#tenvo

[alandrosul]

these are the three types of tenvo in my original fantasy setting, aurenna! the lovely @honeypaw-wish did these wonderful concepts/reference sheets for me! go commission him too! he’s a great pleasure to work with! and for more information on these guys, go follow my blog @saintsmith!

[saintsmith]

a few major cities in aurena:

in the far northwest, in the polity known as rosyev, there lies the great twin metropolis of kohth. long ago this site served as a meeting place for various tribes and other political entities of greshtal, but during the holy war with the aajakiri, it almost became a battleground. but after careful negotiations between the aajakiri priests of Raam and the pagan greshtal polytheistic shamans, a peace accord was reached ("worship what you like, but worship Raam above all"), and the two war-camps situated near kohth came together as one, their tent cities uniting as a single city, and they constructed a great temple to Raam there, one of the first of its kind outside the interior mountain ranges or the theocracy of mornet. while cosmopolitan now, its culture still heavily relies on a specific blend of greshtal and aajakiri customs and traditions.

to the south, the capital of mornet within the relatively small mornet theocracy is a testament to aajakiri high art and artifice. their crystalline towers and marble arenas stand tall and proud as monuments to Raam, blinding newcomers with their brilliance. it is an ancient city, and has been besieged several times by the dromag throughout history, hungry for its riches. the caverns dug by the dromag digging army still exist below the glamour, and many tenvo, mostly dromag, still live down there. (the old breakthroughs into the kingdom vaults of mornet are permanently sealed off.) in the area surrounding the capital exist some of the few ironworks outside of the interior mountains.

the deepest inlet to the interior mountains, lying in the nationstate of norkhec to the northeast, hosts the mountain mining city of derthn, once the capital of the ancient dromag empire. here is the only place outside of the Raam priesthood's domain in the mountains that iron can be mined, but one must dig very deep to find it. thankfully, dromag have always been excellent diggers. but one cannot rely on handful of iron nuggets to sustain a city of that size. so the majority of their work consists of mining out the vast reserves of gems of all kinds that reside in the mountain, selling them to the priesthood's saints for the manufacture of aajakiri thoughtstones. being comfortable not only deep in the earth but also at sea (unlike greshtal and aajakiri), the dromag tradefleets are the only of their kind in aurena, sailing around the mainland (from ports such as hovden in olsekr and hvolst in utstr) to trade iron and gems not only with the priesthood but also rich clients in mornet. but many aajakiri will gladly travel (by land) to the northern reaches to find just the right housing for a spirit they've caught.

[alandrosul]

made a brief note in my phone of the three primary tenvo varieties. don’t want to use the word “race” really - in fantasy that implies a pretty serious disconnect, like different species almost. these are all one people, the tenvo, but with phenotypal differences a bit more drastic than those found in modern humans. but they are all of the same “race” and “species.” they just look different from one another. anyways, gonna put that note’s content below the readmore. (note: i have given some common “fantasy races” that each tenvo is most similar to. that’s not a direct association, though, just a helpful guide for the imagination at this stage.)

tenvo varieties:

greshtal tenvo: 8-10 foot tall beefy tenvo, green-brown-grey skin, upper and lower protruding tusks, six fingers per hand (two thumbs) - “orc” tenvo

ajakiri tenvo: 6-7 foot tall slender/lean tenvo, silver-gold skin, two opposable forehead plates - “elf” tenvo

dormarg tenvo: 3-5 foot tall stocky tenvo, red-and-black mottled skin, razor sharp teeth, very large hands and feet - “dwarf/halfling/goblin” tenvo