Kozhuyn

Pronunciation: kuh ZHU in

The capital city of the Tuura Adam in the Giant Spine Mountains. At the base of Skypiercer Peak, it also contains the entrance to an ancient, 1st-age Titan Conclave citadel, now mostly non-functional. Home to about 12,000 jazuu and giants.

Called "the city of the Code", it is the spiritual and cultural center of Tuura Adam life. Home to the only known Titanwall in operating condition in western Noefra, it is a place of yearning and striving for most jazuu...or a place to stay away from.

The Paths of the Code

Tuura Adam culture is bound up in the Code, the complex legal, cultural, and social "rulebook". Unlike most such sets of rules...these are written. And debated, altered, and updated. Children become adults when they commit to a Path, one of the sanctioned "professions" and begin dedicating their life to that pursuit. In most places, the low population does not permit physical and social separation of those on different Paths. Kozhuyn is different. The valley at the base of Skypiercer Peak is divided by road and canal into 8 Paths, and only members of septs (sub-divisions) of that Path (or children) can live in those areas. There is a rough social hierarchy, corresponding roughly to closeness to the mountain fortress of Too Tekterin.

Grain Path

The Path of Grain is the Path devoted to food production. Furthest from the mountain, this is mostly rural and farming terrain. Giants here tend to be hill giants and rarely stone giants.

Artiste Path

The Path of Artistry is somewhat odd, in that it encompasses several very different things--forestry and mining (non-food resource production, generally) as well as the fine and visual arts. It holds the western flank of the valley, with the lower slopes being more for the artists. Giants here are hill and stone, with more of the latter close to the city proper.

Coin Path

The Path of Coin is devoted to commerce of all types. Most of the buildings here are either warehouses or shops, often with housing above them.

Industry Path

The Path of Industry is devoted to converting raw materials into finished goods of all types. It is located in the inner ring of the city, what most call the beginning of the city proper. The buildings here are workshops with living quarters attached. Fire giants are known to visit this area, but mostly live on the mountain itself.

Hospitality Path

The Path of Hospitality is the home of restaurants, inns, taverns, breweries, as well as the performing arts (including prostitution, which is not stigmatized). Outsiders usually stay here. This is also where most of the temples are found, with a few exceptions. Few giants live or visit here, despite its closeness to the mountain itself..

War Path

The Path of War is home to those who protect and train to fight. Most of this is hunting parties that track down and destroy monsters in the outlying areas, often led by frost giants.

Spoken Path

Of the 8, this is the highest-status path other than the Path of Ascendancy. These are those who devote their time to studying the intricacies of the Code, mediating disputes, judging contests, and preparing candidates for the Trial of Ascendancy (the process of using the Titanwall to transform into a giant). Priests live here, and the Temple of Storm and Lightning (devoted to Perkunos and Tatsuryuu) is located here, near the entrance to the ruins of the Conclave hold-fast inside the mountain as well as the start of the road up to Too Tekterin.

Ascendant Path

The Path of Ascendancy are those who have transcended their jazuu nature to become giants, especially the "higher" ones (frost, fire, and cloud). They live on terraces carved by Titan magic in the First Age, carved into the side of Skypiercer Peak itself. At the peak is Too Tekterin, home of the High Judge, Bulut Boron.