Mapleton

POPULATION
Mostly Kenku and Goliaths

HOLIDAYS
Day of the Harvest: A holiday at the end of a harvest, where if the harvest was bad, it must be due to corrupt leadership and the leader of the city is sacrificed to the in appeasement.

RANDOM LORE
They like to make a sweet alcoholic drink made from maple bark and sap.

They are heavily into body modification, and so having many piercings, the classic being the nose chain to the ear, or lines down the legs. Tattoos are incredibly common as well.

RELIGIONS
worship of the gods is rare here, and fey worship and occult is the norm. they believe they were spurned by the gods.

They have a huge emphasis on cleanliness and bathe at least twice a day.

sacrifice Goliaths and Kenku, they tend to sacrifice prisoners of war, and slaves, the more corrupt the better to "cleanse the populace", they believe spiritual corruption is contagious. and killing the source cleanses the corrupted.

sacrifices are thrown down the step of the sacrificial pyramid for the scattered blood to be absorbed by the building to be cleansed.

GENERAL CULTURE
will chop down no trees (for the birds live in them, and Kenku are birds.) and rarely use wood at all (mostly just for fire) any wood and bark they use comes from fallen trees. many tools that would normally use wood they use bone for.

If one were to visit the maples for cuisine they would be greeted mostly by wild boar with rich small loaves of cornbread if they were wealthy, however the general populace eats flatbread with lizard. Almost everybody drinks a soup made of slightly fermented (for sterilization purposes) maple-corn soup as a beverage.

It is common to see the populace bloodletting to bleed the corruption out, and wound dressing is common, those with more dressed wounds must be more clean as they have been bloodletting a lot.

Many kenku and goliaths pluck their hairs/feathers out to make mohawks.

And all but the richest wear a poncho for daily wear.

MAGIC SYSTEM
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