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 ====== Ǣdyihòzh ======
-**Ǣdyihòzh** (/æːdʲihɔʒ/) refers both to a city on the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:Abethine Coast]], and to the state that centers upon it.
+**Ǣdyihòzh** (/æːdʲihɔʒ/) refers both to a city on the [[geography:sekhaa:region:Abethine Coast]], and to the state that centers upon it.
-Ǣdyihòzh the city is positioned near the southern tip of [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:ordeths_claw|Ordeth's Claw]], the long peninsula that helps separate the Inner [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:marine:abethine_sea|Sea]] from the Outer Sea. The tip of the Claw being separated from the nearest point on the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:Jade Coast]] by but a scant few miles, all sea traffic between the two halves of the Gulf is forced to travel through this relatively narrow space, known as [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:marine:giants_gap|Giants' Gap]]. Ǣdyihòzh is well positioned to take advantage of this due to its location, and is notorious for charging fees from throughgoing ships in a procedure that can often only be distinguished from extortion by being practiced by a government rather than a private individual.
+Ǣdyihòzh the city is positioned near the southern tip of [[geography:sekhaa:region:ordeths_claw|Ordeth's Claw]], the long peninsula that helps separate the Inner [[geography:sekhaa:marine:abethine_sea|Sea]] from the Outer Sea. The tip of the Claw being separated from the nearest point on the [[geography:sekhaa:region:Jade Coast]] by but a scant few miles, all sea traffic between the two halves of the Gulf is forced to travel through this relatively narrow space, known as [[geography:sekhaa:marine:giants_gap|Giants' Gap]]. Ǣdyihòzh is well positioned to take advantage of this due to its location, and is notorious for charging fees from throughgoing ships in a procedure that can often only be distinguished from extortion by being practiced by a government rather than a private individual.
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 ==== Government ====
-The city and colonies of Ǣdyihòzh are ruled formally by the [[geopolitical:ǣdyihozh:grand_princess]]. The ruling family of Ǣdyihòzh is descended from one of the privateer captains who entered into the service of the city soon after its independence; her daughter subsequently became immensely rich through a combination of overt commercial savvy and covert piracy, and leveraged a place in power for her family after outright buying up most of the city's docks and warehouses of the time. The current Grand Princess of Ǣdyihòzh is [[person:ednam|Èdnam]], who despite projecting a simple, amiable exterior has a reputation for shrewdness; the merchants of the city tend to say of her, with the self-mocking pride that is characteristic of locals, that she is a better swindler than even her most underhanded subjects.
+The city and colonies of Ǣdyihòzh are ruled formally by the [[geopolitical:ǣdyihozh:Grand Princess]]. The ruling family of Ǣdyihòzh is descended from one of the privateer captains who entered into the service of the city soon after its independence; her daughter subsequently became immensely rich through a combination of overt commercial savvy and covert piracy, and leveraged a place in power for her family after outright buying up most of the city's docks and warehouses of the time. The current Grand Princess of Ǣdyihòzh is [[person:ednam|Èdnam]], who despite projecting a simple, amiable exterior has a reputation for shrewdness; the merchants of the city tend to say of her, with the self-mocking pride that is characteristic of locals, that she is a better swindler than even her most underhanded subjects.
 The authority of the Grand Princess is, while ultimately supreme, not absolute; out of a combination of spirit of inclusion and stark //realpolitik//, there has developed a system in which substantive decisions are made in concert with a [[geopolitical:ǣdyihozh:Council of Magnates]], composed of representatives of the city's most powerful merchant houses together with several military advisers. Certain decisions of national import, and which are judged to have a potentially significant affect on public opinion, are submitted to the people in a sort of national referendum; all adult female (and married male) citizens of the city and its colonies are permitted to vote, though the value of each vote is weighted according to wealth and status. Such votes are considered festive occasions, essentially holidays, with families gathering in the public places for food, drink, games, and relaxation in addition to casting their ballots, and in recent cycles their popularity has led the Council to also call votes on somewhat more frivolous grounds.
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 ==== Religion ====
-Although the Abethines generally share the same [[mythology:imperial_religion:|central pantheon]] as the core of the former [[geopolitical:empire:|Empire]] - albeit frequently with different names - there is a considerable difference in emphasis. The [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:|Sixfold Eminence and Her Court]] are seen as real, but not extremely relevant to everyday life, and their worship tends to be done in single, consolidated temples, or - as in Ǣdyihòzh - is done in the temples of Their Children, which are much more common. Particularly popular are Siathar that align with national interests:
+Although the Abethines generally share the same [[mythology:imperial_religion:|central pantheon]] as the core of the former [[geopolitical:Empire:]] - albeit frequently with different names - there is a considerable difference in emphasis. The [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:|Sixfold Eminence and Her Court]] are seen as real, but not extremely relevant to everyday life, and their worship tends to be done in single, consolidated temples, or - as in Ǣdyihòzh - is done in the temples of Their Children, which are much more common. Particularly popular are Siathar that align with national interests:
-  * [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:orika]] the Merchant, known in Ǣdyihòzh as Dyēsham (/dʲeːʃam/), a goddess prayed to for wealth and material success.
+  * [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:Orika]] the Merchant, known in Ǣdyihòzh as Dyēsham (/dʲeːʃam/), a goddess prayed to for wealth and material success.
-  * [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:tarishaar]] the Wit, known in Ǣdyihòzh as Òkhyil (/ɔxʲiɮ/), a male god, of no fixed occupational portfolio but depicted as making his way in the world through cleverness and trickery.
+  * [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:Tarishaar]] the Wit, known in Ǣdyihòzh as Òkhyil (/ɔxʲiɮ/), a male god, of no fixed occupational portfolio but depicted as making his way in the world through cleverness and trickery.
   * [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:nyelik|Nyèlik]] (/nʲɜlik/) the Mariner, an exclusively Abethine goddess not considered equivalent to the god Hadim the Fisher seen on other coasts. She lends ship crews, both naval and merchantmen, skill and luck on the seas.
 In addition, worship of the [[mythology:imperial_religion:lamnar:]] is popular, particularly the gods of the sea and wind. [[mythology:imperial_religion:lamnar:uvuun]], as usual, is not worshipped; but, against the tendencies of other takmar, Adyihòzhis at sea consider it possible to bargain with Him for their lives and souls in the face of imminent death away from places near land.