baninchi
Savanna Seterra
“Bazi remembered the savanna being a vibrant place. Flamingos had exploded into flight, and giraffes had run with a peculiar grace. ”
MAMAHALI
City of Mud
PAVARAMAYA TEMPLE
Parapte, Old Makalon
Pavarmaya Temple to the Goddess Avni
“The great temple of Prajatuya was believed to be a Yiúsian palace before the mysterious departure of the Yiúsians from the region over two thousand years earlier.”
GEOGRAPHY
Biomes: Savanna, temperate broadleaf, temperate rainforest, tropical rainforest, semi-arid desert, dry desert, cold desert, montane, high alpine, steppes, wetlands
History: The Baninchi seterra was raditionally occupied by the Grhanyanis, Alidimans, Dahosens, Kobandans, Khalians, and Nyachians. 7,0oo YBP, the peoples established realms based on geography and culture, sharing resources at times where their realms overlap, as seen with the traditional Kahalian and Jafardian oryx hunters.
The Yiúsians had two unsuccessful war campaigns to establish control in the seterra: first in Makalon, (modern day “Old Makalon), 2,242-2,208 YBP; and again in Nyachi, 1,365-1,346 YBP.
A century following its formation 495 YBP, the Imperium invaded Baninchi and conquered the seterra by 345 YBP. Modern names on Imperial maps reflect native place named as well as the historic realms.
NATIVE PEOPLES
Nyachians: ethnically-diverse and tribal peoples of eastern Baninchi’s Bahaysi grasslands
Kahalians: people of the rich, fertile lands in north central Baninchi, including modern-day Kahal and northern Jafard
Alidimans: dwellers of the Purana mountains and their surrounding valleys
Grahanyanis: forest-dwelling people of northwestern Baninchi; share cultural and linguistic roots with the Alidimans
Dahosens: dwellers of the subtropical, moist broadleaf forests and wetlands of southeast Baninchi
Kobandans: tropical broadleaf forest dwellers of south-central Banichi and north central Suqwas
Jmu’neböna: lived in the huge, primordial forests of eastern Montane/western Baninchi; two factions – the north and the south; the north live in the temperate rainforest; the south in the tropical rainforest
Bangtaon: sea dwellers of the Latana Seaterra and surrounding islands