Etepete
Mongoose
Is there an upcoming Zingara sourcebook, and if so, how long would I have to wait?
In the meantime, I'm trying to piece together what scraps of background I need for my campaign. I'd be delighted for second thoughts on the below:
* A generation back, before the last king, there was a rebellion in the eastern provinces, just above where the road of kings cuts the border to argos. This area, called Cavagria, is the home of a community of sheepherding borderers, inspired by the basques. Backed by some noble families they backed the heir of a deviant branch of the royal family, just a boy at the time, and embraced a simplistic, animistic and monotheisitc mitraism, as opposed to the official religion, which is polytheistic with a Mitra as a King of Gods. The alliance was betrayed and the young prince murdered. Since, those noble families who betrayed the alliance and backed the last king have been hounding and killing their former coconspirers.
* I'm basing Kordova off an inverted map of Constantinople. This gives the city three walls. The middle one is restored Acheronian. The city is divided into blocks and zones of interests controlled by noble families from their fortified towers, who dominate the skyline. Murder and aristocratic gang warfare in the streets is commonplace. Think Romeo and Julia. The pretendent who controls the palace at the moment is backed by several aristocratic alliances and a monastic order that upholds the current polytheistic religion, but does not control the capital, and cannot move about freely. Parts of the city are totally barricaded, but everywhere commerce goes on despite the undending conflicts.
* The Zingaran countryside down in the river valley is an unending expanse of fields of yellow grain and lush olive grooves. The economy is based on manors rather than villages, at least in the south. At the moment many of these aristocratic strongholds hold high princes and important political players fled from the assassin-filled capital.
* Zingaran Polytheistic Mithraism isn't quite fleshed out yet. Is there any official info from REH himself or Mongoose at all? Left to my own devices I'll include Tauro, a manly and brave bull-god who used to be leader of the pantheon, and Kybala the Mother, fertility-godess worshiped in the form of little fat, black statue-idols. Maybe some Pan-like divinty as well.
In the meantime, I'm trying to piece together what scraps of background I need for my campaign. I'd be delighted for second thoughts on the below:
* A generation back, before the last king, there was a rebellion in the eastern provinces, just above where the road of kings cuts the border to argos. This area, called Cavagria, is the home of a community of sheepherding borderers, inspired by the basques. Backed by some noble families they backed the heir of a deviant branch of the royal family, just a boy at the time, and embraced a simplistic, animistic and monotheisitc mitraism, as opposed to the official religion, which is polytheistic with a Mitra as a King of Gods. The alliance was betrayed and the young prince murdered. Since, those noble families who betrayed the alliance and backed the last king have been hounding and killing their former coconspirers.
* I'm basing Kordova off an inverted map of Constantinople. This gives the city three walls. The middle one is restored Acheronian. The city is divided into blocks and zones of interests controlled by noble families from their fortified towers, who dominate the skyline. Murder and aristocratic gang warfare in the streets is commonplace. Think Romeo and Julia. The pretendent who controls the palace at the moment is backed by several aristocratic alliances and a monastic order that upholds the current polytheistic religion, but does not control the capital, and cannot move about freely. Parts of the city are totally barricaded, but everywhere commerce goes on despite the undending conflicts.
* The Zingaran countryside down in the river valley is an unending expanse of fields of yellow grain and lush olive grooves. The economy is based on manors rather than villages, at least in the south. At the moment many of these aristocratic strongholds hold high princes and important political players fled from the assassin-filled capital.
* Zingaran Polytheistic Mithraism isn't quite fleshed out yet. Is there any official info from REH himself or Mongoose at all? Left to my own devices I'll include Tauro, a manly and brave bull-god who used to be leader of the pantheon, and Kybala the Mother, fertility-godess worshiped in the form of little fat, black statue-idols. Maybe some Pan-like divinty as well.
...of course, this puts me in quite a position trying since I'd like to keep my Zingara coherent with the official stuff. You wouldn't have date to that "a while" I suppose.... 
