Godherja Encyclopedia

Jaduyada (culture)

The Jaduyada are the people of the eastern Kharadamat peninsula of Sarradon. Residing in the immediate vicinity of the great Tower of Sophocos, their culture was very likely the cradle in which early Ritualism grew in the distant, forgotten past, and they were some of the most stalwart Sophocists during the entirety of The War in Heaven. Intensely sectarian in nature, they were only united under a single banner once in recorded history, preferring to instead be divided amongst as many clans as the mind can imagine.

On the upside, they are also some of the most free-thinking people in all of Sarradon, and are often lambasted as being borderline libertine by their more conservative neighbors. The intellectual diversity fostered in this environment has resulted in a wealth of artistic and scientific heritage that was the envy of the rest of the continent for centuries.

Their almost complete conquest by the Saintly Orders in the 12th century would soon be followed by repressions of massive proportions, and what little of their intelligentsia were left alive after the Judges' Massacre in 1207 would soon seek refuge in neighboring lands instead. The Jaduyadas' simmering rage has grown with each decade of Agionist mistreatment, and the culture has become markedly less tolerant of outsiders than it had been in the past.