Posted by vegeta002 6 years ago Report

She's pretty, pity about the cultural differences... getting along with her would be near impossible.

Posted by HappyPrey 6 years ago Report

Thank you! Great answer!

Posted by Persona59523 5 years ago Report

I wonder what their city or science is like. From what I think is her casual cloth, it appear to me that her culture/ race is in the modern age. But then there is the ritual for good farming, the clothes for the priestess look something out of ancient greek or rome. So in short, what your city and science look like. And if you don't mind, how did you gotten to that point of technology area. With or without men's help?

Posted by Cowrie 5 years ago Report

I'm going to answer this right here, for the most part. The setting is modern, and most members of the Dívčí Národ live secretly among mainstream society, which is very similar to real life aside from a few historical details. A sizable minority of their population do live in Dívčí Národ-only towns or villages, which possess the same technology as elsewhere. Outside of those towns, members of the Dívčí Národ tend to cluster together in a section of the town that would look normal to most people, but has a large number of "hidden" areas, which I'll go into more detail about when I answer another question in the backlog about their homes.

Regarding the fertility festival, the Dívčí Národ is a theocracy where the higher religious offices are hereditary, and the ruling family (Vlasta's) has been in power for an insanely long time, though not always her direct ancestors. Because of that, tradition regarding religious festivals is very important to the Dívčí Národ, even if they're mostly obsolete. Not only is it important for maintaining relations between the ruling class and the rest of the Dívčí Národ, most festivals have some additional political elements. As far as the ceremonial garb, that's another case of being tradition. Before the Slavic migration, the Dívčí Národ, who were at that time called the Amazons, had a lot of interaction with the ancient Greeks. The ceremonial garb displays a mixture of Hellenic and Minoan influences.

As far as how they got where they are technologically, you have to understand that by the industrial revolution, the Dívčí Národ had been in hiding from and living in secret among mainstream society for several centuries. Around the industrial revolution, there were probably some brilliant scientists and inventors among Dívčí Národ women and androgynes, but none of them would have been well known to outsiders. By the time of the computer tech boom, there would have been more members of the Dívčí Národ publically in tech positions, and in modern times, a number of female higher-ups in business and technology are, unknown to the public, part of the Dívčí Národ and sometimes to hoard certain technological achievements for their culture. So, in that regard, they sort of have had the help of men, but if you mean men of their culture, the answer is no, because men born to the Dívčí Národ are denied that sort of education. The education of so-called "maiden-born males", is very basic, with only simple reading, writing and math, the rest of what they're taught being indoctrination into the faith, and "useful skills", meaning sexual education and training that would help them as servants.

Posted by Bellyl0ver 5 years ago Report

I wonder what Vlasa thinks of gender equality, given how she usually treats males.

Posted by Cowrie 5 years ago Report

Gonna answer that here. She thinks the idea of giving men equal rights to women and androgynes is outright blasphemy and frankly, unthinkable. Any member of the Dívčí Národ would agree, and many men born to them are so brainwashed that they wouldn't know what to do with that sort of freedom.

Posted by FRENKI8888 3 years ago Report

Where is Divčí národ. Map would be appreaciated.

Posted by Cowrie 3 years ago Report

It's not a geographic location in modern times. Members of the Dívčí Národ are spread out in small enclaves across much of Europe and the Americas, as well as a handful of groups in Africa and Asia. Most of them live in largely-Dívčí Národ neighborhoods of outsider cities, with fully Dívčí Národ towns being relatively rare. Their culture has basically been in hiding since the late middle ages.

There are certain regions that have relatively high population densities of their culture, though. Before they went into hiding, the center of their civilization was in part of Bohemia, and the Dívčí Národ population remains high there to this day. And since they gravitate towards either small Dívčí Národ-only towns or big cities where disappearances are less likely to be investigated, there are actually several Dívčí Národ neighborhoods in and around Prague. However, there's a good number of enclaves throughout most of eastern and southeastern Europe. In western Europe, there's at least one or two enclaves in most countries, and an above-average number in France. In the USA, the biggest centers of Dívčí Národ activity are New York City, San Francisco and LA, but there are a scattering of blink-and-you-miss-it towns (mostly in the southeast and midwest) that are wholly Dívčí Národ.

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Posted by FRENKI8888 3 years ago Report

Yeah Town in czech is město and city is also město. We don´t differenciate between town and city. It´s either village (vesnice) small town (maloměsto/městys) or big town/city (město) Thanks for answer.

Posted by Cowrie 3 years ago Report

Most fully-Dívčí Národ settlments would probably fall into one of the prior two categories.