Ezeniri

Ezeniri represents a melting pot of the African diaspora (Caribbean, Barbary Coast, the Deep South, Ethiopia) distilled in a single, massive continent. It is largely unexplored and its resources are seemingly untapped. Its people are as diverse as the land itself – there are the rich coastal empires founded by slavers, the vast grasslands wandering Tusk bushmen, the Brethren Court (Somalian, Barbary Pirates), the gold-rich and stargazing Idaltu in their cloud forests and bamboo, scaffold-cities, the sorcerous Jinn, etc.

It’s a very unique mirror of the Horn of Africa; for instance, it’s technologically superior to the West (Tiberium) and East (Yavanna) in may regards; it alone possess guns, solar power, and deep ocean vessels, however, it is also sparsely populated,  and has a history of colonialism and enslavement (slavery is endemic). Its people predate Xandar’s migration out of Yavanna, and look remarkably different.

There’s also some fun quirks; they’ve domesticated hyenas, elephants, and zorses (zebra horses), fight with machete swords, invented football, duel with interpretive dance and beatboxing/chest slapping, etc. There’s a lot of freaks too – guys with crazy piercings and gauges, tattoos, scars, wearing weird bling (animal horns, jaws, bones, ivory, etc.), beads, elongated heads/necks, amber eyes, albinos with animal patterns on their skin, women who wear huge piles of silk on their heads, ganja smoking, etc.

Ethiopia/Aztec Empire/Deep South, black lions, strange tribespeople in a cultured society, people considered very beautiful (rich, dark skin, gleaming teeth, amber eyes; wear beads, skins, cotton), build stepped pyramids, exotic animals, close to Ys, undiscovered continent?, very diverse, no domesticated animals (except hyenas), walk everywhere (or are carried on palanquins) shamans, child soldiers, blood diamonds, sugar cane, cotton, coffee oranges; machete-swords, football, Junker ships, don't tolerate magic (lynch witches), witch doctors, ululating, raindance, balance giant baskets/pots on heads, face paint, piercings, scars, gauges, were ravaged by syphilis brought over by Tiberian slavers but recovered, onyx, obsidian, megafauna, algal blooms stain seas, Corsairs compete with Ys' Mer, founded by slavers, distant relatives to the natives of Ys, duel with poetry (rap battles) and beatboxing/chest slapping/breakdancing, tattoos; fishermen, ranchers, pirates, poets, subsistence farmers, hunter-gatherers, nomads, emperors, mercenaries, priests, doctors, etc. Ganja. Zorses. Plantations. interpretive, surreal. Matriarchal. Close relationship with Hue & Yavanna - have guns but won't share them, silks, spices, gold, ivory, etc. founded by slavers, still practice slavery

Pharika, Faraqa, Aprike (Greek: “Free from cold”), Ifriqiya, Ezeniri, Hausa, Oba (king, ruler)

Orun – heaven, Aye- Earth, Olorun – ruler of heavens, Olodumare – creator, Oxumare, Adwa Mountains, Iwa Pele (good character), Mystere, Loa, Bondye (old French – good God), Marinette, Ghede (death and fertility loa), Dahomey, Vodun, Abomey, Badessy (loa, holds up sky)☁☁