Peoples · Archive of Bosana

People, customs, symbols, and the everyday life of Bosana's five peoples.

• Bosoni

  The Bosoni are a people of hills, forests, timber, and hands that first build something and only afterwards ask whether it was needed. They are loud, moustached whenever possible, and convinced that half of life's problems can be solved with a good tool, and the other half with a bigger one. They are not stupid. They…

• Bosuni

  The Bosuni are a people of karst, stone, dry earth, and looks that tell you they had already sized you up before you finished your first sentence. Sharp of tongue, quick in trade, and remarkably skilled at making a life out of a little water, a little shade and a great deal of stubbornness. They love order when they…

• Bosani

  The Bosani are a people of fields, rivers, mud, long lunches and even longer silences. At first glance they seem calm. That is a trap they themselves sometimes forget. When they rise, they carry everything before them, but until that moment they will say three times that it is nothing. Without the Bosani, Bosana would…

• Rohni

  The Rohni came through the portal long ago and never quite stopped being outsiders. They are recognised by their pale skin, black hair and pointed ears, though many try to hide what gives them away. They have no land of their own in Bosana, but they have roads, caravans, songs, crafts and news that arrives before the…

• People of Mosabarkh

  Mosabarkh has no single people. It has residents whom the city has slowly ground down, rearranged and taught to walk faster than they think. Here live Bosoni, Bosani, Bosuni, Rohni and everyone who came for work, power, protection, escape or some small private ruin. After one generation, the city enters their speech…