Hegatzi

Hegatzi is an isolated mountain country that doesn’t have as much contact with the outside world aside from the wandering sky and land caravans of traders (most often with the central country Munderra that links it to the other countries).

They are more in the northeast of the other lands, and most resemble the country of Switzerland in the Andes. Their mountainous terrain makes it easy to defend their homeland from any prospecting invaders so they’ve been able to adopt a slow way of life free from as much worries of war as other countries may have.



There is terrace farming, and herding of goat and sheep, with some mining going on and some rare strong woods that grow here. Wool, wool-products, rocks from mining, rare forest wood, and some unique food delicacies are their main exports. Due to their more isolated history, they’ve had a chance to develop a different language and culture from the others (hence the names from Basque rather than common English), and its only recently that an inner bloody war of conquest and seedy dealings brought together the disparate peoples of the Avian country Hegatzi, into something resembling a country.

The founder, Hirune, was fierce with a sword and bow, as well as charismatic and shaped the newborn government by her hand into her ideal -- matriarchy and matrilineal descent included. Her sister Nahia seeks to continue what her elder sister started, but with more extravagance and she adopted more of the “civilized” things that other countries did, like fashions, hairstyles, and court manners. However since their country is very cold, covering oneself up from neck to fingers and toes is the norm, and it is typical to have a dull outfit enlivened by some bright colors here and there for most people.

Hirune set the country’s colors to be officially Red, White, and Green, and their official flag matches that with a gold hawk in flight clutching a sword as the centerpiece. Due to the country’s isolation, humans are rare since they find it hard to navigate the often dangerously difficult terrain of the mountains, and avians predominate since they have the advantage of the sky.

It is a neighboring country to Simbah, which has people of similar skin tones and cultures but is very different in most aspects.