Here you'll
find some basic information about the society the humans created after
they crashed.
Setting
The setting of Icarus is rather medieval in feel. Since after the
crash most of the technology was lost (either in the crash, or used up
in the years after), the settlers had to start from scratch and
creatively work with the little materials they had at their disposal.
But Icarus isn't entirely medieval as anyone will be able to tell. For
one, there is a far greater tolerance between humans. Men and women
are regarded as equal, as they were on Earth the time the settlers
parted for a new world. Also, religion has retreated farther back in
the private life of people, and most religions are wide spread and
respected.
Villages
Icarians live in clusters of houses, ranging from a few (village), a
bunch (town) to a lot (city). Most of these settings are protected and
ruled over by a lord, usually residing in a castle of his own. Though
people are relatively independent, both the regular Icarians and the
lords need each other to survive.
Money/Trade
In the smaller villages, money isn't much of an issue. People there
often trade more than they pay for what they need. But in the larger
gatherings of civilization, where not everything is easily kept and
traded, people still use a standard currency, as they did on earth.
Clothing
Clothes of the Icarians are made by hand, either by agile fingers in
the family (villages), or by tailors (cities). They're made from
natural resources like leather, fur, and cloths resembling cotton and linen
that are won from local plants.
A special material that is not widely used in clothing is drak hair.
Drak hair grows continuously, as does human hair and thus needs to be
cut at times to keep it manageable. These hairs are mostly used in the
drak castles by the knights of the draks, but now and then some is
traded out to merchants. The most prominent use of drak hair are the tassels
on knights' jackets and helmets. the hair used for these comes
from their own draks and gives an idea of rank (squires have fewer tassels
than knights, who have less than high knights and judges etc).
Technology and
Tools
Though far from modern standards, The humans that landed on Icarus did
know there way around a survivalist setting as they were headed to
colonize another planet. Many had skills that they used to improve
living standards. Meaning that there are simple mechanical devices
present such as a pottery wheel, a pump, a pulley lift, et
cetera.
OCCUPATIONS
- TERMINOLOGY - HOLIDAYS
& RELIGION - CASTLES
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