Theme:FFAC-1 Titan
TITAN, THE SKY-BREAKING MOUNTAIN
OVERVIEW
The land of Titan is tremendously strange. While other continents tend to be flat plates with dips, rises, oceans, and other stranger features that move through the Great Gap, connected tenuously to the Core, Titan is no such thing. Titan is a mountain - a massive, continent-sized mountain, jutting high into the sky, visible from all six other continents. Cities made on Titan do not grow upwards, but outwards; the mountain, once a clean rock scope, has become a lattice network of glass and steel. The Titanic, the Children of the First Earth, are a people even hardier than the Shivans; they tend to be strong, durable folk, swinging wildly between extreme height and extreme shortness. They tend towards physical strength, and are unusually aware of tremors and other such earth-based phenomenon.
CLIMATE
Titan has no climate. Unlike the other plates, Titan has no weather. It has no seasons, no shifting cycle of weather, no tornados, no storms. It simply is - stable, unchanging, unyielding. It even lacks the tectonic shifts and earthquakes one might expect from such a place. Titan’s defining quality, at least externally, is its incredible stability.
Internally, Titan is a latticework of tunnels made by both the bizarre eyeless natural creatures that live inside it and the industrious peoples that share its borders. Fungi grow throughout the place, and burrowing tunneler-monsters are common in the unsafe deep regions of the mountain. Given that the mountain stretches as large vertically as most continents are horizontally, and still is as wide horizontally as most continents, there are...plenty of those.
Titan is also richer in minerals than any other continent, save Odin. The veins of titan are rich in metals both precious and otherwise, leading to Titan’s rapid industrialization.
PEOPLE
The people of Titan are, like the land, a stable, solid bunch. Though they swing physically between being tall like the mountain or short and stout like boulders, they are a people who change little, who are used to cooperation, and who are frequently unburdened by the difficulties of other humes thanks to their mutual understanding. It is commonly-held that it is easy to kill a man on Titan; all one needs to do is push him off and watch him fall, or collapse a tunnel and watch him be crushed. Therefore, the Titanics have a great respect for the physical power of other people, and, by extension, personal property and boundaries. Though they have transitioned from living outside the mountain to making the mountain spread with steel and glass (and living inside the tunnels they dig), the Titanics still remember the days when cooperation was the only way to ensure survival on the outskirts.
As a result, the Titanics take to industry better than any other humes, even the Ramuha. Titan is the strongest competitor with Ramuh in terms of technological advantage, not because they innovate better than anyone else, but because they work harder and together better than anyone else. The factories of Titan lack the subtle individualist craftsmanship of Odin, but they produce more goods than any other race by a wide, wide margin. All forms of goods flow outwards from Titan, and in exchange, wealth flows into the mountain like wine.
The Titanics also have a stronger, more unified culture than any save the Odynari. Slow, rumbling, and stable, the Titanic culture is old and strong, harkening back to the days of the Climb. They are a thoughtful, philosophical people, slow to action as they ponder the course, and their arts tend to reflect this. Rarely do they dabble in many arts; Titanics, once they have chosen their course, are almost impossible to sway, pursuing their goals with the certainty of a boulder as they roll towards mastery. Titanic artists are famed throughout Galianda as being of the highest quality no matter their art.
Titanic government and industry have slowly woven together over the years into an indistinguishable mixture. The head of the City is commonly called the Foreman; traffic bends around work schedules, with heady rush hours and frequent commutes through tunnels and over bridges. The upper class of the City is comprised almost entirely of the ludicrously wealthy - factory-owners, merchants, and landowners who made their fortune through hard work and perspiration are as lauded and respected as the bluebloods of Ramuha, and generally equal in influence. It is considered a point of pride among the Titanics that most of their upper class came from lower-class families, exemplifying the purity of their capitalistic ideals.
Titanic bureaucracy is similarly intense and complex. The Titanics have a great love of bureaucracy; it keeps things stable and flowing. Paperwork is a fact of life for the people of Titan, a fact that most of them embrace willingly and gleefully. It is said that Titan moves equal parts by gil, paperwork, and stubbornness.
Titanics are people of extremes. They are either very tall or very short; they are stocky and broad or thin and wispy; they are dark-haired almost entirely, cleaving towards earthy tones. They also tend to be dark of skin, and many Titanics have very poor eyesight.
