Frey

Frey is a northeast nation. it shares borders with Hamahra in the west and Jentry in the south. the capital is Maytris.

demographic
native Freysian people tend to have blood-red hair, similar to Jentrians.

architecture
Frey has a distinctive architecture and urban design. buildings tend to either be plastered white or made of lighter shades of brick and stone, casting the buildings in hues of cream and pale brown, a byproduct of Frey’s warmer climate. They all have flat-tiled roofs. Streets are paved in distinctive pale-brown stone, and they may often border retaining walls, setting the cities into differing elevations if they are located in hilly regions.

religion
the Freysian religion is known as Matriology, a Light monotheistic religion that reveres the Godmother. according to their beliefs, because women give birth, they possess a sliver of creation, and thereby they share some of the Godmother's own power.

according to their beliefs, women create life and men take it, both being necessary acts in life. this translates to defined cultural gender roles where a devout Matrian woman will not even uproot a craggot, or pull a fruit from a tree and thereby end its life. that is considered to be the duty of a man, while women will prepare the food after it has been killed.

Matriology believes that as women crate life, they are also the caretakers of life, and this means they take care of raising the children, keeping their house in order, and pleasing their husbands.

women are considered to be the only ones who can offer blessings.

culture
women are heavily revered in Freysian culture. they sit at the head of the tables and receive preferential treatment in hospitality when vising a Freysian residency.

native-born Freysians refer to adult women as Matron, or at least the married ones or when they are in the house of the woman.

trivia

 * the religious belief that only women possess a sliver of creation could be contradicted by the fact that men and women alike can possess the miracle of creation when becoming Lightbringers.