A day in the life of Aurelia [Misc RP, Aurelia only]

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A day in the life of Aurelia is the miscellaneous role-playing thread for members of Aurelia. The purpose of the thread is to serve as a means of fleshing out your nation with historical accounts, political speeches, daily life in your nation, character backgrounding, short stories, and other such things that can't or shouldn't have their own dedicated threads.

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[Consulate of the Freelands]

Of Thunders and Rams : Symbolism in the Freelands.

Today's heraldic emblems of the Consulate, storms and ovine Livestocks were, for most of the history of the country, the symbols of the celtic populations until the Independence War for the rebellion started out by thoses of celtic bloods living in the Stoms Pikes and it was a way to thank this minority that was mostly forgotten until then.
Other important symbols for the Freelands are the Fish, symbol of the Christian Faith, and the Red Castle, heraldic of Orbourg, the Stendor and of the Monarchy as a whole.

But the Freelanders passion for the Storms and Ovines is much older than those events. Prehistoric Paintings were discovered representing folks of mouflons and tempests in great numbers. Thoses are also recurring gravures on the Dolmens and Cairns, with the Moutain and the Bear.

Thoses oddly anachronistic drawing make their ways to the Antiquity, as shown by the writting of Pothyas, an Imperial Explorator of the fifth century B.C :
"In the Lowlands, they live by the rivers and cut down the trees to make way for great farms where they grows many kind of crops. Rivers are sacred for them and their priests reads many poems and creates many potions to preserves them from evil spirits. But the lowlanders lives in the permanent fear of the storms that come during spring. They've come to hate them in such a way that, when one is occuring, they take their bows and arrows and shoot at the sky to make it go away.
Meanwhile, in the Highlands, the populations are notably differents. There's no farms there, but many flocks and lumberjacks. But there's also no herds : the cattles are unknown in this country and the only way to find beefs is in the houses of this land's lords that live by the sea. They also do not have the same hatred of they lowlanders cousins for thunders. Their priests pray for them and study them, to the point they created horns that replicate the sound of thunder when you blow in it."

The lack of cattles in the Freelands, which seem to be confirm by archeological studies, may explain the, sometime surreal, profusion of sheeps and rams in all periods of the Freelands art. Even if, during the Middle Age and the Frodtic occupation, it almost disappeared in favors of more "foreigns" symbols. The ressurection of Fodreliant's traditional symbolic only came with the nationalist and independentist mouvements against the Frodts. As such, they became the stones upon which the Consulate build itself and, strange consequence, the Celts minorities were recognized and the Gaelic tongue became one of the officials languages of the nation.