customers, and vice versa. You may gamble or bet, but know there will be consequences for what you may end up losing.
Morals:
• Do not instantly judge and label people based on their words and actions given to you. You may never know what they are going through.
• Treat your elders with respect, even if there may be times it seems like their decisions would lead to tragic events. They have the most experiences and they know how to use them wisely.
• Do not take what you are given as gifts for granted. It would cost an unfortunate if you use it for yourself only and not for helping others.
• Despite their race, orientation, background, etcetera, everyone is equal ( except those who abuses in a way and harms “just for fun” ).
• Put your family and friends before yourself, unless it is absolutely necessary to put yourself first instead.
• Despite what they may have done, never hand severe punishments ( doing chores throughout the days with bare breaks, staying at the jail for days to months —- depending how serious the incidents are, etcetera ) to those under at the age of eighteen, as those above have disabilities and/or mental illnesses.
Religion practiced:
• People offers their own food and water at the center of the four mountains for the dragon deities at the end of the month as a gratitude for them to send them good fortunes, food, medical herb supplies, and many more.
• People gets the national symbol carved in the shoulders with a heated knife after they graduated the school at the age of eighteen which indicates they have passed all of the given courses.
• Every Sunday, those who have faith in the dragon deities must head over at the front of the four mountains to worship them. The mountains are at a far location from the village, and it usually takes an hour to reach to the destination. But whoever are willing to take part of their day and energy to worship the dragon deities, they are showing how committed they are to their faith.
Rituals:
• When there are a sun revealing with no clouds cover it in a highest temperature, once a year, there will be a Solar Festival as to celebrate for the dragon deities and their creations of Rionogo. There will be a big feast being hosted during at night after the airshow, which the riders uses their dragons to perform the wildest stunts and tricks through the air, while there is a content for it on who would make the most astonishing performance from the audience’s votes.
• People uses paints on their body, especially on a face during notable events, such as dragon races, air performances, the Solar Festivals, and many more.
• Every Sundays, those with their dragons would bond together in a schedule they would arrange with their familiar. Either in training, playing a game, it can be anything as long as it would strengthens the link between the human and dragon.