#mangrovia

[oretal]

Viola Mangrovia

Art Fight attack for an old friend, Syrcuz(🔞)! This is their character Viola.

She was a fun design to tackle color-wise. I had to go with the closest colors Flipnote 3D could give me.

I will admit, this piece has been on the back burner since 2023. My art style hasn't changed a whole lot but this one is drawn in my style from 2023, with some touch ups from 2024 and 25. I did some coloring last year but most of it was this year. I am very happy to finally finish it!

[arainydaymcytblog]

Only ogs remember Mangrovia

[gardenergulfie]

Mangrovia headcanons

Mangrovia is both a young and old empire. The capitol city has been around for ages as a hub of trade and commerce. It was previously a piece of neutral land owned by another empire along the veins of Baby Town and the Halloween lands. However it seceded fairly recently and is now its own kingdom.

Mangrovia is a kingdom without a ruler. The closest thing they have would be Ambassador Stephanie. Stephanie is the person visiting leaders speak with when making alliances and trade deals. She was at the head of the secession and the one who convicted the other rulers that Mangrovia should be its own empire. It customary for all visiting noble to have a meal with Stephanie as a sign of trust.

Mangrovia is a center of trade a commerce. People from many different empires come to visit and trade goods and listen to tales from lands far away.

Mangrovia is also called the City of Stories because of how much the people there love chatting and sharing stories. The stories aren’t always true but the speed at which information is gathered and then twisted into a tale in Mangrovia makes it a perfect place to get news of lands beyond your own home. When asked how they get the information so quickly each Mangrovian will give a different cryptic answer. Some say that a little blue bird told them, some say that heard from the tumbling of river rocks, and some say they watched it happen themselves through the crimson tube.

Mangrovians are a creative and outgoing bunch. They love to chat with everyone and are super welcoming. Mangrovians are super artistic and love sharing their hardworking with others. You can see pantings on ever building wall, delicate carvings built into the wooded bridges, a wordsmith telling tales at every street corner and even some figurines and fiction being sold about the rulers of the land.

Mangrovians take very good care of their lively home and pledge to live along with and beside nature. They only take what they need and never let anything go to waste. Their recycling program is one of the best in the world.

Mangrovia is a semiaquatic nation that is located alongside and over a large lake and as such Mangrovia’s signature foods are seafood dishes. Their scallops particularly are very good.

[zlixlriffs]

Now who’s going to make the first empiresona for the Viewer Empire, Mangrovia?

[selapennamidisegnablog]

E voi, vi siete ricordati di sorseggiare le feste? Io sì, grazie a mangrovia ❤ —-> mangroviasuona.altervista.org/

[capriciouswriter207]

Seeing you mention Mangrovia in the recent 'what if' for the Wither AU, I am now more curious as to your headcanons and lore behind it :D

Oh, that's a good ask!

Mangrovia in the series is presented as the empire of the viewers. Now, when worldbuilding this into a fantasy-setting, it can't exactly be 'of the viewers'. So I've been thinking about this a lot and especially about how to make it work, and I think I've found a way.

Mangrovia is located pretty central compared to the other empires because it's literally spawn. Therefore, my headcanon is that it is basically a trading hub. The shortest trade route, especially to empires that are farther away, often leads through spawn. Over the years, people settled the area, it became almost like a place to stay the night, if the journey was long, and maybe trade a little.

Over time, this grew into a small settlement, into a village, into a town or small city with its own set of rules and regulations. Here you find the biggest market for all kinds of goods from all over the empires. The main customers are other traders or those who can come to visit Mangrovia and its market, and the citizens of Mangrovia are almost all descended from traders who decided to settle down in the area and raised their families there.

There have been instances in the past where empires tried to claim Mangrovia as part of their empire. It was easy to dissuade these rulers - what can you do when Mangrovia decides that your traders are no longer welcome there or allowed to pass through its streets? All empires decided to leave Mangrovia as an independent city and, as a clause in the signed trade agreement, to leave it to its own devices.

Mangrovia itself does not really have an export that they are known for. Their main source of income is, of course, trading. Mangrovia charges toll for traders that pass through (not for visitors), rents out stands on the various marketplaces and additionally takes a minimal cut of the money traders make. It is said it has some of the most rigorous tax laws and policies. Almost all traders comply with these rules - it's compliance or not being able to make a living in this city. Furthermore, traveling traders sometimes do need a place to stay and spend the night. Most of the money goes into further imporvement of the road network and other infrastructure. The one thing they'll never invest in is a Nether portal, because "it only invites evil". As such, without ready access to the Nether, Mangrovia was largely spared from the corruption, because Xornoth kind of overlooked it or underestimated the power of this small city. Or maybe they assumed it belonged to one empire and left it alone. We will never know and the people are left to speculate.

Its streets are filled with people from all over the world. There is no such thing as a stereotypical native Mangrovian, because this is kind of a melting pot of all kinds of cultures. They are quite a tolerant people and are very conscious about their spending habits. Leaders are democratically elected into a council consisting of seven members, two of which must have been traders by profession and four of which must be Mangrovian. One is considered Mangrovian when you are either born in the city or have been living in the city for a minimum of twenty years. You can be elected twice, for a term of five years. Every year, at least one and at most two seats in the council are up for grabs. While you are a member of the council, you are expected to stay in Mangrovia.

It's a not very present and quiet, but powerful force in the world. It's come to the point where nobody wants to piss off Mangrovia because, well, your merchants and traders might lose access to the city and its services. For example, if Mezalea isn't in good graces with Mezalea and needs to send something over to the Overgrown, it can't pass through spawn. It either needs to go by ship to Mythland and through Gilded Helianthia, or it needs to make the taxing journey through the jungle, past the Lost Empire or Undergrove, and then through the Grimlands, the Crystal Cliffs and Rivendell. It has come to a point where it is easier, quicker, and more cost-efficient to travel through Mangrovia than it is to make that long journey around the existing road network, which is just a massive, costly detour at that point.

So, those are my headcanons and lore for Mangrovia. We kind of tend to forget it is a thing (at least, I do) but it is quite an interesting place, especially within the series itself and how it could potentially interact with the empires.

[thousandisthemaximum]

È il momento di conoscere Bene i mangrovia

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