GOTOBAN

GOTOBAN

A beautiful tourist seaside resort, famous for its stained glass tubar geoders. Gotoban is a large village made up of wooden huts elevated from the sandy soil, interspersed with the geoders that make this place so famous and sought after by tourists. The tubar geoders that grow here are made from silica from the local sand, which has made them translucent and even transparent in some spots. Some of them have other minerals in their composition, making them large semi-open glass tubes of different colors. Cascades of water spill from a large rocky table into these tubes, generating a beautiful optical effect of the decomposition of sunlight that passes through the crystalline walls of the geoders and the moving water, generating a kaleidoscope of colored lights that dance over the sands.
This unique combination of natural elements makes Gotoban a natural water park and its main source of income is its inns and accommodation for tourists, as well as its rich local cuisine. Due to this fun and frugal nature, the place is largely inhabited by Phaemons, who delight in constantly welcoming new people and profiting from their festivals, dances and songs.

Population:

10,000 fixed (70% Phaemon, 10% Floti, 10% Magibrute, 10% others). There is a floating tourist population that doubles the local population during the Akororop period.

Festivals

Akororop

It´s the name given to a period of floods in which the volume of water that flows through the glassy tubes increases considerably, making them perfect for tourists to slide inside and have a lot of fun. The phaemons conduct a great festival at this time that lasts from seven to fifteen days (as long as the floods last). There, a great abundance of food and drink is served to tourists, while dances and songs fill the place with joy.
Akororop is metaphorically interpreted as a period of fertility, as the greater volume of water stimulates greater vegetable growth and there are more fish circulating through the tubes. Therefore, it is also a period in which people feel more inclined to interact with each other, especially in the midst of a festival that lasts several days. It´s not uncommon months later for those who are called “children of Akororop” to be born.

Irisarak Festival

About six months after the end of Akororop, it’s time to hunt an Irisarak! It is a long crustacean like a snake, protected by segments of a resistant exoskeleton. It has long, thin pincers that are retracted next to its fusiform head as it swims through the underground tuber geoders, expanding them when it finds prey, blocking its passage. It also has a second head with another pair of pincers at the other end of its body, giving it full awareness of what is in front or behind it. It´s a large and dangerous predator, but it plays a vital role in controlling the population of other creatures of the underworld. It´s therefore frowned upon by the local population to hunt them outside the Irisarak festival period.

King Gotoban’s mines

Legend has it that in the area of the tubars that lead to the underground access crater, there are the mythical mines of King Gotoban. He was the explorer who discovered this incredible place and founded the village of the same name. The stories tell that he explored the underground tubars, surviving confrontations with huge Irisaraks, as well as other even more fearsome monsters, to discover abundant veins of arcanium in a dry cavernous pocket, accessible after a submerged session of rocky corridors. It´s not known whether these mines actually exist or are just unfounded rumors.

Government

Gotoban is governed by a local king, who is submissive to the sovereign, the name given to the position of the king of all Honuan. The king is established by a challenge between claimants to the position, just as with the sovereign. However, it´s very rare for a challenge to occur during the festive Gotoban. The local Phaemon only enter into political confrontation when they are victims of tyranny and injustice, preferring to live peacefully.

Religion

There is no official religion, but a large part of the inhabitants worship the Aspect of nature.

Import

Manufactured metal items.

Export

Fish and seafood in general. Crafts, souvenirs and jewelry made from natural materials.

 

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