Dowait [doe-WAIT] is a low mesa in the Mangasor desert, renowned as a site of prehistoric mystic significance.
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Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage.
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Dowait lies in the deep desert several hundred kilometres east of Foratuna. The hill is covered with large stones of iron pyrite, mostly black but streaked with red, greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen
The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. and gold. Many are ancient meteorites, fragments from a titanic impact that created the basin millions of years ago. Others are strangely wind-eroded rocks, brought to the mound from elsewhere. Many of the dolmens have rough human or animal shapes, and myth calls them the mummified corpses of the ancient gods, who died long ago, yet whisper fragments of wisdom to those who wish to hear it.
Every decade or so the Mangasor basin floods, becoming a lush viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid
Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. plain for a few months. Dowait becomes an island during this time. Historically it became a meeting-place for the nomadic tribes of Mangasor.
At other times Tsaarmodite hermits were the only inhabitants, each living alone in a hut roofed with a shallow boat, which they used to travel the waters during the wet season, and in which they were buried when they died. Ancient visitors thought this demonstrated how mad the hermits were, having boats in the desert, although they were essential for harvesting food from the rich bounty the inundation provided.
The hermits told tales of how early Therists, even the Great Prophet himself, once came and stole their greatest god-stones from them, so that ever afterwards the others were silent. The Mother Church frowns on these stories, and closed the hermitages many centuries ago. The site was inhabited for a short time by an enclave of Theristplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMother Church of Ororr (Therism)
The Mother Church is the state religion of Ororr, which combines both religion and government in one institution. It is based on the teachings of the Great Prophet Therion, who in the early decades of the modern era raised an army that conquered much of northwestern OrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrMEMEOrorrMEMEOrorrOrorrHerHerHerHerHerHerHerHerHerher zealots, but today is remote and abandoned.