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[chiswhumpcorner]

do we know what kind of calendar they use in vekta? :0 i'm assuming it's not the anno domini count from the gregorian calendar asdfghgfd

Oh calendars! Those are always fun!

no one in the story has the anno domini count, they have a different, standardized starting point (I have a general idea but still deciding on the specifics).

Vekta has a double year count: one in line with the standard worldwide one for practicality, plus their own, starting from the supposed founding date of their homeland - we're talking origin myth, too old to have provable historical accounts of it.

As for the months, for the sake of not going insane, I'm keeping the gregorian calendar for everyone - however, in Vekta the first month used to historically be March, when they celebrate the ascension of the first king to the throne.

While they later adopted the worldwide January start of the year, again for practicality, the original nomenclature remained.

In Vekto, months are called literally Month One (March), Month Two (April) etc, up to number ten, December. January is called the Farewell Month, because it's the month when the yearly old population culling takes place. February is called Final Month.

So, in their language:

January - (iyon > farewell) - Iyoki February - (final) - Tsorki March - 1 - Ishki April - 2 - Tahki May - 3 - Raiki June - 4 - Sehki July - 5 - Tsaki August - 6 - Shirki September - 7 - Nanki October - 8 - Ktoki November - 9 - Veiki December - 10 - Jiki

[chiswhumpcorner]

I have a lore ask can i make a lore ask 0_0

You've talked about how Vekta views a successful warrior's duty to continue his bloodline and thus how it isn't very....welcoming to, say, Khore's aroaceness (am i remembering this right). But like 👀 do we know how they view other forms of queerness? Not just idk homosexuality but things like transness and genders beyond the binary as well?

All lore asks make me happy! gimme! *grabby hands*

This is a good question I struggled with in the past, but I think I worked out an answer!

As you already know, most people in Vekta are bi, since they're culturally encouraged to explore and there's no stark division between male/female gender roles and what loving one or another says about you.

Fundamentally, who you partner and have children with (so, ensuring the descendance) is not necessarily the same as who you love, which is completely up to you, and not limited to one person.

Especially amongst elites, there's plenty of arranged marriages to try and have the strongest possible heirs. In same sex marriages (and those with fertility issues), they even have tiers: elite families get genetic material donated from elites, warriors from warriors, non-warriors from non-warriors. When heirs prove not up to the task, adoption is also a big thing.

That said, transness.

There's two cases here:

People who are trans within the binary

afab men and amab women are considered perfectly normal. Vektians believe sometimes the soul gets lost and incarnates in the wrong body. Those kids, once ascertained that's the case (usually waiting around puberty), get treatment to transition and full surgery as soon as their body is stabilized, for free like any other kind of healthcare. Both hormone treatment and surgery are very advanced, including scar concealing, and once it's done you would never know by looking.

Trans women can choose to have a womb transplant too, usually donated by trans men, and are able to get pregnant and carry a baby to term (with the ovules of a donor obviously).

Trans men have, let's say, fully functioning hardware.

They don't face different treatment in society, the only obstacle is sometimes shitty parents wanting them to keep their assigned gender because they're good and they want to keep the heir, even knowing it's not really *their* heir. This can put pressure on a kid to not come out.

Of course, surgery + recovery means time away from training, so that can also be a stressful logistical obstacle for those aiming for the top. Some thus choose to wait to do that later in life. In that case, they do face societal pressure to "get in the right lane" soon. Despite the free loving policy, Vekta is based on a very ordered familial structure (hetero or not).

I bet you can guess by now where I'm going with this.

2. Nonbinary people

Unfortunately, that's a no. You don't get to stay outside the ordered structure, you have to pick one - and once you pick it, either fully stay in it or fully transition.

Now, one little saving grace is, since there's no concept of masculinity VS femininity, the problem of not feeling either or in terms of presentation and expected behavior doesn't exist. There's no different dress code or expected behavior in performing one or the other, the difference is purely physical (and which descendance you belong to).

So to suffer from this are the ones who, to feel comfortable with their bodies, would need some surgeries but not others, or only hrt, and/or ones who strongly feel cogender / fluid and need to switch their pronouns accordingly.

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So yeah! Disclaimer I am (mostly) cis so if anyone has thoughts, let me know. I'd love to hear different perspectives, that's half the fun of worldbuilding!!

[chiswhumpcorner]

Whats the currency in Vekta? :0

Thank you for the question! Here's a new entry for the...

✨ Lore Corner! ✨

Just like language, currency is largely standardized in the world. Almost all "civilized" countries share the same currency, called simply credits.

It is a fully digitalized currency, with no coins or paper in circulation, guaranteed by a bank network holding gold, silver and other precious materials.

Thanks to its very efficient system of extorting and plundering lesser countries (/s), Vekta is one of the very few countries that actually does hold the full gold equivalent of the money it has circulating.

Countries still relying on the exchange of cash (with their own currencies) do exist, but are seen as retrograde, similar to how we view bartering today.

As transactions can be tracked, criminal activities rely on two methods: some kind of cryptocurrency (in a constant race against new systems to thwart them), or the exchange of prepaid cards as if they were tokens, without ever using them for actual transactions, which can then be laundered back into circulation. So basically like cash is used.

So, yeah. Vekta is a rich country. However, on average the gap between the rich and the poor is really not that big, as most of wealth is managed and distributed by the state as to let the people focus on what's important: keeping the well oiled war machine and everything necessary to sustain it going. For the glory of Homeland!