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Fantasy Submarine Adventure!: Lore thread

Burgfalsen Island

Republic of Burgfalsen​

The Republic of Burgfalsen is a city and one of the planet's ocean superpowers, famous for its heavy fortifications and its industry. Its name translates to "castle rock".

It gots its name to the do to mountains guarding the inhabitants against danger. It became more literal when the population began to grow and fortified the island, by adding stoned towers on top of mountains and large walls surrounding walls. Over time making the island looking like a giant castle in the middle of the ocean. Sometimes sailors mistake as a massive battleship.

Brief History​

The first people were the aquatic races who settled on the island and named it "Fort rock" after the great flood the wiped out the landraces. They lived on the island for 30 years until the second people came.

They lived in a giant steal ship called an ark. They agreed to help the first people with technology in exchange for them to live on the island. Overtime more time more people began to settle the island. This included survivors, ocean nomads, pirates and etc.

Life in Burgfalsen​

Burgfalsen is more of a massive city-state with a population of three million and divided into six boroughs. The city is also layered as the city also has underground sections where people work and live. The city also expands to the underwater where people also work and live. Despite it being overcrowded everyone has a roof over their head. The city architecture is mostly gothic and things are mostly made of stone and concrete.

Farming is mostly done on the rooftop or inside the greenhouses. Also farming for trees is also a thing. But there's a lot of greenery in the city as there a lot of gardens and parks.

Culture​

Religion​

They believe in pantheon gods, but they don't have a king of the gods weirdly enough. The reason for so many gods is to do two the many beliefs of people who settle on the island. They believe it's impossible for a god or goddess to rule so many gods. They also worship lesser gods and have ancestral worship. They believe when you die that you become a lesser deity and your work one of your patron gods. So if your fisherman you might work with an ocean god.

Food​

Their food is well known to be pretty spicy. The most common ingredients are usually peppers that are only unique to the island. They also eat a lot of fish, but also a lot of crustaceans. But a rare delicacy of theirs is leviathan steak. This is rare because it's pretty hard to kill one and dangerous. A proper way to kill a leviathan is using a torpedo to kill it and one won't the trick. So it only happens rarely. Also, Burgfalsenian's are the only people that eat them. The reason is that in other cultures they think eating meat from a leviathan is poisonous or it makes you evil. But that's just superstition.

Clothing​

Their clothing is almost utilitarian. But it isn't uncommon to see people wearing Edwardian clothing and sometimes victorian style. But there a trend wearing east Asian style of clothing.

Other facts​

  • Burgfalsen is sometimes called 'Burg'
  • Burgfalsen are famous for reacyleing metal
  • But infamous for scraping shipwrecks which most nations see as disrespectful
  • Their flag has a sea serpent on it.





 

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