Useful Information:

This page contains answers to common questions handled by our support staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as questions.

TIME:

This is the system of time that has been looked over and approved by the staff. It is very very close code wise, rounded to benefit the elvish nature.

There are 864 days in the Towskish year.
There are 12 months in the Towskish year.
There are 4 weeks in the Towskish month.
There are 48 weeks in the Towskish year.
There are 18 days in one Towskish week.
There are 72 days in the Towskish month.

This equates to:

(18) days in (1) Real Life Day.
(1) week in (1) Real Life Day.
(1) month every (4) Real Life Days.
(1) year every (48) Real Life Days.
(8) years every (1) Real Life Year. 

         

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Social Customs

*Both common elves and nobility are expected to kneel before the Emperor/ess.
*Common elves often bow to nobility, though not all nobles expect such an action in informal settings.
*Daga elves will often test those of the Empire, though the details of these tests is unknown.

*While not exactly racism, colorism exists between Kondei and other elves. Lighter skinned elves of those    who have pale skins are viewed as being weaker and lesser in the scheme of society. Someone with some Kondei blood or rich, dark skin would be viewed as superior to all other lighter commoners.
*Military salutes consist of a taking one another by the elbow, a lower ranked person will extend their arm, palm up, to a higher ranked person, and they grasp one another at the elbow.  If of the same rank, they will take one another the same way, only from the side to show equality.
*Nobles will generally nod to each other in greeting, occasionally bowing as a show of -great- respect.
*Superstitious elves will bow, kneel, or incline their heads in the presence of a statue of the Goddess, believing that doing less is bad luck.
*Methods of prayer vary from kneeling to sitting, standing to a wide opened, raise of the arms to the sky.
*JaiChen generally pray at sunrise, midday and sunset, and before eating.
*Elven ears are considered erogenous zones. Touching them in public would be considered scandalous.  Mouth to ear contact in a public setting is likely to cause elders to faint. Ear piercings are considered scandalous when placed in the upper tips of the ears.

Popular Expressions and Phraseology

* "Goddess guide." Said on parting.
* "Sweet ancestors!!" or "Sweet Goddess!" Expression used to suggest surprise or shock.
* "Did a Kondei wake you this morning?" Expressed to someone in a grumpy mood.
* "Loopy as a MendiKu" Flighty or playful.
* "A little Soleblood in that one" Insult of madness on another. Variations: "Well wasn't that soleish?"
"I didn't know he/she was from the Sole line!?"
"I failed to notice you were wearing violet today."
"Daddy (or momma) musta been a Sole."
* "Goddess bless" Greeting.
* "Dressed like a Daga" Scandalous Ho!
* "Like a JaiChen at festival!" See above.
* "Like Orvelle at the Sins!" Similar to above, male.
* ".... has as many lovers as ol' Emperor Anton" Dig on faithfulness
* "... smells like the sewers" obvious
* "Dressed in crocodile skin!" Dressed to the nines
* "If you don't eat your vegetables, the DokJin will get you!" Self explanatory.
* "As fucked as Anton." Either a dig on his history with women or his luck in rule.
* "Watch for Michael." In reference to Michael Sole... meaning watch your back, or be careful.

Social Faux Pas

Touching an elf's ear.
Flippancy with the name of the Goddess.
Taking a Daga's insults to heart.
Failing to kneel before the Emperor.
Making eye contact with a Kondei.
Calling someone human. (SERIOUS INSULT!!)
Refusing thuja from a MendiKu.
Failure to recognize a noble as a noble.
Familiar contact with an unfamiliar elf.
Public admiration of someone's weapon.
Coveting someone's mate.
Getting too close to another elf's mate.
Loud and obnoxious behavior while drunk or otherwise (or is it just a Daga?).

Plant Types

*Wood:

Several types of wood and plantlife are scattered about the elven forests. Maple, oak, pine, and cedar are most represented, though other rare woods can be found, from certain fruit trees, which produce softer, more malleable woods. Flecking the lush elven woods from just outside the main gates of the great city of Tow, northward to the barren plains of the human lands, enormous, sacred redwoods are planted sparsely about the amazing scenery.

*Fruit Trees:
Kora: Produces green, fleshy fruit. The skin is edible and almost sugary in both texture and taste. It is very juicy and flavorful. Served raw or baked.

Aoki: Deep red in color, this fruit is often used in certain dyes and paints. The vividly blood-hued fruit is sweet and tangy to the taste, and the texture firm and crisp. Served raw or fried or baked.

Akahr: A dull orange skinned fruit with innards of rich, deep green flesh. The flavor is overwhelmingly fruity sour, often causing tasters to pucker. The flesh of the fruit is soft and could be easily swallowed without chewing. Served raw rarely, and is usually baked.

Nepsa: Dark green in color, both on the thin skinned surface, and the juicer, fleshier innards. The skin is easily broken by teeth or knife, and is usually served raw.

*Other Fruits and Vegetables and Nuts:
Traditional grapes, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, carrots, potatoes, radishes cucumbers, mangos,coconuts, mango, plums, starfruit, corn, tomatoes, beans, peanuts, melons, strawberries,
cocoa beans, moko nuts, sanku nuts, and many others.

*Roots and Vines, Misc.:
Bloodroot: Black, thick skinned root, almost wooden in texture, filled with a viscous, reddish-black hued flesh and juice that is easily sucked from the shaft. Exceptionally bitter to the taste. Used
as sustenance raw, or flavoring for drinks and foods.

Jinh: Broad leaves of deep, rich green are usually used for a traditional towskish tea. Also used for flavor in many traditional Towskish baked goods. Slightly sweet, but strong in flavor.

Wild Mushrooms: In shades from rich, deep blue to pale grey, some are poisonous and some are bitter. Many are used as flavoring in traditional Towskish fare.

Thuja: Can be eaten with great caution, though is usually smoked after some treating and drying time. The leaves are bright green until dried to a russet-brown in color, ground and smoked.

Tobacco: Brown plants with a heady aroma, are dried to smoke. Sometimes used as flavoring in cooking.

Addertongue: This short plant grows in thick patches about the forest, one large leaf spiking the thin
shafted stem. Raw it is rather bitter, but after sauteing the flavor is rich and heady.

Edamantum: A busy plant made up of rich, deep green blooms. Enormous blooms in brilliant crimson dot the emerald of the plant. The blooms are considered rare and precious.

Ancestors of the Towskish Nobility

This page is a wonderful reference page of past family trees of the nobility past and present, and needs help!  We are trying to update the page for people who have been left out (blame Alaire/Lisa because she went back to school and lost and forgot everything but what her professors tell her every day)!

If you have information you'd like to see included that is not currently, please let us know, ASAP!!!!  Email lgilber1@stu.wccnet.edu, and I'll get to it as fast as I can, at the very least, I have a new computer and will be able to successfully SAVE what you send me!  Imagine that!  Also, if you see a glaring error, let me know!  I don't want to misrepresent past characters, but I can't possibly remember everything that happened.

Also, if you see something misrepresented, I will let you know if the misrepresentation is intentional.  The webpage is a documentation for IC events, and if say... a naughty Sole decided to misrepresent history, well... who's to stop those crazy freaks?  Damn them and their secrecy and plotting!!!

Anyway, thanks for looking at the page, and letting me know of any mistakes.  You may have even let me know of them before!  Please don't take it as a slight!  I am...

because of school.  Blame those guys.

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