My friend thomasmfd, the one who makes art for my fanfic, suggested that I make a new story detailing the lore on each of my oc kingdoms in Astridlia, a continent the where The Dragonfly kingdom is currently residing, I hope you all will love the lo...
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Osirisia is a kingdom of knowledge and magical lore in a land of desert built on the banks of the Iteru river.
Part one culture.
Osirisian culture is similar to ancient Egyptian culture. The Osirisian language is hieroglyphics, like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Osirisian architecture is similar to ancient Egyptian architecture.
The Osirisians wear clothing similar to ancient Egyptian clothing. Lower class Males wear wrap shendyt belted at the waist and upper class males wear ornamented shendyt held up by a sash worn over the shendyt and a usekh collars and golden arm, wrist and neck bracelets. While lower class the females wear kalasiris and upper class females get to wear beads, feathers, usekh capes, robes with their kalasiris and wear golden arm, wrist and neck bracelets. The Osirisian pharaohs wear crowns like the pschent, Khepresh, Atef, shuti, and nemes, all of the crowns are adorned the Uraeus the symbol of sovereignty and nobility, and the pharaohs also carry royal relics such as, the Was staff, the mks staff, the nekhakha, Heqa scepter and the Sekhem scepter. There are other accessories to Osirisian clothing such as head cones, finger and toe stalls, gorgerine, sandles and false metal beards called postiche. and the Osirisians mark their eyes with black kohl.
Most Osirisians are farmers tied to the land. Their dwellings were restricted to immediate family members, and were constructed of mudbrick designed to remain cool in the heat of the day. Each home had a kitchen with an open roof, which contained a grindstone for milling grain and a small oven for baking the bread. Ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials. Walls are painted white and could be covered with dyed linen wall hangings. Floors were covered with reed mats, while wooden stools, beds raised from the floor and individual tables comprised the furniture.
The Osirisians do not have last names and so the Osirisians only address each other by last names.
The Osirisians place a great value on hygiene and appearance. Most bathed in the Iteru and used a pasty soap made from animal fat and chalk.
Music and dance are popular entertainments for those who could afford them. Early instruments included flutes and harps, while instruments similar to trumpets, oboes, and pipes developed later and became popular. In Osirisia, the Osirisians play the bells, cymbals, tambourines, drums, and imported lutes, lyres and the sistrum was a rattle-like musical instrument that are especially important in religious ceremonies.
Ther Osirisians label the northern parts of Osirisa, especially around the Iteru delta, lower Osirisia while they label southern parts of Osirisia as upper Osirisia. The Osirisians label their lands this way because of how the Iteru river flows from the inland in upper Osirisia down to the Iteru delta in lower Osirisia. To outsiders it's confusing, but for the Osirisians it made sense.
the Osirisians have developed a glassy material known as faience, which they treated as a type of artificial semi-precious stone. Faience is a non-clay ceramic made of silica, small amounts of lime and soda, and a colorant, typically copper. The material was used to make beads, tiles, figurines, and small wares. Several methods can be used to create faience, but typically production involved application of the powdered materials in the form of a paste over a clay core, which was then fired. By a related technique, the ancient Osirisians produced a pigment known as Osirisian red, also called red frit, which is produced by fusing (or sintering) silica, copper, lime, and an alkali such as natron. The product can be ground up and used as a pigment.
